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5 hours ago, jc43089 said:
The A/C compressor has sleeve dowels on some of the bolts, just pull/pry straight out from the engine. Looks good, that will be a piece of cake to pull straight out the front.
Edit: did you remove the 4 long bolts that go through the compressor body? The bracket won't come off unless you get the bolt out that is hidden by the tone ring/front pulley.
@ChrisO will have to confirm as he was working on pulling it off, but I believe he pulled all four of the bolts that hold the compressor on the bracket. It just appears to be seized or something to the bracket. We didn’t have any good prying tools so we were only able to hit it with a hammer but didn’t get very far.
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@ChrisO has been a massive help in the whole sale of this car. Between arranging the flat bed, driving down to help unload the car, helping jack the car up(lowered and rusted jacking points), and prep the engine to be pulled this is by far the best car sale I've been a part of.
Car is in the air and the the harness is free from the chassis. Last things to pull are the power steering pump, AC compressor(all bolts removed but stuck on, not sure about this, will need to revist), and then some small evap shit. Rad support being completely off will make pulling a lot easier.
@GunMetalGrey coming in big time as always and supplying the crane to hopefully pull the motor this weekend.
- suspenceful and ChrisO
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Coils and wheels ordered.
Thank you site wide 20% off, eBay
- m42b32 and GunMetalGrey
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17 hours ago, SteelBlue said:
Fern Green E46 M3 in Darboy. Looked lowered, possibly ZCP wheels
@suspenceful found it
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Red E46 facelifted 4 door with unpainted front M tech 2 bumper in Fond du Lac. Looked lowered
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Fern Green E46 M3 in Darboy. Looked lowered, possibly ZCP wheels
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Power numbers are pretty tasty.
Whats the plan for putting the power to the pavement now?
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Get the M50 in and running. Need a 260 and a few other bits, but have the majority of it.
Replace suspension. Fix other things that might kill me while driving.
Drive it.
Wish it had an S50.
What a trip this was.
After taking some inventory, getting pricing from @patsbimmer1, and talking with @GunMetalGrey, came to the conclusion that buying @ChrisO S52 would be a better value for only a few hundred more than buying everything to get the M50 that came with the car running. Initially I wanted to only purchase the drivetrain from the car, but after some deliberating figured out that it probably wouldn't be plausible.
So I got a storage unit so I could put the M3 somewhere while I tore it down and pulled the drivetrain.
We were trying to figure out the best way to get it from Green Bay to Appleton. Considered driving it, but its gutted, on shitty tires, and no seat. Ended up getting it flatbeded from his to the storage unit. Chris said they had to gas up the truck before heading out so he left a bit after they left to get gas and went to meet me at the storage unit. We got there at the same time, but the car was not there. It had started raining pretty good at this point so were both just sitting in our cars and waiting. 20 minutes go by and it's still not there and now its been like an hour since they left his place. Because he used AAA we didn't have the towing company info. Figured out that the picture he took of the car on the flatbed had the phone number on it, but the number was a disconnected line or was not accepting calls. Waited longer, still raining. Chris has been on hold with AAA for like 20 mins so decided to just drive back down 41 to see if they were stuck on the side of the road. He called me and told me the car would be there soon and it showed up as he was calling me, almost 2 hours after leaving Green Bay.
But hey, it stopped raining by then, which was nice.
But yeah, time to start doing some work. Very excited about potentially having an S52 E30.
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14 hours ago, snap said:
I went for one final rip before topping off the tank in preparation to pass the keys to a new owner.
It sounds marvelous. It runs perfectly. It pulls properly. It may be humble in comparison with other builds and cars that are out there but I did my very best with the amount of time, money, and talent I had, and I am satisfied with my work.
I could list reasons of why I should keep the dream alive and an equal number of reasons why it needs to come to an end. To put it concisely, I love this car, but it doesn't fit well into my life right now.
I tried hard to make a car hobby work with my current position in life, but it just isn't working out how id like it to.
