E30 Zone

A handful of people will know of this car but I'm posting it up now as its nearing completion. I just need to tie up a few loose ends and it'll be ready to fire up soon.
















Some details:

Base car was a 318i
Now has an M30 from an E34 535i
Running Megasquirt and wasted spark
Rebuilt M30 head
Completely rewired from scratch
Flared arches all round
Lowered on custom built front coilovers and 6" rear springs
Custom exhaust with cherry bomb
Corbeau seats and Driftworks harnesses with welded in harness bar
Hydraulic handbrake
Re-routed brakelines
Custom shift linkage
Lifeline plumbed in extinguisher
Koyo aluminium racing radiator from Nissan 200sx

To come:
Polycarbonate windows
Propshaft
Paint.

Rear tyres are on the wrong way round!!

What no cable ties?! You can't go drifting without them you know..

Looks like an impressive project! Liking the wheels/stance

Looks great.

Like the way you have mounted Megasquirt. I did something similar on one of my installs.

Now that could end up looking very nice, love the arches and the setup on it. What size are they alloys?

i like it, track/drift car im guessing.

SHAKEELE30 wrote:Now that could end up looking very nice, love the arches and the setup on it. What size are they alloys?

They are 16x8j et10 but with 25mm PCD adaptors so effectively et-15.

stevotheevo wrote:i like it, track/drift car im guessing.

Yes, its to be my multipurpose track car next year. It's going to get a custom weld in rollcage sometime this winter and a Holset HX50 or HX40 turbo. I'm hoping to do some sprints, hillclimbs and drift events with it next year.

Been watching this on driftworks

This thing looks mean as hell. Touring rightness

Looks mental

Damn i want your wheels

loving this! I love its stance!

love this. did you get the wheels of the guy on here with the black 335i? he was selling it a while ago.

top looking motor. looks more like it should be an s50 engine swap rather than an m30 but then i noticed the turbo bit

its slightly more intense than my m30 touring (see thread in my sig below)




his full thread on driftworks:
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drift-c ... uring.html

dont wanna repeat but those wheels

Awesome level of attention to detail has gone into that.

Most definately not council by any means despite what MJG said on the driftworks forum.

just read the DW thread, well worth a look for those of you that haven't yet.

i guess MJG has a distaste for all things council, may well join and throw him a line or two

you've done the coilovers?

stevotheevo wrote: i guess MJG has a distaste for all things council,

You obviously haven't seen his car

MJG's a top bloke to be fair, I'll stand up for him here lol. He's helped me with info and I've helped him out of a few scrapes including making a 318i non fuel return pump holder into a pump holder with a fuel return.. at midnight the night before the British Open drift event at Llandow. I'm pretty happy to stand up and call Mike a mate, he's a sound lad.

stefananghel wrote: you've done the coilovers?

Yeh, I made the front coilovers myself using some Bilstein B6 shocks, 51mm front strut tubes and a 2" Ford Escort coilover kit from RallyDesign. Its a simple case of cutting off the standard spring platform and brake hose bracket, cleaning up the surface of the tube, sliding the coilover threaded tube down over it and welding the bottom of it to the strut tube. Then you can wind down your adjustable spring platforms, place a spring on them, add the top spring platform, fit the top mounts and bolt them up to the car body. Simple really. The front coilovers are sitting on the bumpstops at the moment to get it to sit at the right level because of the horribly chunky camber top plates I have. I need some Ground Control top plates that I can fit upside down on the turret top and gain about 40mm of rideheight which'll allow me to adjust the spring platforms up to gain some suspension movement whilst maintaining this rideheight.

stevotheevo wrote:just read the DW thread, well worth a look for those of you that haven't yet.

There's a whole lot more to the car build than whats on Driftworks. I've kept the build photos to a minimum on there and just posted the more obvious changes. I've got a whole load more than whats on there but I've only updated one forum (its a private forum) with the complete story.

sideways-taff wrote:

stevotheevo wrote:just read the DW thread, well worth a look for those of you that haven't yet.

There's a whole lot more to the car build than whats on Driftworks. I've kept the build photos to a minimum on there and just posted the more obvious changes. I've got a whole load more than whats on there but I've only updated one forum (its a private forum) with the complete story.

Where??????Any info on the zorst????

Like I said lol, its a private forum for a bunch of mates who go drifting and have a laugh http://night-walkers.co.uk/ I dont think you'll be able to see anything on the forum and its invite only.

The exhaust isn't made yet, I'm waiting on some tubing to arrive before I can start making it. It's going to be a simple system. I'm going to extend the front manifold back to reach the flange on the rear manifold, then bring two pipes down under the drivers footwell and make a 2 into 1 collector there where I'll have the lambda sensor boss. Then from there back it'll be a single pipe, through the cherry bomb and straight out the back.. it's going to be loud.

Thats what i like to hear,im thinking of replacing my centre silencer with a pair of cherry bombs

my old m30 exhaust was too loud me and a mate built a 3inch system which joined from 2 to 1 just after the down pipes. no middle box and a tiny centre box used as a back box 3inch in and 2 2.5inch out. it just sounded like it didnt have an exhaust. only thing it really did was move the noise back


now i have a e30 m3 system which sound fantastic! not mental but pretty good. had a night mare routing the down pipes but it was well worth it to have the twin pipe howl / whirl out the back


i hope you didnt mind me posting a link to your DW's thread these build should not be held back thats all.


MJG has a great motor! there were some ace night picture's of his car which i had as my desktop at work for ages until i had to change computer lost them now, gutted.

heloo wt rims r thoes

mani wrote:heloo wt rims r thoes

Rota Grid, some for sale here: http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&t=113472

Taff I've just read your whole thread on driftworks, your car and skills are amazing mate. I've been toying about doing a similiar thing with my shed and you've helped me make up my mind.

Keep up the good work and keep us posted on it's progress

charlie your going turbo m30 have i missed your thread on that????

you will need to have one going even if its a slow or fast build

Stunning touring.


What stiifness are your rear springs?

Iv have installed some 6" coilover springs (650Ibs) on my half build touring project and the stance is nothing like yours.

cheers

Wow, just scanned through your thread on DW and you have some very impressive fabrication skills!! What do you do for a living? I wish I had the sort of job where I could learn to do stuff like that...

I'm a CG Artist by trade, I create car meshes for use in racing games.. bit of a departure from building real cars. I did study Automotive Engineering Design at university and got by BEng.Hons degree some 4 years ago now. I worked for 15months at Mitsubishi Ralliart Europe as a placement for part of my degree where I worked in the design/engineering office working with all the designers and rally engineers on developing parts for the 2004 Lancer WRC. That year taught me a lot about how to build cars, I've still got a hell of a lot to learn but I'm getting there slowly. One day I hope to turn this hobby into something bigger, maybe prepare cars for others.

Sounds amazing, very envious!

A shot of the front coilover conversion and the almost taxi like steering lock.


Rear seat squab tidied and wires routed and clipped



Scratch made engine wiring loom


Enginebay work almost complete, missing an airfilter, cooling system pipes and one sensor (which arrived this morning)


A pic of the engine without the induction so you can see the wiring loom across the injector and fuel rail. Its not as neat as it could have been but it'll do

loving your car mate, what steering you got on that...

New E36 steering rack, new E30 tie rods and a modified steering column coupler to get rid of the rubber section without the need of a big alum spacer.