Meet "Blue Nose" by DIIRTY-30

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Finished up my buddy's car & got paid finally; didn't even need an alignment after all that stuff. Eyeballed it almost spot on, bled the brakes took it around the block then on the freeway. Can't believe after what he did it drives normal still; insurance for sure would have totaled it. So now back to the E30








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Went ahead and changed out the spark plugs out, lot of carbon.






Started mocking up panels to cover the rails (just to get a rough idea); ended up getting some free sheet metal for it so saved me a good chunk of money there.





Cut off & grinded the last of the tabs off and tossed some POR15 over it for the time being. Once I get some paint together I'll block and shoot it.




Laid out the reflective film, decided to wrap the exhaust when I tack it together for under the floor boards instead of going all out on the trans tunnel.







Got my two resonators finally after almost 2 months of waiting for some reason, so exhaust can be started once its in the bay again. Also started running my lines and just need to figure out where to mount the thermostat, most likely on the rail and bracket it.







As a little teaser; my package from Germany finally arrived so this will be coming up very soon once I build them out... Always wanted a set of these, staggered 16's

5-15-2016

Thanks Matt!

So I haven't really updated this in a while; between going to school/work/having no life I've been pretty preoccupied. So with that said my time to work on this project have pretty much been either super early mornings or late at night after 10pm. With that being said here's some pictures..


Reinstalled the dashboard after having it sit for a long time. Haven't seen a cluster in there in 8 months atleast. Kinda miss this view.




Truck bedlined the engine bay for starters.. I dig the contrast that it gives personally.



Tossed the motor back in, this time I took the exhaust manifold off thinking that I could somehow get it back on afterwards. I had an issue where the drivers side was hitting the steering joint since the rack was installed. Still need to figure this out.





Idea of the ground clearance, almost level with the subframe





I then begun working on the bracket for my oil cooler. I wanted to mount it somewhere near the stock location, out of the way of the radiator so it didn't inhibit airflow. So I had to trim the little "airdam" plastic piece on the valance to accommodate in about half without having to remove it completely. This managed to wiggle it in and make it more stealthy while maintaining good contact.


Improvised a bracket from a strongtie that was laying around since I'm budgeting things lately. Also when I went to drill the holes for the mounts, I noticed that due to the impact my PO inflicted on the radiator support. Guess what, its not gonna line up.. So I drilled it out to about 2"-2.25" hole, hammered it out to flatten the mounting section on the bottom so everything sat flush. Then with the giant hole that I had left on the top section I cut up a piece of metal, ground out a U, then mounted with some washers. This was the result. If I had a welder, or could get my friends brother over here with his MIG I'd weld the tabs in place but for now theyre floating.

Oh I also cut up a piece of aluminum I found on the side of the road to make a bracket/template for my pusher fan. After lining it up, turns out it sat about 2" to low for my liking. So now I need to remake another one or just say F it and go ahead and just make 4 little metal tabs and move forward.












I'm extremely disappointed with the MTC intake boot that I ended up getting, as you can see it's angle is way off. Debating if it's worth dropping the money on a new OEM one considering how much they go for. Haven't found one at the yard so meh...




For shits and giggles I put the front back together just to see how it would look since it's been ages. I'm missing a lot of my hardware from it being moved around a lot so I need to re-source a lot of bolts unfortunately.




Also spent a few hours on the OZ's; used a bottle of bug and tar remover, then I had my buddy Chris come over the next day and help me smooth out some of the curb rashing on two of the lips. Not perfect or show quality by any means. Once I get the car running and have more funds, I'll do a full rebuild/build, but for now this is how they're gonna run.

5-16-2016

Thanks buddy!

I used Duplicolor's bed armor; I wanted to get it rhinolined but that was going to cost more than I wanted to for such a small area. Overall I like the texture and turn out, gave it a few days to cure in the sun before putting everything back in. Overall for $14 worth of paint, not a single complaint. As for the wheels they're just going to be daily wheels if anything; Just re-polishing the lips a little and run them till the tires blow out hahaha. Can't remember the last time my car looked like a well... car.

7-12-2016

Well here's some minor updates... I'll start with the worst first.

Wrist pin on Cyl 5 snapped; jetted through the side of the block putting a nice sized hole in it.







So the next day I came across a 540i for sale, went ahead and bought it and drove it home with a messed up transmission. Pulled the motor out the following day before towing my e30 back home. If this e39 was any other color than this, I most likely would have kept it.















The motor had good compression across the board, motor has 149k on it, timing guides and chains haven't been done. I may pick up an m62 block and re-use my M60 heads and build something up from there. M62 is just to keep the ball rolling for the time being.















Sold the rolling chassis a few days later and got my money back went to someone whose now going to turn it into a show/shop car. Be cool to see it once it's all finished up!




Pulled the heads off the m60 to see if there was any damage and from a visual inspection doesn't seem to be. Maybe in a few months I'll have the heads re-done and etc.

Test fitted the Futura's between breaking down the motor just to see what they look like.





Tore some stuff off the M62 and starting to transfer over parts now... Still waiting on the oil pan to be fixed so I can swap it out and put the flywheel, clutch, and trans back on. Once that comes around this should be a lot quicker.
















Went ahead and gave the ol gal a wash & wax since its been a while...



Trimmed the gas lever down & re drilled the 3/8" so it clears the pedal box, wired up my Alpina Gauge, polished my SS exhaust piping, cut outs, and the coolant piping for kicks..
































So hopefully once the oil pan is finished and I re-tap the rear coolant cross over pipe for the water temp sensor. Motor should drop back in and have less issues this time around, fingers crossed.