I have owned this car for 8 years. it started life as a humble, neglected automatic purchased off ebay and shipped from Los Angeles and since then has been my "creative outlet" and an amazing tool for me to expand my knowledge of automobiles and engineering.
This car took me to college, It took me to work, It took me to my first (and hopefully not last) track day, it took family members on leisurely drives, it took me on adventures, it was my release, it was my refuge in the glorious way that personal automobile transportation is to us all.I am grateful that I got to experience what some couple thousand BMW employees in the 1980's set out to produce: The Ultimate Driving Machine.
At the end of the day it is merely a hunk of steel, glass, rubber, and plastic But it will be missed.
There will hopefully be another day that I can build up a car as a hobby but for now it is time for someone else to enjoy it.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this dream.
why am i crying in the club rn
- B C, Jdesign and GunMetalGrey
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"My brakes are pretty good"
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- suspenceful, DrLeadFoot, Jdesign and 2 others
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Are those M Pars 18s or 19s? Did they even make 19s?
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More pics of Ferrari stuff pls
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16 hours ago, HipMF said:
Better you than me?
Good luck. I'd suggest getting the car running and driving as quickly as possible, and worry about everything else later. Obviously the rest of "the club" has been there and knows the dangers of mission creep and subsequently getting overwhelmed/loosing motivation.
Plus, you're in my spot dude. 😄
Getting it run as soon as possible is the goal. Ben is grabbing the last parts from Chris at the picnic today. Gonna review what I've got and source the rest of the stuff to get it running. Trans is the main thing I can think of now. Not sure if it has a wiring harness or not.
Unsure of the status of the M50, being that it's good or not, but I'm sure we will be able to figure it our relatively quickly once it's in.
Buying coils to replace the blown suspension is the other matter of business, but will not be done until the car runs.
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11 hours ago, YoungCR said:
Full Suspension refresh, rebuild locks and new parking break cables and this thing will be golden! Along with a new motor. Still have the glovebox and a few things we forgot to bring up with the car too. Can't wait to see it back on the road.
Yeah Ben said there were a couple of other things you still had to bring, let me know whenever you can drop the other items off. I think Ben said something about today with the picnic being tomorrow or something? If not we can figure something else out.
Very excited to get this back on the road.
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23 minutes ago, snap said:
I dont know how or why but the PNW is a bastion for E30 ownership. Portland and Seattle craigslist are great for browsing.
We have a really good thing going here though. No complaints at all
H I P S T E R S
but no, there's probably a good reason
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7 minutes ago, Rekpoint said:
I LOVE CALYPSO!!!!!!!!
Same, does anyone know productions numbers? I imagine they weren't terribly high, have not seen very many.
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3 minutes ago, snap said:
Clicked expecting compression test numbers. Leaving satisfied.
Whats the gameplan?
Calypso is a great color
Get the M50 in and running. Need a 260 and a few other bits, but have the majority of it.
Replace suspension. Fix other things that might kill me while driving.
Drive it.
Wish it had an S50.
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13 minutes ago, GunMetalGrey said:
Long res pics look real nice!
Delete this
That house has also been in the state of looking like it's being repaired while simultaneously looking like it's about to be burned down for a local fire department practice for the past 10 years.
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3 hours ago, snap said:
The first picture is a vertical screen shot of a horizontal picture of the front of the car both vertically and horizontally off kilter.
I am deceased.
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This build is incredible. Great work.
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54 minutes ago, suspenceful said:
Sweet - you should be able to check out with your credit card info as well. Local pickup is fine and depending on the day, I'd offer a ride in the 135i!
Thanks Pat! I built it on Shopify, nice eye. Thanks for catching my typo! I just fixed it. I'm surprised at the amount of typos that have been pointed out lol. That's what I get for building this site on late nights.
Try building early mornings for reverse typos
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I'm thinking it might be 15/16 in this diagram. There's really no good diagrams that show how the compressor mounts unfortunately...