Took a month or so, but that's because I did a lot of other stuff first. Blasted and painted entire E30 M3 suspension with all new bushings and wheel bearings and installed diff too. Had engine on stand for a month or so, prepped and painted the block, new waterpump, al. therm housing, some ltw pullies, some serious wiring harness rehab (cleaned the shit out of it for about two nights straight). Basically I spent a lot of time cleaning and making all these parts look nice. Scrubbed down all the engine covers and manifold too to make it look as new as possible. Skipped a few parts, but I'll get to them later. headers are not staying on, just left them there for now. Lots of other stuff done like 24lb injectors, euro HFM going on the car, ltw flywheel, and lots of other misc crap. 320i brake booster had absolutely ZERO clearance problems with the fins on the S50 manifold. I ground down a fin before the motor went in, but it didn't need it.
Pic was taken about 10 min after the motor was in, I placed the plastic covers on to see what it would look like. It's pretty exciting, should go together very quickly now. Just got to stop being lazy about the brakes. Need to clean and paint calipers, install new pistons and rebuild kit.
All E30 M3 suspension, brakes, steering rack, and subframes from the same car. M3 swaybars also because they were sitting around from out of my M3, and the car has Koni SA and H&R sport springs. Don't know how long those springs will stay in there, but I had them for now. Also, of course the S50 motor, gearbox, harness, and ECU all from the same car with 74k on it. 3.46 diff from E28 528e converted for E30 usage.
Pic was taken about 10 min after the motor was in, I placed the plastic covers on to see what it would look like. It's pretty exciting, should go together very quickly now. Just got to stop being lazy about the brakes. Need to clean and paint calipers, install new pistons and rebuild kit.
All E30 M3 suspension, brakes, steering rack, and subframes from the same car. M3 swaybars also because they were sitting around from out of my M3, and the car has Koni SA and H&R sport springs. Don't know how long those springs will stay in there, but I had them for now. Also, of course the S50 motor, gearbox, harness, and ECU all from the same car with 74k on it. 3.46 diff from E28 528e converted for E30 usage.
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