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:
20180602_163343 e46 steering from the local junkyard (for quicker steering)
Out with the old:
20180908_140321 In with the new(ish):
20180829_152626 While I was doing all this work might as well make it steer decently:
rear subframe plates to adjust camber and toe:
20180911_083800 Welded the plates into the subframe, also added some reïnforcement plates to both the rear and front subframe:
20180916_141558 And ofcourse, a smitch of paint (smitch? sounds weird, probably the wrong word)
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20181001_112656 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??)
20180904_170239 And with everything installed the rest of the car looks like shit..
20181002_072712 More paint stuff:
20180924_140916 all assembled:
20180928_144101 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:
20180829_172250 And then... it was time:
Out with the old, in with the new:
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20180831_150212 Okay, first it needed a little cleaning before the "new" was allowed in the engine bay:
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20180923_170657 Probably wasn't this clean in quite a while:
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20180923_170708 And there it is, looks way better then the old m20 did:
20181002_072234 Still have lots of updates I'ill post later on..