My M60 318is.

[dmoney(AB)]

Car looks awesome!

I have the same wilwood setup in my car
Just waiting on a few pieces to plumb it up
I bought the bracket off of a guy that builds them for spec cars tho
Looks identical to yours!

[accident]

Hot.

[dirty30]

Was planning on having a video of it running down my street last night but I was having problems getting the clutch to disengage. I am going to increase my master cylinder from 5/8 to 7/8 and see what happens. In the meantime heres a boring picture of the engine bay.

[dirty30]

Looks great man! Have you been able to move it around yet? I like how we all have the same engine swapped in, but all of our engine bays look different!

Garey

Not yet, I was hoping to recieve my Vbands in the mail before the weekend so I could bolt the manifolds on for good and rip it up and down the street a few times but they took forever to get here. I'll be on a much needed vacation starting Friday so there won't be much going on in the build thread for about a week and a half.

Our engine bays are drastically different for sure. I am contemplating what to do about the wires torward the rear, mainly the main 12v from the B+ junction to the fuse box. It looks messy and doesn't route very nicely around my reservoirs. I dunno. Make it up as I go along I guess!

Small list of things left:

Weld in O2 bungs
Weld Vbands to bank 1 and 2
Bleed clutch/ brake hydraulics

Trailer to exhaust guy...
Trailer to my brother for an alignment...

DRIVE IT HOME... DONE!

[bmwmech1]

Looks great man! Have you been able to move it around yet? I like how we all have the same engine swapped in, but all of our engine bays look different!

Garey

[dirty30]

Finished grinding/ sanding and plasti-dipping my blower motor cover.



Everything in the bay is almost done. A few trivial things left to do like mounting the diag port, and routing the O2 sensor harness but is getting close!

[bmwmech1]

I had to resist my primal urges to bounce it off the rev limiter a few times. I just had the manifolds in place with a few nuts so there is a lot of extra noise but other than that it was great. I was ecstatic to say the least. Thanks for all the help Garey! Now I really need to get my brakes done!

My pleasure... half of the great stuff that's happened to me while I've built mine is to meet and lend a helping hand to other guys who I've met along the way... Kudos man, it's not an easy thing to accomplish a swap and get it running...

Garey

[dirty30]

Wow, you look like a new daddy, lol! Congrats man... I was just as goofy when I started mine, but I was the one shooting the video, so you couldn't see my face, lol! Awesome my friend!!!

Garey

I had to resist my primal urges to bounce it off the rev limiter a few times. I just had the manifolds in place with a few nuts so there is a lot of extra noise but other than that it was great. I was ecstatic to say the least. Thanks for all the help Garey! Now I really need to get my brakes done!

[bmwmech1]

Wow, you look like a new daddy, lol! Congrats man... I was just as goofy when I started mine, but I was the one shooting the video, so you couldn't see my face, lol! Awesome my friend!!!

Garey

[dirty30]

It runs! Please excuse my goobery face I'm making the whole time.

[dirty30]

great build, the car will definitely be a joy to drive! i'm impressed with your fab work.

Thanks!

I can't wait to drive my E30 again, two long years!!

[evandael]

great build, the car will definitely be a joy to drive! i'm impressed with your fab work.

[dirty30]

Finished the manifolds



Then finally figured out a way to set up the drive belt without the power steering pump. I used two tensioner pulleys instead of the factory large idler and small tensioner pulley and got a 7pk 1388 belt. The tensioner still operates normally.

[dirty30]

Wired the oil pressure sender



Steering joints



I installed the battery and cranked it over to make sure nothing caught on fire and everything was functioning correctly. I also needed to prime the oil pump anyways and make sure it wasn't blasting out of any of the connections in the remote oil filter setup or the oil cooler. All I have left is to make the downpipes, finish the alterations to the coolant crossover pipe and then I can start it.

[dirty30]

Got my flaming river steering joints



Big badass radiator! S54 m coupe three row mishimoto.





I had Driveline in Lorton VA shorten the driveshaft and add the 740 flange. Fit perfectly!



Here's the list of what's left:

Finish plumbing the brake lines
Bleed said brake system
Run clutch line
Bleed
Weld on vbands to manifolds
Route heater core hoses
Install/ wire oil pressure gauge

So close!!