Boris3

I know, I know, I know, I moved and abandoned everyone, but the car and truck both have WI plates so it kinda counts, right?
The real reason is to keep track of things, and this forum format is pretty slicks.

So, I bought another E30. Like any logical man I made sure to buy one that was thousands of miles away, and too low for any sanely priced shipping company to touch. 
Took my truck to WI to say hi to a few people, fly out to CA for work, then fly back to WI so I could load up the car on the trailer and head home with it. Nothing like a 4,000 mile round trip to grab a car!


So the real question here is; why?

This is a car that has been mentioned from time to time, a handful of you know it, but never had much presence on the internet or in person. This is the car that a friend purchased shortly after he saw me rebuilding my first E30 and thought it looked cool. I've been working with this car since day one, and know the details on all of it, so minimal surprises.
He's owned the car for around 10 years, and it has seen an M10, M10 turbo (shortly), M50, and the current setup. It has been the bastard child of many projects, but what I really wanted was the current drive-line. 

Car Details:
1984 318i
Rear euro bumper on, front in the car to be put on
full late model brake swap
houndstooth / black leather interior
Koni adjustable suspension, poly throughout the whole car for bushings
M3 steering rack

Engine Details:
S52 OBD1 Swapped
11.5:1 Pistons (bored over)
MLS Head gasket (.01" taller than stock to compensate for block and head decking) 
Shrick Cams
Bavarian CNC port and polished head
Upgraded valve springs
Solid lifters (?)
M50 Intake manifold
Riot Racing big bore throttle body
3.5" Euro MAF
24lb injectors
Turner Underdrive pulleys 
ARP hardware throughout 
Ceramic coated headers, full stainless exhaust from Mr. Asparagus's NA setup

Needless to say, the car can really get out of its own way. 
We rolled the car across a scale a year or so ago which was very similar to how it sits now, and the scale showed 2,400 lbs. Lightweight NA power is a whole different ball game from what I've known. 

The car needs plenty of clean up work as it has been "neglected" for many years, a lot of the finer details are not in a way that I appreciate. 
I'm excited to be back behind the wheel of an E30 that will actually be enjoyable to drive (the diesel noises were cool before, but the rest was strongly mediocre).

Until next time!

 

Great purchase! Mine is my civilized daily though with working from home not getting much use. 
 
Check out the zhpmafia website and e46 fanatics.  Also the50skid on YouTube has all sorts of e46 DIYs if you need. 

Bought another BMW last week, plan to keep this one pretty stock and just daily and enjoy. Say hello to my 2005 330i ZHP! There were only 36 made in Alpine/black leather/6speed! This car is truly incredible. I think the ZHP might be one of the best all around daily’s bmw ever made? I love it. I picked it all the way up in Atlanta and took a proper detour to the tail of the dragon for a break in. It needs some small stuff here and there cosmetically, but the chassis and drive terrain are in fantastic shape! 
 
already polished the headlights, PPF’d the black pillars, and new knob. (Ignore the giant bug under the kidneys lol)

Thanks For Looking 

My appointment at Big Bear is today at 1pm. Getting excited for sure!

Able to get back to wrenching on the ZHP this weekend. We found a little surprise at the alignment last fall. Drivers side lower trailing arm was a wee bit bent. New versus old in the picture.


Replaced both sides. Access to the inner bolt on drivers side is certainly a pain. Joys of unbolting and shifting the diff to get to it. Passenger side is easy.
 
 

Able to get back to wrenching on the ZHP this weekend. We found a little surprise at the alignment last fall. Drivers side lower trailing arm was a wee bit bent. New versus old in the picture.


Replaced both sides. Access to the inner bolt on drivers side is certainly a pain. Joys of unbolting and shifting the diff to get to it. Passenger side is easy.
 
 

I’ve been driving it to work for the past couple weeks and the power steering seems to be fine. I bought one of those home alignment kits with the plates and tape measures and got pretty close to a good alignment. Needs some real minor adjustment. But all in all, it’s been very enjoyable! 
 
The night mode on the new iPhone seems to work pretty okay. Have some condensation in one of the headlights, so I’ll have to pull that out and reseal it. Save that for this winter or something.

