The v8 conversion progress

[drifty340i]

Its the dirtiest its ever been!!!!!!! riding on steeleys (ACS alloys almost finished :)) , it pains me to see it this ugly and dirty but......its got a new school v8 (that i havint had time to clean the dust off yet) in it so im happy. Also heres a quick pic of the 1000hp rb26 bens building up

[PeaveyBassist]

What engine is that? And what did it come out of?

Will

[c0rnfl4k3]

Nice. Would love to do that with the 4.4 out of the X5.

[Van Westervelt]

Very nice! It pains me to see your car like that! Soon, very soon. Why is it that all these blocks look like they were meant to be in our engine bays? Esp v8's!

[WillisE30]

What engine is that? And what did it come out of?

Will

It's a 4.0 V8 out of an LS400.

[drifty340i]

What engine is that? And what did it come out of?

Will

Its a 1uzfe out of a 1997 lexus ls400

[drifty340i]

Nice. Would love to do that with the 4.4 out of the X5.

I would of used one of those, but they are soooooo expensive and dam hard to tune compared to theses

[drifty340i]

Very nice! It pains me to see your car like that! Soon, very soon. Why is it that all these blocks look like they were meant to be in our engine bays? Esp v8's!

Oh it will be back up and beyound what iit looked like before! ive got some ACS goodies comming, not just the mags hehe

[JasonC]

How do you have it mounted in there? I'm going to have solid mounts coming off of the frame when i do mine.

[drifty340i]

How do you have it mounted in there? I'm going to have solid mounts coming off of the frame when i do mine.

Its mounted using the factory bmw mounting points with adaptors made to suit.I do no advise using solid mounts! it will be very hard on the engine and the chassis

[Firestorm]

about bloody time! :)

is heaps more room for turbo's with a ls1 in the engine bay ;)

[JasonC]

Its mounted using the factory bmw mounting points with adaptors made to suit.I do no advise using solid mounts! it will be very hard on the engine and the chassis

It's not going to be that hard on the motor or chassis, i'm only going to put a little TPI 305 in it, or 5.0 for you metric guy's. I've had cars with solid mounts in them before. The transmission mount will be rubber cause there does have to be flex in the drive line somewhere.

[drifty340i]

about bloody time! :)

is heaps more room for turbo's with a ls1 in the engine bay ;)

Well there is room but.....i like quad cams and revs lol

[drifty340i]

It's not going to be that hard on the motor or chassis, i'm only going to put a little TPI 305 in it, or 5.0 for you metric guy's. I've had cars with solid mounts in them before. The transmission mount will be rubber cause there does have to be flex in the drive line somewhere.

O sweet, that will still go well! are you making a custom drive shaft?

[JasonC]

O sweet, that will still go well! are you making a custom drive shaft?

yes for the custom drive shaft. My dad will do that, he's did some on some of my other cars and there was no vibration so i have faith in him to do this one right.