Meet "Blue Nose" by DIIRTY-30

8 minute(s) of a 417 minute read

Well I ended up re making the guides and scrapping the old ones. Went with a 1/8 single bar for a cleaner look. While I was at it I made a gift for my roommates bday to mess with him.











Welded the final bracket in for the OCC just been lagging on getting the proper screws for it. Also re-attached the hood, kinda nice not to have to man handle it on and off lol. Need to give it some TLC and remove the foam but meh that can come later on.










Working on making an airbox to pick up air from where the AC hole is & route it from the brake duct in the front. My buddys supposed to drop off a plastic welder to make life a bit easier. Making it out of 1/4" & 1/8" ABS then putting the heat resistant material to block the side panels from the exhaust manis.





Need to make a few cuts & fill the holes on the right side of the engine bay. I got the seat harness bolted in place, need to borrow my GF to adjust the belts to a more reasonable fit but pretty happy with the outcome.




Also picked this lil guy up from Central Cali the other night... Euro import 500SEC with AMG parts on it, fairly neglected and needs a lot of TLC but I see a ton of potential. Price was something I couldn't pass up. Debating making a build thread or not but really looking forward to getting cracking on it.

3-17-2017

Link to video of it running...

BLUE NOSE



Just down to a few things now.

Have to get the guibo out to figure out why I can only get 5 of 6 bolts in.

Reinstall the DSSR I cut & rewelded

Wire the Spal Fan

Get an early model or S38 (yeah like thatll happen) overflow tank cause the late model one is butt and the pipe still sits too high coming over the VC.. thats about it.

Had to switch the CSB from the driveshaft cause it was too wide in my tunnel & wouldn't bolt in. Re-glued the weatherstripping around the door since it sagged horribly, but I still think its a great product aside from the adhesive. Ended up ditching the e34 tank cause it made it a PIA to get to the clutch res to fill and bleed. Mocked up some galvanized pipes to just get the coolant system full so I could make sure my sensors are working. Not too happy about it but it'll do. Exhaust is done but the cut outs would have been hanging way too low to make sense using them. Got V bands throughout the whole system so I was debating making sidepipes instead that wont really be visible. Juggling 3 projects is a PIA, been pricing a lot of stuff out more for the benz lately to get it cruising. Frozen piston calipers suck. Planning to re-spray the car and strip it down to metal just need to find a garage to work out of so it doesn't turn to a rusty heap.

Now Picturezzzzz

3-22-2017

Well reverted back to the E34 set up after talking to Tyler (not sure his handle if hes on here) about the late model set up. Just need to notch the hood a little to clear the radiator cap and get the two small vent hoses for the bottle since I lost em. DSSR went in no problem, got the driveshaft bolts all in no problem after dropping the whole thing and smoothing out the holes. Gotta love V bands lol.
















Looking forward to "finishing" up the e30 to get started on this boat.