{"id":418,"date":"2012-07-06T05:27:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-07-06T05:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T13:27:20","slug":"improvements-to-grm-e30-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/improvements-to-grm-e30-v8","title":{"rendered":"Improvements to GRM E30 V8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our GRM $2011 Challenge winning project car has had some improvements lately, which are discussed in detail on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=57309#post57309\">our build thread<\/a><\/strong>. This 1986 BMW E30 chassis just turned 25 years old which means it is eligible for Texas’ 25 year vintage exemption from emissions testing, whihc made for an easy safety inspection… now this beast is street legal!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Projects\/E30-V8\/i-mFhCXmw\/0\/M\/DSC0939-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are been substantial changes and updates to the car from the old $2000 build budget days and now the car sports AST 4100 coilovers, 18×11″ CCW wheels, and some other expensive bits and pieces. One of the last changes we made was adding a front undertray\/splitter, which we show how to make in step-by-step fashion, including pictures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Projects\/E30-V8\/i-HjpVVxh\/0\/M\/DSC2615-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We’re going to have an auction to sell this car soon, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our GRM $2011 Challenge winning project car has had some improvements lately, which are discussed in detail on our build thread. This 1986 BMW E30 chassis just turned 25 years old which means it is eligible for Texas’ 25 year … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/improvements-to-grm-e30-v8\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}