The Blue Lagoon - LS1 Content

[GOOBER]

Awesome build.

[Blip Bavarian]

Got the car started on Saturday

[iwantspeed]

the brakes look beefy

[Blip Bavarian]

Brakes

Here are the caliper brackets for the fronts

332mm rotor and hat bolted up

Part of the dust shield was rubbing the rotor, so i had to hack part of it off.







the caliper is pretty close to the wheel, so i added 3mm spacers on all 4 corners








Rears. 300mm - I had to grind down the mounting ears on the trailing arms to get the calipers to line up.

[Fair!]

Nice build. Subscribed.

Bob E... where is your E30 LS1 build thread??? :D

[Blip Bavarian]

what are you going to do for the tip of your exhaust?

Probably just a short 3" section of pipe rattle canned flat black, maybe with a bit of a turndown.

Leaving it off for now, cause it allows me to easily unclip the v band and hinge the exhaust down to gain access to the half shaft.

[distorto]

what are you going to do for the tip of your exhaust?

[Blip Bavarian]

swapped out my fuel pump last night for an ebay "walbro" 255 lph.









also, here is another shot of my exhaust.

[Iain]

Also try using a handle from a trolley jack (the 2m type) as a very long type of punch. You'll need a decent swing with a short-handled sledgehammer, though. Be fucking careful.

Car looks amazing, too. I love that colour and wheels!

[rwh11385]

subscribed. new found love for v8s and ls1s after finally having a v8

would heavily weigh v8 swap in 3 series versus turbo long term fun project. can't wait for vids

[freeski27]

^ Using a press can be kinda difficult with them still on the trailing arms.

however, you can get them out no problem with an air hammer.

[Turd]

I am having a hell of a time tring to get the half shafts out of the hubs. I have been banging the shit out of them. I heated up the hubs, and tried again, and still nothing. You guys have any ideas?

Bring it to a shop with a hydraulic press.

I've just endured the same woes of a stubborn halfshalf in hub. We tried everything you did, and put shortly - some are just fucking stubborn!

Edit: Awesome build BTW! :thumbs up:

[Blip Bavarian]

So, we made some progress this weekend. Finished up the exhaust








welded








Brought the car home to try and get a couple things done during the week.


I am having a hell of a time tring to get the half shafts out of the hubs. I have been banging the shit out of them. I heated up the hubs, and tried again, and still nothing. You guys have any ideas?

[87e30]

Nice build. Look forward to seeing a video of the thing.

[Blip Bavarian]

Well alot has changed in the past couple of weeks. My friend Nick who is doing most of the work on the car, has split up with his partner at MCS. They have closed down the shop, and have been busy moving out. Needless to say not much progress has been made on my car.

This weekend, we moved the car to Nick's dad's shop, where the car will be completed. His shop is badass. Its out in the country, and he has every tool you can imagine.

Here is the shop.




view from out front of the shop


This saturday, we welded in some slotted dungeon motorsport trailing arm brackets, and swapped in new bushings. Now I should have plenty of rear camber and toe adjustment to play with!

Rather than cut most of the existing bracket off, we just opened the old bracket up so that we could weld the slider to the outsite. I think this will make for a sturdier setup.








notched the subframe bushing a bit to clear the bolt


rear end ready to go back in - Im in desperate need of some half shafts. PM me if you have some for sale.


Also, I have gotten some new parts in. :pimp:

Mishimoto 3.5" dual pass radiator.




Most of the parts of my brake setup from Lee Vuong at Massive.
(Im still missing front hats, hardware, and brackets)











We still have the wiring to work out, but for now we are gonna work on some of the fun stuff (exhaust and brakes)

-Matt