M30 swap for my Olive Drab Vert!

[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

[jeffnhiscars]

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

[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.

[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]

Oh and CR is 8.6:1

[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!

[Kozworth]

Glad your keeping the car sohc!!

Pics of the drab vert besides your sig?

[RagtopE30]

here you go

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

[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]

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.

[SmokeE30]

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.

Mind blown

[jeffnhiscars]

A brilliant and epic design that gets my vote for best post ever

[Swanny]

Damn Matt! Everything looks damn amazing. Glad to see another drab e30. Thread delivers.

[LJ851]

I approve of this build.

[RagtopE30]

So pretty



Head gasket



Head!!