Meet "Blue Nose" by DIIRTY-30

10 minute(s) of a 417 minute read

So before my hiatus from the e30; I pieced together the AN lines for the catch can, tapped & timesert'ed the timing cover for the CPS bracket, swapped on another oil pan, notched the steering rack for the joint, wrapped the exhaust manifold, polished the exhaust nuts, and some other random stuff.





















Welded a fitting onto the coolant pipe for my water temp sensor on the alpina gauge..



Put the AKG shifter in & made the shift selector..



Then moved onto the OCC & AN lines..







Swapped out the old oil pan for the modded one..









Notched the rack...





Dropped the motor back in...



Acquired a TIG & MIG after someone who was supposed to do my welding took another 4 weeks when they promised 3 days. Got fed up and bought my own stuff to learn, still haven't gotten around to getting argon but its not priority #1 at the moment..



Then I picked this up off a buddy who wanted to part it out, didnt overheat just had small issues which I could handle. Got it for $700, found some ACS on clist a few days later and switched them out. Went ahead and buffed the oxidation off the headlights, candied the tails, bought an m3 bumper painted it and slapped some fog lights on it..











Polished up my ACS for the e30 since theyve been sitting for 2 yrs..







Got these ACS caps for $25 off craigslist for when i powder the 17s))) STEAL



Got my tach splitter from Garagistic...



Pieced together some coolant hoses, at the moment this is where I've left off, I need a few clamps, a hose for the overflow tank, and the exhaust to be fabbed up. I'm planning to take it to Castro soon to have the final touches put on it & drive it home for my bday.




LAST but not least the moment some of you have been waiting for.... the first start up after so long. This put the biggest smile on my face, also made my ears bleed (almost) my neighbors across the street just stared at me down my driveway like "this asshole..."

I'm not sure how to embed Flickr videos so heres a link...

https://flic.kr/p/N5sdS9

12-8-2016

Finally got some new turn signals since mine cracked.





Made a panel for the backseat to clean some things up a little. Cut out of 1/4" ABS plastic, eventually cover it with a carpeting.








POR-15 coated the floorboards & replaced all the plugs. Picked up a grey carpet & some seats, then cleaned out the trunk seam sealer for the delete, welded it in place, coated it with POR-15 and waiting to seam seal it, and coat the trunk again. Also wired in the Alpina vent gauge none of the sensors are currently hooked up yet. Added a second light to my trunk.

























Added the M3 battery cover; had to trim it a little bit and changed the OCC lines to straights since the 90s hit the cover.







Removed the return line for the oil cooler and added my sensor block for the Alpina gauge, then made a little tab for it and mounted it along the frame rail. Wheel seems to clear the line no problem so hoping for no issues. Still haven't gotten around to grinding out the skid plate mounting plates, but will ASAP.









Made some seat belt guides for the harness bar out of a 4' piece of 1/8"; pretty happy with how they came out.