Project: R3D3MPTION?

[Senor_Taylor]

I'm getting really excited about this!

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Oh by the way, the name of this engine is Vanessa. It was coined by roommate when she developed a connection with the motor while it was in my living room. The name stays. Vanessa the S50.

[D_Eclipse9916]

Tested a couple panels with some compound I had. This should actually clean up nicely aside from the rust spots.





Put back together the interior that was apart, installed headlights and headlight trim. Waiting on the fan, a couple clips from the dealer, and an exhaust gasket.

Still to do:
E36 exhaust doesnt fit as is. Cutting midpipe and rotating, adding some mounts and cutting the body a bit for the dual pipe exit.
Adding E30 Brown Coolant Temp Sensor as adapter harness does not work with stock E36 coolant temp sensor
Cut and fit wiring panel covers
Find fan temp sensor that works with stock wiring or find pigtail that will plug into E36 sensor and wire that in
Wire in Fan to stock wiring
Mount hood/bumper/trim
Bend Bracket for throttle cable as it is at end of adjustment and would like it to be in middle
Fab bracket for Dipstick holder
Final nut/bolt
Bolt up wheels being delivered by Dave this Friday
Italian tune up


If I get time:
Fab bracket for Diagnostic Port
Put car on scales
Million little things...

[SlimKlim]

Well look what I found.

[SlimKlim]

Well this is promising

[SlimKlim]

Less promising is when bits of car come off in the wash liquid...



Anyway, soldering on!

[SlimKlim]

Doesn't look so great in person, but it's better.

[davej]

Less promising is when bits of car come off in the wash liquid...

Honest Slim's Detailing: Adding lightness to your car since 1908

[SlimKlim]

[Senor_Taylor]

Go Joey Go! Make the MME30 Red Again!

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[SlimKlim]

This thing is rough as shit, but as the sun gets lower I feel a growing urge to cruise around in it blaring synthwave. 8)











I gave it a solid wash, polished & wax all the panels and reattached the front bumper.

So the front valence that came with this thing doesn't seem to really have any way to actually attach the thing to the bottom of the bumper, it's all cut up on the corners and the two mounting points remaining don't line up with anything on the car. :dunno:

The interior seems to be glazed with a thin film of oil, including on the windows? I didn't have enough time to do anything on the inside, but I'll see what I can do over the weekend.

[SlimKlim]

This feels right.

[SlimKlim]

Day 2




1.) Ooooooh!!!




2.) What, in the name of all that is good and right, happened on this carpet?!

[.RJ]

UNPIMP ZE AUTO

[SlimKlim]

Alright I've taken this thing about as far as I can given available time and resources. I basically polished and waxed it, gave the interior a good vacuuming, degreasing, and wipe down with some all purpose conditioner, and I threw a few coats of plastidip on the spoiler to cover up all the chips and cracks on it. :thumbup:

[Jake]

Damn Joey, nice improvement all around! Looks a hell of a lot better.

[SlimKlim]

I'm trying so hard not to fall in love with it.

[*insertusernamehere*]

*heavy breathing*

[Senor_Taylor]

Wow, I think I'm going to sleep in Dave's garage for a few nights after it makes it back here.

[D_Eclipse9916]

oh man I forgot to update this.

Went over to Joey's and we mounted up the front valence putting together the pieces from missing hardware. Drove it back home.
Previous list:
E36 exhaust doesnt fit as is. Cutting midpipe and rotating, adding some mounts and cutting the body a bit for the dual pipe exit. (Exhaust fits real nice, may need slight tweaking depending on engine movement but seems perfect right now and actually fits bettter than most I have seen after I made a couple small adjustments and welded up a new mount)
Adding E30 Brown Coolant Temp Sensor as adapter harness does not work with stock E36 coolant temp sensor. (Intake Manifold is off waiting on replacement sensor).
Cut and fit wiring panel covers (almost done, waiting on sensor to put together everything)
Find fan temp sensor that works with stock wiring or find pigtail that will plug into E36 sensor and wire that in (wired it up but not sure coolant sensor is working for fan, may just wire it always on for temporary fix till we have time to get a replacement sensor. Hitting a/c fan button fires it up so everything else works)
Wire in Fan to stock wiring (done, fan side is complete, just sensor isnt done as noted before)
Mount hood/bumper/trim (complete)
Bend Bracket for throttle cable as it is at end of adjustment and would like it to be in middle (complete)
Fab bracket for Dipstick holder (complete)
Final nut/bolt (complete)
Bolt up wheels being delivered by Dave this Friday (complete)
Italian tune up (complete)

Dave also sent me new rear pads and used calipers. Installed and bled the rear brakes only to go up front to finally get to those and discovered someone knocked off the brake bleeder screw what looks like 5 years ago. Didn't have time to fix.

Pulled shifter back out since it was rubbing on the driveshaft. Cut it down and rewelded back up to clear.

Dave's list:
e-brake cables disintegrated and because sheething disintegrated one has too much slack. I hit them with as much pb blaster as I could to help out when he does this.
fix front bleeder screw
Please for the love of god throw a good suspension on this thing
6 cylinder cluster to get tach to read right
New battery (currently a good one of mine is in it)

Overall the car fires right up and drives really well actually. It's quicker than I thought it would be, and is a great 10-footer. A little more tender love and care on the front bumper and the rust sputs and this would be an awesome toy.