Meet "Blue Nose" by DIIRTY-30

7 minute(s) of a 214 minute read

I had asked my friend to hot tank & blasted the supercharger parts since the 6spd swap had been getting closer. Figuring I can start putting together the items needed to make that a reality over the next few months ahead if 2020 proves better than it has thus far. After having degreased, painted, and sitting in a box, still oil had leaked out and behold.. 101k miles of grime.

Pushing ahead I spent a few mins on night flipping the pulley, marked off the back areas that needs to be ground off & tapped. Since the stock boost isn't too high, I'm looking at stock water - air intercoolers such as the benz or bmw units. If it was with an upgraded pulley, I could see the need for spending the extra cash flow. Just to get it functional, budget is a must.

For the z3m cover I had two zinc 85mm and got the remainder 75/85mm from a local shop for the price of the two zinc ones. After pulling my diff cover off it was nice to see that everything was pretty clean internally, old cover then hot tanked eventually end up as wall art lol. In the process of the swap I somehow misplaced the little cover that goes over the harness plug, sowill eventually need to find another for that. With the cover installed, it really displays how beat and grimey the under carriage is...

Still trying to find all the pictures compiled of the e30 prius column..... still pretty bummed about the fact that It was ready for brackets and install and the motor either froze or had a short. Probably my fault welding the spline on, over looked something, not a clue... If anyone has their two cents to toss in feel free. It was really off putting once I had it ready to go for the install to find that out, but roll with the punches and purchased another column. This one I had to finesse the splines on the coupler since it was a little chewed up.



Annoyingly lost the area from here onward cause of being logged out so edit this when I come back later.

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Due to time and necessity to get the car steering for work I put the sourcing of additional motor and wiring on hold to revisit. Heres a few pics of how it broke down and I planned to make it all work. Ultimately yes you can run an mr2 or volvo unit but my goal was to 86 any fluids and since the signal for the steering ecu defaults to 35 mph it seemed a perfect PS balance.

With the prius spline cut off, I drilled two holes on opposite ends of the shaft and press fit the splines inside then welded them to make a more secure fit. After the two were joined together, I did a root and cap over the top and ground it down.

Now that the lower portion was measured, cut, and felt safe to me, I started with the splines at the top that was intimidating to me. Also below are the wiring/connectors along with the $30 roll of 25 ft of brake line as opposed to the $12 25 ft steel/plastic coated roll I removed.

If you hadn't guessed by now I'm still beyond upset with the results I paid for originally. Partially cause after going through what I paid a pretty penny for it becomes more apparent profit was more important than quality or craftsmanship. Especially the duration my car was waiting to be worked on (3.5wks) + the results deemed just reinforces why I'd rather learn and research than allow others to touch my vehicles from now on sadly. Keep in mind I used simple coat hanger wire to configure my bends before making them in actual hard line. Nothing fancy and still pressure checked all my fittings after for leaks.

Then after i ground off the mounting tabs from the Toyota factory config, I tested it to make sure it worked smoothly and boom nadda. So..... steering wheel came off, key tumbler out, and tossed that ish in a box. On the plus side, I scored this laptop for pretty cheap and after doing my buddys top end gaskets for his e31 I found it works. So once the m62 is back in the e30 be interesting to see what I can do with it.

Since I keep getting stopped for logging in I'll just leave this update