An e30 race car is born

[JimmyC]

Still waiting on delivery, should be here in 2 weeks

As soon as they arrive i'll get a pic up for you

Any progress on yours Gary?

[northloop]

I haven't been down to work on it for a couple of weeks. I was supposed to have last saturday but didnt feell well. This weekend I have Cadwell and next weekend Spa and the ring, so that's another couple of missed opportunities.

The target is Bedford at the end of Feb though

[Weeman]

2008? LOL

[northloop]

2008? LOL

Who pulled your chain

[Weeman]

lol

[1an]

Jimmy, these carbon door cards you have on order, do you have a link to the website please

[BOFFIN]

Jimmy,

The car looks great!

I'm new to this thread and can't see any of the earlier photo's as they have become little boxes with red crosses.

Do you have the photo's hosted elsewhere such as photobucket?
(I hope so, as I would really like to be able to look at the whole project.)

Christopher Wright.

[agreen]

whats sospecial about these door cards mate i am excited lmao

[JimmyC]

Hi Boffin

I have all the photos on my webspace, but the thread was getting viewed so much it was costing me a mint to host

I will get them all across to flickr and update it soon, just busy as hell sorting out PBMW stuff

Ian

The link to the door cards man is http://www.performancetrim.com/

[agreen]

those door crds look coll what door pulls ae you having on thm porshe do somelike rope ones lol they were in a m3 csl grt in pbmw magazine a black one not long ago

[JimmyC]

The door pulls will reuse the hand rails that used to be mounted in the roof, saved 2 of them when I stripped the car ;)

[1an]

need to roder a set of these at some point to tidy the inside up on my car, and for the pure pimp factor.

[agreen]

pimp factor yeh boi

i like the rope porshe ones i wanna et a pic of those i threw threw the pbmw magazine out does anyone have t ?

ki thnk it was simpson motorsport

[Cabrio]

Good job Jimmy let me know when you plan to test it

[JimmyC]

I now have the last bits to finish the car!!!

My floors turned up from the metal fabricator, just had all the very bling fastners arrive to fix it

Praying for nice weather at the weekend now!! Colds fine, wets not

Should be MOTd before xmas, and running in in feb for first shakedown on Northloops Bedford day 23rd Feb

[JimmyC]

Had to get the car out to get some pics for the insurance, so thought i'd update with a few new bits i've got done.

Front door car in:



Interior shot of the carbon door cards:



Ally floor, covered with antislip and new pedal in:



and the other angle, just got to sort out a bracket for my lap timer which will go where the clock used to be:

[alan1272]

can i ask where you got the throttle pedal from or did you make it yourself?

[JimmyC]

The pedal is from Mosely Motorsport

Jimmy

[Miniestate]

Ive been looking at your car over on SELOC.. very impressive. love the colour scheme too!

[Brian28]

love the colour scheme too!

Asda have a lot to answer for Jimmy is on hols until Feb

[dirtyharry]

Great job jimmy just letting you know i had a rallycar with the ecu mounted on side of transmission tunnel had lots of problems with heat transfer ended up moving it to another position!Just hate for you to have similar problems!! p.s.love the car.

[dirtyharry]

Great job jimmy just letting you know i had a rallycar with the ecu mounted on side of transmission tunnel had lots of problems with heat transfer ended up moving it to another position!Just hate for you to have similar problems!! p.s.love the car.

[JimmyC]

Cheers for the heads up on the ECU, may put some heat shield under it

Well Shrek passed the MOT

Now has 35 miles on the clock (that confused the tester with a zeroed clock

It failed the first test on the emmissions, the hydro carbons were at 6500, 1200 is the pass figure and the CO2 was 3 times the pass!

New AFM and all was fine!

Got a few small bits ticked off the list too, sorted out 2 new switches as the heated rear screen and fogs were sticking, meshed the front grill to protect the oil cooler, adjusted the handbrake, and gave it a wash

[zaust]

6500 Must have been flames lol...

[JimmyC]

wasnt far off and made breathing around the test centre interesting!!

[Jamese30]

Jimmy,
Good to see you have Shrek MOT'd and on the road now. Hope the running in is going well.

When is first race day!!?

All the best,

James

[George_Of_The_Jungle]

lovely motor.

Has it got a stage switch?

[northloop]

Is it running ok now Jimmy?

[JimmyC]

James- will buzz you over the weekend to catch up, March 24th at Combe is the first race. New website up with all details on www.pbmwc.co.uk

George- Cheers!! Whats a stage switch???????

Gary- Yep its running again now, new coil sorted it, replacing the fuel system at the weekend, pump, filter, regulator. 130 miles on the clock, need to get driving before 23rd!! Got to take customers out Friday night, so I expect i'll be late, and i'll need to do an oil and filter before going out

[northloop]

You have more miles on the clock than I do. Mine has 1 I repeat 1 mile on the clock in the last 16 months. I will be bedding in pads on the duck and drake laps so make sure you're not behind me

[1an]

ill make sure ikeep away from you Gary at bedford to start with then,

[JimmyC]

Considering I didn't plan to do much on the car this weekend, I had a pretty productive day today

Sorted out the fuel system, new pump, filter and regualator fitteed

Then onto some ingition bits, new coil and new plugs

Followed by a job i'd been putting of, sorted out the front screen rubber (it fell sort before so the metal insert was to small) so insert out, into the hot water and back in, with metal join added. Then the back screens turn, screen out and new rubber in (the old one was split) new rubber in, screen in, and inserts and ends sorted.

Then I got round to fitting my lap timer bracket in the old clock slot of the dash

Last job of the day a good clean

Got a bit of hesitation in the engine, favourite suspect is a second gammy AFM, need to sort before bedford if time allows

200 miles on the clock so need another 300 this week, and then it will be a very gently drive round bedford- making sure this engine stays in one piece!!

[northloop]

We can drive round like old grannies together Jimmy. My old girl will be having a steady day too

A load of us are staying in the travel lodge the night before if you are in the area. Having an italian somewhere local I think.

[iguana]

We can drive round like old grannies together Jimmy. My old girl will be having a steady day too

Easy pickings then

[northloop]

Indeed Alex indeed