Denis (dude8383) is an UNGRATEFUL TRAITOR

[Febi Guibo]

Well, it all started saturday when Denis (dude8383) said he needed me to drive to (friggin) Stamford, CT to help him pick something up...

We got back to my house in Long Island with this:



Note this is not a Ford Ranger M50 rear engine conversion project.... more pics:





Anyway, Denis decided he wanted to get low mileage M50 for like, $750, including ALL the accessories, the ECU, *and* a GM automatic transmission/giant paperweight.

Meanwhile, because *I* am not an ungrateful traitor, I recently picked up a non-running 1991 318i (sedan) that will become... the Guibo family truckster. Mrs. Guibo has agreed to learn how to drive stick, and since it's a white car... I'm doing a roller job on it this spring...





It's a nice car, not perfect, but for $700 (the armrest alone is worth $150) it means I can keep my cache of E30 parts and stay in the M42 game... whoever owned the car had some issue with the motor, and it was non running... otherwise it has a perfect non-sport interior, a 3.91 LSD and a couple of minor exterior dingys (dents, not rowboats)...

note, the muffler tip literally reads "The Fast and the Furious" or something...

So at the same time... I am glacially prepping a dome light restoration for the 1971 BMW 1600 I picked up:







don't subject your F5 key to excess wear looking for progress on this very rusty 1600... it's going to take a long long time...

Anyway, so the first step was pulling the non-running M42 out of the 4-door... this will give me a chance to wash down the engine bay and deal with some minor issues.

For an ungrateful traitor, Denis was instrumental in yanking the M42 out.





So, net net, big changes at the Guibo household... Long story short, I am basically trading cars with Denis, stuffing my Metric Mechanic engine (and as much E30 everything as I can) into the BMW 1600, putting denis' M42 into the white 318i... and... then parting out whatever odds and ends are left from Denis' old pink E30.

Denis will be stuffing a 1995 M50 into my Diamondschwartz E30 chassis.

A tough choice, but really, I need to focus on the 1600 (god willing, it will be a fairly balls-out, no-compromises build), and I need an M42 to drive in the interim.

Denis apparently feels that a 24-valve swap will help his online E30 cred or something... well, now's your big chance to let him know what a terrible mistake he's making!  

[haledj]

What a bum.

the 1602 is gonna be hott, can't wait.

[FL318i]

thats is awesome!! not what dudes is doing but u febi, putting tha beast on the 1600 i cant wait to see that.

as far as dude's swap best of luck, i dont blame him for some torque/power craving after all who are we to say what anyone can or can not do to their car...

.....its been nice having you in the forum dude....(BANNEEEDD) lol.

[gearheadE30]

Dang, denis is going to need a new sig for the first time in about a hundred years . I really hope that the m50 is getting a stick, and that ranger would be pretty awesome with an m50 in the back and an andependant rear from a mustang cobra or something. Sounds like fun

[dude8383]

HAHAHA, very funny!!

Sam has come to terms with the m50 though

That M42 came out like butta, really happy with the progress thus far.

As for me, I need to source a tranny, driveshaft and some other odds and ends to get ready for the swap.

Gearhead, yes, I will be changing my sig just in time for the New Year!!!

I am thoroughly excited though, I can't wait to shoehorn that bad boy in there

[John W]

Man, you guys in NY are not afraid to get your hands dirty (or tackle multiple complicated projects at the same time!).

Looking at this makes me wistful, though. I had to make a concession for recently purchasing my 318is by selling my much loved 72 2002 a couple of weeks ago. That 1600 stuffed full of M42 should go a long way toward providing the best of both worlds. If you have not done so already, start picking Matt McGinn's (of Sports and GT Restorations in Conn.) brain about 02s. I don't think there is anyone else on the planet more knowledgeable about bodywork for these cars.

Keep this thread alive. I wanna see more M50, 1600 and 318i progress in the new year.

[tim_s]

woah, you've been busy! It'll be sad to pull that MM engine out of the black e30 Nonetheless, I'm sure this'll keep things interesting, and no doubt the black e30 will be (nearly) as cool with the M50 in it, and the 1600 fantastic with the MM engine in it.
24v e30s are pretty special, we get alloy block M52B28s over here which are pretty difficult to ignore
The white 4 dr looks cool, I like 4dr e30s!

[twinpop171]

Nice projects you guys have going on for the new year.  Keep this thread alive with updates.  

Glad to hear Mrs. Guibo is going to be an m42 driver.

Denis, how did you get your basketweaves to look like that.  They look awesome BTW.  Good luck with the swap too.
Dan.

[dude8383]

Thank you all for the comments!!

We will make sure to keep the thread updated whenever something new happens.

As for the basketweaves, they're 16 x 7.5 ACT's...I can't wait to see how they'll look on the dschwarz car!

[D. Clay]

As a side note, I have three daughters and a female niece that I taught how to drive with a standard trasnsmission. I was explaining the feel of the clutch was an intuitive thing and made the mistake of saying that the female was supposed to be the more intuitive of the sexes. I then said that, "Too bad a clutch isn't like hair, you would have been born knowing how to drive standard." To this day they still say that to me whenever I demonstrate something like a lack of fashion consciousness or the inability to pick up after myself.
"Yeah, Dad if hair was a clutch...."
Speaking of intuition, I think I know what a "domelight" restoration is. I had a 1971 Nissan 240Z restoration that went on so long that my wife began calling it "The alleged Z-car". Good luck with the organ transplants.

[dude8383]

As a side note, I have three daughters and a female niece that I taught how to drive with a standard trasnsmission. I was explaining the feel of the clutch was an intuitive thing and made the mistake of saying that the female was supposed to be the more intuitive of the sexes. I then said that, "Too bad a clutch isn't like hair, you would have been born knowing how to drive standard." To this day they still say that to me whenever I demonstrate something like a lack of fashion consciousness or the inability to pick up after myself.
"Yeah, Dad if hair was a clutch...."
Speaking of intuition, I think I know what a "domelight" restoration is. I had a 1971 Nissan 240Z restoration that went on so long that my wife began calling it "The alleged Z-car". Good luck with the organ transplants.

Hehe, well hopefully Sam's 02 won't turn into the "The alleged 02-car"

[jpod999]

So what's happening to Denis's's's's's's's red car?

[dude8383]

So what's happening to Denis's's's's's's's red car?

I will be parting out w/e isn't going into Sam's car.

I will compile a list of stuff that I have now so that I can recoup some of the cost of this swap.

[sheepdog]

I will be parting out w/e isn't going into Sam's car.

I will compile a list of stuff that I have now so that I can recoup some of the cost of this swap.

If only you lived closer.

[Febi Guibo]

we have a truck... denis will drive... you have beer and cheap cigarettes!