E30 Chump Car!

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Over the last few months there has been a group of us talking about getting into chump car. Last friday it became official and the team purchased our car. We got a 90 BMW 325i.
We just started stripping the car down this weekend so we could get the shell ready for the roll cage and pulled to motor and tranny so we could freshen it up.

We will be using this thread to document the build progress and race results when we finally enter races.
Chump Car rules and info

pulling all the crap out of the car.



weight reduction


head is off the engine


this looks about right



engine and tranny out


So far we have only really worked on the car for a few hours. This was the easy part. Now its time for the fun stuff.
Im sure I'm forgetting stuff so I'm sure guys on the team will chime in.

[ShowCar]

Have fun!

[JK9K]

Excellent! Should be good fun

[2.5-12]

the bottom end of our M20B25

piston #1

sound deadening is being taken out now, much (hopefully) more progress to come this week/weekend.

[Champ]

What was wrong with the motor?

[mattdesmond]

Looking forward to following this one! Saweet.

[BimmerTim]

neat

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It broke the timing belt and bent a valve.

[Champ]

Shouldn't be too bad, I'll assume you guys have another head for it? Did it bugger up the piston?

[2.5-12]

tbelt broke on the PO, bent 6 exhaust valves and snapped a rocker.. the rest was in pretty good shape.

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Shouldn't be too bad, I'll assume you guys have another head for it? Did it bugger up the piston?

little bit of scaring, but nothing I'd worry about at all. Dan is going to sand the pistons.

we're getting the head rebuilt (I do have one on the shelves too though, lol)

[2.5-12]

block sanded, cleaned up
und painted!
I like the matte finish.

[JK9K]

You don't want to make it look too nice...they'll just assume you have something special going on in there and start you with some negative laps.

[2.5-12]

in the rules it says "we hate grime as much as you do, we wont dock you laps for having a clean engine!"

we made sure to check before that, lol.

[jungle]

carefull......the cost of the car (rebuild of the engine included) can't exceed more than $500. I thought about a very similar car on C.L. that w/ a busted T.B. for $700, i didn't think there would be enough stuff to sell off of it to pay for the repairs