E28 SETA Build

[RamRod E28]

Yes!!!!

[RamRod E28]

Finally my van is photoworthy thank you so much for telling me about these wheels Mr. Menard!!!!

[jc43089]

Looks great, how is the ride compared to before?  Might be a little more stable in the wind with the wider stance.

[RamRod E28]

Ride is the same and it is a bit more stable in the wind but way more confident in the corners and only lost a tiny bit of fuel economy but this may be because the old g forces on the wheels are worn very unevenly causing more rolling resistanxe

[jc43089]

The wider the tire the worse fuel economy, maybe put 225's on them instead of 235's when you replace the tires.  Also funny that that the pics are in my parents driveway.  Did the hub bore match up?  I have the 4th hub ring adapter at my house if they were the right ones.

Backstory, my dad bought these wheels to put on his 06 Maxima because the craigslist post said they were 17's and he didn't even look.  Turns out they are 18x7.5.  So his good tires that he took off of his stock wheels when he had Blizzaks put on didn't fit.  They are 5zigen pro racer wheels, pretty legit in the tuner world apparently.  Seen alot on Subaru's, Civic SI's, s2k's, and of course, Nissan vans.

[RamRod E28]

Back to bmws!!!

[jc43089]

My question is how does one practice for that...  Intense!

[RamRod E28]

OK ordered what i think is all of the parts that i need to get the manual and super eta swap done last night off pelican parts! I love ordering stuff and will love it even more if my e28 would just put itself back together when the parts show up lol

[RamRod E28]

my parts wont show up till next tuesday and i ordered monday!!!! grrr!!!! wtf pelican???!!!

[jc43089]

Must have been some special order stuff on there, booo!!!!

[RamRod E28]

AANNNDD now my e46 trunk light dash indicator was on even with the trunk perfectly closed and also the key the handle and the trunk release button on the dash arent working lovely.... I will have to do some digging. Most likely where the wires flex when the trunk opens and closes I bet a break is in there...

[wasnt m3]

It's almost always a broken wire. I've fixed them on a handful of e46's.

[jc43089]

I have had to repair my e36 harness where it bends for the trunk to open as well.  Use some 3M rubber splicing tape over the whole thing once you repair the wires, it seals to itself and stretches very tight.  I use it at work for insulating lug/bolted motor wiring connections, but you can find it at at any hardware store.

[RamRod E28]

Ok... Finally got my parts from Pelican after ordering almost 2 weeks ago... not too happy about that and they didnt even send me a sticker and I realized that I ordered the wrong size  copper lock nuts for my exhaust studs so gonna see what options I have.

And found out why my trunk would only open with the key in the tumbler and why the trunk open light would stay on with it shut...

That was a fun one to get to i had to almost cut the entire boot in half to get to it.

Some e28 getting put back together porn coming your way soon!!!

[B C]

I hope that sticker says Wife-Beater Communist

[RamRod E28]

As a matter of fact it does! You would not believe the amount of dirty looks I get! It's actually worse than the no fat chicks sticker with the whale below it

[RamRod E28]

So  made some progress on the e28's super eta. I installed the new exhaust manifold studs (which go in a lot further than you'd expect). I got the old manifolds of the original eta because the super eta has a different downpipe layout over the regular eta. Also I got the oil pan off the seta which had about 20 lbs of nastiness all over it so i used about half a roll of shop towels and brakleen to get all the greasy shit off of it. Then ground off all the old gasket on the pan which is hard as a fugging rock. Gonna tackle getting all the old gasket off the block with a scraper tomorrow. Also I wanna find the ass that thought that using 26 tiny very fine threaded bolts to hold the oil pan on was a good idea and kick him (or her) square in the man (or girl) BALLS!!!

[jc43089]

1/4" impact driver to remove oil pan bolts FTW!

[RamRod E28]

We'll busted my ass on the e28 all day massive update and pics to come tomorrow!

[RamRod E28]

Ok finally back on to do an update... Last time I left off on here was I got most all my parts for the Super ETA swap and manual swap.... Well here some pics and some info for whats been done.

Well I removed the oil pan and cleaned up all the nastiness and didn't get any pics of that just due to wanting to get it out of the way and wasn't all too entertaining just getting all the nasty hard gasket off and putting the new gasket on. But then I moved on to the timing belt and water pump. This was just one swipe from under the crank!

Timing belt and water pump are on! That was so easy to do on the m20 (Does anyone have an M20 Water pump pulley? need one ASAP!!!)

The blurry engine has taken flight!!!

Shits about to go in

Going in

Close... But no cigar

Finally after wiggling and jacking the trans up and down about a bajillion times I got the engine to set down on its mounts and bolted in the trans crossmember!!!

Here's what my old trans bushings looked like compared to the new ones

Starting to look like a car again!!!

Bye bye gangster lean

The harness is "in" lol

The condenser and the radiator are now bolted in place some of the hoses are set in place also the exhaust the driveshaft and the heatshield are in the car now

The shifter is in thanks to Mr Menard for his mad fabbing skills

 Just need a few things and new fluids and its ready to roll and do some maaddd!!! burnouts