BMW e30 - shaved bay m50 turbo - super hella stance - UK build

[iamsilverfox]

for some reason i keep breaking power tools. first the (all beit cheap) impact gun,



and today to 20 year old+ makita grinder died in a fury of sparks, so i nipped out and replaced it with a new dewalt one. its good, just aggressive as hell.

No major update, just pressing on with stuff.


(messy bench D: )



was originally going to clean up the flanges and press new bearings in, but the flanges have some pretty deep corrosion and a pair of brand new flanges with bearings is like ~£50 so i'll just do that.





roughly chopped the struts up and cleaned them both up ready for the coilovers which i'll have pretty soon. ended with some BC's supplied through a good friend's company, ssautowerks.

think ive decided to pull the fusebox into the car through the bulkhead just unsure of the best way to go about it. i guess the proper way would be to pull the interior loom apart and pull it through, but tbh, i'll probably just cut all the wires just after the box, and reattached on the other side.

also not sure on how to smooth the inner wings. like how much i can get away with sealant/body filler without it cracking, or should i be lead loading the rough sections? the inner flitches will be sheeted over, and then spotted. but then im not sure wether i should be seam welding all the way along, or spotting it and using filler. seam would be the best way to do it, i just dont want to warp the sheet. mhmmmmm.

[Mehowski]

No I was being serious! haha it really is progressing nicely, excuse me for sounding so bad

[anti.engineered]

don't worry, it only gets harder from here

[iamsilverfox]

shaving looks really good so far

Any tell if you're taking the piss ha

[Mehowski]

shaving looks really good so far

[iamsilverfox]

another evening spent.

started removing paint and stuff from the engine bay, had to use a respirator after a bit due to the amount of sealant ending up inside my nose :lol:



stripped the rack and gave that a good scrub ready for paint, came up really good. had a go at the trAck rods but they'rE shagged, so i'll replace those. split the subframe and arb and brAckets etc, will take them for powder coating tomorrow.



removed servo and started to remove all the sound insulation on the bulk head. came across a bit of rust, nothing major though



current state of the bay

[iamsilverfox]

little update.

picked up the z3 rack and strIpped the crossmember. will get the new bits ordered and get the new rack painted.





need to do some research on the right lines, track rods and ends to use if anyone has any knowledge on this that would be great

also test fitted harpers wheels. the big looser looks pretty sick though

[iamsilverfox]

Lack of progress recently due to being busy at work, spend this weekend in stockholm too but made some progress this evening. StrIpped the front end a bit more, got the wings and crossmember off.
Very pleased with the lack of rust on this car. Im waiting to find the massive hole hiding somewhere waiting to surprise me. So far so good though.

Thinking about replacing all the suspension parts with brand new stuff bar the crossmember itself. for the price of stuff like the wishbones it doesn’t seem worth cleaning them up. Picking up a z3 rack tomorrow which is awesome, so i can start rebuilding the front end. Will buy coilovers at the end of the month as an early christmas present to myself. Think ive settled on bc's now im not doing a 5 stud conversion, but will not doubt have to get custom springs. Will try and finish grinding the bay this week and remove the rest of the parts like the servo and the seam sealant. Some pictures.....







so much ROOM!







so i could move it around the garage, dropped the rails onto some blocks of wood and onto these homemade caster trolleys my dad made ages ago for something else. dead easy to move around now!





garage gets a little messy because of the lack of room, so sorry for the clutter.

thanks

[anti.engineered]

a wire wheel on the grinder is 100% the way to go for seam sealer my man. shreds it to bits and leaves nothing behind in the gaps.

also, your selfie is the most age ambiguous photo I've ever seen.

[b5brendan]

This is great...I need to sell my avant and get a damn E30 already

[DanMateX]

awesome

[iamsilverfox]

Keep this going man, can't wait until its finished, makes my e30 look like a piece of shit with it's stock b25

Ha me neither man. I'm already itching to drive it and it's miles away yet. Rip it out and put an m50 in it or something!

[Hellalime]

Keep this going man, can't wait until its finished, makes my e30 look like a piece of shit with it's stock b25

[iamsilverfox]

small update, e36 is going back to its home in the scrapyard tomorrow morning. spent this evening shaving more stuff in the bay, few more brackets and the battery tray. Pleasantly surprised at the lack of rust on this car. Makes me think its all hiding in one place waiting for me to find.



Killed the cheap halfords grinder doing it however. Swapped to my dads makita one (which apparently is 26 years old) and a 1mm cutting disc instead of 3mm and it went through the steel like butter. Swapped to a flap wheel to start tidying up and removing the seam sealer everywhere. Must say with all the dust flying around the majorIty of it ended up my nose Would suck to work in a body shop!

[iamsilverfox]

little update. started hacking stuff up. well, thom did ha. we have no idea what we're doing.







working out what works and what doesn’t, how not to cut completely through the inner arch ha