bm325rb

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Originally Posted by DaveM-sport

E30 rear axle adjustment bits are mostly off the shelf too really. All you need is camber/toe, damping, height and arb stiffness.
DTM stuff can adjust roll-center then too. But as you say it's easier and different to use the Skyline stuff as you have it rather than trying to sell it all on and then get more new stuff.


No offence to the owner as there was a shitload of time and effort gone into it to make it and its nice to do aomething alittle outside the ordinary run of things but that Nemisis SR-E30 seems to drive like a bag of sh!te anytime I've seen it out.

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tats y im using it plus its easy to set upo ted and i know wat works wit rear nissan suspension
u and famous jh will hopefully sort the front for me in time befoire i s13 the biatch:p
to be fair i find the nemisis car seems to be set up at the back good but i havent seem it in the flesh only pics and vids but the front seems out tis could be down to tracking and geometry set up as car is in devolopment stages
i think kavs car is an ispiration for conversions as the e30 is a timeless classic just needs more modern engines drive train etc
i love the look of the e30 but after having a few e30,s and a couple e36s i feel the engine as standard let them down still cant fault an m3 thou

sweet u hav the same rear rims that i have on my skyline!
do u what they are??

righto so small update car is nearly allstripped now just to get under it tonight and drop the old petrol tank and all the old fuel and brake lines :happy) job ive been putting off for a bit
engine bay and interior fully stripped few small bits left to come out not much thou
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0114.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0115.jpg
so last nite in another feat of trying to avoid getting under it i decided it was time the car started to go on a crash course diet:D
front valances chopped off theres probably more to go when i start to mate the intercooler to it but it,ll do for the min
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0116.jpg
and finally the rear took a battering(rrfl: im gonna make all the back off it completly flat floored to leave loads of access to the diff suspension arms etc etc so im chopping the rear quarters and pockets off it boot well will be going basically anything tats not needed is going in the bin
so wat i started wit orginally
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0113.jpg
after a while of cutting
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0112.jpg
and just a pic of actually how much is being cut from the back end:D
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0111.jpg
tis is how i left it last nite more to be done tis evening so maybe another update later on
and on doing a small bit of research the differences between weight on the two car is unreal from a small bit of google work its between 200 and 300 kgs so in comparsion tats like 200 to 300 bags of sugar so the power to weight ratio should be extenmally good on tis shell when finished and should see a lot quicker a car on track witout having touched the engine so all good on the pocket and also for reliability as i wont need to run as much power;)[/

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Originally Posted by podge

righto so small update car is nearly allstripped now just to get under it tonight and drop the old petrol tank and all the old fuel and brake lines :happy) job ive been putting off for a bit
engine bay and interior fully stripped few small bits left to come out not much thou
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0114.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0115.jpg
so last nite in another feat of trying to avoid getting under it i decided it was time the car started to go on a crash course diet:D
front valances chopped off theres probably more to go when i start to mate the intercooler to it but it,ll do for the min
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0116.jpg
and finally the rear took a battering(rrfl: im gonna make all the back off it completly flat floored to leave loads of access to the diff suspension arms etc etc so im chopping the rear quarters and pockets off it boot well will be going basically anything tats not needed is going in the bin
so wat i started wit orginally
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0113.jpg
after a while of cutting
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0112.jpg
and just a pic of actually how much is being cut from the back end:D
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Image0111.jpg
tis is how i left it last nite more to be done tis evening so maybe another update later on
and on doing a small bit of research the differences between weight on the two car is unreal from a small bit of google work its between 200 and 300 kgs so in comparsion tats like 200 to 300 bags of sugar so the power to weight ratio should be extenmally good on tis shell when finished and should see a lot quicker a car on track witout having touched the engine so all good on the pocket and also for reliability as i wont need to run as much power;)[/

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Now to make sure you get that power to the ground ;)

This is gonna be sweeeeeet :D
But if your cutting so much off the back , will it be very light on the back wheels cause of all the weight in the front with the rb ??

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Originally Posted by PdDan

Now to make sure you get that power to the ground ;)

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tats y its getting full s body rear suspension subframe arms etc etc

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Originally Posted by Aidan Hogan

This is gonna be sweeeeeet :D
But if your cutting so much off the back , will it be very light on the back wheels cause of all the weight in the front with the rb ??

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thanks man
itll be light but i still have to weld in a full new boot floor
pockets just been cut off for cleaniness and to lose the rust in them:(
hopefully wont be to light at the back when the new fuel tank battery and everything goes into the boot also moving the engine back in the car for better weight balance:D

right loads more done the last nite or two the car was half stripped a few yrs ago and used on track but after a final stripping and gutting again heres the amount of stuff ive managed to take out tats all gonna be scrap full 8 x4 trailer full:eek:
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/119.jpg

next up got all the boot floor cut out the pockets cut out
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/011.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/012.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/013.jpg

next up then drilled out all the spot welds on the old sunroof cage and threw tat in the bin as well as usually wit all e30s the sunroof has caused a nice bit of rust on the underside of the roof:( hoping to be able to treat tis and it,ll be good enough for another few yrs to come
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/016.jpg
next up then i started to cut the bulk and the tunnel for moving the engine for better weight balanceand to leave a bit of room in the engine bay
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/118.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/004.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/007.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/010.jpg

next up was i started to line up and see wat way the brake pedal and master cyclinder was going to work out after a bit of head scrahing and thinking i decided the best thing to do was just cut out all the old bulk head here and fabricate a new one in as it was gonna be the quickest and easiest route have to get steel tomorrow and then we can start on tis
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/015.jpg
next up wit nothing really else major to start working on i got an old block and head and strippped these and am gonna mate them together to use as a template for putting in and mocking up the engine mounts and gearbox mounts and building the new bulk head and tunnel
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...dge_07/120.jpg
tis is as far as ive got at the min

righto bit more fab work done tonight on tis
we start wit the left hand side of the car to make the bulk head where it had rusted away and also to make epic size arches so we can run massive lock when finished:happy)
wat we started wit after everything was cut away we decided to cut more than we needed so we would have no problems at a later date wit wheels hitting the inner arch on full lock
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/006-2.jpg

couple of welds later and were left wit tis
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/003-2.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/006-2.jpg

few of nelly welding using gas atm as its easier to fill some of the gaps will be using mig at a later date to do all the seems etc

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/007-2.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/002-2.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/001-2.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/005-2.jpg

me putting out the fire after nelly set the seem sealer and stanard top mount bush on fire(rrfl: (rrfl:
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/008-2.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/009-2.jpg

after a while welding we were left wit tis nice big arch
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/010-2.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/012-1.jpg

next i hit work on the other side originally we were going to try and weld in the nissan master and slave cyclinders for the clutch and brake pedals but after and a lot of though and discussion we decided the easiest way to do it was cut all the old pedals out and buy a floor mounted pedal box for it instead

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...e_07/011-2.jpg
pedal box should be here in the next few days when tat arrives we can start on tis side of it
also being gathering a few more ramdom bits for it ill have the head oil drain kit for it in the next few days and also ill be going getting a e36 rack and trying to mount it nearer to the subframe to hoipefully stop me having to modify the sump

its going to be mint when its done and fair play to ya for putting in all the long hours of work in to her

tis is now on hold for a yr due to the amount of fabrication required to get it running and the fact were building 3 other cars in the shed as well
it will be finished someday
in the mean time im picking up a 180sx shell tis week and going to build tat as there wont be as much fab work to be done on it