Hello everybody!
The setup:
Engine: m54b30 (e39)
Engine mouts: e28 535i
Trans: 330ci 5 speed, or 320z
Trans mounts: E21 mount with custom aluminium cups
Clutch and flywheel: M20 lightened flywheel with custom pressure plate
Cardan shaft: e36 328i
Differential: e36 323ti compact
Suspension: VMaxx coilovers
Brakes: 325i disc brakes all around with a Renault Clio brake booster
Steering: e46 steering
A quick introduction:
My name is Max, I'm a Dutch student (in Mechanical engineering) and just about a 1.5 years ago I decided that I needed to buy an E30.
(skip the first couple of pictures if you just want to see the swap)
This is (going to be) a budget build so keep that in mind. Not everything will be done the proper way, but it will be done to the best of my abillilties.
I bought an automatic e39 530i and began to buy all the nessecary parts
Like the stupidly expensive oil pa(i)n:
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e46 steering from the local junkyard (for quicker steering)
Out with the old:
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In with the new(ish):
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While I was doing all this work might as well make it steer decently:
rear subframe plates to adjust camber and toe:
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Welded the plates into the subframe, also added some reïnforcement plates to both the rear and front subframe:
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And ofcourse, a smitch of paint (smitch? sounds weird, probably the wrong word)
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And some more paint...
It's an E36 323ti compact differential (Does anybody know if you have to use the e30 or the original flanches??)
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And with everything installed the rest of the car looks like shit..
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More paint stuff:
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all assembled:
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A Cio brake booster (painted in wrinkle black :) notice a theme?)
needed to fit a spacer in the master cilinder and had to relocate the part that connects to the brake pedal rod:
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And then... it was time:
Out with the old, in with the new:
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Okay, first it needed a little cleaning before the "new" was allowed in the engine bay:
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Probably wasn't this clean in quite a while:
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And there it is, looks way better then the old m20 did:
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Still have lots of updates I'ill post later on..
The setup:
Engine: m54b30 (e39)
Engine mouts: e28 535i
Trans: 330ci 5 speed, or 320z
Trans mounts: E21 mount with custom aluminium cups
Clutch and flywheel: M20 lightened flywheel with custom pressure plate
Cardan shaft: e36 328i
Differential: e36 323ti compact
Suspension: VMaxx coilovers
Brakes: 325i disc brakes all around with a Renault Clio brake booster
Steering: e46 steering
A quick introduction:
My name is Max, I'm a Dutch student (in Mechanical engineering) and just about a 1.5 years ago I decided that I needed to buy an E30.
(skip the first couple of pictures if you just want to see the swap)
This is (going to be) a budget build so keep that in mind. Not everything will be done the proper way, but it will be done to the best of my abillilties.
I bought an automatic e39 530i and began to buy all the nessecary parts
Like the stupidly expensive oil pa(i)n:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1914/43780439180_ba905f1d29_b.jpg)
e46 steering from the local junkyard (for quicker steering)
Out with the old:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1942/43780430150_b35b7ef23b_b.jpg)
In with the new(ish):
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1905/45598107771_bdeb77b241_b.jpg)
While I was doing all this work might as well make it steer decently:
rear subframe plates to adjust camber and toe:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1959/45547799902_7dc35dd7bf_b.jpg)
Welded the plates into the subframe, also added some reïnforcement plates to both the rear and front subframe:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1968/45547799272_620a43fd1e_b.jpg)
And ofcourse, a smitch of paint (smitch? sounds weird, probably the wrong word)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1951/45547795442_f9140a97d4_b.jpg)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1952/44873266834_05c5b00015_b.jpg)
And some more paint...
It's an E36 323ti compact differential (Does anybody know if you have to use the e30 or the original flanches??)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1956/45547801672_268a8609fd_b.jpg)
And with everything installed the rest of the car looks like shit..
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1937/44873264324_f04097c83f_b.jpg)
More paint stuff:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1950/43780427040_cedd476a7b_b.jpg)
all assembled:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1920/44873271254_108a086040_b.jpg)
A Cio brake booster (painted in wrinkle black :) notice a theme?)
needed to fit a spacer in the master cilinder and had to relocate the part that connects to the brake pedal rod:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1934/43780437170_b61fe12d7d_b.jpg)
And then... it was time:
Out with the old, in with the new:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1953/45598104621_f6dd14eae2_b.jpg)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1934/31725813558_6f4bfc6887_b.jpg)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1913/43780434280_b7000745db_b.jpg)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1973/45547803262_9461c44b3c_b.jpg)
Okay, first it needed a little cleaning before the "new" was allowed in the engine bay:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1921/44873277044_a8918d1658_b.jpg)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1977/44873242964_2352ccd4b9_b.jpg)
Probably wasn't this clean in quite a while:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/45547798532_5bbd6b8022_b.jpg)
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1919/45547798022_8824ee917d_b.jpg)
And there it is, looks way better then the old m20 did:
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1960/45547794682_12660c363b_b.jpg)
Still have lots of updates I'ill post later on..
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