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  • 91' E30ix Stroker m20

    This will be my second attempt at a build thread on SW.

    My last car was a mint 90' Miata with 60,000 miles on it. That got wrecked and sold to make way for the bimmer.



    So anyway, my dad got this 91' 325ix practically for free from a trade when I was about 12 years old (6 years ago). It had about 140,000 miles on it. I wish I had pictures of it from way back then, but this is the first known picture of her.



    He did a few things to it, new front lip, bilstein heavy duties, suspension parts, oil changes Got it sideways doing 80 after one of the rear tires tread ripped off!

    At about 260,000 miles the oil pump went out. The motor wasn't destroyed but pretty messed up, he only ran it for about 2 minutes with no oil. This came at the perfect time (right after I wrecked the Miata)

    I decided to make the motor beefy and stroke it.

    Dont really have all that many pictures from the rebuild.....






    ^Z car in back

    Basically got the all the internals, crank, cam, and chip from these guys (amazing cs btw) http://www.metricmechanic.com/

    91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
    My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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    Motor in!!!



    Pretty pretty

    All was/is good except for a cracked coolant hose (Behind the motor on the head) those of you might know the one I'm talking about and I put the TPS on wrong


    First Mods:
    1.BRA
    2.Black Kidneys
    3.Trunk Spoiler
    4. Pheonix Gold 800.5 w/ 2 ten inch kenwoods
    5. Steering wheel roundel
    6.New fogs
    7.Ski Rack fairing and bike rack ($40 CL special)
    8.Painted taillight ends

    1, 2, and 7

    3,8

    4

    5

    91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
    My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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    • #3
      Winter mode!

      Winter time

      Ski Rack and Christmas lights went up!




      Also removed some tint and destroyed my defroster, but the visibility was worth it.

      Never Again

      A few cell phone pics next to my friends TT


      91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
      My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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      • #4
        Christmas Day

        Santa was good to me

        He brought me some get low goodies!
        Ground Control coils


        My parents got me a euro style licence filler, eyebrows, and clear front blinker lenses all from Abrahams Motorsports

        Waiting for the coils to come in the mail so I put on the rest on today with my new tools!...frozen as ballz





        SO much better

        Christmas night a few Subaru friends went out and found some empty snowy parking lots.

        All I can say is....the AWD system in my car from 91' demolishes my friends 07Wrx


        ^Almost hit this curb....almost sh*t my pants


        ^new phone wallpaper

        Also have a few short lame boring videos that I'll post up later
        Last edited by austindavidg; 12-31-2012, 06:40 PM.

        91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
        My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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        • #5
          Nice! Never seen a 325ix before.

          What is the displacement now?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by rice4life View Post
            Nice! Never seen a 325ix before.

            What is the displacement now?
            i would imagine its ether a 2.7 or a 3 liter

            cool Ix always thought a manual 325IX would be a great mountain car

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            • #7
              Originally posted by rice4life View Post
              Nice! Never seen a 325ix before.

              What is the displacement now?
              Originally posted by Herr Faust Schinken View Post
              i would imagine its ether a 2.7 or a 3 liter

              cool Ix always thought a manual 325IX would be a great mountain car

              From a 2.5 to a 3.1 Liter after the bore and stroke
              And yes it's a 5 speed and amazing in the snow!

              91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
              My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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              • #8
                damn dude you went all the way did you use Ireland engineerings kit?

                88 325is

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                • #9
                  Damn, i haven't seen a MM stroked motor is AGES. Good work out of you.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Herr Faust Schinken View Post
                    damn dude you went all the way did you use Ireland engineerings kit?
                    Originally posted by Jesus Christ View Post
                    Damn, i haven't seen a MM stroked motor is AGES. Good work out of you.
                    No not the full kit. Everything except for rods and most head parts

                    Thank you! Theres a reason why you dont see many...it's much cheaper to just rebuild stock and turbo....but it's not near as classy or bad ass as stroking...also it gives me an excuse to say the word stroker every day

                    91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
                    My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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                    • #11
                      A few video's from christmas night!
                      Top two are my car bottom two are my friends Subarus



                      Last edited by austindavidg; 12-31-2012, 06:50 PM.

                      91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
                      My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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                      • #12
                        You car just slid so easy in the snow hahaha. I bet it has a nice fat torque curve down low.

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                        • #13
                          This is so cool! How far do you think you can lower an iX? I've never seen one up close but the thought of having one interests me greatly. Looks supah clean, man!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by austindavidg View Post
                            No not the full kit. Everything except for rods and most head parts

                            Thank you! Theres a reason why you dont see many...it's much cheaper to just rebuild stock and turbo....but it's not near as classy or bad ass as stroking...also it gives me an excuse to say the word stroker every day
                            nice yeah M5X swaps are really popular but there is something to be said for a stroked out M20 going though long tube headers things sound amazing

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by rice4life View Post
                              You car just slid so easy in the snow hahaha. I bet it has a nice fat torque curve down low.
                              Low end is amazing now. Got the 280 cam so not too much high end power, it's just perfect in the mid range

                              Originally posted by M.Doban View Post
                              This is so cool! How far do you think you can lower an iX? I've never seen one up close but the thought of having one interests me greatly. Looks supah clean, man!
                              As low as your heart desires!


                              Originally posted by Herr Faust Schinken View Post
                              nice yeah M5X swaps are really popular but there is something to be said for a stroked out M20 going though long tube headers things sound amazing
                              Exhaust comes next after more low!

                              91' e30 325ix m20 3.1 stroker
                              My Photography http://austingrubbs.wordpress.com/

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