Junior2552
09-22-2012, 09:56 AM
Hey guys! When I got on this wonderful forum a few months ago, I threw up pictures of the E30 that I bought right after I bough my ZHP. Well, a few months later, I started really digging into the M20, and playing around with ideas. I pulled off the wheels, played with the coilovers, sanded, Bondo'd, and primed the car. Now, I'm in the middle of doing a 2.7 ETA build. Not a lot of people stick with the M20, and I think it's a perfectly capable motor, and can apply power efficiently, which is something that I don't think a lot of the later motors do. The M20 is light, easy to work on, cheap to maintain, and let's be honest, I put my money into the ZHP because I love it. So, started this thread for anyone who likes the classics. I'll be updating it as I go along!
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo6.jpg
How she used to look. Gunmetal XXRs, slammed, lip on the front (that I kept tearing off...), and bright red. Not for everyone, and I quickly got tired of it.
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/EDirty.jpg
Photoshoot for my little brother's class.
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/577493_2912776386202_1464436566_32028016_162199670 6_n.jpg
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo4.jpg
Got the motor cleaned up; new oil, new coolant, new belt. Runnin good!
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo5.jpg
Conditioned the leather, dashboard, vacuumed, soaped the carpets and she's lookin good. Only one crack in the dashboard and it's really small. Kept it clean since the day I picked it up!
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo3.jpg
My ladies in the garage together. Getting ready for tear down :)
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo_zps58c86eec.jpg
Three weeks later, we locked ourselves out of the warehouse, so instead of wasting time, we used the shed in the back. So it's a little hood.. But it worked until we could get back in to the warehouse. Oops.
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo1_zps130c3da3.jpg
Primed up! Getting ready for some pearl white paint! We'll see if I decide to change the color. I've been toying with the idea of United Grey from VW, or Techno Violet purple from the E36 M3. My little brother suggested that we do the wheels a dark, dark purple; almost black. So, I might stick with white or UG. We'll see!
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo2_zps0bc4ca97.jpg
Drove her to work yesterday. On my way to grab up a Getrag 260 later today, LOOK at some M50s, and decide on a project path. Still need to Bondo the passenger fender and the rear in some spots, but she's coming along. Being almost 23 and student teaching so much, it's hard for me to always throw parts at it. My three brothers and I have been splitting costs, so it'll come around pretty quickly I hope!
Updates later this week, and in a few weeks when I decide on M50, or to stroke the M20. Up for suggestions. I miss my E36, but I'd like to give the M20 a shot. It's lighter and thrown out a lot. In a perfect world, I could drop the M54 in it and swap the S54 into my ZHP...
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo6.jpg
How she used to look. Gunmetal XXRs, slammed, lip on the front (that I kept tearing off...), and bright red. Not for everyone, and I quickly got tired of it.
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/EDirty.jpg
Photoshoot for my little brother's class.
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/577493_2912776386202_1464436566_32028016_162199670 6_n.jpg
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo4.jpg
Got the motor cleaned up; new oil, new coolant, new belt. Runnin good!
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo5.jpg
Conditioned the leather, dashboard, vacuumed, soaped the carpets and she's lookin good. Only one crack in the dashboard and it's really small. Kept it clean since the day I picked it up!
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo3.jpg
My ladies in the garage together. Getting ready for tear down :)
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo_zps58c86eec.jpg
Three weeks later, we locked ourselves out of the warehouse, so instead of wasting time, we used the shed in the back. So it's a little hood.. But it worked until we could get back in to the warehouse. Oops.
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo1_zps130c3da3.jpg
Primed up! Getting ready for some pearl white paint! We'll see if I decide to change the color. I've been toying with the idea of United Grey from VW, or Techno Violet purple from the E36 M3. My little brother suggested that we do the wheels a dark, dark purple; almost black. So, I might stick with white or UG. We'll see!
http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/photo2_zps0bc4ca97.jpg
Drove her to work yesterday. On my way to grab up a Getrag 260 later today, LOOK at some M50s, and decide on a project path. Still need to Bondo the passenger fender and the rear in some spots, but she's coming along. Being almost 23 and student teaching so much, it's hard for me to always throw parts at it. My three brothers and I have been splitting costs, so it'll come around pretty quickly I hope!
Updates later this week, and in a few weeks when I decide on M50, or to stroke the M20. Up for suggestions. I miss my E36, but I'd like to give the M20 a shot. It's lighter and thrown out a lot. In a perfect world, I could drop the M54 in it and swap the S54 into my ZHP...