my new nurburgring whip

[Charley]

Very nice build! Where did you get the door cards? Did you do
it yourself? I want to do something similar in my car.

Also is it me or you have two different brake bias valves in that pic?
(the blue knob where the hvac used to be and one under the ebrake)



Charley

[Eric]

So this damn car better give me the best vehicular fellatio I've ever had. I'm talking toe cramping, back spasm good.

Today we spent a good 3 hours and 1.5L of brake fluid bleeding the clutch, only to find out via realoem and my iPhone that we are using the wrong slave cylinder :mad. The dickheads that sold me the motor removed all the necessary things I need to actually get the car running, while still selling a "complete swap."

I guess when you say "I want everything I need to put this motor in my E30. Engine, tranny, exhaust, wiring harness, and ECU's" That really means in guys head "he didn't say power steering pump, alternator, AC pump, starter, clutch slave, guilbo, shift linkage, EWS wiring loom, reverse lights switch, or belts."

So i've had to source all these parts from other places. the alternator is from a 92 525, the slave cylinder was from an E36 325, the starter I had (read post above) and was incorrect was from the same E34 as the alternator.

tonight we found out that the E34 520 and 525 as well as just about every car E46 and newer share the same slave cylinder as the euro E36 M3 (PN: 21526775924) . Off to the junk yard a lunch tomorrow to get my uniform dirty:mad It doesn't help that my wife is going to Spain tomorrow morning for a month of work, and I ditched her tonight to "get the car rolling" when all in reality, all I did was futz around with a 7mm wrench and swear a lot. Cut a few knuckles too.

We also found my pull knob light switch smoking from the resistor in the rear... hmmm.

Here are some pictures from today, the poor thing is soo greasy, but i doubt I'll wash it. This dirty girl is going on the ring the day it gets registered. I'll worry about washing it when it snow's.







I'm not sure I like the BMWCCA badge, but I want to give the ring officials that little extra hint that this isn't a European spec car and please stop F*&KING with me!:nono

So what is left to get the car rolling?
-order correct clutch
-buy another 5L of ATE superblue (extra for my luck recently)
-find out why the light switch likes spontaneously combustion as a practical joke
-figure out why the master cylinder for the front calipers is leaking. it looks like it's from the plastic adapter that replaces the reservoir when remote mounting the reservoirs. hose to plastic connection is tight and dry, plastic connection to master is tight and wet...
-put the interior back together
-figure out why the dash light stay on. I'm thinking my AKG wire harness adapter might be screwing something up. The starter relay does not get the 12v signal to pull down the relay, and the dash lights continuously stay lit, something they did not do before this swap started.


/rant:help

[8380 Labs]

those motors are serious.

PM sent, eric.

[dkbmxer002]

s&m sticker ftw.

[Smoove1]

Hey Eric, I'm glad all your plans for it have finally come together. That motor sounds great. I can't wait to see more pics of it on the Ring.

[alexw]

Video is private.

[Eric]

The Triumph/BL sign in the background is awesome.

Yes, my friend doing the majority of the motor swap is a huge british car nut. in that garage are MKV and MKII, an austin mini his wife drives in the summer, and his TR6 track car. His TR6 race car and a bunch of other cool british cars are in his barn a few miles away!


Here is a video of the motor starting for the first time!

http://www.youtube.com/user/wmwnwmn#p/a/u/0/2DlFUm6DlZE

[gofredo50]

The Triumph/BL sign in the background is awesome.

[M-technik-3]

VSR center section minus cats?

[Kershaw]

very nice.

[willsol]

Ok When I get to Germany you and I are going to need to hang out.

First round will be on me...

nice car

[Eric]

Today a correct starter for a M3 came in and we compared it with the M50 starter I pulled from a E34, and you can clearly see the differences. unfortunately lens on my point and shoot is dying a slow death, and wouldn't become erect so i could take a comparo shot. The M3 starter wheel sits further back than the M50 wheel, and when the solenoid engages, it doesn't shoot forward as far.

Here is some pictures of the damaged the wrong starter caused on my pretty flywheel :(






And here are some other pictures I took today. We only had a solid 3 hours to work on the car, but in that time we re-installed the transmission, starter, driveshaft, and bled the brakes. We started on the clutch but ran out of time. Sure all this crap fits, but damn it sucks for space if you try to do anything!













Up next is finish bleeding the clutch, attend to that beehive of wires under the dash:( add a switch for the electric fan, and for the main relay. Find out why the starter relay doesn't work and then get it registered!

[Dude]

Do i spy an S&M sticker?

[E-Thirty]

[325ix]

What flares do you have on there now? They look like the eurostop ones.