Northern's Sterlingsilber M52 Turbo 325is

[arthurmdk]

great work! keep it up

[AWDBOB]

Looking good! How do those FX clutches stack up against the Spec clutch of sprung 6 puck variant?

[Northern]

I boxed up those subframe bits with the oilpan and shipped them off on monday. Also ordered a few things from Blunt:

And a cheap single mass flywheel/clutch...

If I were to do the clutch again, I would already have done it differently, but I think this will work out pretty well anyway.

I was going to hold off on the rear main seal, ZF320 detent service, clutch/flywheel, and trans seals, but I really don't want to pull this again anytime soon.

M20 is almost pulled, just the DME cable to get pulled through the firewall, and it can come out. No pics of that because it is dark from like 5pm onward now

[Northern]

I like. How exactly did you break 4 rockers at once though? haha. I broke one and I'm planning on going in there soon.

Timing belt snapped while between 6k and redline. I didn't know what happened, so I think there was a lot of valve smackage while I was coasting to a stop with the car still in gear.

I wish I only damaged the rockers/valves and not the head, but I'm still excited to finally go M52.

[kicktopush]

I like. How exactly did you break 4 rockers at once though? haha. I broke one and I'm planning on going in there soon.

[Northern]

Late last week, I accidentally bought an E32 or iX booster off ebay (not sure which it is, but the capped off reservoir and vacuum port spot look like an E32, so here's hoping.

I found a spare M52 oilpan in my shed (surprise) and stole the subframe off one of Roy's project cars this weekend. Chopped up the subframe for some reason...




I have to place a decent order through blunt soon, I'm just too lazy to make a real spreadsheet to send him at this point.

[efficient]

i don't even know who that guy is until i googled him

[Northern]

Thanks for the kind words guys, and no, I'm not Earl :p

Never did the timing belt?

I really like this build thread tho, I need to do that same rust treatment to my battery box. Did you not seam Seal it or anything afterwords?

The records show the timing belt was done the summer that I bought the car by a reputable (but very expensive) independent shop, but I stupidly lost track of how long it had been. When it finally snapped, I think I was less than a year over the 4-year interval, with only ~65k(km) on it.

I didn't seam seal it, but I covered everything in POR15 and thought (wrongly) that that would be enough at the time. Sometime in the next 3 years it should be getting some serious love body-wise.

Northern, only use rubber engine mounts on your street car. it protects the engine from harsh bumps. engines dont like hitting pot holes, there arent pot holes, man hole covers on tracks and that is why sold engine/trans mounts are made for.

When the M52 goes in, I'm seriously considering the condor swap mounts. I haven't been in swapped cars with anything else, but those and AKG seem to be the only mounts that don't have tearing/failure issues.
Since the Condor mounts are half the price, are available through blunt, and I know what they'll feel like, I'm going to take the chance.


Speaking of M52's, here's what I scored last weekend:



M52b28+ZF320 out of a 1998 e36 vert. This engine was for sale on the tiny local BMW facebook group for a month or more, and in the Ad's pictures it looked terrible.

Eventually, Roy and I went to look at it I noticed that it was in amazing shape (rust wise) and eventually figured out it was pulled from a wrecked texas car that I almost purchased for $800 last year.

$250 and some brute force & ignorance, and it was in the "Truck". The jack on the hoist was dead, so to get it out I went to Princess Auto (Canadian equivalent of Harbour Freight) and exchanged it for a new jack.

Rough Draft Plans for the present are:

1: Quick, but through refresh for the M52 + most swap parts order through Blunt
2: Oil Pan...
3: Find a late e32 booster + 25mm master (preferably, but I'll take what I can get)
4: Maybe ZF320 detent pins/seals/FX racing single mass flywheel/clutch, but I'll probably hold off for now and deal with pulling the trans again in the future.
5: DIY EWS delete once it is all together. I have the EWS parts to keep it in the meantime.

[efficient]

lol i always thought the guy in your avatar was you.
clean car

[Cabriolet]

Northern, only use rubber engine mounts on your street car. it protects the engine from harsh bumps. engines dont like hitting pot holes, there arent pot holes, man hole covers on tracks and that is why sold engine/trans mounts are made for.

[TimKninja]

Never did the timing belt?

I really like this build thread tho, I need to do that same rust treatment to my battery box. Did you not seam Seal it or anything afterwords?

[ttrousdell]

I love everything about this car. looks good from the pics. I just went through trying to get tires for 16s. pain in the balls.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

I'm liking it good car dude

[phreshkid]

Still my all time favorite color on an e30.
Thank you for saving her. She will repay you with many accidental children.

[G FORCE]

Looks great! Sub'd! Keep up the good work!