Build Thread?

[328ci]

suspenceful said:

Looks good on paper.

fuckin lol 

Im so excited for this car, ben

[GunMetalGrey]

So a week or so ago I pulled the engine to figure out what was going on with the clutch, turned out that the TOB was in and rotated incorrectly. Simply spun it 90 degrees and everything was in good shape.

Got the engine back together and ready to go

Tip it a lot to get started

Kind of a shoehorn deal. 

Got the front end mostly assembled, forgot what she looked like with a face!

The car has aftermarket tail lights that I was always impartial on, so I took some stock taillights and got the corners red and popped them in, I quite like it.

Old

New

Made some ground cables for the frame rail to the engine mount arm, turned out pretty good.

Saw this at the dealer when I went to pick up a gasket, pretty sweet little car!

And last but not least, my important question! I am debating between running dual 2.5" exhaust tips or dual 3" tips. Let me know which one you like better!

3"

2.5"

3"

2.5"

I am leaning towards 2.5" , let me know what you think!

[Earl]

I like the 2.5"=)

[B C]

dual 2.648" would be perfect

[GunMetalGrey]

True! 

Just ordered the 3" to dual 2.5" Y pipe, so 2.5" it will be! Which means I need to buy 2.5" stainless now...

I forgot to mention that every single exhaust piece is 304 stainless, and holy crap did that get expensive quick. I got 18' of 3" tube, so I probably got way too much considering my resonator is 25" but its better to give the guy more than not enough!

That last one took a bit, the oil drain line almost touches the manifold and I didn't want it to end up looking like crap so I wrapped each portion of the fittings individually, I think it turned out pretty decent.

[B C]

tidy wrapping job on that oil line

[jc43089]

Very nice, I like the 2.5" as well.  My e30 has a magnaflow with dual 3 inch tips and they seem kinda big.

[suspenceful]

I liked the 3" tips, but 2.5" will look good too. I'll buy a foot of that 3" stainless if you have any left over. Gotta delete the muffler on my car

Gold looks good. Factory tails look good. Your face looks good.

Are you going to get actual tips or just use some stainless pipe?

[GunMetalGrey]

I browsed tips and they all looked silly, almost all e30's just have pipes out the back and that is what looks best in my opinion.

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[B C]

mine look silly

I need to see you and leadballs duke it out (on a closed course in Mexico with professional drivers)

[suspenceful]

Snap said:

mine look silly

I need to see you and leadballs duke it out (on a closed course in Mexico with professional drivers) 

I need to see him and I duke it out (on some highway in Appleton with GoPro videos).

[GunMetalGrey]

There will be plenty of messing around when it is done, but for now it doesn't move too fast!

[Rowleym]

I can't wait to see what the hell the hx40 e30 is going to do against these 24vers haha

[328ci]

blast pipes

[RamRod E28]

Snap said:

tidy wrapping job on that oil line

Wrap it before you tap it!

[suspenceful]

Obligatory picture of Ben in front of Eric's 328ci. Couldn't even get you in focus because too much swag.

Ben, can't you contain all your swagger and just finish your car?

[328ci]

suspenceful said:

Obligatory picture of Ben in front of Eric's 328ci. Couldn't even get you in focus because too much swag.

Ben, can't you contain all your swagger and just finish your car?

fuckin lol

[GunMetalGrey]

Yesterday the car saw daylight for the first time in a year and a half. 

Car got taken to a guys place for exhaust, was hard leaving it behind lol

I want to work on it, but it is no longer at my house. Kind of disappointing! 

Cool panorama for the kids

[328ci]

[GunMetalGrey]

http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/vigilante-who-shut-down-a-car-chase-rewarded-with-new-t-1597679512/+ballaban?utm_campaign=socialflow_jalopnik_facebook&utm_source=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

The comments on that are goddamn hilarious