Another E30 M30 Swap Thread, this time with an 84 318i

[the imitator]

Popped over to my friends place, had a BBQ/Shrimp boil and got down on some minor car work!

The flywheel is off getting bead blasted and resurfaced, and I'm busy making sure the little parts are in check.


AKG, Condor, Ireland engineering, Garagistic, G-man, Revshift are All making an appearance in this swap.

You didnt need much light to see the awesome cross hatching this motor still holds, its nearly excessive.. ha! Everything looks good!

Small leak from crank sensor mount, and crank seal getting replaced after we get a seal puller.

This will be possibly bead blasted and resprayed.. atleast resprayed, I as hoping for a matching delphin metallic, maybe darker.

[the imitator]

^good beer choice!

I love the piney tasting finish.. Reminds me of the Pacific Northwest.

Too bad I get off work an hour after laurelwood actually closes.. It's called "northwood" now but I live maybe 3 minutes from their battle ground location.

[CorvallisBMW]

^good beer choice!

[the imitator]

Condor has amazing customer service btw, there was a tiny mistake with my order/product.. I'm getting product overnight coming in tomorrow guaranteed by 3pm!

Did get this though, its super cool, I can barely see the bottom half of my beer!!!

[the imitator]

Just grabbed condor diff and rear subframe mounts, akg e30 m3 trans mounts, and also an e36 rack spacer kit.

[the imitator]

Ya, it gets late quicker than you think, before you know it, its nearly morning time.

[marshallnoise]

Ohhhh hahaha. I was wondering how your expectations wwerent even close to reality regarding the flywheel.

You are really moving along man. Awesome progress.

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[the imitator]

I thought that was what it was. Were you expecting something different?

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It was late and I matched them up thinking they were the same diameter, then looked at the clutch pads and went, oh. ha.

I worded it wierd, I should say "like we want".

[marshallnoise]

an 84 m10b18 L jet, its going up for sale i think

I thought that was what it was. Were you expecting something different?

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[the imitator]

an 84 m10b18 L jet, its going up for sale i think

[marshallnoise]

Which m10 did the flywheel come out of?

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[the imitator]

Alright, made pretty much the rest of the car a tin can, only thing left are doors and various non salvageable bits.

So heres pictures of the Z3 2.8 rear subframe next to the e30 rear subframe, looks just ever so slightly different, and she fits like a glove.





2.5'' to a flo pro max muffler. This sounded pretty dang nice when used on the parts car.


Z3 driver shaft on right, swap drive shaft on the left, big difference.. z3 I am nearly positive we be too short even If I am position 3 with a g265, but we may find a combo that works.


Thought I scored with a single mass flywheel from the m10 I pulled out, but its a smaller diameter, not 240 like we want.


The 2 piece rotors were turned, they look killer! Now to rebuild the calipers, which are easy peasy on the c5 brakes.

[Reckless_Havoc]

This makes me super sad. That was my old car. I sold it before I moved to Arizona. A lot of good parts on it. I recovered those seats myself with $900 worth of leather. I built that megasquirt comp, but it was never tested, aside from uploading software and what not. Make sure you vet it out before plugging it in. Glad they'll be going to another car at least.

Would love to hear what caused the accident.

Hey guys, so I am helping out with this project and stealing some parts off the parts car for my M30 swap too. Did some work on it tonight to prep for taking the motor out.

Front suspension and steering rack removed.



GC suspension and BBK off the car.



Also cleaned up the BBS wheels.



This one got curbed and will need some repair.



Rear rotors removed and getting the rear subframe ready to pull out.



Thats all for tonight. Motor and trans will be out before the weekend, more updates soon!

[the imitator]

oh, you're not going 5 lug? just using the subframe? it's identical to the e30 one in that case, the arms are wider.

You got it :) Just an updated part I can use
I'll take pictures later, aside from being newer with only 70K on it, it seems to be more beefy, I'll take pictures just so people can have a reference later, whether it is more integral or not.

[kronus]

oh, you're not going 5 lug? just using the subframe? it's identical to the e30 one in that case, the arms are wider.