Generic m50 swap

[Jean]

Nice! Good luck guys, this is something I plan on doing too ;)

[1990m3]

jason89i knows his stuff. He has done this at least 12 times I bet and his cars come out nice and clean. I just pulled my motor two weeks ago with only the front hook and it was pretty quick. Only took about 15 minutes to pull it. I think I can put it back in 20 minutes next time, but I'm in no rush. It's really quite easy to drop in, but it does have to be nice and vertical to work well.

[cahomey]

MINI UPDATE: NIGHT RIDERZ

I didn't get to finish everything I wanted to do today but I did get a few important things done.

The night basically started rolling along when Clay and Justin showed up.


We then got the m50 on the hoist to change the pan. Justin, first off, thank you for your efforts against the gasket of death. It was caked and baked on and razors, putty knifes, and screw drivers were the only solutions. Took off the e36 oil pan, pickup, sump, and pickup bracket.


Put the new pan on, and cranked it down. Putting on the flywheel was up next. But first, Clay INSISTED I replace my rear clutch bearing(correct identification?).


Shortly after, Dustin said somthing offensive about Justin's mother. Justin then proceeded to show Dustin his "DONT FUCK WITH ME" face.


End of transmission. More updates tomorrow nightzors.

[tonytony]

the clutch bearing could be a "pilot bearing" make sure it's tranny specific to which one you're going to be using, getrag or the zf tranny.

[cahomey]

It's the bearing for the m20. Which should do the trick for the 260.

[Mike B.]

Nice progress!

What are the plans for exhaust?

[golde30]

Nice progress!

What are the plans for exhaust?

open headers for about a month till he can afford it... . j/k, he has a guy down the block whos gonna fab it up.

[cahomey]

I have a custom fab exhaust. Dual out into single aftermarket cat, to mild resonator, to "the quietest muffler you have" Dynomax muffler. Sounded GREAT with m20, except below 2k uphill.

It should sound pretty sweet with the m50. I just need Jay to fab up some downpipes.

[cahomey]

TRANNY UPDATE: POST OP.


Ok, I didn't get that much done today because I had to work late, but I did have a chance to take my tranny to Petaluma. For those of you who don't already know, Clay's "Unk" owns a BMW, VW, etc shop called "The Garage" (yea, original, i know) and thats where we take our shit to use cool tools, air, lube, pr0n etc.

So I pull up and Clay is humping an FHM magazine with Janet Jackson on it.


So we unload the tran, put it on the lift(who says lifts are for cars only?) and start with the rear seal. It happends to be torqued on SO tight that it is rediculosly impossible to remove. Not a impact gun, old school impact gun, or breaker bar could get it lose. Marty said he has never seen one leak so I'm no trippin off it.


So after giving up, we move on. The last seal we had to change was the front seal. Clay had changed all the linkage bushings last night so there wasnt much left to do.

Yesterday, Dustin and I bent the shift select rod the wrong way. So today we re-heated it and bend it the other way. It got a little jacked up, but it is still reliable and will do its purpose. (see hole in the middle)


Clay was so inthused about seeing where there is so much play in most e30's linkages' so he insisted I take pictures. Here is where most of the play is from.


And here is how much play that little fucking gap makes.


That is all for tonights update. Please tune in tomorrow night for the motor/tranny in the car and possibly running(crossing fingers but expecting the worse).

[Justin B]

Last pic is crazy. woah. Oh well I took it, but the overlay makes my eyes all bugout :P very nice immediate illustration of the difference though. S'all gooood.

Gonna get dat sumbitch pile'a monkey nuts fired up tomorrow eh? My coworker is rubbing off on me. lol

[DEV0 E30]

I couldn't get that 30 MM nut off either. It's torqued to something over 100 ftlbs, then to 80 ftlbs... or so says the Bentley. Too bad mine does leak.

The UUC deriln(sp?) bushing I hear gets rid of a lot of the side to side slop.

[Justin B]

Finally read your previous update too......

and damn, that night was fun, I stayed up to 2am watching stupid video's at Clay's place on his bigass computer monitor. Too bad i forgot till when we all left that I had (supposed to be anyway) to be at work at 7:00. Dip Shitz was funny as hell. OOohh, and I dont think thats my dont fuck with me face ;), come to work when my ADD coworker is pissing me off :crazy: Yes, we're all laughing pretty good at SOMETHING but I got caught LMAO'in.



Hope to have a similarly relaxed time tomorrow. Lets try to git'r done.

I couldn't get that 30 MM nut off either. It's torqued to something over 100 ftlbs, then to 80 ftlbs... or so says the Bentley. Too bad mine does leak.

The UUC deriln(sp?) bushing I hear gets rid of a lot of the side to side slop.

Urr, how does that work? 100ft lbs, then 80? the 80 wouldnt move it a single bit if its already to 100 Is it maybe 100ft lbs (I believe it) plus an angle? Thats typically for only like stretch bolts or something inside an engine. Tired of thinking about cars, I get to do that more tomorrow.

Aaron - I'll see whats up at 5ish tomorrow, either thru you or Clay.

[tonytony]

looks like you cali foos are having more fun than me!!!!! bah

[cahomey]

^ It is metal on metal in the place were refering to. A busing couldn't fit in there.

[golde30]

^ It is metal on metal in the place were refering to. A busing couldn't fit in there.

a think sleeve of delrin could...hey Justin, werent u working with delrin or urethane or something back in the dayz?