What did you do to your E9 today?

[alprada70]

Sección of upper part for front panel.

New coils springs - standard- front and rear

 

[ScottAndrews]

A few hours, a lot of caffeine, but one 53 year old guy and three twenty-year old boys were able to get the whole engine plus trans in in one piece. Critical future suggestions
1. Front pulleys off
2. Alternator was on but needed to be removed to get the motor mounts situated.
3. Leveler set up so that one the engine is horizontal, the crank is way at one end so that you get the full throw of the crank moving along the leveller to raise the front and lower the back. This is not how one would think to set up the leveller up first use, but in this circumstance there is no point where you need to lower the front and raise the back so no purpose in giving yourself that freedom and limiting the opposite motion.
4. Lots of padding - pool noodles on the chain and loads of blankets
5. Two jacks, one for car and one for transmission once it’s partway in.

OOPS! Am I seeing things or is that trans in upside down?

Seriously. Great work!! Congtratuations!

 

[e9Leveque]

OOPS! Am I seeing things or is that trans in upside down?

Seriously. Great work!! Congtratuations!

You had me for a moment there...
But no, all is in and in the next few days I reinstall the shifter mount, the lower transmission mount and then being to reconnect all of the things that had been disconnected upon removal. My only regret is that I had purchased the engine mount restraint plates from Alvaro and 1) didn't realize that his set (unlike CoupeKing's) is only one side, since I think it includes a forward restraint and a lateral restraint and 2) hadn't drilled those holes into the subframe yesterday before I installed the engine. Not impossible to do now but just a little more annoying.

 

[Wobdog]

Installed fuel filter
What starts as an easy project somehow turns into a hard one… that ends up being easy after all. Maybe that’s exactly why working on cars is so addictive.

Just wrapped up installing something surprisingly my 71 2800Cs never had. The final step was cutting into the gas line to hook it up, and everything I’d read warned it would be a very messy job. So naturally, I braced for chaos.

I made the cut… and nothing. Not a single drop of fuel. No smell, no leak—nothing. Cue the moment of panic: Did I just cut the wrong line?

To double-check, I temporarily hooked up the filter. Turned the key, and the car fired right up on the first try. Relief.

Then came the irony: when I removed the filter, it was completely full of gas—which promptly spilled all over the duct tape I’d used to keep the clamp from sliding down the hose into an unreachable spot.
In the end, the mess everyone warned me about didn’t happen where I expected—it showed up later. And somehow, the hardest part of the whole job was cleaning melted, fuel-soaked duct tape off everything.