My M60 318is.

[dirty30]

Some new small updates.

Nasty Valence cut out and new battery tray area welded in. The area near the exhaust cut out will be removed as well.





Hand rolled fenders.



Artsy instagram photo of my girlfriends M50 swapped 90 and mine.

[Reap3r]

Wow what a awesome thread, I was looking at doing a m60 swap once upon a time. Great work!

[dirty30]

ive been looking for a new tail panel like that.
Why are you replacing it?

Rusty battery tray and the valence was pretty bent up.

[MattAvino]

ive been looking for a new tail panel like that.
Why are you replacing it?

[dirty30]

The body shop got a serious amount of work done this week. Pretty much all the panels are ready to be primed with the exception of the roof and rear valence. Just brought him a new rear body panel tonight so hopefully they can start laying down some primer this weekend or early next week.





New rear panel.

[dirty30]

My bodyshop guy got in contact with me the other day to let me know he started on the car and asked for a few more parts. The hood was the first order of business as it had numerous dents from closing it wrong. We decided on doing the engine bay in low gloss black as it would hide dirt and grime. It would also allow me to alter the engine bay in the future and repaint it myself without it needing sprayed sterling silver at the painter.



Area behind fuse box done.



Battery box area is done.

[dirty30]

The 318 finally saw daylight for the first time since April '10. We loaded it on my friends super redneck equipment trailer and headed to the body shop. Updates soon!

[dirty30]

Repositioned the car in the garage today. Still nothing new worth mentioning.

[dirty30]

Where'd you get that? I love small purpose-built electronics like that. :)

I've been in contact with a guy in Germany that makes these. Took a while to get but well worth the trouble to make the stock tach work!

[blalor]

Got my tach signal converter today! Very excited.

Where'd you get that? I love small purpose-built electronics like that. :)

[dirty30]

Got my tach signal converter today! Very excited.

[dirty30]

You can do the swap for less than an s52 if you're saavy. No engine reseal/ rebuild...five speed trans etc. Just depends on what you want. The great part about these V8's is people are dumping 740's left and right for pocket lint. Im going to have a never ending supply of V8's!!

[rares]

wow, this build is awesome, is this setting you back a lot financially, or is it pretty doable?

[dirty30]

Whew. Done. With the exception of the waterpump and crank pulley.

[dirty30]

Finally got around to locking the cams and crank then removing the guide rails and chains.



This is a comparison of the upper tensioner guide rails. The wear is pretty severe on the left one but this engine was suprisingly quiet. The new is pictured on the right.



I just dropped my other tensioner o-ring and lost it so I'm calling it a night.

Edit: my lovely girlfriend found my o-ring. It's all back together now just gotta torque it all down tomorrow and then I can put my timing covers back on.