New ride! 89 e30 vert
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I drove a stock M20 5spd with a 2.93 once, I was very surprised that it wasn't more of a dog off the line. It was completely fine and driveable. I only noticed that it lacked the freeway acceleration I was used to.
I was thinking more along the lines of a 3.46 but im probably more likely to find a 3.25. I will convert it to LSD if I need to.
Glad you are liking it, interested to find out the mpg difference
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I drove a stock M20 5spd with a 2.93 once, I was very surprised that it wasn't more of a dog off the line. It was completely fine and driveable. I only noticed that it lacked the freeway acceleration I was used to.
I was thinking more along the lines of a 3.46 but im probably more likely to find a 3.25. I will convert it to LSD if I need to.
Glad you are liking it, interested to find out the mpg difference
Just a downshift away. It seems that 3.25's are plentiful as every m30 e28 had them, some LSD and some not. The m20 e28's had 2.93's except for the Seta/5spds had 3.25 open which is what mine came from. Seta/auto had a different ratio but I don't remember what it is.
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Awesome glad it worked!!! also 100th to post on this topic!!!
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I bought some LEDs and resistors and fixed my burnt out OBC backlight today. Can't wait to put it in and see how it looks after work. Pretty easy mod if you can solder. I bought enough parts for 5 cars. PM me if you need yours fixed. I will get some pics, I used orange LEDs which look like a nice match for the interior illumination.
A few more things to get this car in perfect working order and it will be for sale, I stopped and showed it to the guy I bought it from a couple days ago and he claimed first dibs on it so maybe it will be an easy sale. It is really fun and I wish I could keep it but I just don't have room for it, I can't really justify two summer cars. It needs a good home where it can be kept in a nice garage all the time.
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Pulled the gauge cluster, the odometer was counting slow, about 83% of actual distance. The "e1" gear was missing a couple teeth, ordered one for 7 bucks from http://e30odometergears.com/index.php?page=buy-e30-odometer-gears . Great price and had a good how to, it seems odd to me that the gears are a soft plastic/rubber.
Working on finishing this car up today, I want everything to be in good working condition.
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Wipers had a couple issues, they would only wipe if you wiggled the stalk around, and then only once. I took the steering column apart and cleaned the ground screw. Good to go! Then with the windshield dry the right wiper arm was slipping on the shaft, turns out the nut at the base of the arm was too loose, snugged that up and problem gone. Next up install the bowl reinforcement.
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Here are a couple pics. The odometer gear had 2 of the 12 teeth missing, just as I had calculated 83% of actual travel was recorded. It wasn't split until I pulled it off. I thought it was odd that the gears are a stiff rubber?
And Earl would be proud of my hardware for the flywheel cover. I didn't want hex bolts because there wouldn't be good clearance to use a wrench on them so these were a good compromise.
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Super easy, have you removed the cluster before?
Not on an e30
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Wipers had a couple issues, they would only wipe if you wiggled the stalk around, and then only once.
yowo
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yowo
Uh, does this mean yours does the same thing? haha.
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You only wipe once.
Wiping repeatedly is too mainstream
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Went to the company golf outing today, after 4 holes we got rained out. When I tried to leave the car wouldn't fire, just cranked. So I called AAA for a tow home, maybe something got soggy? I am suspicious that my CPS is the problem because the plastic around where the wire goes in to the sensor crumbled when I removed it during the timing belt replacement. I had already ordered a new one that will be here Tuesday so hopefully that is the problem. Good thing it didn't happen on our road trip.
Also coming is a new shock for the trunk lid, two new shocks for the vert lid, the rubber insulating shift boot, a new shifter cup/bushing, a new fixed antenna (old power one is broken and looks like crap, and a cheap ebay lip type rear spoiler to look nice and cover the holes from the junk spoiler that is held on with 1/4" lag screws currently, who does that????
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