87 325is project: On-the-cheap track car

[aventari]

I'm building out an e30 for ChumpCar. Which Summit Racing radiator did you use? Did you have to make custom brackets?

Thanks!

I did make and weld some custom brackets

Something like this, not sure exactly

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-380425/overview/

[Northern]

^make sure you have an early coolant system like the OP, or that's not going to work very well with the coolant ports the other way around.

[aventari]

Update, I just painted my E30 and I'm building a 3.0 stroker :)
I've done a couple track days since the last update and the motor is getting tired. I still drive it to work occasionally.
I started to hate how the car looked with the peeling clear coat and decided to do a 'quick' scuff and spray. It never works out to be 'quick' though does it? What it looked like


Patching rust holes


After many many many hours of sanding and bondo and welding, all sanded with 220grit and cleaned



Hit it with high-build polyester primer


Block sand primer on whole car with 220 then 320


Shoot a gallon of single stage acrylic enamel. Hope you can get 3 coats out of a gallon but barely get 2... also use the wrong reducer and make the paint go on super dry and ruin your hard work :(














http://imgur.com/a/2Qh7L It doesn't look great, but it works for a track car. Will maybe wet sand if I feel like it later. It should look awesome for the 5 or 6 straight weekends of really hard work me and my friend put in. But then again I did shoot it on the side of my house without a booth and with few skills :)

[Blue55]

This looks fantastic! Awesome job!

[aventari]

Thanks! I wasn't sure about the green stripes under the doors but I think they came out OK