<![CDATA[Turbo e30 tuned today! (Shout out to Snap!)]]>Wanted to shout out @snap thanks to him our 2+ year turbo E30 project was able to make its first WOT pulls under boost today, and it felt amazing! His expertise and guidance are what kept our turbo dreams alive through our ups and downs. 

Last spring while wrapping up our build we made an error and popped the motor, we then spent all fall and winter tearing down the motor. After ball honing the block, new-used pistons, rings, rod bearings we completed wrapping everything up this spring and worked on fixing all the little bugs. @snap was gracious enough to help us get the tune dialed in so we can finally drive the car and make some really nice WOT pulls which feel o-so-good. 

What a great day! 🍻

]]>https://wibimmers.com/topic/5330/turbo-e30-tuned-today-shout-out-to-snapRSS for NodeWed, 16 Sep 2026 05:09:05 GMTSun, 24 Jun 2018 00:20:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Turbo e30 tuned today! (Shout out to Snap!) on Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:16:25 GMT]]>Well this is tasty.

Highly anticipating exhaust sound vids.

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/92842https://wibimmers.com/post/92842Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:16:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Turbo e30 tuned today! (Shout out to Snap!) on Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:22:36 GMT]]>Just some pictures of the build along the way. 

Freshened the head up with new valve seals, re-lapped and resurfaced. 

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ARP head studs, this was our first attempt. We are using the OEM BMW gasket now. 

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Testing the fitment of our ebay manifold and Garrett T04e

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Getting the Gates belt on and some accessories.

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Motor is finally in the car!

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Here you can see the manifold, turbo and downpipe fitment in the car.  -Thanks to our buddy Jeff on the awesome fab work on the downpipe\exhaust!

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Squeezing in the intercooler, we were able to fit inlet and outlets under the headlight brackets (they did have to be trimmed slight). But this tucks up nicely for an almost stock like fitment. 

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BOV and intake piping is routed. 

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Here you can see the downpipe my buddy Jeff fabbed up along with a flex coupler with vbands. It is 3" stainless all the way back. It does tuck nicely!

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3" to a magnaflow Y. 

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snap said:

Glad I was able to go for a ride in it. You’ve done well! Its so great how hard that car pulls at only 6psi. It really makes me wish I could build another one!

Thanks! Your telling me, that turbo noise is something else.

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YoungCR said:

Congrats! Post up some pics and vids!

I'll get some up in the next day or 2.

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/92789https://wibimmers.com/post/92789Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:55:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Turbo e30 tuned today! (Shout out to Snap!) on Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:27:19 GMT]]>Congrats! Post up some pics and vids!

]]>https://wibimmers.com/post/92783https://wibimmers.com/post/92783Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:27:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Turbo e30 tuned today! (Shout out to Snap!) on Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:05:32 GMT]]>Glad I was able to go for a ride in it. You’ve done well! Its so great how hard that car pulls at only 6psi. It really makes me wish I could build another one!

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