SamHolzmann

Finished assembling the motor and got it back in the car this weekend. Drives perfect just doesn't idle and wants to shut itself off when coming to a stop. 

Got a hold of some footage. Still in my break in period at 7 psi.
 

Been awhile since ive made an update but have done a few things here and there with the car. 
After getting caught in the rain a few time i decided to finally make my sunroof brackets and got a hood for the car. Neither stayed on very long but at least i can use them. Ironically i had to leave The Brew Haus car show early because i decided to drive out their without the sunroof and hood when it started raining.

Locally i found someone selling an SLR angle kit for my car and picked that up. Was imaging it was going to be a simple install, I was wrong. The SLR arms are much longer so I had to find extended brake lines. Turns out I could only find them from WiseFab (another steering angle company) and that was out of the UK so i went off on my own. A couple fitting and some steel braked line later everything was great. Then the kit creates a stupid amount of angle and before full lock the inside of the wheel hit the control arms so i had to make rack shims. After it all i am extremely pleased with the kit just wasn't expecting so many unseen issues.

Just saw the video clip, stellar car and driving!

Got a hold of some footage. Still in my break in period at 7 psi.
 

Got a hold of some footage. Still in my break in period at 7 psi.
 

Got a hold of some footage. Still in my break in period at 7 psi.
 

Starting to look like a car again! 

Finally decided it got to the point where it was time to make a build thread for what started as a 1984 318i E30. After ice racing an E30 325i for a couple years and spending a afternoon at a Club Fr drift day up in Shawano I decided it was time to build another for drifting and driving around every once an awhile. Went down to Chicago and pickup up what was supposed to be a 1984 318i m10 turbo car with a bad mega-squirt ecu. After seeing the wiring nightmare, i ordered a brand new mega-squirt ecu and wiring harness. Not up and running by the next drift day i was once again a spectator, but found a fellow who claimed to have ton of experience wiring mega-squirt and agreed to wire the car up and give it a base tune. Three months after dropping the car off at his shop and not being able to get it running correctly he was paid and car was picked up. After hours of trouble shooting and taking to a couple different places i became impatient and a deal on a m50 swap came up and i pulled the trigger and that is were the journey began. 
The day the car got back to the shop

Being that 1984 E30s came with drum brakes the first step was cleaning up the backup E30 disk brake set-up from the ice racing E30. Decided to put the Revshift bushing kit in while it was already out. Also ordered K-Sport drift spec/ true rear coilovers

 
 
 Between the spring rates the coil overs were build to and being form 1984 i decided it wouldn't be a horrible idea to support the rear strut towers.(support was fulled stitched together, sealed and painted after the picture)  I also build and welded support plate onto the control arm that sit on the outside of the coil over but don't have a picture as of right now. Also having a pair of front struts from a 1990 325i the struts were cut up and front coilovers weld on along with new wheel bearings. 

 

With the suspension done the car was sent out to be wired  and that's where the m10 turbo dreams took a turn (the setup is still sitting on a pallet at my shop). Decided to finish cleaning up the bay before starting the m50 swap.

Then i turned my attention to the m50 swap. Again being a 1984 I had to build an adapter to from square fuse box plug to the circle that came on later year E30's. Decided to upgrade to the z3 steering rack while the sub-frame was out. Bolted the motor and trans to the sub frame and dropped the car down onto it. After some Ecu troubles the swap started right up and was good to go.

Bought some second hand Corbeau fx1 seats that my buddy had in his Mk2 Gti, modified the brackets to work in an  E30, built a harness bar, and mounted and plumbed the ASD handbrake, and fitted some wheels.

Spent the next week buttoning everything up for the car and finished just in time to take one test drive before taking the car to it's first Club Fr event. Besides a vacuum leak towards the end of the day the car ran and drove flawlessly for the rest of the season.

As summer ended i went to school and didn't want to drive this or my beat up truck and wondered across a Felony form e36 m3 for a steal so that became my new college commuter.  

As winter came and it was time to start driving the truck again, i decided it would be a great idea to replace the S50 from the M3 with the M50 from the E30. Once i had both motor out i found people asking to buy the car as a roller and was given an offer i could not refuse. I ended up making $500 more than i paid for the car and kept the motor, trans, ecu, wiring harness, drive shaft and couple other bit and pieces from the car. I decided the money i got from selling the car was going straight back into the E30. Decided to boost the S50. Ill let the pictures take over from here. The M50 was used for mock up while the bottom end of the S50 was at the machine shop. The machine shop ran the motor through a couple heat cycles to break everything in. Have a lot of little parts that i will include pictures of later when everything starts going together.

The whole interior was stripped out including the sun roof frame, wiring the slimmed down to everything but the necessities and the roll cage build started. I have everything finished besides making the gussets for the A-pillar bars. Also the trunk was prepped and primed
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That brings us to the present, as of right now i am just taking my time prepping the inside to be painted and prepped. Hoping to finish it up this weekend and having it primed and painted all one color. Stay tuned!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Just about have all the bugs worked out. Clutch master cylinder decided to go a few hours into drift day 58 this last Sunday. Car felt and drove extremely well and cannot wait till drift day 59.

Just about have all the bugs worked out. Clutch master cylinder decided to go a few hours into drift day 58 this last Sunday. Car felt and drove extremely well and cannot wait till drift day 59.

With my s50 turbo e30 pretty much wrapped up for the year i am thinking about opening up my shop to do work on other cars. Can do anything that i have done on my car (I have a small build thread on here). Very familiar with E30's and E36's. Any interest or questions send me a message or shoot my at text @ 920-948-0040. I also have a super clean, black 1988 e30 with minor front end damage i can build for someone. Thanks!

I love everything going on here, my only fear is that it will have an interview with a wall sometime in the future

Starting to look like a car again! 

Starting to look like a car again! 

Updates from this weekend.

Finished the prep work, primed everything, and paint laid down really well but i didn't have enough to paint the trunk. Oh well that's another days project.

Finished the prep work, primed everything, and paint laid down really well but i didn't have enough to paint the trunk. Oh well that's another days project.

Finished the prep work, primed everything, and paint laid down really well but i didn't have enough to paint the trunk. Oh well that's another days project.

well after a few months of dumping all my money into my VW and other E30, I didn't get anything done on the V8 swap. I tore it down and decided what im going to do for power. I cleaned it up, painted and installed the oil pan. I also ordered a couple gaskets and sensors  that I broke along the way.im also starting to buy the accessories for the front. 
 

 
im switching to LS1 accessories so i started by buying a LS1 crank pulley.
 

 
here is a basic idea of what the motor looks like now. i have the motor mounts back on it now.
 

 
i ordered a pedal assembly for the car so when that gets here i can start running lines.