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Thanks! And yes it is. Haven't got a shot of it with the kit on, but it's basically invisible, with air from the lower ducts all feeding it (after some alloy plate air-guiders are added)

And some pics from Saturdays work, not much done. Sorted out what which wires will be used, and where they will go. Decided on a new fuel pump system - separate relay and circuit that switches on the fuel pump when the car is in the ON position, rather than just when it is cranking.

And riveted/welded the radiator mounts. Rivets were needed cause the metal is damn thin down there... It is currently supported with zipties at the top, proper clamps coming.

Hope to have it cranking at least the week after next. This weekend is to be taken up by a large flatwarming at my flat aha.

The clutch is nice and heavy/poppy thanks to the mismatched master/slave. But at least they are on the same side of the car as each other now!

And look at that, no damn steering linkage thwarting any plans.

Mega-shortened driveshaft. Will probably need balancing, but at least it is a lot easier to take out than a standard one. (The front half of the shaft slots into the back of the gearbox, rather than guibo/6 bolts)

Lots of room to move here in the future...

And now the oil pan is barely the lowest point!

How it hangs.

And the higher front end it now has... Shorter springs needed! That's as low as it goes. Although the engine may not be that much lighter, the mass has shifted back quite a bit. We'll get it on the corner scales at some stage.

+1

The missus and I are lying in bed on sunday morning having a laugh at this...

Re: Fuel hose:

Para Rubber. Sub $10 per meter.

Follow your nose!

Do you people like the captions above the picture? I'm actually starting to think I'm doing it wrong that way.

And we weighed the SR. Which is the engine, all accessories attached, gearbox, loom, turbo etc etc.

210kg...

The block and crank of a M20 weigh 95kg.

Wish we had a complete M20 to weigh. I don't think there will be anywhere near 30% weight saving! But it should be a good several bags of potatoes. And the bonus of 2 cams.

Busy busy evening!

I've always planned to have this thing as 'sleepa' as possible. I don't want to plow snow with a FMIC.

So I masked up the fins (a lot harder than you might think) and in came the black.

And added a personalised logo. The Peregrine Falcon.

And this evening..

Just kidding around with the 10inch wide BBS's... sadly.

In goes the jappa

My good bitches helping out. I get to be the bitch for upcoming tech1 installs and manual conversions.

So often I see shitly mounted intercoolers. Drives me insane. It's for a number of reasons I believe. Some people think that each square inch of intercooler hanging out off the front of the car adds a horsepower. Some do it for show. Others do it well, it's rare to see here in christchurch. Here it is done well:

Cut out a bit of the valance, mainly to ease the installation of thin alloy panels to duct up the whole radiator and IC to ensure no air from the 4 vents at the bottom of the tech1 can pass around.

Some 5mm steel mounts were fabbed up, and I got to splatter some Mig all over the place. But it worked well, the mounts held my weight easy.

Finished. Going to be running 2inch charge piping, and at each end of the IC will be 2.5-to-2 inch connectors. The overall lenght of charge piping is going to be sweet f**k all, about 50cm on the turbo side and less than 30 on the intake side; this was the main reason for mounting the intercooler in the hardest place out of the small number of options the e30 gives you.

Some new radiator mounts are halfway through being welded one, but it got too late. This is how we left it this evening. Was great to finally see it in there.

Didn't really get any clear shots of the overall engine bay look. The wiring is all over the place so I'll hide it and get some pics tomorrow. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Sam forgot to mention my car is the other one ahaa.

Within 12 months or so it should be fully caged, red, club day/targa spec and big brakes.

Lots of photos to come this weekend. The SR is being dropped in Friday evening.

Yup.

Crikey d*ck.

My old cricket bat now has the grip eaten away from the petrol ahaa

Finally got to procrastinate around some matlab and watch this. Thanks Josh!

Holy dickens, who stole my video memory?!?!

Bend the tabs down that are around the fuel pump (once you have it out of the top of the tank, you will see the tabs that the fuel pump locks into when you rotate it a quarter turn to secure it in the tank), this will form a tighter seal between the fuel pump and the tank and stop the leak. Also make sure the rubber Oring is there.

There's a funny reason the tabs get bent.

Mostly involves a cricket bat and some firm shunting into that hole to get dents out of the bottom of the tank.

My logical guess is that he owned both the E30 and MX at the same time, had the PPlate on the MX and had a copy of it etched into the e30 so that people would always know who he was. What a player.

Wish there was a road like that down here. Fastest I've been on my longboard is only about 60, then there's a bloody roundabout

Hot damn that supercharger is insane!!! Can't imagine how well that hauls now..

Ooo sam has a couple of new toys, we might have to bring them down to your work one day soon

Damn that's cool! Well done. Would be very interested myself. I know Sammy sure would be as well.

85ish Honda City, in burgandy. $10 fuel would last a lifetime.

82ish Mazda 323 Wagon, RWD. What a heap, got it for free. Sold it to some guy with huge rotor-powered plans for $70.

90 Toyota Corona 1.8. Blew all 4 shocks in one day in Wanaka. The drive back to Chch was very entertaining with 5 bikes, 3 people and gear on/in it.

91 Toyota Camry Wagon. Legend 2litre toyota power. Used 6mm of tread doing a burnout one evening to just see if it could, can still see the 2 deep holes in the tarmac at the north-east corner of the Arts carpark at uni here. Ended up spewing it's gearbox in tiny bits over an intersection. Funny that.

84 BMW 323i. Bought it cheap and boy-racered. Fun car. Got rear ended at 60kph. Ouch.

87 M325i. Originally a C.E.O's car, Q.E.D Software, Tauranga.

^ 2.2L per 100km? Probably recheck that there ha.

I did 3000km last summer in my e30, lowest useage rate for a tank was 8.6L/100km. Highest was 9.2. Much higher around town.

Get's through a whole tank at the track in a 4-5 hour session easy (quick calculation would be around 150-200km, or around 30-37L per 100km, must reset the trip counter next time..)

Holy sh*t my flatmate just bought that 2nd bike from the left off you Jason ahaa!

Have seen lots about these rocker arms stoppers, definitely planned upgrade.

And nath, I took my car to a few places around town here till a champ of a man measured the hole in the roof. I returned 2hours later and it was cut, chamfered, beveled, rounded, and drilled at 200mm intervals. It has a 20mm overhang all around and is 4, or was it 6, mm polycarbonate. Great buy for 70 bucks. Look up companies who make plastic things like display stands and signs etc, that is what this company did most.

Found an awesome problem, the needle for the tacho stops rotating at around 7250 RPM. I'm hoping to have a little more revs than that. Oh well.

Boring sunday afternoon.

Did this while everything was in bits...

Skip a few boring steps: Taaaa daaaa. So damn perfect. Painted the whole dash black and tinted some useless lights with 35% tint.

Very exciting game this morning. the gf is half dutch so she had a case of the screaming-at-the-tv's. ahaa.

I hope it's germany vs holland, then we can be at odds!

Very, very cool. Thanks for posting

7th form finished in 04, took 4 gaps years working and living in a couple of countries doing allllll sorts. Now, thanks to studylink; BE at canterbury.

^ The wheels are genuine e30 fitment 16x7.5 Schnitzers.