s50b32 e30 325i sport tech 1

[hybrid]

On the quest for lower lap times decided to do something about the seats.

Ill post what the new road seats will be later, theyre not quite done yet.

Recaro SPG Race Shell
Modified and lowered Recaro rails
Recaro side brakets
Willian 3 inch harnesses.

This is before lowering.



After










This is the next mod
Bonus points to who can guess what it is .. you need to be accurate.

[Jhonno]

Looks potentially like a single wiper conversion..

ACS/Hartge or whoever it was who did them?

[hybrid]

Correct .. I scored this from an original Warstiener DTM car. It weighs nothing.

[Jhonno]

Nice!

[hybrid]

Seats and new oil cooler







The stock BMW cooler was pissing me off so I replaced it with a big ass Earls oil cooler / lines (under number plate)...which extends up to the top of the bumper with the blue lines through the grill. Its all isolated and rubber mounted as not to twist the cooler frame
You can kinda see the brake cooling ducts.
All set for summer of time attack

[magpie]

lovely seats those.

how long before the pass one gets a brown stain

[martinpallot]

For those interested, those single wiper conversions originate from a fiat uno, I have same in my car. Great car BTW!

[hybrid]

You can use the Fiat ones too however they weigh a bit more than these magneti marelli magnesium ones.

[mani]

crazy !!!

[H35-IAN]

this has to be one of the best s50 projects ive ever seen hats off to you where abouts u from ??

[badger88]

holy shit im just doing some research cause i really want to do this conversion im actually gathering some bits together as i write this, but having seing the actual work that is involved i am having second thoughts lol think its a bit much work for a basic mechanic that will be attempting to do this conversion on the drive way. well done mate fantastic work

[lyricalnut02]

amazing work mate, great build.

[hybrid]

updates:

So been a bit busy ordering some new stuff.

New Oil housing with the elusive pressed in Oil Thermostat, yes you have to buy the whole housing just for this one bit. My old one is poked shut.







And while im at it I installed a new Ratiometeric 0-100psi, 0-5 volt industrial grade pressure sensor (Thanks to conrad for help locating one)
This will eventually connect to my new GPS datalogger project (watch this space)



Just sitting it in the housing, will seal with alloy washer once locked in.

[hybrid]

Nothing too special .. but got a second set of race wheels and a supply of slicks.

Wheels: BBS RX 17x8 et38



Test fit on car



Caliper Clearance for BBK



.. slick supply .. went halves with james

[hybrid]

Been working on the brakes recently to hunt out a few issue with over heating

Changed out the pads to something a bit more race orientated and less best of both worlds

Followed Ollies Gee's path and went with the V8 Super Car / NZv8 route. Performance Friction Pads



Type 81 Medium Compound




Bevelled edges for noise reduction, my neighbours will probabaly love me now instead of the screaming from the other pads which normally happens on warmup






Also thanks to Ollie McDermott working on some prototypes, these are back from the laser cutters and currently being welded up. All alloy light weight.

[hybrid]

More updates:

-- this is actually leading to something




small update ... kind of pointless and expensive to do, but i'm a details guy :/

Before





After: Genuine recover



Roof rust be gone

It was pretty bad if some of you remember ... decided it was more than time to get something done about it.

















Rocking the RXs for the time being while I put it back together



Wet weather weekend stuff rules

So starting to put the final touches on the car of all those little bits that have annouyed me. Will have some more interesting updates come soon but for now you have this

I decided to splash out on some new OEM replacement pre-fl tail lights. Will just thank Jon the Pom for pointing me in the right direction for these.

unboxing





Old tail lights doing what all e30 tail lights do best and cracking. Still not bad for 26 years old. The right side had spider webbed pretty bad





And the left side had the usual inner piece fall off. Its so strange that this combo always happens to every car?




Removed the old lights and cleaned up the area the new sealing gaskets would sit.



After messing around with the wiring and plugs which had started to loose their bite on the terminals .. here they are installed!

[bmw335icoupe]

...where is this miracle making garage, please?

[hybrid]

...where is this miracle making garage, please?

Haha ... Auckland new zealand

[hybrid]

...where is this miracle making garage, please?

Haha ... Auckland new zealand

[bmw335icoupe]

in that case people in New Zealand are very, very lucky.

[hybrid]

A rather cool oppertunaty came up to purchase a brand new e30 m3 260kph speedo. I almost passed this up but a couple of things made sense. My speedo's odometer had just crapped out and stopped reading K's and new units dont come a long for this price very often.
Big thanks to Dylan for this as dylan was replacing a needle in his car and didnt need the whole unit. (long story)

Anyways, photos.

Unboxing


Inside the box


Pulling apart the cluster and removing the old Odometer



Installed the new e30 m3 260kph odometer




Seriously .. I hate reinstalling this dam bitch nut!



and all installed ready to click over to 000000 Everything works perfectly, including my rev gauge was giving issues as it was down 500rpm, this was because of the needle was out on the spindle.

[hybrid]

Some nice shots while I was out this winter.

[zaust]

Nice tripod


But seriously, been watching and loving.

[E30Kop]

Wow this is one AWESOME build!!

I have that motor in a more door M3 but can only imagine what it feels like in the raw E30!!