College kid M60 E30 (ongoing build)

[MJCRO]

Thanks guys, I'm stoked! Currently in the progress of putting everything back together. I'll make sure to have some sweet pictures up soon.

@poopin04 The lines are from Autozone.

[garagistic]

Glad to hear its alive!

[fanboi]

this was a very good update. congrats!

[poopin04]

Oh damn, IT"S ALIVE!!

Where'd you get your new hard lines from?

[MJCRO]

I'll just leave this here.



Updates coming soon.

[UpstateMike]

Man that is inspiring! I'm going to do a s52 swap and I thought that was going to be tough lol. You have your hands full there!

[MJCRO]

Update: August 7th

The car is inching it's way towards the road. Still need to pick up a few more parts, but I'm pretty much at the point where I can slowly begin to put everything back together and fire her up.

Painted the engine and valve covers and did some required maintenance.



Motor sitting in the rear most position.



All new pre-bent fuel lines I waited over a month for. (Old ones were rusted through in some spots)




Shifter linkage cut to fit E30. (ZF 310Z)



Needed to purchase a manual transmission mount since the car was originally autotragic. (Bolts up perfectly, no modding required)



Mocked up FrankM's exhuast setup I got off of him a while back, no issues whatsoever.

[MJCRO]

So how's this going? Are you driving yet? I'm tempted to follow in your footsteps with the pedal setup once I get back into this swap.

Almost. The motor and transmission are seated in their final positions. I was just held up on updating this thread because of fuel lines that took a while to arrive from Germany. Just finished installing everything back together yesterday. Pictures up soon.

[alco]

So how's this going? Are you driving yet? I'm tempted to follow in your footsteps with the pedal setup once I get back into this swap.

[MJCRO]

Updates coming.

[totheredline]

Love this. B30ftw. should be pretty rev happy.

[Vtec?lol]

It's a good I dea you got the pedals installed before you put the motor in. I recomend flushing the ABS and lines with fresh fluid and then bleeding the FACK out of the pedals. They are a pain in the ass to bleed. Hopefully you remembered to bench bleed first. Be prepared to take them out a few times to make proper adjustments

[JGood]

What you are supposed to do is get the DD shaft where you want it, mark the locations of the holes for the set screws then drill into the DD shaft 1-2mm or so then reassemble. The set screws are only there to keep the shaft in place not necessarily to keep it tight. There is a jam nut to make sure the set screw stays put also. The flaming river stuff is about as nice as you can get. The fit is beyond precise and the price reflects it.

^What he said

I've had the Flaming River joints on my car for 1 year and 8k hard miles, not a single issue so far. I used loctite on the set screws and jam nuts, and drilled a notch for the set screw location as Ryan mentioned.

[dirty30]

Are those set screws? How do you feel about that?

What you are supposed to do is get the DD shaft where you want it, mark the locations of the holes for the set screws then drill into the DD shaft 1-2mm or so then reassemble. The set screws are only there to keep the shaft in place not necessarily to keep it tight. There is a jam nut to make sure the set screw stays put also. The flaming river stuff is about as nice as you can get. The fit is beyond precise and the price reflects it.

[MJCRO]

Update: June 23rd

Mounted my brake fluid reservoirs in their long term spot. The lines can just hang for now until I can check my clearances.

Also, I ordered a bunch of things for the motor tonight. I should be able to start up the engine this upcoming week if everything works out.