The Worlds Slowest 24v E30 - now with MORE SPEEDS

[Chinampa]

I decided to move my thread from r3v here just for funs.




Stuff about it
240k miles on body
Black leather sport interior
is goodies
Bilstein/H&R sport suspension
ST swaybars w/ ie reinforcement
Z3 1.9 shifter
M50nv w/ ZF transmission
2.93S differential
15x7 Kosei K1 w/ 205/50 dz102

I bought the car in August of 2013 100% stock from a spec guy in Chesapeake as my first car



Needed more low so i did h&r sports with e90 drophats


it looked pretty good and made good noises


then i crashed it and it stopped making good noises and looking good


the core support was pretty fucked up as well as the drivers side fender, hood, bumper, and front valence. also my pride.

after all that stuff was gone i cut out the core support


I decided to do a removable support for future shenanigans

Here it is with its "new" hood on


Also some secret bonus R80rt content


I sourced a bumper, core support, hood, and front valence from my friend who also is now addicted to shitty old BMWs

Here it is with all of that garbage bolted on


It had a certain ghetto charm but it needed paint soo I did this


My grandfather, dad, and me built a paint booth over the summer to spray the car in







While my car was sitting in the garage this was my DD


200k mile 2001 R53 Mini Cooper S
I grew to really like this car, the supercharger being my favorite part lol
It has an underdrive pulley, intake and a tune and was on 15x7 kosei K1

It was fun but I needed E30 back in my life

This pic was taken in August and was the first "assembled" shot of the car since April 2015


After some more fitting and adjusting the front end went back together mostly



I started sanding the car around April and I drove it home in late August so most of that summer was devoted to inhaling super cancer dust

I had to immediately start taking gay BMW pics with my friends





Did some autox and was slow as fuck. I had a 30 year old pirelli on the back left..



Bought some Koseis and DZ102 because tires


Koseiiiis



Then I saw Luke on r3v was having a mega sale so I had to get this


Weight reduction brah


Weight addition brah



Finally got around to painting the rest of my chrome trim


Then I opened my hood for the first time in 3 months to check if I still had an m20


Sadly I did so I bought this


Found me a rat shit filled 944 that I needed to get a booster from. Pretty sure I got a disease or two but you cant beat free


And after some coercing it gave me a boost donut



Threading the rod on the booster so it can be shortened to work nicely with the e30 pedal box


Also got a fan. Surprisingly amazon had the lowest price on a spal fan @ like $55 shipped.


oh and this thing idk how well it will work but people seem to like them. still kinda sketched out about it and looking for a 328 ds to replace it sometime


Last pic of my E30 with an M20




stuff happened here I just dont have pictures..


M20 is out after a few hours


E30 is chillin


Tried to clean up the valve cover





I have no idea what kind of mileage this motor has but the head is so clean. Was kind of a blind purchase but at least it worked out



Got new intake seals in after I cleaned up the manifold



Mounted throttle body with new gasket. So shiny on the inside. So shitty on the outside.



Then it was time to assemble these little dudes and mount the valve cover. M5x have so many more parts than M20/M30s



That was it for the first day of work. Pretty good progress IMO.



put me slave cylinder on to replace this nasty old dude. Never looked at the clutch as stupid as that sounds... this was a very budget swap.



Cleaned up the engine bay a little. Still really dirty.



Mounted coil packs. So satisfying to click into place.



Then I realized I had E34 mount arms and I needed to chase the threads on the more rearward holes. Which had become rusty mud holes. Also you can see my creative use of M20 exhaust studs.



Tap tap tappity




First time I had seen the motor together mostly




Also another creative use of an M20 exhaust stud nut



And end of day 2. Most of the day was spent cleaning random shit and breaking loose rusted bolts.



Day 3: the day of many sprites



Got new shorter bolts for the engine mount arms since the E34 mounts were much thicker than the E36




Didn't really take a lot of pictures this day because this was coming and we were trying to get the engine in that day


spoiler: it didnt happen

All that was left was to switch the e34 headers front to back and get an ICV hose.
The previous owner of the engine said that it came with a set of s52 headers and he included some random little piece of a downpipe that I assumed would've fit S52 headers. What I really got was two sets of E34 M50 headers so I had to make that work. Swapping the E34 headers front to back worked very well for some reason so I ended up using that and just tacking the exhaust together from the random flanges I had.

A random picture of my friends E28 in a field.



More things happened...


Got M50 in after some fuckery.


Wew lad its an engine


Super potato video of first start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLmp9a6AIg

and then i forgot to take any pictures between that and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtPGS9qvbmU

then fast forward like 2 months and I finally swapped out the 3.73S which made me wanna drive off a bridge with the ZF for a 2.93S. The longer gearing actually makes it seem faster. Probably something to do with not shifting 3 times to get to 35.

m50nv is slow need faster

[.RJ]

I had an E36 coupe that same color. Still the best highway car I ever owned, and that thing was a tank. I think Chan & I tag teamed it at Road Atlanta one time in summer and never missed a beat.

Oh, and moar R80 pics.

[Chinampa]

Only pic I could find. Kind of an old pic, its bare metal now. My dad's bike but I'm trying to nab it before he sells it..

[CaptainHenreh]

I'll :like: anything with k1's.

I approve of everything in this thread.

[.RJ]

Sell me that R80

[SlimKlim]

Seriously, I wanna touch it.

[.RJ]

Seriously, I wanna touch it.

Just grab it by the pussy then

[SlimKlim]

I realize it's a joke, but it still stings to be even remotely associated with that sentient enema of a human. Like, do I look like an orange condom shoved full of dog shit to you?

[Chinampa]

You can only touch it if you look like an orange dogshit condom

[Chinampa]

Sell me that R80

Never. Old shitty german things are the best

[SlimKlim]

You can only touch it if you look like an orange dogshit condom

F'real though, I love the car. I seriously coveted a 325is before I bought my E36 but I just couldn't find one in decent condition to buy at the time. Hopefully I can make it down to the car show next spring and check it out in person.

[.RJ]

Sell me that R80

Never. Old shitty german things are the best

Yassss... that smell of old german pleather and oil

[.RJ]

I realize it's a joke, but it still stings to be even remotely associated with that sentient enema of a human. Like, do I look like an orange condom shoved full of dog shit to you?

[Beej]

Impressively off topic impressively quickly, gentlemen.

And welcome! As a former 24v e30 owner (it was even red!), nice car! Mine had a 3.73 with the ZF trans too and it was geared WAY too high. I'm sure the 2.93 is much better. Seems like it sounds pretty good despite the funky combination of components - I don't know why there isn't a bolt-on e30m/s50 exhaust out there.

More power to ya for doing bodywork and painting the damn thing. I'll be happy to live a long life without ever doing that stuff.

[Chinampa]

Yeah. While the 2.93 made it driveable its still pretty slow. I'm thinking M52 or even S5x in the next year or so. Should be a pretty straightforward swap now that its already 24v.

At least its faster than an m20

[davej]

how would you feel about a 3.25 behind a zf? ....i'm asking for a friend.... [shifty]
I'm hoping it's as sweet of a spot as the options allow for.

[Chinampa]

3.25 is probably a good compromise. I went with 2.93 because it was available and also driving to Richmond from JMU at 4k just wasnt an option

[.RJ]

If yuns want some swapped E30 porn, check this out -

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Super rad.

[Senor_Taylor]

I love this build so much! By the way, we kind of have an unspoken agreement here to not use photos in our signatures to keep page load times down.

[Chinampa]

Oh okey. I'll take it off