My slow e30 project.
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I'm glad to see you piloting another E30!
If you ever need a competent shop in Appleton let me know, I know this super legit crew that runs on taco bell and detached oil drain lines!God.... I should have driven up for this project.... Replaced the plugs and valve cover gasket, as well as the little rubber plugs on the front and back (no idea what they're called). Upon initial start up it ran a little rough, took it for a spin and it still seems to be idling oddly, nothing leaking from what I can see.
Had some high temp paint left over so I did the intake manifold and valve cover.
Also found some VHT red translucent paint from a long forgotten project, and decided to do my tails.
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tails turned out great!
I'm quite pleased with them to be honest! For $6 and about 20 minutes of work it's well worth it to get rid of that hideous orange...
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While I'm in here, anyone know exactly how to remove this Zender front valence?
I can see where it's screwed to the original Valance, but there's no way to get a socket or an open-end wrench up there to loosen them. I also can't figure out how to get the original plastic bumper off, I believe I have to remove those two long bolts, which are blocked by the Zender Valance....
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Bumper is removed by removing the two large torx bolts on the bottom of the bumper, then by unclipping the side marker and turn signal wiring connectors.
The valence is attached to:
-the fender, just behind the side markers
-the fender, at the bottom left and bottom right corners of the grille
-2 screws above the bumper supports
-2 screws behind the fog lights -
Bumper is removed by removing the two large torx bolts on the bottom of the bumper, then by unclipping the side marker and turn signal wiring connectors.
The valence is attached to:
-the fender, just behind the side markers
-the fender, at the bottom left and bottom right corners of the grille
-2 screws above the bumper supports
-2 screws behind the fog lightsSo those two gigantic bolts in the 3rd/4th pics are the torx bits you speak of? I'm not sure how the heck I'm gonna get them out with the Zender in the way. I'll probably have to try to remove them with a pliers, I can push the valance back a little bit, but not enough to get get a torx bit in there to loosen them.
*** Got it off, bumper will be listed for sale as soon as I figure out what the heck to ask for it. #TakingOffers
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Motivation
Hnnnng
Before I die, I will put ITB's on an m20. And then drive the piss out of it.
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Motivation
Motivation
I started putting together a list, with costs, of stuff I want to do to this car. Needless to say I shouldn't have done that in front of the girlfriend because now she thinks I'm insane..
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They run sales sometimes. I have their aluminum flywheel/ E34 M5 clutch combo on the engine that is going into the van, best upgrade I ever did on that car. It is so much better to drive. If they weren't so expensive and a bunch of work to install I would put one in my high mileage beater.
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Race car stuff...
Installed the new catback, thinking I'll be due up for a new universal catalytic converter, my try my luck with some long time headers at the same time.
Installed strut bar, stayed process of removing extra weight from the car. Eventually a passenger seat will be reinstalled, looking at aftermarket options for seats.
Also realized my car has an open 4.10 rear diff according to the tag.. mitac hasn't worked the entire time I've owned the car, but it did always feel like it was revving quite high at 65/70..
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Even with that relatively small amount of weight removed (going to attempt to weigh what's removed so far), the car does feel "better" which may all just be in my head, maybe not
Next up I'll be removing the sound deadening material from the rear seat area, re-taping the wires to make it look cleaner, removing carpeting and sound deadening material from the trunk, and removing the AC components as they don't work anyway. Once the interior stuff is removed I'll likely be repainting it red when I repaint the car.
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, re-taping the wires to make it look cleaner,
Please don’t use tape, use split loom harness
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Please don’t use tape, use split loom harness
That would work too, the stuff I was thinking of wasn't actually tape, it looked to be more similar to a thin foamy type tape, if that makes any sense. I saw a couple guys on R3V use it and thought it looked clean.
I also just use this, then zip-tie/electric tape this closed over the wires: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085CJ4RK/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A38Z015AJ7I755
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I dont care if its not a substantial gain on a dyno or racetrack, feeling tiny improvements here and there is very satisfying.
Certain long tubes may be a PITA for sway bar clearance and may scrape on the ground from when I had researched them. Im excited about this thread because NA M20 builds are almost non-existent around here.
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I dont care if its not a substantial gain on a dyno or racetrack, feeling tiny improvements here and there is very satisfying.
Certain long tubes may be a PITA for sway bar clearance and may scrape on the ground from when I had researched them. Im excited about this thread because NA M20 builds are almost non-existent around here.
I'm pretty excited about where it's headed. Once I got it into my head that I wasn't going to trick myself into thinking a turbo was going to happen (I've been down that road before, at least 800 times), I've become more excited about achieving smaller gains and just having fun with it. I don't need a rocket ship here, and I've finally got a clean base car to just play with.
That being said, I know that I'll be looking long and hard at Megasquirt and ITBs down the line. Before that though, I'll likely reach the point where I just yank the engine out for a refresh because it's hella dirty and I'd want everything up to spec before dumping money into the aforementioned upgrades.
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