We haven’t introduced a new Project Build Thread onto our forum in a minute, but we started writing this one of our E36 M3 “Barn Find” (Project Hellrotten) back in July when we took it out of long term storage. That goal was to see if we could restore this car to a running state and/or make it into a usable race car and product test mule.
The paint + interior condition and 214K miles prevented this one from being a good “restoration” and flip candidate, but a race car don’t care about any of that! In only 3 weeks our crew had this car running again, swapped in new rotors / hubs, developed a new brake cooling solution for the E36, and began much of the deferred maintenance that this car needed.
This link goes to the Vorshlag E36 Development thread which will cover the build up of this car as well as bring in some E36 tech we have learned over the last 20 years of owning and racing these cars. We stopped our first entry after we got the car running, but will go back and fill in the blanks of everything we have done to date. Stay tuned for track test #2 in this car soon! #E36tech