A Sherman Schwartz story. (e28 content)

[budski]

just two from a show sunday, I'm really itching to tear the car apart again... just waiting on a better paying job.

[244Brick]

Gosh I'm jelly haha

[budski]

dual stage passenger out of a merc. we have piles of these at the shop for when its time to blow off steam or if its sunday.

[244Brick]

I love blowing up airbags.. haha what charge yall use?

[budski]

tried to get some work done today, but this cone was pissing me off just sitting out there in the sun... so I took care of it.

http://youtu.be/zsQJlAjjBvM

[budski]

thanks, I'm really itching to pour money into it again but had to pay for summer classes out of pocket so I got cleaned out.

[244Brick]

How did I miss this? I'm loving the build man. It's tells a sort of an average joe building a great car

[budski]

finally got time to update, needless to say work has been kicking my ass. So on top of a bad crank sensor the ECM is on the way out, so for now it's running just fine but only when the module is sitting in the glove box. Hopefully it last long enough for me to get all my supercharger and mega squirt together.

So as awesome dumped exhaust at the firewall is, its also attracts cops like crazy. That means the old exhaust goes back on, but this time tucking it up higher since it would drag before I cut it off.

First was getting it hung on the bracket at the trans and welding it up at the manifold



then cutting it to rotate the cat up and weld where the bung got broken off from dragging

Before anyone asks, the cat is still on it because its required to be there for state inspection. Doesnt have to be functional if you get my drift.

then a simple turndown was put on for now, I have special plans for the rest of the exhaust once I get parts for it



first test drive showed that it still hung too low and torn the sheild



since there are no hangers up higher I decided to make a bracket that would push the exhaust up



and attached it raised up the exhaust another 2", which now clears when the car is high centered



Next was the address the oil pan, it had already taken some hits and some how hadnt cracked yet but I knew its was only a matter of time. Now keeping up with making my parts I didn't want to go with some flemsy online ordered skid plate, I wanted to make something that would support the weight of the car to slide over anything without bending, so 1/4 steel was the plan.

so out came the plasma cutter to get the shape of the plate going.



found some scrap steel that was already bent to the angle I wanted, so I just welded it on. The first bolt was attached to the cross member and then recessed in after the photo was taken.



and the front got two bolts through the lower core support, I may end up adding some steel tubing across that would take more of the weight of the car.



and done! on drawback is that it made my ground clearance even lower.



but works great!



and cleaned up and back home



also found one center cap in the parts room, rumor is there is a full set that I'll have to dig for. Till next time.

[zxert]

Very inspirational. I understand the DIY aspect of it.

At the end of the road, I want a one of a kind e28, that is hand built by me, with my shifty welds, with my meth head engineering, while I daily drive it. That doesn't seem too hard.

[budski]

well decided where I had the amp mounted was fucking retarded, so changes were made.





threw some leftover felt on it.



better, just need to find the missing trunk carpet piece



threw these in



and started going back together,



got tried of mismatched seats, so was able to hunt down a set and put cash in my pocket selling the others.





only thing that sucks is my crank sensor too a dump, but the new audio stuff sounds great sitting in the garage. So now I'm stuck trying to hunt one down so I can get the car moved back to my shop and get the exhaust put on.

On another note I've caught myself still being very unhappy with the car and decided I'll be making a drastic change. My goal now is to no longer buy off shelf aftermarket parts, instead buy the raw material and build it myself. Only drawback is that progress will be slow, so bare with me.

[budski]

little bit of an update....

so I never wanted to put a system in the car since it never had one when I first got it, but after realizing I had enough laying around to make a decent setup at no cost I decided to start pulling the interior out.



now I have a theory that sherman had suffered from a crazy ex of sorts at one time due to the face I've found glass at every corner of the car, event he back



so with everything removed I decided to go ahead and run power for the compressor, granted I'll have to pull most of it back out to run air lines.



rear speakers in, I'm tempted to get the OEM grills to cover it up to make it look factory.



and amp is mounted



that's as far as I've gotten today, I plan on getting the rest done soon and cleaned up.

[budski]

sorry for the lack of updates, been getting moved into a new shop/new job. I did get the car our with rival house for its first show and the feedback was pretty good.














There are a few issues first being the timing is off a tooth, not a big deal because the second problem is the timing cover is leaking. So once I'm settled in with the new job I'll pull it apart and reset timing which will make compression numbers better and get the bottom end power the car has been lacking.

I did chase down why I have no defrost, needless to say the heater blower motor was 100% locked up.



guess its time to hunt down another and install it along with chasing down more electrical problems inside the car.

[willis]

This needs a bump. Awesome engine work and bay and I love the "Rival House" sticker. Reminds me of Junkhouse.

[budski]

little bit of a lack on updates, but I've been enjoying the car and getting tons of complements on the car.



well time to tackle a few things first being the alignment,



toe isnt actually too bad considering I just eye'd it in the garage, the rear does raise a few questions of being so far off but I think it has to do with major wear on the inside of that one tire. With in a few min I had the front toe adjusted nicely and was told I did a horrible job fixing the rear camber.

next was the compression test



I wasn't expecting too much just an improvement over before where #5 was 0 and #6 was 15. Now the numbers may seem back but BMW doesn't consider it "dead" unless its under 60.



not too shabby considering it still has a 400k bottom end in it, but it wont be getting the M90 unless its fully rebuild in which case I'm considering buying a whole other engine to do it so I wont have the car down for so long.

up next though...

[Night Colors]

loved the blue rim color at the start lol