the rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated, also i own a e34 again

[shogun]

your seat cable fix is still around, http://m.odometergears.com/howto/E34...Cables_Fix.pdf

[632 Regal]

your seat cable fix is still around, http://m.odometergears.com/howto/E34...Cables_Fix.pdf

This is gold! I just don't go back there cause I didn't know how without busting things:

To get the back off of the seat you kind of push up and pull out at the bottom. You have to feel your way through it, here is one of the top clips.

[winfred]

couple fresh shots of how it sits now

the current tool set at work

[winfred]

dirty and unwashed but its alive
been on the road all week and nothings fallen off, billy sports, h&r's and full lemforder suspension replacement with m5 thrust arm bushings and aluminum lowers, 840 4 pot brembos on the front with 750il trailing arm/vented brake swap in the rear with matching slotted rotors all done, might tweak it a hair higher with upper springs pads on the bottom too in the front and some sort of something in the rear that ive not thought up yet, 4.10 pegleg out and 3.46 posi in, might build a 3.73 or find a 3.64 but that 4.10 had to go as it was buzzing bad on the interstate, math put it at 3050-3100 at 70 (cap's on way to fix cluster as tach is dead, works a little when its below 40* and cold start) and it just wasn't comfy, 3.46s dropped it to 2600. m5 oil temp gauge up and functioning as of this evening. seeing a drop or two of antifreeze at the evaporator drains so i guess a o-ring is seeping and its heater core time, might hit it with some barsleak and see if itll make spring/summer

[genphreak]

Nicely sorted vvaggone you have der now.

So the M30 is to end up an M88/3 running a 'Frankentronic'? You have gotta love that!

In many ways better as a keeper than the more 'plasticiszed M60'. All the right stuff you're doing there, glad to see you applying your years of wisdom to build perhaps the 'best ever' e34, eg. Touring/S38/Late Motronic/driveline/susp all maxed. Would love to see more detail on the exhaust you made, not to mention the implementation of the later Motronic.

For the suspension, you can add a fabricated delrin (or even alloy) spacer to add onto the perch on the rear shocks, or even replace the perch itself with a taller one if you use steel, assuming your shocks have removable pressed perches (many are welded to the tube, just depends which your type ended up being) and you can fab up something as strong. People have made 10mm Delrin ones that just slip on top of the old perch but I can't remember who. They can't be hard to fabricate up with a lathe, and a shock to measure off. I've no idea how well Delrin will last back there, but it is probably fine

The front height looks perfect to me, given that any amount of lift at the rear will cause it to drop more than you might expect.

[winfred]

i have all of the frankentronic parts but unless i go wacky with the m30 itll likely not go in the car, i lightly joke that if i get bored it might grow a turbo but i wanna keep it comfy for the work trek, i do have a LS3 sitting the garage if i wanted to nuke that comfort part with extreme prejudice. the m88/3 is long sold as i didn't expect this project to fall in my lap (friend of a buddy tired of project creep aborting the whole thing for $2k with a auto m30b35 swap).
handles good and if we didn't have these massive horse grave speed bumps at the shop not sure id be thinking that hard about gaining a few mm of altitude back, i have the exhaust tucked about as high as itll go and still just barely bump the cat when going to lunch with a extra rider and just the front dropped, haven't had any riders since both ends but i know itll drag with 2, i wouldn't dream of taking my e30 down that driveway

[632 Regal]

Very nice looking car! I saw that exhaust picture and wondered how you'd address it. You have like 2 retirements worth of tools...

[winfred]

electric fan conversion is up and running, i wanna redo the wiring with better stuff for my own amusement as its only a prototype and i didn't have anything better then a roll of trailer wire and butt connectors when i put it together, the loaded parts are doubled or quad'd up to carry the load and nothing is soldered or heat shrinked. i used the gm style 3 relay of fan control, only needs two grounds to control and no resistors, in low it runs the fans in series and parallel for high, i added a 4th relay triggered by switched power so the fans are powered down with the car. i think the fan set is from a 2011 gmc terrain and with a little cutting/grinding it fits the e32 750 radiator im using pretty good (wouldn't work on a e34 width radiator) but it barely clears the distributor cap and only 1/2" off the crank pulley, not optimal but it was free.
so nice not having the fan roaring away pulling off at every light for the last 3 days

[winfred]

secure no fastener cupholder, 4' piece of aluminum makes whole thing, harbor freight ring roller does the hoop but anything could be attached to the support, used a plastic cap for the bottom to trap condensate and split loom for the edging, bottom flat piece is stuck under the console for a friction fit

[632 Regal]

Will it work vertical or upside down?

If not perhaps Velcro be in order.