M3 budget slider-kraut

[slitz]

I had planned on building an e30 and had already bought an m52 and a shell but found an M3 and fell in love...oh how love hurts

Picked it up with zero rust and everything working but a mystery stutter...

FINISHED! 03Jul2011








BEGINNING

durty pictars:

















Day 1:


new bumper moldings, lip, and some lights i had laying around












Not a fan of angel eyes but im not going to complain for now




I also had some DDM ballasts around so just put them in. I will mount them properly after i clean up the bay












Car tapped a wall on the passenger side so i needed one of deez



done.












threw on some new rotors and pads... nothing fancy for now












then i took a crack at some body work. Ive done some pretty sweet work in the past so dont be surprised if your efforts dont turn out as nice.




BAM... good as new

[slitz]

next task was to confirm my suspicions regarding the stuttering..


symptoms: occasional white smoke, stuttering, bubbles in coolant resevior when revving, and coolant on some plugs... YAY HG time.

At this point I lost a lot on the car so I might as well go broke!







my plans are MLS HG, ARP 2000 studs, 5 angle valve job, new retainers, etc etc. Looking for schrick cams at the moment but money may not allow it.

I plan on going F/I in the future so I am going to set the head up now. The bottom end will get built over winter.

[slitz]

Day 2:


I dont have any goodies to bolt on so i figured I would begin ripping sh!t apart today..



before...




after...
















Yard Sale time!

I weighed everything and i managed to drop 314.6 lbs to be exact

[TheM3nsah]

welcome to the gang, im subscribed!

[rpm620]

guess this means no E30 widebody???.. nice find tho. Please make sure you take the head to the machine shop and have them look for cracks.

[bebout]

Nice. It's crazy how much the interior on an e36 weighs.

[Federico]

I like where this is going

[Nisanda]

Dont you just love when its time to take all the interior out?, its my favorite part of the build.

looking foward to more updates.

[Daltron8000]

wow that is a crazy number for the interior weight! i also am highly impressed by your bodywork.

[slitz]

guess this means no E30 widebody???.. nice find tho. Please make sure you take the head to the machine shop and have them look for cracks.

I still have the e30 and need to finish the swap and get it running. I am not sure if I am going to go wide body on it now though.. i want to get the top end rebuilt on the M first

Dont you just love when its time to take all the interior out?, its my favorite part of the build.

looking foward to more updates.

Its definitely fun, but something didnt feel right as I destroyed my first M car...

wow that is a crazy number for the interior weight! i also am highly impressed by your bodywork.

thanks man!


I've always been told that I should start a body shop, but i prefer to keep my skills private

[MikeE36]

Get a heat gun and do werk on that sound deadening. It peels right off and is another ~30-35lbs easy. And subscribed..

-Mike

[slitz]

Get a heat gun and do werk on that sound deadening. It peels right off and is another ~30-35lbs easy. And subscribed..

-Mike

i actually removed the sound deadening today and it totaled 31lbs



unfortunately my camera card broke so no one gets to see my weekend updates.... lets just say that the car weighs around 2200 lbs right now

[Daltron8000]

lets just say that the car weighs around 2200 lbs right now

sans motor or what?

[slitz]

yea i pulled the motor / trans, front end, and stripped the interior.




The part that sucks is I only get to work on the car on the weekends... so progress is slow right now but my goal is to be complete by May 1st.

[slitz]

Friday I finally had a chance to go home and work on the car... upon my arrival I found some goodies!





oh hey body bags..







15lbs of FIA crash protection yo







and I also got these 23mm spacers for some stance making

[slitz]

ok, time for some actual work....


10AM




10PM.... yes it took me 12 hours but i labeled every connection and had to run to harbor freight (1.5 hr trip)... no excuses, im slow










Then I put cleaned up the bay and the harness a bit... I will sand it and paint it in a few weeks after i prep the interior.

Before:





After:

[slitz]

Sunday funday! why not start with some dangerous material...


after a lil stop at the Ice Butler I was ready to remove 30lbs of sound deadening..






After:












then i had to go back home and leave the car all alone in the nastiness of outdoors








Got back home and found some more goodies waiting!



no its not my new nascar shirt from summit... i had a $50 gift certificate which was running out at the end of March so it had to be spent.


Cage padding




Extra set of jack stands




JDM tight multi-panel mirror




G-force 5 points... latch style because im broke status







until next time!

[Nisanda]

Nice job man like your progress alot, and Cage padding uhh! maybe i will need some of that.

[MikeE36]

What is it with drifters and having janky ass harnesses for the passenger So tired of latching that complicated shizzle
Lookin good!

-Mike

[bennyfizzle]

I wouldn't know where to begin when buckling that harness

[slitz]

Haha sadly it actually took me a minute to figure out the harnesses... But they are $60 brand new and are SFI / FIA so it works for me!

[bennyfizzle]

good deal!

your m3 reminds me of my first m3 lol, beat to helllll

[slitz]

new parts came in today!


its like christmas all the time

[dirty30]

coming along nice man. cant wait till i get to scrap all the weight out of my car.

[bennyfizzle]

I miss building my car

Not nearly as many treatz from the delivery guys