Alpine e30 progress/build thread
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The sawzall and angle grinder I was going to borrow to start cutting the front off the car are being used by my dad at the moment so I have been working on some other projects.
My garage is not heated and with temperatures dropping (especially now) I don't have a way to be able to paint parts. Instead of heating my entire garage in order to paint something I decided to make an "oven" that I can use to keep the paint and part warm before spraying and also allow the paint to cure properly. It is a 3'x2'x2' box made of 1" foam board insulation and just held together with a ton of duct tape:
It is big enough that I can fit most things that I will need to paint this winter. There are two incandescent light bulbs to provide the heat, I used "rough" bulbs as they have a thicker filament that emits more heat than a standard bulb of the same wattage (dimmer light output = more heat output). The lights are connected to a control box that I built. It uses a small thermostat commonly found in home brewing setups to flip a relay that switches the lights on and off depending on the internal temperature. The thermostat reads the internal temperature from a thermocouple inside the center of the box. I programmed the thermostat and did some trial runs today and it works very well, it should save me a lot of money compared to heating the whole garage just to paint things. The whole setup cost me less than $60.
I got the rear brakes pulled from the trailing arms and started the rebuild process on the calipers. I received the fronts already disassembled and started breaking down the rears. Got new rotors for the front and the rears look really new so I'm just going to clean them up and run them. Also rebuilt my driver's door lock as it hasn't been working as long as I owned the car.
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that must have been a bit terrifying!
Having never done this before, the first cut was definitely a little scary
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It's 8 million times easier to do engine things now.....sooooooo you might as well pull it and freshen it up
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It's 8 million times easier to do engine things now.....sooooooo you might as well pull it and freshen it up
lots of elbow room for fitting FI piping too
Dan
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Even easier thing would be to set the front subframe and trans brace on stands/blocks, unbolt them both, then lift up the front of the car by hand (it's light enough) and push it backwards like a wheel barrow
Light enough? Jesus earl. You on a diet of spinach only?
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Earl is the Incredible Hulk. Spot him and he'll left your house.
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You both must pick things up and put them down a lot
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Going through and doing all of the seals on an m42 does take long as long as you aren't repainting absolutely everything...lol
I probably won't be going as in depth as you have haha. Just planning to fix some leaks and repaint a lot of the major stuff so it looks nicer. I'm mostly planning to work on the engine bay, since it'll be easier to pull the wiper linkage and fix the cowl damage, run new brake lines to delete the ABS pump, and generally clean up the whole thing since it's pretty nasty.
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Be careful, my car is a shell because it made sense to "do it all at once"...
That's definitely a concern of mine, but I'm ok with this turning into a longer term project. I've been planning this car in my head for a number of years and over the last few months decided that now is as good a time as ever to get started on it.
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