E21 S50 Swap

[jhaurimn]

Nice! I wish i was able to get that e21 with no engine but it sold before I could check it out. Awesome seeing progress on this.

[jakeb]

Progress happening but not much picture worthy stuff. Mounts all welded up and ready to go to powder coat. New wheels will be here tomorrow.
Engine is out of the car and cleaning up the engine bay.
Cleaned up the engine today and painted the block.


pulling stuff from the bay to clean it up.


Cleaning up the block




Painted

[brent5631]

What are the particulars on those brake calipers? Years and model?
Thanks

[jakeb]

Fronts are early 90s volvo 240, rear are e21 323.

[jakeb]

Wheels came in....at the tire shop now getting rubber mounted up.


Pulled the valve cover to take to powder coat along with a bunch of other stuff (engine/trans mounts, etc etc)
Clean under the valve cover


Jigged engine and trans mounts to be able to remake them in the future.
ugly jig for the engine mounts...this also has E36 LSx mounts jigged


trans


Cleaning the engine bay... before


After


After




Still needs little more cleaning.

Firewall will get new sound deadening material. Fan cover is getting power coated.

[jaywood]

Good work. Would love to have an s50'd e21.

PS, I believe I have the same set of center punches :)

[jakeb]

Good work. Would love to have an s50'd e21.

PS, I believe I have the same set of center punches :)

HF through punches?

[jaywood]

HF through punches?

McMaster is what we're using, the set at the bottom: transfer punch set..they just looked similar. They really do come in handy. I don't know how I used to drill centered holes without them...


You haz any s50 updates??

[TrentW]

Any updates?

[jakeb]

I haven't keep up on this thread but the build is moving ahead. Hoping to be running in the next couple weeks. Here is bring it up to date...

Engine coming together




ready to go in



In it's final home



Pushed back pretty far


Volvo big brake front upgrade



Rear 323 discs


Just some pics I dig...



Powder coated diff case and cover...this is getting a hybrid small case 3.45LSD from an e36 318.


VW MK2 recaros getting figured out


One of the reason things have been slow is I moved into a new shop...a pic or two..



And a new toy I picked up last week...

[AwakenNoMore]

O_O someone looks to have picked up a Dyno.

[jakeb]

O_O someone looks to have picked up a Dyno.

yupyup

[AwakenNoMore]

That's awesome, and congrats on your new shop!

[TrentW]

Wowza--great update.

[kristov]

What did you use for covering the firewall?