I have no idea what I'm doing...

[fitted_fit]

well, i sold my lips! so im using that money to buy my new rear lips next week once the money clears through ebay.

Also, really exciting news, im picking up an m50 with harness,e34 pan and ecu as well as a drivers door tomorrow

ill post pictures tomorrow when i pick the motor up

goodbye little lips:

[fitted_fit]

Nice work so far!

thanks man!

i have little motivation to get more done until i get a better heater in the garage, its supposed to be -15 next week. oh joy

[DinanDave]

Nice work so far!

[fitted_fit]

You're giving me that itch to make things happen under my hood. Looks great so far man props to you for taking the time to do it up right.

Do it! Its so satisfying seeing everything become so smooth.

[dirty_thirty]

You're giving me that itch to make things happen under my hood. Looks great so far man props to you for taking the time to do it up right.

[lurkin...]

Bro alotta solid moves and great progress... keep up the pace and props to you for jumping into such a big project...

[fitted_fit]

Looking great, dude. You run a tight ship in that garage and that's nice to see.

haha im very ocd when it comes to my garage, i feel like i cant get anything done if its a mess, i always clean up before and after working on it

[HooWybrow]

Looking great, dude. You run a tight ship in that garage and that's nice to see.

[Wyatt Lay]

Youre making all the right moves, Keep it up

[fitted_fit]

im in the middle of shaving my bay as we speak. going to be dropping in a m52 + zf. i have a few questions for you though.

what do you plan on doing for the hood? i noticed you cut off the hinge/support for the prop
do you recommend doing the fuse box in the cabin?
are you going to run ac, and/or power steering

for the 10% of the time i plan on running a hood, i plan on making a prop that threads onto one of the strut tower bolts then hooks onto the hood.

as far as fuse box in the cabin, as long as you're comfortable with wiring, and confident in your memory/labeling abilities id say go for it. it honestly wasnt that bad.

and no im not gonna be running a/c, power steering, wipers, abs, basically anything haha.

[cmcgrogan]

im in the middle of shaving my bay as we speak. going to be dropping in a m52 + zf. i have a few questions for you though.

what do you plan on doing for the hood? i noticed you cut off the hinge/support for the prop
do you recommend doing the fuse box in the cabin?
are you going to run ac, and/or power steering

[fitted_fit]

what do you use to clean up those welds? Must be hard getting into the awkward places with a grinder :S

it is hard, i dont have a compressor for air tools so all i use is my 4 1/2" grinder. ill have to go back into the hard to reach areas later with another tool to get into corners

Heres what i did today:
First, sold/traded the mk2 recaros for an m42 radiator and some moneys to my buddy nick lanno.



last night i pulled out the rear subframe, gonna drop the tank tomorrow probably, ill have a decent amount of time this week because of new years.



heres the damage caused by my rear axle, i might have to cut it out and weld in new mounts if i cant get that straightened



made a pretty big decision to cut out my core support, it was bent up anyways so i want to replace it, i figured i would make it bolt in because i want it to be easy to take my motor out. i also finished up the welding on the drivers side and got everything ground down.




and a few garage pics, parts everywhere, i have to keep it organized because its too small, I'd go crazy if it was a mess.




thats all for now,

K

[Evilist]

what do you use to clean up those welds? Must be hard getting into the awkward places with a grinder :S

[E30cruiser]

this is good. very good.

[fitted_fit]

Drivers side is 90% done in the bay. Gonna finish up all the welds and i have one more piece to weld in on the firewall tomorrow. I'm also gonna cut out the radiator support tomorrow after i sell the mk2 recaros i used to have in there to a friend



uh, disregard the penis

i also dropped the rear subframe, removed and drained the diff, and tested out my wiring of the fuse box. i turned the key and the radio and other things turned on! so good news.

before i parked the car for winter my axle bolts had backed out and caused the axle to swing around and crack the diff back plate, ill take pictures of that damage tomorrow, it should be a pretty easy fix since i already have a new back plate

ill post more detailed pictures etc tomorrow.

heres where i put the fuse box, i dont know if it clears the under dash panel yet because my old one was trashed so i tossed it. may have to make slight modifications to the brackets if it doesnt