To be fair, that’s the good side. The drivers side has a fair few cosmetic issues and quite a bit of rust. Don’t doubt it could all be sorted but for the price I paid I may as well just use it for a while then take it off the road.
E30 Project/restoration thread
- Thread starter Thomas. PLease.
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Soldato
This thread is the reason I love motors! Cant wait for the next installment.
Been a while since I posted, and have made quite a bit of progress. Yesterday was a standout as we now have six cylinder lift off.
Was actually fairly easy to go in once the back of the car was jacked up and I had the right tilt on the lift. Now lots of wiring and ancillary jobs to do.
Was actually fairly easy to go in once the back of the car was jacked up and I had the right tilt on the lift. Now lots of wiring and ancillary jobs to do.
Don
How do you go about getting the correct mounting hardware to make the engine mate with the chassis? Do you just fab it up with sheet metal and welder as you go?
Caporegime
Pretty much every engine swap under the sun has off the shelf mounts available for the E30, its all been done before 100 times.
M5X is the most popular/common swap people do as well so there are loads of options.
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Yeah, actually super straightforward, stays on the current engine arms it’s on and just needed a change to the mounts in the E30 subframe.
The pain beforehand was changing the engine from a rear to a front sump, which in my case required fabricating a new oil pickup tube which was a bit interesting.
Otherwise it also bolted straight up to the G240 Manual gearbox I’ve chosen to swap in as well. Due to manual converting the car at the same time I just need to finish off doing clutch master and slave cylinders and lines. Pedal box is all changed over and I have gearbox linkage done too.
The pain beforehand was changing the engine from a rear to a front sump, which in my case required fabricating a new oil pickup tube which was a bit interesting.
Otherwise it also bolted straight up to the G240 Manual gearbox I’ve chosen to swap in as well. Due to manual converting the car at the same time I just need to finish off doing clutch master and slave cylinders and lines. Pedal box is all changed over and I have gearbox linkage done too.
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Doing a great job mate.
Soldato
Really great job!
Lovely job.
Was about to post about the old barn door air flap/air metering unit, and the engine harness connection plug, but you've upgraded the engine so nothing to be said.
Good luck with the project look forward to reading more in the future
Was about to post about the old barn door air flap/air metering unit, and the engine harness connection plug, but you've upgraded the engine so nothing to be said.
Good luck with the project look forward to reading more in the future
It sounds horrendous because it’s got no headers on, but it lives.