LS1 / T56 DD e28 BMW Build

[Justin B]

I gotta see this. Good luck buddy, I have had the same idea in the back of my head for a motorswap in my 535..

[deutschman]

I gotta see this. Good luck buddy, I have had the same idea in the back of my head for a motorswap in my 535..

Finish the '02! :D

[jakeb]

haha I second that, what has it been 5years you have been working on that car Justin? I think I have built 5 cars in that time? You have a stock pile of parts many of us only have in dreams!! Get it done!

[Justin B]

I am the slowest person on earth to finish car projects I actually try to give a shit about. I built my stupid e30 project in 6 months though. My thought process at this very moment is this - Likely move into a house in the next like few days maybe with a large garage/shop. Houses have been being looked at. Move all my tools and boxes from CA to WA, along with my shell and body parts. Along the way find two clean quarter panels and finally have indoor space I can use to do some body surgery. Or I could save up a couple grand and have a friends bodywork guy replace the panels for me while its still in CA, but that's the hold up. It's a huge undertaking to replace the back half of the car as I plan to do, but I want to do it myself so I can know I did it, and how it was done. Hence shortly having room available, what I've been trying to get all along. I also have 90% of a ~30"x30"x6" CNC router I need to finish so I can make some things to sell :D cough my 02 LED tails. cough

It's pretty bad though isnt it. lol

[garretvs]

I swear to fucking everything that is unholy that you sign into r3v and do a LS whatever search. lol no hate just makes me laugh xD

Haha what can I say, gotta support the LS guys

[supkev]

subscribed, making me want to do a ls1 swap even more :D

[Justin B]

If LS7's weren't 15 grand..... lol

[iamsam]

Oh yes.

I will be doing an M62 swap into my euro E28 starting this summer.

Let's see some progress, these kinds of projects make me happy.

[jakeb]

just a small update.....more will happen tomorrow.

Got the garaged cleaned up some and the e28 up on the lift.
Engine came out (it had half an m30 in it, head was gone)
had to make a scrap run (m30, old m10, more random camaro parts)

The GTO oil pan will get swapped on tomorrow and the LS1 will get dropped in. I did some simple measurements and it looks like with the shifter in the middle of the console opening the heads will be in front of the brake booster. I have a remote booster from a e34 540 if needed but I will start with trying to keep the stock booster.

I have decided to drop both the front and rear subframes and have everything powder coated. The first stage will be to have ALL the mechanical bits of the car refreshed.

The firewall insulation is pretty beat up (what do you expect for an 85). A new one is NLA so I need to figure out if I want to just leave it or replace with something different. Any suggestions?

On to some pictures.

The lab...


The patient


Old m30


It's new heart


It's new home


I normally take a bunch of other random pictures so as I am sitting on the couch and need to figure something out I have pictures to reference. They all get dumped here for this project. www.theguestroom.net/e28 Feel free to check them out.

[Dj Buttchug]

welp im sub'd. wish i had one of these cars

[GDA]

Sick... this is going to be a killer ride

[Zacm829]

Great potential with the e28 alone. This thing is going to be a highway monster!

[deutschman]

You realize that you are putting the v8 in the wrong car right? It should be going in that small red box in the back ground.

[Killacortes]

E28 love. Awesome

[Vtec?lol]

awesome!