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Ohh, thats a beauty, i hope to build e23 for myself in a couple of years
. Respect for not giving up
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Updated new shots of the interior... Still need to order some genuine Cocomats but I'm not sure which color yet... I'm either thinking all black, black + red, or black + blue. What do you guys think?
Installed a new headunit... it's a Clarion fz102e from Europe with no RCAs so I had to run dual LOCs for the components and sub amp.
Also finished up my exhaust recently. I ended up with a vibrant resonator, CARB'd approved Magnaflow cat, Magnaflow muffler, and some chrome 2.25 dual tips. Sounds excellent now.
I don't think I ever posted pictures of the b35 swap... Thanks again to German Autosport in Berekely, CA.
Sitting pretty in my driveway...
New signal lights... check.
New low beam lights... check.
New kidney grills... check.
New license plate molding... check.
New BBS air dam (clone)... check.
Fresh paint on the air dam, bumper carrier, and early sharknose conversion... check.
Custom coilovers sitting pretty... 350lbs Fronts, 375lbs Rear... custom valved Billy e30 ix front struts and e28 Billy sports rear. Car rides very comfortable and current wheel setup does not rub at all.
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I've finally been able to drive the car the passed couple of days and the b35 and manual are very fun to drive. The original plan was to turbo the car, but I don't think that may be necessary anymore...
Well... I told you guys I wasn't happy with how the interior came out, so I reluctantly gave it another go... What a fuckin' pain in the ass. I must've taken my interior a part about half a dozen times now... argh.
The old man interior was driving me nuts so the mtech material came just in time...
I am so glad I got the interior over with... I'd rather poke my eye out with a blunt screw driver.
While I was dealing with the interior, I bought a new 5 channel D amp to replace by MB Quartz stuff. I wanted the 5 channel amp to simplify the wiring and be more efficient on my alternator. The amp is so tiny...
First amp rack I've ever made out of velcro...
Amp is well hidden...
This morning I had to re-install my front bumper since the shop only had time to zip tie one of the sides. I've been hoarding a lot of spare parts and Frankenstein my best bumper/chrome pieces...
During the install, I had to cut a piece of the body... Not sure why I didn't have to do this last time but oh well.
Here's the final front bumper... For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to mount the fogs. I went to Home Depot to try to make some custom brackets but FAILED at that too. I'm going to try the gluing/JB weld technique next weekend.
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Fixed the window circuit breaker and rear lockout. Also re-did the door panel in faux black leather and replaced the knee panel and glovebox to black... Looks much better now.
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Here's some stuff I've been working on. Dyed the door panels black since I swapped the tan carpet to black.
Also got this idea from some dude on bigcoupe forum.
Since I didn't have matching carpet on the center console pieces, I decided to wrap them matching the door panels.
The result was somewhat underwhelming once I combined the middle console pieces with the door cards... Looked way too busy. Long story short, I'm going to redo the whole thing again.
Instead I'm going to re-do the center console pieces in m-rain fabric and wrap the door cards in black faux leather.
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I went back with the ambers. Looks much better.
Also got a euro wiper system from Ivo. When I run power to the motors I hear a "click" but nothing moves. I believe they are seized but I'll probably mount them anyways and keep the others as spares. I mounted the lights up but still need to replace the city light bulbs and tap the wire from the parking signals.
Next big phase is the interior. When I received the car, the shop only had enough time to wire in the driver seat/window switch. I managed to wire the rest of the switches in the car and got the alarm working again except for the siren. The tan carpet will be swapped for a black one. Most, if not all, pearl beige trim pieces will be dyed black. Door cards will also be rewrapped.
The original interior was very nice but I really wanted e28 sport seats. I was fortunate enough to work these out in a trade and scored matching rear black leather seats at Pick N Pull. Front and rear seats have been Leatheriqued. I was also able to find an e24 seat harness at the junk yard. I tested the seats and seat harness outside of the car but realized the driver seat does not go back and forth. I had to use a square drill bit and drill to move it back and forth but am assuming I can replace that particular motor, right?
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Interior tear down begins...
Gas pedal C clip comes out easily with a small flat head.
Pleasantly surprised to see that almost all of the interior cabin is covered in thick sound deadening. No wonder the car is so quiet on the inside!
This is definitely a NO RUST car. First owner was a doctor's wife who owned it for 20+ years IIRC... It's also nice to see that all the stock sound deadening material is still in good condition after 30 years (not brittle and soft)!
Driver side is complete. Removed old e23 seat harness with memory and replaced it with the e24 one. Cleaned up all the unnecessary wiring after the 5 speed conversion. Lastly re-ran component speaker wiring...
That's it for now. Still need to finish up the interior, recover door panels and deck lid, re-do audio system, repair front seized caliper, fix exhaust leak, re-install front bumper, install BBS rear spoiler, etc...Leave a comment:
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she's freakin' lovely! well done sir!
put some badass rims on her and she's unbeatable.
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The m30b35 and 5 speed g6265 are in! Much thanks to Chris and Yar from German Auto Sport in Berkeley from rescuing her from a local mechanic. Live and learn but ALL IS GOOD now that she's back!!! More updates to come as I slowly get her back into shape...
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I can finally report on some progress with the m30b35 engine swap... @garageV on IG is doing the swap with some wise advice from "derrith" from mye28.com... derrith also made the custom wiring harness using OEM tape wrap to upgrade the ecu from Motronic 1.0 to 1.3. This is a very popular e28 swap, but since e23s are the ugly ducklings of the era, e23 swaps are unfortunately very rare...
Hope this helps anyone trying to do the swap too...
m30b34 is rated at 182hp @ 5400 rpm and 208 ft-lb @ 4000 rpm.
m30b35 is rated at 208hp @ 5700rpm and 225 ft-lb @ 4000 rpm.
You will need the LEFT and RIGHT Koala Motorsport engine adapters...
Then your shit should look crooked as fuck like this...
Then add the secret sauce... driver side e28 side mount arm (11811175591)
Engine sitting pretty now....
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