{"id":124,"date":"2011-09-29T09:21:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2020-07-19T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T19:08:04","slug":"e30-v8-ready-for-2011-grm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/e30-v8-ready-for-2011-grm","title":{"rendered":"E30 V8 ready for $2011 GRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We’ve worked on our $2011 GRM Challenge BMW E30 V8, the scrappy little junkyard dog, for the past 6 weeks. In that time we’ve pulled and reinstalled the drivetrain twice: once to swap out a broken transmission, then again to repair the clutch hydraulics that failed in the interim. Crazy thrash time, but it drives under its own power once again. We have a week before we leave for Gainesville, Florida for the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120722130635\/http:\/\/grassrootsmotorsports.com\/events\/2011challenge\/\">$2011 GRM Challenge shootout<\/a>, being held Oct 6-8th. So much power + so many junkyard parts = fingers are crossed that we don’t break another transmission or halfshaft. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=56835#post56835\">Read more<\/a> about the latest updates on our forum thread, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=56835#post56835\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Projects\/E30-V8\/9984510_6HwM6c#1503920146_ZfqLM5n-A-LB\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Projects\/E30-V8\/i-ZfqLM5n\/0\/S\/GRME30-summer2011work-S.jpg\" alt=\"click for video\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can catch up in 1 minute 3 seconds by viewing <a href=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Projects\/E30-V8\/9984510_6HwM6c#1503920146_ZfqLM5n-A-LB\">the video update<\/a> above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We’ve worked on our $2011 GRM Challenge BMW E30 V8, the scrappy little junkyard dog, for the past 6 weeks. In that time we’ve pulled and reinstalled the drivetrain twice: once to swap out a broken transmission, then again to … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/e30-v8-ready-for-2011-grm\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-thread-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}