91' 318is S52 Swap "The Beast"

[craiggroves91]

Big update!
Doing the oil pan swap
Taking off the old one

Windage tray off

Bye

Cut bracket for s52 oil pickup tube. I cleaned it up further after this with a file

Safety wired and red loctited the oil pump nut. The sucker was still on there pretty tight when i took it off. Wasn't going anywhere

m50 pickup tube with new gasket

Pickup tube and oil pump nut looking tidy

Oil pan on with new gasket


In the process of cleaning up the ZF


New friction plate and e34 m5 stage 2 clutch kit on

New pilot bearing, also did the rear main seal and rear main seal housing gasket

Bolting up the trans with my dad and friends. New clutch slave and throwout bearing included

All bolted up with redline MT90

Waiting for some help to come by then its going in

Poly and UHMW for days

Help arrives. The mounts were a pain. Had to use the slots on the subframe and the bottom nuts were hard to get to because my reinforcement plates blocked access. should be good though

Condor Speed shop UHMW mounts


UHMW PS delete and mount

Got the AKG quickshifter 2 in. don't mind the hairy persian friend

[craiggroves91]

What got torn up?? Is this because you removed the A/C pulley and used the same bolts? I took my a/c pulley off and put the same bolts back in and I have had no issues.

Yeah, thats what happened :( The Timing case cover got scraped up quite a bit along with the front crank seal. I'm afraid it will leak now


Thats odd maybe mine aren't the stock bolts? Regardless, it happened and now I need to fix it ahh

[bubbajan21]

Well I messed up again :(
I messed up the front timing cover and crank seal

Out of stupidity I put the bolts back in the harmonic balancer without compensating for the space of the pulley I'm not using in front of it.

So the bolts were making contact with the cover and I cranked the engine by hand a few times and it tore it up quite badly :(

What got torn up?? Is this because you removed the A/C pulley and used the same bolts? I took my a/c pulley off and put the same bolts back in and I have had no issues.

[craiggroves91]

Well I messed up again :(
I messed up the front timing cover and crank seal

Out of stupidity I put the bolts back in the harmonic balancer without compensating for the space of the missing A/C pulley
So the bolts were making contact with the cover and I cranked the engine by hand a few times and it tore it up quite badly :(

[craiggroves91]

Is the oil pump nut reverse threads?

Tap the hole with a size bigger if it's very stripped and get a bolt to fit

Yeah its reverse thread.

My plan is to try to tap it

[jaywood]

Is the oil pump nut reverse threads?

Tap the hole with a size bigger if it's very stripped and get a bolt to fit

[craiggroves91]

Something always has to go wrong.
one of the oil pan bolts stripped.
Its one of the front timing cover ones. I think it happened cause I used a drill and went too much and its aluminum



what are my options?

[craiggroves91]

Take off the harmonic balancer, makes dropping the engine in a lot easier :P

I thought I read that somewhere

[pandaboo911]

Take off the harmonic balancer, makes dropping the engine in a lot easier :P

[craiggroves91]

Any safety wire pros?

Is this acceptable?
I've done it like 80 times. I can't seem to get rid of all the slack

[craiggroves91]

It should be happening this weekend ladayyys

[craiggroves91]

never heard of that

In that thread I posted, one dude has done it like that

[mtlbloodshot]

I was thinking about running it with no idler

never heard of that

[freeride53]

So when am I gonna come over and get this running for you ;)

lol stfu baby vivi thinks he's a master tech.


but i do like where things are going with this.

[craiggroves91]

So when am I gonna come over and get this running for you ;)

Yesterday!!

Nice.. san jose is gonna have another beast on the streets :)

Can't wait! :)