PNW Chit Chat thread

[e30austin]

I really like it. But I really couldn't care less for the 2.7. It takes a crazy amount of effort/money to get beyond the 450whp mark. After doing a full stage3 setup supporting mods on a friends allroad I don't have any interest in mod'ing this engine. I took the car on trade for my old audi 90 with the intention of LS swapping it at some point but there are always projects ahead of it. So I just manual swapped it and ditched the panda interior for black with some b8 recaros. I think I only have a hand full of pictures. It was a great winter beater until I popped a turbo.




Mine is obviously not the one with the FMIC. I was doing an install on a buddies car.


The hatch is at the body shop right now getting fixed and retinted.

It definitely made me appreciate wagons a whole lot more.

send me a message when you want to sell it. we'll see how long my current e91 hangs out for. b5s4 is always an itch i wanted to scratch and i don't need to make crazy power (or want to, for that matter - i'm getting old)

[2mAn]

I really like it. But I really couldn't care less for the 2.7. It takes a crazy amount of effort/money to get beyond the 450whp mark. After doing a full stage3 setup supporting mods on a friends allroad I don't have any interest in mod'ing this engine. I took the car on trade for my old audi 90 with the intention of LS swapping it at some point but ...

Need to update your sig to read "LS swap all the things"

[iansane]

let's see pics of your b5s4 avant. i really want one. horrible idea, but i'm all about those.

I really like it. But I really couldn't care less for the 2.7. It takes a crazy amount of effort/money to get beyond the 450whp mark. After doing a full stage3 setup supporting mods on a friends allroad I don't have any interest in mod'ing this engine. I took the car on trade for my old audi 90 with the intention of LS swapping it at some point but there are always projects ahead of it. So I just manual swapped it and ditched the panda interior for black with some b8 recaros. I think I only have a hand full of pictures. It was a great winter beater until I popped a turbo.




Mine is obviously not the one with the FMIC. I was doing an install on a buddies car.


The hatch is at the body shop right now getting fixed and retinted.

It definitely made me appreciate wagons a whole lot more.

[e30austin]

let's see pics of your b5s4 avant. i really want one. horrible idea, but i'm all about those.

[iansane]

Where did everyone in the NW go?

I got my LSe30 running. I've been commuting from Tacoma to Seattle all week. With no hood. It's fun. I have big grin.

[Curt Hayes]

Let's set a minor record and have two posts in one DAY!
Finally got my trim repainted, and of course, waited to buff the paint out until I put the trim back on. 'Cause why not make more work for myself?
Finished the buffing and waxing last night. Seemed like a good time to post a pic of the old girl..

[iansane]

My LQ9 and e30 are finally in the same shop, at the same time...

[TobyB]

M54b30 out of disgusting e46 vert and sitting in the barn.
E30 sitting in the back corner just needing an engine.

60,000 other things to do, but I want to start making 2 into 1...
crap. Do I have a clutch? I do not remember...

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bumping thread, no?

[Reichart12]

Sharing some photos from the Group 2 cars and coffee. Only 1 e30 there but maybe someone here owns one of the other cars...

Group 2 Automotive Cars and Coffee Woodinville, Washington - R3VLimited Forums

[TobyB]

Does this mean I'll get a better job, get in shape and have a social life once I get this thing going?

What have I been waiting for???

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fatslob mode

[2mAn]

When I drove Steves M54 swapped car back in 2012 it was life changing. That torque in an E30 is fantastic. You wont regret it

[TobyB]

I took an E36 shell to the scrapper today.
$85 richer, for 1500 lbs of solid German undercoating.

E21 shell a couple of years ago was only $20, but I don't remember what it weighed.

This- all gets me 1 step closer to putting an M54B30 into the E30 shell.
Driving the E46 makes me really want that engine in an E30.
I refuse to grow a bushybushy beard, or wear ass- hugger elastopants.

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not quite drunk. But headed that direction.

[delamaize]

I'm still alive. my dumpster fire E30 is still alive, and still M60 swapped....
Thought I'd drop in.

[e30austin]

kinda bored, not motivated to work on ANYTHING right now.

yup, you're not the only one. had to change the clutch master (again) on my m5 a few weeks ago, that used up pretty much all the interest i had in working on cars for the year.

[TobyB]

I'm fixing up the E46 donor- pathetically, I've had to get the stupid skuzzy thing
to actually run well before I can strip it. I'm now an official MS43 noob. I can
brick the DME faster than you can boot Scanner 1.4. Now I'm debating how
much E46 to use- the ABS is kinda awesome if that's the sort of thing I want,
but the DSC has to stay in the donor chassis.

I wish I could blow ALL the airbags with the computer. But it doesn't look like
that's an option, unless there's a secret verboten German kommand that I'm missing.

I did manage to get the convertible top to comprehensively mangle itself- I was kinda proud of that.

So, yeah, there, I've bump't this thred.

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kinda bored, not motivated to work on ANYTHING right now.