****** Delight E30

[Scotrod]

The E30 is gone, had to get back to what I know best . Build thread for my 1953 Chevy 210 comin soon!!!!

[Jacob]

So the Oil pan on the stock engine sits low eh?

Yeah, that's one unfortunately low pan. Shoot. Good luck with the rebuild man.

[BennyJr]

So the Oil pan on the stock engine sits low eh?

[Riskant]

Yes!

[Scotrod]

So I finally stopped being lazy and put the new oil pan on, I usually dont take pictures when I work because I like to get things over with so my bad for the lack of pics, but this is what it looked like after taking the pan of (not so much of a bitch the third time around). The pick up was happy to see me lol.




Comparing the Busted Pan to the New One.


The bottom of the new pan (YES IT IS GOOFY) but I like irony


So after tightning everything back up and fightn with the motor mounts she fired right up and ran perfectly. NO LEAKS.



AND SO IT GOES ON UPDATES COMING SOON!!!

[CHIF8008]

are you still riding on cut rear coils? must bounce horribly

love the look of the car man

[aaron22]

this thing makes diving boards look good

[Chuckdee]

Glad to see you brought the thread back to life. you ever thought of making your own skid plate to fix the "oil pans keep breaking" issue?

[Scotrod]

Looks good man. what do you have for struts in this thing? i hope you didnt just get some cheap sleeve coilovers to just lower it...lol...

Haha yeah the were skunk 2 sleeve coilovers with shortened (2 inches) stock strut tubes, I like saving money when i can and i didnt build this car to road race so real coilovers wouldnt have served their purpose real well. I CRUISE HARD

[QuakerE30]

Looks good man. what do you have for struts in this thing? i hope you didnt just get some cheap sleeve coilovers to just lower it...lol...

[Her_Majesty]

Nice to see an old build thread coming back to life, also glad that you decided to keep her and make her better than ever. Excited to see what you do

[Scotrod]

These are a couple more recent pics of the car from summer of last year, right before I broke the third oil pan on the car (the weekend before Wekfest Dallas) . Due to some hard times I had the car towed to my house where it's sat since then, I sold the wheels/tires and coilovers so I could pay some bills and fix the oil pan, I was gonna sell the car but I like it way too much so i've decided to rebuild it BETTER than it was before. I'm ordering Ground Control Coilovers (and shortening the stock strut housings) with my income tax return and doing a little body work right now. Still don't know what I want to do about wheels though






I'll post new pics in a bit.

[Scotrod]

THANKS GUYS

Car looks amazing man. What shocks did you end up using after you shortened the shock tube? How much did you shorten tube?

Thanks dude, the shock tubes were shortened 2", using (one off) skunk2 coilovers,and i used corrado front shocks. The rears are cut HR springs, im still looking for a company that will just sell me rear coilovers.

Looks awesome. What all is involved in the suspension set up? How does it ride?

The rides ok for how low it is

[MattBlack]

Looks awesome. What all is involved in the suspension set up? How does it ride?

[E21uro]

nice!! love e30s! looks amazing cant wait to see it after its been resprayed.