New ride! 89 e30 vert
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IT LIVES!!! Idling high in the video, fixed that by wiggling the wire to the blue temp sender, I will need to address that in the future.
Blood transfusion.
Most of the internet info out there is junk for the wiring, found the ETM online and in the manual cars there is no start relay etc. The key switch goes straight to the starter so this is all you have to do, splice the black wire to the black/yellow wire and it will start just like the manual car is supposed to.
Custom exhaust brace.
Tool for removing drain/fill plug from transmission.
My helper again.
Is brake fluid supposed to look like stout?
A couple things left to do.
Finish mounting exhaust
Install new front control arm bushings
Change differential fluid (fill plug hex is stripped so I will deal with that later)
Put the center console back together
Burnouts!
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Looking good. Running a solid mounted exhaust like that is going to rattle your fillings right out!
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exciting progress! How long are you going to keep it before you sell it?
I had to connect the "park/neutral safety switch" wires under the shift boot to get it to start and there was also a connector under the dash that goes to the neutral safety switch on the clutch that had a jumper in it that needs to be removed if running cruise control but that was it.
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I had to go to work before the video finished uploading here it is.
The exhaust is mounted to the trans, just like OE, it is using the OE rubber hangers when mounted to the body. I reused the Auto cat section so it has the mount arm for the auto vs the manual.
This car is awesome, I would love to just keep it. If I do sell it, it will have to go to a good home.
exciting progress! How long are you going to keep it before you sell it?
I had to connect the "park/neutral safety switch" wires under the shift boot to get it to start and there was also a connector under the dash that goes to the neutral safety switch on the clutch that had a jumper in it that needs to be removed if running cruise control but that was it.
This is the common thing on the interwebs to do, completely unnecessary though, all that you are doing with that splice is permanently pulling in the run relay so that 12V goes through the yellow run relay and on to the starter. If you look at the ETM and compare the manual vs automatic start circuit pages you will see that on the manual cars there is no interlock of any kind, #12 wire goes through the key straight to the starter solenoid. You are correct about the clutch switch for the cruise disable, mine has cruise so I got that hooked up, it's awesome that the plug is right there, just unplug the jumper and connect it to the switch.
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You shouldn't hack up the wiring. just in case you want to swap it back to an automatic. Haha
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You shouldn't hack up the wiring. just in case you want to swap it back to an automatic. Haha
Said no man ever!
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Great work! Looks good
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@DrLeadFoot
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This beast is fun! I thought the rear shocks were shot but the mounts were just blown through. It has KYB "gas-a-just" in the rear, they do not appear to be adjustable though. I installed the relatively new RSMs from my e36. The slave cylinder that came with the trans was leaking so I swapped that out as well yesterday with one that Mike had in his parts car trunk. I just need to bleed it tonight. At first I thought it felt kind of weak, but now that I have run a couple tanks of fresh fuel and seafoam through it, it is running very smoothly now. It is a fun car for sure, but I just don't really care for it being a convertible. I've never had one before so now I know. In two weeks we are cruising it to Alabama so that will be the true stress test.
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Hormel near Beloit? I heard that someone who worked there will never eat the chili. I used to work with pumps for the food industry and things seem to be clean enough for me to not worry about it (except for when a pump crashes and sends undetectable stainless steel chunks through a batch), but maybe you have seen some other horror stories.
Id like to learn PLC
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