e30guydownunder: Project M42, probs definitely got more power than your S50

[Reap3r]

I'm in burkey. I was nearly aiming for the Fiat nationals at winton in January....as you can see I gave up on that quite sometime ago.

I know what your saying Ben, I've got no idea will happen if it all goes to shit again but I'm pretty sure everyone on the east coast of Aus will know about it! I'm running outta steam very quickly....coming up on being playing this game for 12 months! Imagine the grumpy M42 I'd have if the time and money had gone that way. The lessons we learn.

Just pulled the old oil cooler and lines.....metal sards everywhere. I can't be bothered. The braid was half buggered when I installed the lines and it spiked me a few times. Just going to buy new shit.

Tuner is going on Holidays March 12 so I am pushing to be on the dyno before then. He is keen to do an E85 tune so I might chase down the 300 mark if things are going well :)

Sounds like you'll get somewhere earlier than I will. Even though mine doesn't have much to go still a lot of small fiddley stuff to do. Then there's the wait for my ECU which had a fault in the board and still waiting for the Diagnostic to get back and issue sorted. Depending how mine goes with the M42 over the next year will determine whether or not it gets changed over to a m60 at time of respray or not. If it does I'll need to acquire myself a half chassis like yours to set it all up in :P

With any luck mine will be running sometime in march I hope. Still got no idea of power figures yet, Really just looking for it to run and be reliable.

[e30guydownunder]

I'm in burkey. I was nearly aiming for the Fiat nationals at winton in January....as you can see I gave up on that quite sometime ago.

I know what your saying Ben, I've got no idea will happen if it all goes to shit again but I'm pretty sure everyone on the east coast of Aus will know about it! I'm running outta steam very quickly....coming up on being playing this game for 12 months! Imagine the grumpy M42 I'd have if the time and money had gone that way. The lessons we learn.

Just pulled the old oil cooler and lines.....metal sards everywhere. I can't be bothered. The braid was half buggered when I installed the lines and it spiked me a few times. Just going to buy new shit.

Tuner is going on Holidays March 12 so I am pushing to be on the dyno before then. He is keen to do an E85 tune so I might chase down the 300 mark if things are going well :)

[burkey001]

when everyone has running motors again we should have a day 'half way'... Winton anyone??

[Reap3r]

Got sick of looking at it

I feel like this every time I work on my E30. I can pretty safely say I most likely wont endure another turbo build after this one is complete. My car is starting to become like yours and fight me every step of the way. ETA on when yours will be running again?

[e30guydownunder]

Got sick of looking at it

[e30guydownunder]

7k for my built SR and everything you need to put it in your E30. All you'd need to do is wire up an ECU. You could just get an S13 loom and ecu if you want or full standalone....in fact I have most of the flying loom done!

I'm serious if your serious. Yer really.

Bolt it in, wire it up, tune and run it in.

A standard engine will work fine (as long as it's a good one). A built engine will work fine (as long as you don't want too much out of it). But I'm just over the whole thing at the moment. All I want to do is drive the thing around a track.

[Ant_e30]

hm you bother me saying these things. i am close to pulling the trigger on an SR20 conversion into mine, in place of M40 Auto :P

looking at stock blacktop, will just do FMIC, EBC, exhaust and intake when installing it for a touch more power.

mine is a DD though so it best not pop straight away :(

[Massimo]

Looks Sweet. Well good that you confirmed that the M42 was the better engine. I was considering just doing a SR swap instead of rebuilt turbo M42.

[e30guydownunder]

Alright I am slowly piecing this thing together bit by bit. It's been a long fight, but I'm hanging in there.

Long Block all but nipped up:



Spent Asutralia day throwing together a new turbo oil feed, oil drain (not shown) and doing some work on the coolant lines:



And we also started hanging wires on it for the new ECU:

[e30guydownunder]

So in all the twisted conversation you people following at home may not have picked up that I took it to Wakey back in December and broke it....#2 and #3 spun, most mains damaged etc etc.

Alright so:

Replacement Crank (from first engine) ground 0.25mm (10 thou)
Manely Rods and ARP2000 Bolts
CP 87mm 8.5:1 Pistons
GTiR Oil Pump
S15 Timing Chain Kit
BC Racing Adjustable Cam Gears
ARP Head Studs
Cosworth 1.1mm Headgasket
Block Decked
Head Decked, serviced
fitting the HKS 264 / 272 cams (In / Ex)
HKS Valve Springs
Tomei Rocker Arm Stoppers
ARP Main studs
changing turbo to TD06SL2 with 8cm External Gate Housing
Cermaic Coating a bunch of shit
Changing injectors to Top Feed rail and ID1000s, will also fit my SARD Fuel Reg.

Then full rewire of engine stuff for the DTA S60 Pro Ecu, 3 quart Accusump and Electric Water Pump. Turns out the surging, cutting out, randomness I'd been getting was faulty TPS wiring! So going all new where I can and pissing off as much Nissan shit as possible.

Having gone this far into the SR20 now I am quite unhappy with the decisdion to change away from the BMW engine, but such is life. Not alot I can do now that I've bought all the engine pieces. I am calling this the final engine. After this, if it blows....I'm not really sure where I will go. Probably burn the thing as Glenn has suggested.

now some pics. Everyone loves pics!

Small Fortune:


Ready to tackle this thing head on:


ARP Mainstuds. The latest bout of trouble. Block needs to head back to machinist for Line Boring....SR20 block distorts too much with the extra clamping and the crank locks up :/


If only this was final assembly. Dummy assembly. Cams timed up and checking valve clearences. Also Bolted on the existing turbo and dump to mount the front pipe to the block.


Ready to fit the new turbo and begin dump pipe construction.

[e30guydownunder]

fark aye. Thats shit mate. Ported a bit too wildly? give 'er the chemiweld!

[DTM190]

Looks like head, major enough? Cant win whether its BMW or bastardise.

Nice, will be fun when yours is sorted, going to be stupid fast on the track

[e30guydownunder]

what are you talking about? I can remember the fb status about stormy doing something didn't think it was heaps major though.

Could be worse mate......$3100 and look like I will have a bottom end that is NEW and built right. along with the necessary pieces to screw the head on tight and with the big cams :)

[DTM190]

I made 4 days before disaster struck. Burn em, i swear.

[e30guydownunder]

farking aye bruvha

pricing up bottom end pieces, gonna do it once do it right (3rd time round)