Pics Of My Motor Build:

[ctnewman]

http://onyxsyndicate.com/newman/e30gtr/e30gtr_88.html

I spent a few hours last night buttoning up the AN Plumbing on the car. DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS!

Oil feed and cooling lines:

The coolant line attaches to a nipple on the water outlet. Instead of going through the hassle of welding on an AN bung, I simply used a hose end cover. It's a little corny, but it looks pretty good.

Ran the lines to the Aeromotive FPR. I still need to put a plug in the other port. I also cut off the vac port for the old charcoal canister and plugged it, then added another clamp for the fuel feed line at the back of the plenum. You can see what's missing if you compare it to THIS pic.

Another shot of the FPR

I wish you could see the brackets that I made for the brake booster line. I made 3 stainless L brackets and used them to mount line clamps to. They came out really nice and hold the vacuum line very straight. I am planning on mounting the check valve in between the two closest to the camera. Again I used hose finishers to clean up the look.

Another shot of the FPR showing the cable clamps holding the return line.

Another shot of the brake booster vacuum line. There's a clamp that's hard to see mounted to the head lifting bolts. (The other two are off the plenum and intake studs)

Shot of the drain and coolant line. I made both the drain flange and the block flange, wish I had a pic of them off the car, they came out awesome. I still have to do something with this coolant line.

Here's a shot of the block flange on the car.

I also took the rotor hats off the car so I can get them anodized.

[zebra]

The level of detail gets better as the build goes on, well done

Only thing I can think of is maybe some flame proof wrap for the turbo oil and water lines, it will get damn hot in there and wouldnt want them melting

[gotRICE?]

Amazing! Im sure you will as it seems you miss nothing. But im assuming your going to clamp that hose on the right away somewhere? Itl rub through in a matter of weeks sitting on that seam in the bodywork! (Pic of lines under Turbo compressor by the "M24" casting)

[ctnewman]

Amazing! Im sure you will as it seems you miss nothing. But im assuming your going to clamp that hose on the right away somewhere? Itl rub through in a matter of weeks sitting on that seam in the bodywork! (Pic of lines under Turbo compressor by the "M24" casting)

Yeah, that's why I said:

"I still have to do something with this coolant line."

In the pic's caption.

I'll probably butterfly it to the drain line and glue some vacuum tubing to the seam.

[moogley]

lol at pink cam covers , car will be tough when its done though

[ctnewman]

Haven't updated this in FOREVER:

hellz yeah

First, some day shots of the car. Looks a lot different, huh?

Next I made some coolant pipes (i installed the IC piping to ensure clearance)

[ctnewman]

Shot of the intercooler and radiator installed (temporarily):

Then I started installing the window gaskets and some of the trim. The trim is actually blacked out with vinyl, which is a pretty popular way to do it. It looks really good:

Lastly, I made and installed some AN lines to be used with my PCV vacuum setup. That unaatached line will go to a catch can, then into the exhaust evacuator.

Got my coolant pipes coated in brushed aluminum PC and my bumper brackets in black.

I put a bead on the pipes with these vice grips I modified. Got the idea from Dan (JUICEDZ4)... In fact that's actually his pic... but mine are nearly identical.

Check out his AWESOME cavalier build here. I know it's a Cavalier, but check it out, it's unreal.

I bought some cheap summit racing window cranks and machined an adapter to run them on my gutter power window housings.

More shots of the outside. It's even more yellow than it appears in photos. Very odd color indeed. 4/6 windows are in. As is BLACKED OUT TRIM

[ctnewman]

PHAT AZZ... (the apron has some black on it at a weird angle so it looks crooked, but it all gets covered by the rear valence) Also got the trunk latch and tails installed. Looks like a fox notch hahah.

A shot of the CHROME BILLET WINDOW CRANK$$$ installed (23 bucks from summit)

And FINALLY got a set of these. SOOOO much better than a crescent wrench with electrical tape on it.

Also summit racing must hate that I keep adding shit to this order over and over. Check out all those different ship dates, all on 11.95 handling.

Nah, they probably love me...

Look at all this other shit I ordered.

Added a line clamp for the oil feed line and installed the EGT fitting into the manifold. The schedule 10 should be thick enough to not weld a bung on there, time will tell.

[ctnewman]

Powdercoated coolant pipes installed, you can also see where I am going to weld the BOV flange on.

Steph's baffled catch can installed. You can kinda see how the lines route now. One more line comes from the bottom of the catch can to the exhaust scavenger, which will be after the WG return and flex section.

A shot of the line feeding the catch can and also notice the brake booster check valve installed in-line. Again, trying to keep it ultra clean looking, this time line mounts to firewall.

Rear PACKAGE TRAY dyed black and installed. Instead of factory mounting I simply chose to use 2 stainless self-tapping screws in the front and clips in the back.

Lastly for tonight: Back Glass.

Just scooped up this, and the interface to communicate directly with AEM:

http://www.race-technology.com/dash2_2_31.html

And a fuel sender from summit. (Oh yeah and a 2.75 cent fitting that's backordered until october, LOL)

[ctnewman]

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.

[Goi-turbo]

Large work was conducted above a machine, turbine very good! Successes in future!

[Goi-turbo]

To many on Rb26 liked to put here such turbines!

1000hp!!!!

HKS

[ctnewman]

Large work was conducted above a machine, turbine very good! Successes in future!

To many on Rb26 liked to put here such turbines!

1000hp!!!!

HKS

This is probably the best comment I have ever received in any of my build threads.

Edited August 11, 2009 by ctnewman

[Goi-turbo]

I respect that you did, did much the same, a theme was Almost as Skyline but not Skyline.

[DCIEVE]

And FINALLY got a set of these. SOOOO much better than a crescent wrench with electrical tape on it.

glad I'm not the only one with tape on my crescents haha

So when do we get to see the flares?

[ctnewman]

glad I'm not the only one with tape on my crescents haha

So when do we get to see the flares?

flares, even the rears can't go on til sideskirts are on

sideskirts can't go in til fenders go on

fenders won't go on til it's tunning, probably, so you gotta wait a bit...

[r32_doriftoo]

Wow....I thought an E36 with an 1JZ would be crazy, but this Bimmer made me speechless. Really good and detailed job mate. Quiet cool to see that you left the steering wheel on the left side It's really going to be a trackday monster.

Good luck in the future

[Goi-turbo]

As they say in Russia respect and uvazhukha!!!

[roro]

lovin the detail and progressive pics. rb in a beemer woulda never thought of that one

nice way to do it, cant wait to see it all done

and the exige is shit hot man, good luck with it

[Let Me Drive]

awesome build cant wait to see more updates