Newman's 1986 BMW 326rb build thread.

ANYTHING I WANT

ANYTING?

lol.

Left my camera at work, but got the following done today:

Wiper motor installed
Cowl grill installed
Radiator fan installed
Wideband O2 Bung welded on
Exhaust hanger welded onto rear of downpipe, bolts to head. Very sturdy.

My shit is near OEM. :slight_smile:

My firewall closeoff needs to be remade, though. It doesn’t fit that well, but it’s going to look pretty slick.

How hard is the wiring for the whole car?

not terrible. I’m pretty good at wiring and there isn’t a lot of accessories

obviously you will just electrical tape/t tap it all

OMG does it play DVD’s and flip out of the dash manualy???

looooooooooooooooooool

This is just a suggestion but can you buy a train horn for this thing lol

no room for one :frowning:

It’s an E30, not an F350

Okay fine, a baby train horn.

Jeesh people on here…

ahooga horn plz.

:tup: :tup: :tup: :tup:

HUGE improvement over the boring, dull, rubber stock one you had that i quoted a pic of earlier suggesting silicone.

This > silicone > stock rubber.

Little snag:

When I changed the tunnel from

This:

To this:
http://onyxsyndicate.com/newman/e30gtr/img/tunnel1.jpg

I can no longer fit my exhaust in… so I need to cut it and add a vband.

oh well.

NRG quick release came in (so did sending unit and grommet kit).

The hub is really really nice. Excited for my momo adapter to come in so I can try it.

Probably going to want to slit some large radiator hose and wrap 2 pieces of that stainless hose - the first, where the two of them (almost) cross, and the second, probably more important, is where it comes up vertically near the fuel rail (bottom-middle-left-third of the photo). They have a nasty habit of abrading through things.

First thing I did was install the fuel tank level sending unit. Pretty straightforward.

Radiator fan installed:

Wideband bung welded on:

Spiffy downpipe bracing to motor:

Lastly, and most awesomely, I made this closeoff out of laser cut aluminum and pre-preg carbon fiber.