Bassboy3313

Thanks to Kyle's shop mate Connor, I'll be picking up my new modified rear subframe hopefully this week.






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I did a thing... 32x90 with lots more available space, including show room and office area/reception area, climate controlled, lots of 220 and even 3 phase. 
Finishing wiring up the lift tonight! Lots more to come, just started moving In. 

Saw nine SpecE30 cars at Gingerman Raceway this weekend. Fun times!

Welcome to the madness
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All loaded up for Monday.

Glad you made it over here man! One of our fellow members isn't too far from your workshop too. (I stopped there after meeting you). Very excited to see the build thread on your rat rod build. Gonna be intense!!!
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i mean, he looked kinda big like he has 100 pounds on you, and his car is a bit heavier, but there is no way he's making 600 hp. That would be 100 hp more than you and 200 pounds of weight difference isn't enough to compensate for that much of a difference in power on cars that have identical motor, transmission, gearing, etc. 
His car is either tuned like shit or he started in the wrong gear, or he doesn't truly have upgraded turbos. Or he has some stupid sound system in his car weighing him down even more. 
I'm sure he was pissed. His facial expression was one of pure frustration. Like JaRule  in Fast and Furious "NOOOOOOOOOO! MONICAAAAAA!" 

Pathetic little Mercedes can't even do a burnout:/ on that note the trans lost all forward gears lol
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Straight lines are hard


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Mention Megasquirt and m20's in the same sentence around Snap and he will do some shaft lengthening.....




Too far? 

My posts are random and Kind of all over the place but I am just kind of adding from pictures I have in my phone. I found these cans online for a killer deal. $35 each. Coolant overflow, PD reservoir, and a nice catch can(which I need badly due to the valve covers that came on this motor have no baffles in them). I need to make or buy some. 

 
This is a hilarious, yet not so hilarious spoiler. I bought this wing a few years back and was always to much of a wuss to drill into my trunk too mount it. Well...... when we had my car on the lift in Chubs shop, you can only lift a car when the garage door is closed(obvious interference issues) Well, Chubs hearing isnt the best, and I wasnt paying attention but we manged to lift the car into the garage door completely twisting the door and bending the frame. My car on the other hand only suffered minor injuries..a small scratch no bigger than a nickel. I had just the solution to cover up our mishap......
Wide band and digital boost gauges installed. The third hole will have a Oil pressure gauge to match once I order one. For now its ghetto access to my phone charger.

IAT sensor!!!! This is kind of an important part. Right now I have been driving the car and it has no idea what the intake temp is. Idle is all over and its prolly affecting my fuel ratio as well. I had to order one of these because I lost mine. Oddly enough, this little bugger is nearly impossible to find. Its very uncommon for them to fail, and its not compatible with any other motor or car. I was lucky that there was one on ebay. 

My downstar! Intake manifold mod. I needed to plug the hole in the intake manifold for my missing IAT, so until now, this is what I had in its place. sadly I have an IAT now so this crusty addition will be removed.

YASSSSSS!!! I was waiting to get this over a month before I even started my car. I have been having a misfire and really bad breakup problems and I have reason to believe this will be the solution. I have a large Walbro fuel pump (255) and a stock regulator. The car is running extremely rich to the point I was starting to worry I might be washing the cylinders. Although I dont have a gauge on the stock rail and regulator, I am certain the pressure is through the roof. I came to this consensus one day when I had the pump running but the car was off. When I went to start the car, tons of unburnt fuel came through the exhaust. This leads me to believe the the pressure is being built up so high that fuel is pushing past the injectors. I read online where there was another guy with a 1jz in a supra and he had the exact same issues as me and was running a larger than stock fuel pump on a stock regulator. 

I happened across one of these in a local salvage yard. The drivers side is the one I found as you can tell its not for a projector headlight assembly. I had to cut a hole in it, but it looks alot better than the back of the ellipsoids. 

On the passenger side you can see there is a bulge for the back of the projector headlight.

I really need to put this ugly battery in the trunk. I have since painted it black because its a giant eyesore, but its a brand new Northstar battery and I got it for a great price. If anyone needs a battery, I know a guy.

Ha! more randomness, but I had some extra time after work so I started sketching my car. I will upload a better revision of it later once I get further along. I am thinking of having prints made if anyone is interested. 

I picked these up last week. I got a tip from a fellow member on here. I wont give away his name but it rhymes with pearl. I hope to have tires on them this week so I can take the cheap Varostones or whatever they are off of my car and put them back on my civic. 

Wow, 6 months since the last update...
Well, now that my chances of success with this project are starting to look better than my chances of horrible and disasterous failure, I suppose I can let the cat out of the bag. As can be seen above, there's a limit to how much you can lower the rear of an e21 before suspension-things try to occupy the same space as frame-things. Lowering the car that much also creates camber and toe problems. I wanted my car to be lower than what was really reasonable, AND I wanted my suspension to be functional, so I decided to do what any rational person would do: cut all of the rear subframe mounting points out of the chassis, and move them up a couple of inches.
 
 
 
Still with me? Okay then. I didn't take many pictures until recently, but I can tell you that after the initial cutting the regret set in immediately and deeply. The biggest hurdle with this project has been getting over the psychological trauma of seeing giant holes in your car where important structural things used to be. Many months were lost staring at the nothing that was left, wondering how I would ever close the wounds. Somehow, I just kept moving, hoping that my efforts would somehow reclaim my car from the scrap-heap, for which I thought it was surely destined.



I've still got a lot of work to do, but I think I'll have a running, driving car again someday...

Interesting. I do CAD and 3d modeling stuff and can't do it without 2 screens. 

Maybe it would be a good idea to set up a photo album on here as a picture dump, then we can have a vote thread after everything is sorted into a category.

they are worlds apart, this car is infinitely more enjoyable on track than the 1er. The 1er is too heavy and scrubs tires, fades brakes, is too soft, and overheats with boost 50% of the time. 
Consider that a Stoptech trophy BBK for the 135 is like $6500 which is more than half of what I paid for the E30, and it becomes readily apparent that it's inefficient to track a 1er and try to make it take corners better. Even if you sunk a bunch of money into it, it'll never come close to handling the way the E30 does, if nothing else due to weight difference. Even a gutted 135i would weigh 400 pounds more than my e30. 
This car is on another level. 

I made some plates quick to cover up the openings in the bell housing. I just used sheet metal and some edging material for a seal. 
Took the wheels off of my civic so that I could drive it once it started. (please dont ban me)
 

Fancy new catch can is fancy.
 

yeah, I'm in for submitting, buying a calendar, and lending any help with production/graphics you need.
to make life easier getting submissions, maybe set a theme for each month so people have something to aim for. 
for instance:
jan=close ups/details
feb=snow
mar=under the knife / WIPs / I Never Drive a Car, I Only Fix One.
apr=bridges
may=engine shots
june=buildings
july=water
august=sun
sep=group photos
oct=leaves
nov=track/autocross
dec=chrismahanukwanzakah
 

Patiently waiting for that axle to show up. Enjoy this picture while we wait. One of my favorites, ever.

Storm by Jacob Spence, on Flickr

This is how I am picturing you going through the mountains...

I also have a bunch of sport seat parts left over from when I rebuilt the ones in my e21. If you needed anything that straight6pwr's seats couldn't give ya. Free as well.