Back from the dead or something.

rampelsauce

Well, everything aside from the front carpet is out. Driving the compact for a bit now in preparation for parking the M3 and yanking its guts out.

The compact still has a nasty air bubble in the cooling system. Luckily, no leaks (fluid at least, havent pressure tested) and no bad head gasket. Gonna do the whole goofy bleed procedure tonight.

Also, swapped over my M3 mirrors and threw my harness in just for funsies. Yes, I know a harness on a stock seat is wack. Still waiting to pick up the floor mounts from @wasnt m3. Progress is good. Looking forward to diving into deleting all un-needed wiring and what not in the cabin.

rampelsauce

I'm dumb. Heres photographic proof:

rampelsauce

Made a bunch of progress on my exhaust. It's kinda rice sounding. Gonna try to fix that by pulling an E39 and adding a scuba tank resonator at the back. It's a downpipe back 2.25" system with a center glasspack and a high flow muffler. All exhaust tubing from the downpipe (formerly cat) back is all new. Will post pics of system when it's complete. Heres a picture of the car as it sits now.

Needs to be lowered badly. Working on that as well.

B C

Swap by E30 picnic.....or bust!

DS2s are the best E36 wheel

rampelsauce

B C said:

Swap by E30 picnic.....or bust!

DS2s are the best E36 wheel

1. Ugggggggggh

2. S'okay

The likelyhood of it being swapped by the picnic are slim to none. I'm shooting for July to be honest. If I can do it sooner, I will. Just need some extra hands *cough cough literally anyone cough*

B C

I think its worthy of a group effort. You should try and organize a saturday group blitz

Boris3

rampelsauce said:

Made a bunch of progress on my exhaust. It's kinda rice sounding. Gonna try to fix that by pulling an E39 and adding a scuba tank resonator at the back. It's a downpipe back 2.25" system with a center glasspack and a high flow muffler. All exhaust tubing from the downpipe (formerly cat) back is all new. Will post pics of system when it's complete. Heres a picture of the car as it sits now.

Needs to be lowered badly. Working on that as well.

Swap weight will fix part of that.

rampelsauce

Took a break from cleaning out my house for moving to spend some time in the sunshine on the ti.

Pulled out the amp and stereo wiring and sent it to the front where it sits for the time being till I have time to pull the front carpet.

Went to the car wash and gave it a nice little spring bath. Good lord is this thing scratched up. Ideally it will be receiving some kind of paint after rust repair and then a WIBIMMERS livery wrap of some kind.

rampelsauce

So, decided to swap the springs over from the M3 to the compact. Found out my struts aren't in the best shape. I did the rears first, because those are easy, took for a beat run and realized I absolutely had to do the fronts too. Prepare for side shots.

Just rears:

Fronts and rears done:

Shes a lil raked out boys. But coilovers are coming when I have the spare cash. It's fun to drive like this, but I can really feel the shot suspension now while doing some spirited driving.

Also, did you know a 318ti perfectly fits a dryer?

I also stopped by my pals house who has a ZX14 swapped Fiat 124, and we went for a little spin. I told him to bring it to our next function. It rips.

B C

Would have never imagined a dryer fitting back there

rampelsauce

B C said:

Would have never imagined a dryer fitting back there

I do it not out of necessity, but for science!

straight6pwr

you put a dryer in the trunk just for the fun of it?

this build thread just took a tumble.

rampelsauce

straight6pwr said:

you put a dryer in the trunk just for the fun of it?

this build thread just took a tumble.

I see what you did there.

No I'm moving to the dirty dirty (west allis) at end of the month, just so happens that I have a compact with essentially just a drivers seat.

rampelsauce

Been down a bit from my big move to the big city. Havent been able to make any progress due to my landlord not running the power he promised to my garage. So that's been frustrating. Sorry to anyone waiting on powder coated goods.

In progress related news, I believe I'll be placing my order to Condor this weekend for all of my bushings and etc. So that's a step in the right direction. The biggest hurdle is getting my tools and equipment to my new place. It's been pretty disheartening. Updates (with pictures) soon, I hope.

jc43089

Increase vigor on landlord!

rampelsauce

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Carpets out, sparco installed! Got most of the stereo and airbag wiring out as well. I'll be trying to get a few additional things done before the E30 picnic so you guys can see some progress.

My garage will be coming along as well, my landlord buried the conduit to run power for my equipment. So HOPEFULLY he runs it this week. @wasnt m3 is hooking me up with some old cabinets so I can build out a nicely organized space for getting this S52 out of the M3 chassis and into the compact.

rampelsauce

I forgot I dont have a way to hold coffee in my car. So...

Introducing the CUP HOLDER 9000! It's made out of high grade scrap hook stock, and is painstakingly fabricated over the course of 5 minutes.

Only 3 easy payments of 19.95 + s&h.

rampelsauce

I've gotta give big ups to Condor Speed Shop for hooking it up. Just put in my first big order of suspension parts, and they were super helpful every step of the way. I highly recommend them not only for awesome parts but some of the best customer service.

Pictures of my big box of goodies soon!

B C

Condom Motorsports is always a safe bet

rampelsauce

B C said:

Condom Motorsports is always a safe bet

The biggest issue with them is you loose a lot of feel with their product.