All of this happened back in October of 2011. I picked up 87e30's S50 swapped car for a nice price, and soon contacted LuckyHenrickson down in Oregon for helping move the newly acquired S50 into my 1991 325i. The swap went smooth for the most part.
On Friday, Lucky drove all the way up from Sherwood, OR to Bellingham, WA, nearly 4 hour trip, in his Audi. The plan was to drive both cars down to his shop in Sherwood, then we would drive mine with the S50 back on Sunday night. The trick was that the clutch had gone out on the silver s50 car, so I drove the car all the way down sans clutch. It wasn't much of a problem except for a few rough spots near Portland when traffic got a little heavy. But we made it to his place all fine and dandy.
My car on the left, S50 car right behind, all other E30's are Lucky's. We took a smaller breather and went straight at stripping the S50 out of the silver car.
Me posing in the background like big foot being photographed for the first time.
Off with the front suspension.
Another one of me not too sure what I'm getting myself into.
Out goes the engine with subframe, and full exhaust. The connection from the headers to the catback was so corroded and screwed up we couldn't disconnect the full exhaust, so we just left it on.
Obligatory sitting in engine bay shot, in this case we have the front of the car resting on a beam of wood and the lower half of a shopping cart for easy pushing of the shell.
We had some extra time and energy to burn on Friday night, that I thought it would be no problem to replace the subframe bushings and replace the current sub frame with an adjustable camber and toe kit one. Took a little longer than I thought, but for the most part we were able to get it done without much trouble.
Old vs New
Finishing it up
All done by Saturday morning for a dyno meet nearby in Portland.
On Friday, Lucky drove all the way up from Sherwood, OR to Bellingham, WA, nearly 4 hour trip, in his Audi. The plan was to drive both cars down to his shop in Sherwood, then we would drive mine with the S50 back on Sunday night. The trick was that the clutch had gone out on the silver s50 car, so I drove the car all the way down sans clutch. It wasn't much of a problem except for a few rough spots near Portland when traffic got a little heavy. But we made it to his place all fine and dandy.
My car on the left, S50 car right behind, all other E30's are Lucky's. We took a smaller breather and went straight at stripping the S50 out of the silver car.
Me posing in the background like big foot being photographed for the first time.
Off with the front suspension.
Another one of me not too sure what I'm getting myself into.
Out goes the engine with subframe, and full exhaust. The connection from the headers to the catback was so corroded and screwed up we couldn't disconnect the full exhaust, so we just left it on.
Obligatory sitting in engine bay shot, in this case we have the front of the car resting on a beam of wood and the lower half of a shopping cart for easy pushing of the shell.
We had some extra time and energy to burn on Friday night, that I thought it would be no problem to replace the subframe bushings and replace the current sub frame with an adjustable camber and toe kit one. Took a little longer than I thought, but for the most part we were able to get it done without much trouble.
Old vs New
Finishing it up
All done by Saturday morning for a dyno meet nearby in Portland.
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