Condor Speed Shop Shirts

Guys, the Condor Speed Shop shirts are here, I have limited quantities, so if you want one, let me know soon. We have white (M,L,XL), grey (L,XL) and black (L,XL)! We also have a handfull of Ladies tank-tops. Email me for availability on these.
Please send $20 per shirt to silence8@aol.com I'll ship on Tuesday before heading to the Ultimate Track Car Challenge.

...and a quick tour of the neighborhood around the shop...

Hopefully, by now most of you who follow this blog already know, that we've been invited to the 2011 Ultimate Track Car Challenge!
 

Our goal is to leave VIR with the $500 BimmerWorld Fastest BMW Award. It's less than 2 weeks away, and we need your full support. Its going to take over $1000 to tow the car to Va and back home again. I've designed some stickers so you can show your support for our team, while helping us get there.

These are 3"x3" and 9"x1.25" screen-printed stickers. Please donate $3 and I'll drop one of each in the mail for you. Send a PayPal payment to silence8(at)aol.com with a current mailing address. If you don't have PayPal, send me an email and ill send you my mailing address.

We appreciate your support. Don't forget to follow us on our Facebook page. Condor Speed Shop

 Make sure you "like" us to keep track of all our projects!

Facebook Page is up!

I have a few updates.

First of all I'm happy to announce that Bilstein has sent us a set of custom valved shocks for the UTCC!  Awesome! We are very happy to have them as one of our sponsors. I'm currently in the process of installing them now.

Other than that, there's not a whole lot going on since my last update. Ive installed some new hood pins, and i have some spark plug wire heat resistant sleeves ready to go on.

On a side note, I've created a Facebook page chronicling the day to day activity going on in the garage. So if you want to know whats going on on a more regular basis, visit our page and watch us prepare our e30 for the 2011 UTCC at VIR. Tell us how much you 'Like' us today!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Condor-Speed-Shop/209850452380223?ref=hnav

You can also visit the eBay store I've opened. I sell m20, m42, m50 motor and transmission mounts along with power-steering deletes and a few other parts that were originally designed for this car. Visit www.condorspeed.com.

PERFORMANCE BMW photoshoot.

We had just installed the motor on Saturday, I installed the transmission with no lift and no help on Sunday... let me tell you, its not an easy thing to do...  Jay and Jimmy showed up a bit later and we buttoned up the intercooler pipes and all the accessories. We beld the brakes, and  installed the driveshaft.
I went to work on Monday, and Tuesday morning came way too soon.  The first thing i did was drill the holes for the hood pins and exhaust on the new hood. While Jay and Jimmy cleaned the car, I strategically placed the sponsor stickers. So far we have had help from Turner Motorsport, Bilstein, Mach V, and AEM. I really appreciate their support.

The Performance BMW crew showed up after lunch. It was a pleasure finally meeting Louise Woodhams, after only knowing her via email. She had told me she was interested in shooting the car back when it had the Warbird livery. They flew into Miami and will be in town for 11 days shooting 18 cars, as far north as Raleigh North Carolina.

On to the Pics:

After a long day, the guys and gal relax and admire their work.

In our next update we should be tuning the low compression M20 to work with the Holset HX35.

Checkout our powersteering deletes and UHMW motor mounts for M20, M30, M42, M50, M52 & S52 E30s at www.condorspeed.com

The 2.7 M20 is finally in the car!

Things aren't always what they seem. I thought the head was ready after we milled it using sandpaper and a granite counter top... unfortunately there were still some deep scratches, and after quite a long fiasco... which involved loosing 4 days before finally taking it to the machine shop and getting it professionally milled. Once it was done, I was finally able to start getting things back together.

I soaked the springs retainers and cups in some degreaser.

 Guiness to keep me energized for this task.

Parts are clean and dry.

I used John's modified valve spring compressor to install all the valves.

Intake side done!

Im ready to start the exhaust side. Always make sure you have lots of assembly lube.

Still sporting the smashed hood in this pic.

Ok now that they are all in its time to get ready to install the rockers, rocker shafts and camshaft.

Everything is lined up and ready to go in. THere is a very good step by step on www.e30zone.co.uk.

looking ready to go!

Not bad for a bunch of used parts.

After cleaning all the carbon off the block, we soaked it in transmission fluid.

clean as a whistle.

I put it all togther using the stock head bolts.

The very next day the ARP M20 head studs arrived.... I wasn't waiting to install them

A perfect fit...

Before installing the motor, Jay prepped the sub frame for Turner Motorsport sub frame reinforcement kit.

While Jay did that, I installed a Walboro 255 fuel pump. This should be more than enough for our power goals.

The stock lightened flywheel and SACHS clutch and heavy-duty pressure plate are on and the motor isready to go in.

In a very short amount of time, we were able to get the motor in the car.

Now all that's left to do is clean it up and take it for a test drive.

So over the past couple weeks we have been working on getting the motor ready.

Our newest Condor team member, Ben Phelps, has been spending some time porting and polishing  our race head.

He's just started taking material in this pic, but the final head will have the intake ports matched to the gasket and our previously ported intake manifold.

In the meantime Jay and I were working on sealing up the 2.7 liter bottom end.

Jay finishes installing the rear brake calipers.

Ben was at it for a few days making sure all the ports were even

Looking pretty good

The bottom end is finished and ready for the head.

In order to stay within the budget there was no way we could afford to pay a machine shop to resurface our head, so we did it ourselves.

All it took was sandpaper, adhesive spray mount, a granite slab and lots of elbow grease. It was a lot more work than expected, but between 3 of us we got it done.

John takes his turn.

A quick video of Ben going at it.

The final product... looking good, now all we need to do is assemble it.

stay tuned for more at www.dirte30.blogspot.com

Freaking Awesome!

Our car is on the cover of the April issue of Grassroots Motorsports Magazine!

Jimmy had been trying to convince me to do the Warsteiner theme for over a year before the 2010 event! I finally agreed, and I'm glad we did it! This project has been a blast, 4 years in the making, with the final goal of not only being in the magazine being on the COVER!!! Thanks to all the guys at GRM! It has been great working with my Jimmy, we have met so many cool people in the process. Thanks to all the locals who come out and help! Jay, Bartley, John, Jason, Ben, Brian! You guys have all been a part of this project in your own way! Thank you, most importantly to my beautiful wife Christina, who has always supported me in everything I do. I love you baby.