We also have some basement walls at our house!

 

The local FedEx branch in Waukesha reached out to me today and said,
F: "Hi, we were told to contact you about your package.  It shows it was delivered on 7/23 and I talked to my driver who said he delivered it to a person at the address listed."    
Me:  "Yup it does show delivered but it was not delivered to the correct address."
F: "Are we talking about the same package?"
Me: "Um, for tracking number *********?"
F: "Yea, that's it.  Yea it shows delivered and my driver said he gave it to someone."
Me: "Yup, i've been told that and it was not delivered.  I have video footage showing it was never delivered."
F: "Oh... well it looks like a misdelivery then.  You'll have to contact the shipper."
Me: Yup, I did that last week and they said they started a claim with you and had to wait until it was resolved to ship another one on 7/29.
F:"Yea, it's resolved.  I marked it misdelivered.  Anything else?"
So here I sit, waiting for my cooler.

Made a bracket

Took a staycation since both of our trips to Canada had to be cancelled.... had some time to rip out the interior, installed new carpet and the seats.  Had to fab up some brackets to account for the uneven floor of the E21.
 Not perfect, but much better!   Lots of work left to do...
-Tim

Turns out I'd be pretty easy to kidnap

 
Thanks a ton for the parts!!

I was studying the rain line earlier in the week but decided I wanted to experience what the racing line was like and get a feel for why the rain line exists. Save for the apex puddles I tried to maintain the normal racing line. Im looking forward to learning more about it

Nice job!! We can talk rain lines in the future. There are deceptive places at BFR in the wet. Glad you were able to get some clean runs in. No agricultural excursions. All good!

Nice job!! We can talk rain lines in the future. There are deceptive places at BFR in the wet. Glad you were able to get some clean runs in. No agricultural excursions. All good!

Nice job!! We can talk rain lines in the future. There are deceptive places at BFR in the wet. Glad you were able to get some clean runs in. No agricultural excursions. All good!

Rainy, but a good experience.
For a while it looked like we might not get out on track at all due to weather delays for which @patsbimmer1 mentioned the day might become something along the lines of “a really expensive Lunch outing”  but we ended up getting a few runs in and had a good time.

Car had a full paint correction done on by Auto Trim Design in Neenah. After getting the car to my parents garage, spent the next couple of days costing the car in Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light and then topped with EXO V3. This should last me probably over 2 years with proper washing and no winter driving. I also coated the wheels.
 Paint correction and the coating have made it very red. Pictures really don’t do it justice how good it looks. If you’re still using waxes on your cars, make the switch. It’s very easy to apply.
At Road America for Indy Car this weekend:

Ended up co-driving the evo. Took first in STU and 3rd overall for raw time. 
http://www.fvscc.com/results/2020_Summer/Event2_raw.htm
 

Old pinion seal was pretty torched. 

 
pried it out and hammered the new one in

 
diff studs in, new dust cover for pinion seal, new speed sensor and oring gets here today. Hoping to get this back on the road tonight. 

I threw the stock wheels back on and took the car to its first autocross at Road America! This was essentially my first autocross as well, my only other time being a few laps 5 years ago. Was nice talking to @KaiserRolls and seeing him make me look like a n00b on the track.
That being said, I'd love some feedback/tips/advice on my driving. I'm going to another autocross with it this weekend and would love to improve!
I placed #74 out of 147 cars. My best time was 58.925s. First place had 53.322s and average time for everyone was  59.751s: http://fvscc.com/results/2020_Summer/Event1_raw.htm
I have tons of parts ready to install on the M3 so be sure to subscribe if you enjoy YouTube content: https://www.youtube.com/jakespence135

*Actual photo of Dave’s car on the dollies 

"The car had an updated 250bhp while only weighing 970kg."  Yeow!!!

Some pictures from last night. Not completely satisfied with these, need to do some more playing around with night shooting, car angle, camera angle, etc. Going to be doing a lot more experimenting in this location though. Ton of different lighting levels and background options to work with, just didn't have a ton of time.
This lighting really tells all in terms of your paint quality. This thing needs a paint correction badly.