E30-LS1: Pics, Short Vid and Buildup CD info!

[mitch500]

Especially with 350+ lbft of torq!! ;)

make sure you can handle it... i looked at some of your videos on youtube... the ls1 slight misshap vid.... looked kinda scary man you almost totalled the car on a public road..

[garretvs]

Hee, hee, tell Santa you want the CD: nothing like a project car!

[Iain]

I got my CD the other day and it is fucking awesome.

Well worth the asking price, guys!

Cheers!

[Firestorm]

plus Firestorm in Western Australia is building a pretty crazy dry sumped LSx E30. He hasn't updated his thread in a while... (hint fucking hint Chris :p )

Cant rush these things.... It's only been 2 years.

[garretvs]

I got my CD the other day and it is fucking awesome.

Well worth the asking price, guys!

Cheers!

Thanks for the feedback! Nothing like 194 pages of fun! :D

[Iain]

Cant rush these things.... It's only been 2 years.

It sucks being a Pork Hunt, eh?

[garretvs]

Its Black Friday -- tell 'em to get you one of these!!

[eur04lif3]

Stress Calculation

Awesome build... it amazing to see how you use your engineering knowledge in building this amazing machine...props from a fellow M.E.

Tony

[garretvs]

Too bad we didn't know about the E30 gathering at the XXX RootBeer place in October!

[garretvs]

The E30-LS1 was featured in the Monday 12-07-09 "Piston Slap" column:

https://www.TheTruthAboutCars.com

Nice props, but it was amazing how the comments went off into the weeds!

[whiltebeitel]

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/e30-ls1-win/#more-338311

Direct link.

[z31maniac]

Looks like I'll be buying myself a secret Christmas present. I'm glad to see you guys documented all the work/fab/drawings.

Should help make this a popular swap.

[garretvs]

bump

[Skafrog]

Sweet.
I love the bump of a project thread without any new information.

If you want to sell your CD, put it in the retail forum.

[Iain]

I printed out your entire document (yeouch) and took it, in a folder, to a signatory* who has pretty much given the green light to everything I wanted to do (including gut interior, cut spare tyre well off, Nissan R200 diff conversion, move fuse box, 5-lug, bigger brakes from an HSV Clubsport, half-cage, welded-in rear suspension/diff/tower brace, fuel surge tank, etc) and said it was the most comprehensive document he's ever seen and the best.

The CD is definitely worth the money if you have to go through the crap we do to get halfway interesting cars on the road.

*In Australia, if we want something like a 5-lugged, LSx-powered E30 to be registered on the road, we have to get all the plans signed off by an accredited engineer and then signed off when the project is complete. When we then go to register it for road use, it makes it easier to get through - though I might still need to do a tailpipe emissions test, ride height test, etc.