Things left to do for the e30...Zen/Mason.

[DCColegrove]

One of the guys here just brought something up, I looked on your website but didn't see it. But do you still offer or would you again offer intakes like the ones on Tim Taka's car?

Which induction system are we talking about?

But the answer is yes I can still make them...

But not at a price anyone likes.

[Need4Speed]

One of the guys here just brought something up, I looked on your website but didn't see it. But do you still offer or would you again offer intakes like the ones on Tim Taka's car?

[DCColegrove]

I know its really not youre bag, but ive always wanted a vendor to make startec knock offs. tinting oem just doesnt look the same

True... Not my thing... If I didn't need lights to be legal, I'd throw them away to save weight ;)

So...

Dead Pedal.

Skid plate.

Gated Oil Pan Baffles e34 M50 XX oil pan and M20 oil pan?

I want to get some stock "bar" plastic, run it through a table router/plainer to shape it lengthwise and build some decent door moldings - instead of this crap OEM stuff that sticks out too far, and is not tall enough.

By the way... If anyone made a nice set... I would be in for these. (just not my specialty)

[Stephen]

I know its really not youre bag, but ive always wanted a vendor to make startec knock offs. tinting oem just doesnt look the same

[DCColegrove]

hence my suggestion lol.

Okay... Noted.

M20 gated oil pan baffle.... Right side of pan.

Any one else see a need or have input on this one?

[kishg]

Hard lefts?

Hmmm.

That could be solved with a gated baffle

(just because I never had the problem doesn't mean it's not there)

hence my suggestion lol.

[Ray Smoodiver]

To M50 he means.

[kishg]

+1. it's a concern. (although it'd be a good reason to upgrade like charlie when the M20 breaks)

upgrade?

[Ray Smoodiver]

From what I've found, the M/S5X swaps use the E34 M50 pump and pan...which work alright for the US motors but are a big compromise for the S50 Euro and S54...which have the semi-dry sump dual oil pickup arrangement. Granted, I haven't done a swap yet, or flogged one around a track, but it would seem to me that relocating the oil pump/pickup could cause oil starvation, and especially for the Euro motors.

I would be all over a swap baffle/euro-S50-ish setup....once I get to the swap part of the project.

Of the 'real' S50 swaps I've seem, the majority of them have seen hard track time with little to no worries, Ian Haynes especially comes to mind, he was probably one of the first people in the world to do the swap nearly 8 years ago, and his car is still running strong after many trips to the nurburgring and bombing down runways etc etc.

[DCColegrove]

More pretty looking light weight M42 parts.

Not enough of a M42 performance market really... most of the stuff in my last two were leftovers under the bench from a past decade.

All of the stuff we (not Mason and I, but Marx and I) used for M42 ITBs, Alloy Rods...Etc... is now 100% NLA.

Just not enough of us truly psychotic sickos left...

most of us tracking the m20s see OP drops in hard left handers. and for this purpose the crank scraper will definitely help. yes, i know it also reduces inertia on the crank but if you look at the one from ishihara johnson it has an added blade that shunts the oil to the side of the pan.

Yes a scraper will throw the oil down to the pan...

No haven't seen the one you are talking about.

Hard lefts?

Hmmm.

That could be solved with a gated baffle.

(just because I never had the problem doesn't mean it's not there)

[rwh11385]

most of us tracking the m20s see OP drops in hard left handers. and for this purpose the crank scraper will definitely help. yes, i know it also reduces inertia on the crank but if you look at the one from ishihara johnson it has an added blade that shunts the oil to the side of the pan.

+1. it's a concern. (although it'd be a good reason to upgrade like charlie when the M20 breaks)

[kishg]

Well not really... A crank scraper is for kind of a different purpose.

I don't know if anyone else has, but so far I have never had oil starvation problems with the m20s (not like we did with the S14 for sure... Ker-Pow in the curves).

most of us tracking the m20s see OP drops in hard left handers. and for this purpose the crank scraper will definitely help. yes, i know it also reduces inertia on the crank but if you look at the one from ishihara johnson it has an added blade that shunts the oil to the side of the pan.

[SamE30e]

More pretty looking light weight M42 parts.

[atomic]

How about a Zen/DCColegrove piñata? Some will surely buy and enjoy that....















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I would be game for a M/S5x oil pan baffle

How about a cheaper solution to a oil cooler setup for the M/S5x e30 swap guys?

[DCColegrove]

how about baffled pans for m20? cheaper alternative to a crank scraper.

Well not really... A crank scraper is for kind of a different purpose.

I don't know if anyone else has, but so far I have never had oil starvation problems with the m20s (not like we did with the S14 for sure... Ker-Pow in the curves).