M30 swap for my Olive Drab Vert! by RagtopE30

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Small update. My heat shielding came in yesterday so I applied some of it today. I would have done more but I am prepping a car for delivery to a new owner and I picked up two new cars in the last 48 hours, a 1987 325i sedan and a 1985 524td. I am thinking 324td! What do you think?

3-31-2014

Oh man how I want to post that! Seriously like yesterday!! Unfortunately I can only update with a pic of non-Volvo upgrade.

Thanks. And no the coil will be there until mega squirt. It is the best way to keep the coil wire from getting burnt up going over or under the down pipe

3-2-2014

^This car is far from a vulva, thank you very much!  

The intercooler is from a mid 90's Volvo 960 turbo

Thanks to Jim325 for coming up today and lending a hand! I have never ever ever ever seen a power steering pump as clean as mine is now thanks to him. And he reenergized my motivation for this build by taking me for a ride in his underwear staining bad ass Turbo M30 swapped e30. OH MY GAWD!!!

Anyways. With his help we knocked out a few items on my to-do list including: mounting the power steering pump and alternator, cleaning and resealing the 2.93S diff, reinstalling diff, replacing the CSB and then reinstalling the drive shaft and heat shields. We also got the shifter linkage in place. Oh and test fitted the wastegate. 

Picture time

3-7-2014

Because race car! 

3-8-2014

This was on 10.5 psi on a day that wasent great for dyno tuning.

3-16-2014

I have spared everyone the multiple updates that chronicle every little step of the build over the last week. But I now have an update worth sharing.

She moved under her own power today!!!!!!!!!!!