E30 M50 tear down kinda thing

[StewCrew]

Brian said:

haha I wall tapped a snow bank in the median a few weeks ago, hit it, it sent a wake of snow into oncoming traffic. yay Manji drifting!

The forever entertaining snow wave! Good shit.

[Brian.]

Thankfully it's all melting... Err, was. Now it's -10 and frozen solid.. Can never win

[Rowleym]

10" snow this Friday supposedly

[Brian.]

Rowleym said:

10" snow this Friday supposedly

Bullshit.... Maybe for you, you get lake effect off of Green lake.. *checks weather in anticipation*

[Rowleym]

Haha. Yea lets hope.

[StewCrew]

Hai guyz. I havent been working on the motor a lot lately because Im still waiting for my headgasket to come before it can go back together.. But I did work on the bay a bit last night. This is something I have wanted to do since my first e30 a couple years ago! Enjoy this next little project for making my bay look a lot cleaner

These will just be tack welded in a couple of areas, then a little bit of bondo around the edges to make it look perfect with the bay. Once thats all said and done a couple coats of semi-gloss black will be going on. It should look really clean.

[Rowleym]

I'm seriously copying the sheet out of you. It's not on purpose, but you just beat me there.

[StewCrew]

Rowleym said:

I'm seriously copying the sheet out of you. It's not on purpose, but you just beat me there.

Lol its all good. It was supposed to be a laid back night on cleaning the bay, until some sheet metal got dragged out. It still needs to grinding on the inside, but the core support fits with the plates in there, so thats cool.

I look forward to seeing your core support and engine bay plates too! Nothing nicer than a clean bmw bay

[B C]

What thickness is that steel sheet? Looks to be about 12 ga. from here. And if so the both of those together should weigh approx 9-11 lbs. Does that sound about right?

[Brian.]

Yay progress. Wish I could do shit like that to my E28... =\ In due time.

[StewCrew]

Snap Understeer said:

What thickness is that steel sheet? Looks to be about 12 ga. from here. And if so the both of those together should weigh approx 9-11 lbs. Does that sound about right?

That sounds right indeed.

Brian said:

Yay progress. Wish I could do shit like that to my E28... =\ In due time.

This was a spur of the moment idea lol.

[Brian.]

Not really, I've wanted to redo shit along time ago

[StewCrew]

Brian said:

Not really, I've wanted to redo shit along time ago

I believe it, I mean this on my car was spur of the moment. I wanted to do it on my first e30 but never did, and it just popped in my head last night and I made them lol.

[StewCrew]

And row, if you want my cardboard template for the engine bay plates I'd be more than happy to give it to you. Saves you all the time measuring lol. I only had to grind the very inside part like 2mm so the core support would slide on without hitting it.

[Rowleym]

StewCrew said:

And row, if you want my cardboard template for the engine bay plates I'd be more than happy to give it to you. Saves you all the time measuring lol. I only had to grind the very inside part like 2mm so the core support would slide on without hitting it.

Where do you live?! I'm pretty interested! That would be great

[StewCrew]

Rowleym said:

Where do you live?! I'm pretty interested! That would be great

Waukesha area. And yourself?

[Rowleym]

Green Lake man! I have no clue how far away you are.

[Earl]

Rowleym said:

Green Lake man! I have no clue how far away you are.

Well how far is Milwaukee from you? Essentially the same;)

[Brian.]

That's like 2- 2 1/2 hours!

[Rowleym]

Earl said:

Well how far is Milwaukee from you? Essentially the same;)

Hour and a half. So it's not that bad.