Back in black BMW e30

[meech]

LOVE the m52 engine, my favorite power plant I've ever driven. I honestly like it more than the M62 v8 in my 540. Idk the straight six is just magical. Car is looking great! can't wait to see the final product

[dillon7]

My steering rack is shot and I've been meaning to buy the parts to replace it. Since I have to replace it might as well upgrade it so I'm to the e36 rack swap.

ok so did a little research and went with this rebuilt rack

http://shop.rackdoctor.net/main.sc

Did this for two reasons.

1. they got excellent reviews (way better than ebay)

2. Right in the price range I was looking for

3. The shop is 4 hours away from me so shipping will be fast.

I also ordered the AKG kit for the swap so now I have everything good to go. I'm not replacing power steering hoses or reservoir yet, just going to see how this does first.

The transmission bracket arrived last week at my house and the engine wiring adapter is getting shipped out tomorrow so needless to say I'm pretty excited that it has all come together.

It's going to be quite a weekend with the rack and engine swap, pretty stoked though!

[dillon7]

How the little details make this so much better, great work so far.

Thanks man. Love your build. Hopefully bags are in the future for me because yours sits amazing

beautiful man! love the black on black trim.

thanks man!

[eethirty]

beautiful man! love the black on black trim.

[Hella_RICH]

How the little details make this so much better, great work so far.

[dillon7]

Looks good, cant wait to see it run wit the s50!

ah dude you have no idea! I'm just sitting here at school waiting for the weekend of the 20th so I can finally swap it. It's quite frustrating, I have everything I need for the swap yet I still have to wait.

I was going to order bags and wheels but now I don't even care I just want to drive the shit out of it after I swap it haha

[logyt]

Looks good, cant wait to see it run wit the s50!

[dillon7]

Love seeing bimmers get saved, doing a great job on this one!

Thank you!

Awesome bro! Keep up the good work!

Thanks, will do!

Looks sweet man! I'm new to the bmw scene... After searching a long time an dropping 2k into a "supposedly" drivable e28 with a m30 In it, I decided to pick up a e30. I just put a deposit on it so should have it soon waiting for some loose ends. Keep this going man always good to see a car come to be something unique.

Awesome man! I was trying to decide between e28 and e30 but I opted for the e30 and glad I did. Good luck with your e30 and make sure you check out r3vlimited. Great e30 forum with a TON of info to give you plenty of ideas.

[HighClass_iS]

Looks sweet man! I'm new to the bmw scene... After searching a long time an dropping 2k into a "supposedly" drivable e28 with a m30 In it, I decided to pick up a e30. I just put a deposit on it so should have it soon waiting for some loose ends. Keep this going man always good to see a car come to be something unique.

[99sil-teg]

Love seeing bimmers get saved, doing a great job on this one!

[Happy Gilmore]

Awesome bro! Keep up the good work!

[dillon7]

finally getting rid of those stupid huge seats I have and upgrading to some awesome sports seats!



Can't wait to get home and swap them in, along with that other thing....the um....oh ya s50

[dillon7]

I came home from college this weekend so I could finally have some time to work on the e30 for a little. What planned to be a whole weekend dedicated to the e30 of course ended up only being one day.

I was hanging out with my girlfriend in the garage and she wanted to do something to the e30 so I decided to let her do a little painting.

The wiper arms had some rust on them so I taught her how to sand it down and prep for paint and stuff like that. They came out good and much better than before.



Then I decided to paint the side trim since I had painted most of the trim already and the chrome was annoying me and throwing things off. So I popped off the trim and painted it.



Of course I broke a clip so now it doesn't sit on the body as tight as I would like but oh well it's barely noticeable and I'll grab a clip next time I'm at the Junk yard.

oh and sorry for the crappy pics, they are coming out blurry for some reason...

anyways onto the good stuff.

so this finally found its way into the garage.



I was pretty excited so I began tearing everything out that needed to be done to get the m20 out. It took a lot longer than I expected and all I had left was the driveshaft to unbolt then the m20 was completely free. Well of course the driveshaft was being a PITA and I couldn't get it out and I needed to leave to head back to school so unfortunately the m20 still remains in the car :hitler:



Anybody have any simple way to just disconnect the driveshaft from the tranny without having to collapse it and take off all those stupid heat shields or whatever they are they cover the whole shaft?

So that's all I got done and now I'm sitting in my dorm missing my car. :roll:

I ordered all the rest of the parts I needed for the swap:

engine harness adapter

transmission brace with new mounts.

Depending on when I can get the flywheel machined down the planned weekend of the swap is September 13th. But you know how that goes...

In the meantime I shall sit in my dorm and look for more parts to buy now that I finally sold my other e30

[dillon7]

sold my other e30, time to dump all my money into this. If anybody has some 16" rs's or oz futuras for sale let me know!!!

[dillon7]

Fairly sure ive seen you post on the local bmw fb pages. Build is coming along great, keep it up!

ya I'm on the nc e30 Facebook page, and thanks man!