Meet "Blue Nose" by DIIRTY-30

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The ball is definitely picking up momentum. It's in Jerrick's hands for the next few weeks so once I tow it back, we should be golden.


Heres some better (but still cell phone pics of it)











Went ahead and cut up my old hood. So one day when my pipe dream of having 8 trumpets sounding, this will be my method of drawing fresh air in.

Once I have more light tomorrow, I was going to start cleaning up the edges and rounding them better, just wanted to get the rough cuts down and finished.

3-2-2016

JMP always has badass cars rolling through. Met the owner of this M6 w/s38b36, all I can say is holy shit. Custom TA's, 12.5 in the rear tucked into the stock body lines, full aluminum exhaust, custom fuel cell between the rear towers, stripped & caged.

Such an insane build, nothing short of inspirational.

Here's a few pics he was showing me last night, gives you an idea of the exterior now. Hopefully he and I can set up a shoot sometime and really put something badass together. Hate having to steal pics but I hate when photographers code their links to clear. Obv photo cred to Caliphoto..

3-3-2016

This happened to the first e30 I almost bought. Caught on fire right as I was leaving my house to go look at/buy it. I remember reading you changed the lines out but didn't think it was that bad, luckily it didn't happen to you.


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Went ahead and finished trimming the hood up. Not perfect but it's not like I'll be using it all the time.

3-17-2016

Been a while since I've updated this ish... Got the serpentine belt, swapped timing covers, slapped the oil filter housing on, new water pump, yadda yadda yadda... For reference, if anyone plans to run their motor without P/S or A/C, use two smaller pulleys and belt # 7PK1388 (which turns out is hard to find according to the parts morons at autozone/o'reilly)

Busy working on breaking down my neighbors parts car for him. Successfully can say it took less than 8 hours to do the entire car all in all, which I'm pretty proud of. Let the flood of photos commence...




















Oh and went ahead and photoshopped some apex's to see what they'd look on my car incase I decided to buy them when the funds became available...



Pics of parts car after I raped it.. Was a full car before I got to it, should have taken pics of a before.

3-24-2016

Got bored the other night and decided to make a bracket for the oil catch can. Played around and came up with something I liked. Pretty happy with how it came together, gonna clean it up a little bit more and have it powdered.

On a side note, why the fuck is it near impossible to stab the transmission input into the pilot bearing? I originally thought the clutch disc alignment would be the hardest part but the bearing just aint having it. I've tried two separate times by myself stabbing it, started thinking maybe I'm just crazy. Had my good friend Gary (greanthumb) roll down and man handle it yesterday and same shit. Got maybe 1/4-1/2 from being flush but it just wont slip in. If anyone has suggestions, please and I do mean PLEASE tell me. This has become a nightmare and it just keeps laughing at me lol.













Threw in a spacer between the two ears to make the mounting a bit more solid..














If anyone wants to sell their MIG set up and your local... Hit me up, could definitely use one.

3-28-2016

Well anyone local knows the perils of the 405 on a Friday afternoon. Decided to head down to Garagistic which I originally intended to be leaving at 10:30 and having my buddy drive me down as a favor. Well things don't always go as planned, he had a job interview which he got, and we left at a whopping 2:30 from my house. Needless to say roughly 50 miles shouldn't take longer than what? an hour? Nope guess again. So I spent almost 3 hours in gridlock to get this thing after waiting quite some time, but its done and here. Big chunk of the puzzle, hindsight my only complaint would be the U joints should be serviceable & have circlips. Similar to how Turner makes theirs which is more practical imho especially for a v8 swap that your bound to fuck something up with. Because after all... the swap isn't meant to be to get groceries.









Finally brought it home, got working on coupling the engine and trans together round 29204 or so it felt. After getting it to closer to where I had previously before, also after massaging the pilot bearing and telling it stories, it decided to give in. Lucky me. I got it to the point where the dowels finally wanted to say hello. It began to look like a beautiful love story all over again. After some wiggling and no luck I sat and decided I'd use the bolts on the ear to walk it in, which wasn't at all what i wanted to do but I had no other ideas. To my surprise this worked, so slapped on the starter, torqued everything back down, slapped on the exhaust manifold and we're ready to go. Just a few tiny loose ends, a bit more welding of some things and once the car is back from JMP, hopefully it'll turn over and run. Fingers crossed.