My M60 318is.

[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]

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]

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!

[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.

[accident]

Hot.

[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!

[dirty30]

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!

I've had a time putting this manual set-up together and I finally put fluid in it Sunday. The brakes feel good although a bit soft up top and I haven't had it on the road yet so I can play around with the bias bar. Suprisingly the brake line bending/ routing was the easiest part. The only thing I had trouble finding at first was the NPT to Metric bubble flare 90 degree fittings directly off the master cylinders.

I should have the new clutch master in tomorrow night and I'll see if the 7/8" is enough to disengage it. I'm horrible at math but here is the equation:

(MC Bore/Slave bore)^2= % of clutch actuation or ratio of master cylinder to slave cylinder

SOO...

(0.625"/0.874")^2= 51% So the slave only receives 51% of the volume from the master

Whereas

(0.876"/0.874")^2= 100% So it ends up being a 1:1 ratio which if I had any sense at all I would have started out with the 7/8" master in the first place!! Oh well.

[dirty30]

Here's a good view of the completed master cylinder/ pedal box/ non airbag column swap set-up. I still don't have the feed lines plumbed in this picture but you get the idea. I swear the pedals ended up being in the IDENTICAL position as the factory ones were. Even the clutch stop lined up perfectly.

[JGood]

That's awesome man, I wish I would have gone with that pedal setup. The e34 booster is just too much of a hassle and space hog. The setup you are using is nice and clean. Is there a provision in the pedal assembly for a brake light switch, or a clutch pedal cruise control disengage switch? What did everything end up costing, if you don't mind me asking... for the pedal setup, the M/C's and reservoirs, etc...?

[dirty30]

That's awesome man, I wish I would have gone with that pedal setup. The e34 booster is just too much of a hassle and space hog. The setup you are using is nice and clean. Is there a provision in the pedal assembly for a brake light switch, or a clutch pedal cruise control disengage switch? What did everything end up costing, if you don't mind me asking... for the pedal setup, the M/C's and reservoirs, etc...?

It really is the way to go and now that he (https://sites.google.com/site/bmwfab...30-pedal-mount) is making the pedal mounts again you can't go wrong!

All together the set-up cost about $900, the biggest expense was having the material for the pedal mount drawn and waterjetted ($400). I originally had the E32 bracket welded on the inner fender along with another reinforced steel "eyelet" area on the strut tower, you can still see it in the pictures of the bay. When I took the car to the body shop to get painted my body guy took one look at the mounting area and said no way. Over time he added there could be some serious metal fatigue problems. Considering the extensive modifications to the gas pedal and factory pedal bracket hadn't been started thats all it took for me to scrap the e34 linkage set-up.

There are no provisions for a brake light switch or clutch switch on the wilwood set-up. They make some pretty trick hydraulic brake light switches you basically can plumb in anywhere you like but I am sticking with the factory switch and a simple bracket that attatches using the bottom two studs for the brake master cylinders.

I keep telling myself with the manual set-up I've paved the way for any number of engine swaps now. S50B32, S54, LSX oh my!!

[dmoney(AB)]

Are you running stock brakes?
What size are your masters?

[dirty30]

Is there a provision in the pedal assembly for a brake light switch, or a clutch pedal cruise control disengage switch?

Here's one I stole from google, this is exactly what I have in mind.

[JGood]

Nice, sounds like a cool setup. It's a bit pricier then I thought, but considering what you get, sounds like it's worth it. I didn't know that guy was selling those mounts again, that's great.

Are you going to Bimmerfest East in August?

[dirty30]

Are you running stock brakes?
What size are your masters?

E36 M3 front, 318ti rear... Future will be Massive front and rear.

I have 5/8 front and rear wilwoods for right now.

[dirty30]

Nice, sounds like a cool setup. It's a bit pricier then I thought, but considering what you get, sounds like it's worth it. I didn't know that guy was selling those mounts again, that's great.

Are you going to Bimmerfest East in August?

Keep in mind if you buy the pedal box bracket from BMWfab it will knock off about $300 from my total. He wasn't making them at the time when I bought my stuff so I had to wing it. The box with pedals is $225, masters are $75 each X3 (they include the reservoirs and brackets) and the fittings all in all ran about $60.

I will definitely be there in August!!