E30 Zone

Picked this up over a year ago as a rolling shell and a week later i got the engine from the same bloke. Lets just say it was a bargain!


Everything was all running fine until it started running on 3! Changed the injectors put it all back together and it was fine for another couple of months and it all went wrong again.

So it was out with the IS lump


I had a few options with what to drop in, we had a couple of m20 2.5's kicking about but after seeing jhonno's at our BBB monthly meet i was being drawn to the m50 sitting on a pallet in the workshop!


The engine is now in its rightful place with m52 tubular manifold, a one piece billet steel flywheel for a m20 weighing approx 4.5 kgs releasing more bhp from the engine.


Its all wired in and almost complete, having a full front end re-spray and back on the road early Nov with any luck.

Andrew

Looking good mate

Looks really nice! Well done! ANy more pics of the finished product???

nice mate also what diff are you running ?

Running a 318is box with a sport 3.64 lsd. There will be more pics to follow just waiting for the bodyshop to finish up!

hello andy i thought this would have been finished by now

24V rightness!

Nice work fella, Those alloy flywheels are a thing of beauty.

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Looking forward to seeing the car finished!

d6dph wrote:Nice work fella, Those alloy flywheels are a thing of beauty.

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Dont mind at all. i'll have to let you have a spin when its done see if we can tempt you into a flywheel!

tommy22 wrote:hello andy i thought this would have been finished by now

So did i tom but things kept coming up, it wil be done soon

Update.

All the wiring is done and tidied and i runs!! Just got mt shock bodies back from being blasted and painted they just need rebuilding with the 60mm drop springs and bilstein inserts,
Just waiting for the manifolds to come back after their adjustment and they can go on and it will hit the road! I say hit the road it'll have a few blasts up and down the runway first just to run it in...

Shocks blasted and painted and new springs


BBS deep dish rims fully refurbed wth Toyo proxes T1R's

looking good

if yuou dont mind me asking how much is it to get things like shocks etc sand blasted and painted, my cousin can do them for free but his boss wont let him anymore (think he was taking advantage of it )

Tbh i dont know not had the bill yet. I have to take some wheels to be blasted tomorrow so i will get the bill then.
I will also speak to our our sprayer and get a cost aswell.

my wheels need blasting too, would like to know the going rate of them too if you dont mind

I know painting is approx £120

if i can get them blasted i would do the painting my self

or persuade my cousin to ask his boss nicely

i will get prices for shocks and the wheels.

cheers

nice, i bet she understeers a fair bit tho. but that can be counteracted with a bit of cheeky oversteer

Not had her on the road yet few final touches. The m50 doesn't weigh much more than a m20b2.5 so i guess it will hand like a m20, wont be as good in the twistys as the IS was though.

BigBavarian wrote: BBS deep dish rims fully refurbed wth Toyo proxes T1R's

I want.....

I ahd to fight my brother off for these wheels and he keeps on trying to sell them from under my car. I saw another set like these on ebay a few weeks ago, not sure what they were on originally they're only stamped bbs and a date mark

Very nice motor, Great work....

Good stuff lads.. So you went for the 24v in the end?

I missed the last meet, forgot it was on!

I'll ahve to pop down for a nose around at some point, I'm sure there are some parts to drop off/buy at some point soon!

Jai

24v rightness as some people say!! Come on down we have some new toys and a lot of stock for you to nose through.

Andrew

Small update, Have recently got hold of some high back recaro seats that i'll be putting in once its complete. Picture to follow tomorrow. Fingers crossed i may have the tech 2 kit to fit aswell, so there will be another tech 2 kitted lazur blue 2 door out there.

you should worry about getting it on the road mine will be done before yours that list on the window is not getting any smaller

You say that but it is getting smaller done alot on it today. Changed the suspension so its now bilsteins all round and 60mm springs, and also fitted cross drilled and grooved discs. The manifolds are all bolted in place and the throttle cable is fitted aswell. Almost there end of the month it'll be on the road. fingers crossed

Just found this pic. My BBS's back from the blasters, every bit of paint off them before they were re done


And this is the doner for my tech 2 kit that will be painted and fitted over the next couple of weeks. The reason its being broken is both inner and outer rear arches are rotten, the scuttle both side has holes you can fit a pint glass in. Not had a chance to look underneath yet but the jacking points are on the passenger foot well in a nice puddle of water!

Update. My car is now next door in the bodyshop. The front end has been stripped and is due to be primed either tonight or tomorrow. The engine bay will also get a lick of paint to freshen it up. It took me all afternoon to remove the coating in the engine bay. Not sure what it was looked a bit like wax! Its all off now anyway. I will get some pictures of it tomorrow.

Deep dish wheels

probably be engine laquer, less understeer than an is and more poised.. you might want a sump guard with a 60mm drop, mines got a 35mm drop and the sump is low as is

Sump guard is next on the list.
Engine bay all primed ready for paint.