M30 swap for my Olive Drab Vert!

[RagtopE30]

I don't know how you knew that I had a plan and algorithm! I guess great minds think alike. So here it goes. I am confident that you will find my design to be infallible.

[jeffnhiscars]

Jeff, I thought about building a stand or a rack to hang the parts from and paint them. But then after looking over all the blueprints and plans for the above items I realized that I didn't have enough motivation to follow through with the very simplistic task of assembling. So I opted for this method. I can send you a copy of my plans for making this apparatus. Oh hell, I will just put them out there for everyone!

First, find a pitch fork ( what I used) or a spade shovel or a sharpened stick with substantial girth.

Second, stick it into the ground. I found that a pitch fork and shovel have an extra feature with which you can apply your body weight for better ground penetration.

Third, using the oil fill hole slide the valve cover over the handle of your chosen tool.

Fourth, let gravity do its job and let go of the cover. Through black magic it will stay where you leave it.

Holy Crap! I just blew somebody's mind!

Oh and I painted my parts with VHT high temp paint and I clear coated the valve cover to protect the exposed metal.

I appreciate the description but Im just not getting the principals of physics at play here. Can you send me the pdf of your technical drawings along with the algorithm for how you calculated the stress points ?

[RagtopE30]

here you go

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=219599

[Kozworth]

Glad your keeping the car sohc!!

Pics of the drab vert besides your sig?

[RagtopE30]

Building an engine from parts acquired from different sources can be very frustrating! How is it I over looked ordering the block to head alignment dowels?! And I can not find the rear oil pan bolts or the crank nut! WTF!

Anyways we did get something done today!

[RagtopE30]

Oh and CR is 8.6:1

[RagtopE30]

Got a couple of hours in tonight working on the engine. Pistons and connecting rods are assembled. The rods were all weighed and the machinist worked his magic to get them all within .5 grams of one another! Another item, after talking to the crankshaft shop and the machinist we decided against knife edging only because there is not a significant amount of windage due to the small overall diameter of the crank, comparatively speaking. So the crank was machined and balanced. Now it has been reunited with the block. Tomorrow night the engine will actually look like an engine again!!!

[RagtopE30]

Jeff, I thought about building a stand or a rack to hang the parts from and paint them. But then after looking over all the blueprints and plans for the above items I realized that I didn't have enough motivation to follow through with the very simplistic task of assembling. So I opted for this method. I can send you a copy of my plans for making this apparatus. Oh hell, I will just put them out there for everyone!

First, find a pitch fork ( what I used) or a spade shovel or a sharpened stick with substantial girth.

Second, stick it into the ground. I found that a pitch fork and shovel have an extra feature with which you can apply your body weight for better ground penetration.

Third, using the oil fill hole slide the valve cover over the handle of your chosen tool.

Fourth, let gravity do its job and let go of the cover. Through black magic it will stay where you leave it.

Holy Crap! I just blew somebody's mind!

Oh and I painted my parts with VHT high temp paint and I clear coated the valve cover to protect the exposed metal.

[jeffnhiscars]

That valve cover turned out great. I especially like the broom stick stand

[RagtopE30]

So final assembly of the long block is happening tomorrow. I will post pics late tomorrow night I promise!!!

Until then I have a couple of pics of my "boredom" work

[RagtopE30]

^Sorry to hear that man. I have had a very good experience with them so far. I already knew I wanted to use their product and when I was at BimmerFest east this year I spoke with the rep at their booth. He was very knowledgeable on BMW setups and aftermarket flywheels. When I ended up ordering my clutch kit from the online retailer he called me to let me know that he was pretty sure they messed up my order based on our conversation (I did call and leave a message with him confirming the part number before I ordered and thats how he got my number) and he corrected the mistake and made sure I got the right clutch kit. I test fitted the PP to the AASCO flywheel this afternoon and it is perfect. I hope the performance of the clutch is as good as they claim!

[decay]

I am a Army Drill Sergeant and I have been in Ft. Jackson SC doing what I do!

i remember seeing your car here before, didn't know you were a DS- former 12B here. cape a pvt for me tomorrow. :D

i have a spec stg3 in my car as well; experience with it was not so good- the dowel holes in the housing were too small, and they insisted the only way to fix it was to send them my brand-new single-mass M42 flywheel so they could machine down the pins to fit their wrong housing. i was in a rush to get the car ready for bimmerfest so i went with that, probably against my better judgment, because now i'm stuck with their clutch if i want to keep this (expensive) flywheel. hopefully your experience is better.

[UpstateMike]

Like the car, looks sharp and the motor is sick!

[e30m3s54turbo]

I'm glad your back on it.

[RagtopE30]

Ok thanks! I should be putting it on this week. I will shoot you a pm with my phone number.