Wannabe30's s54 swap

[WannaBe30]

AN lines for the oil cooler:






Grinding the brake pedal

Bracket is gone


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[ohrvik]

cool thread :)

[WannaBe30]

Well I've made a lot of progress but didn't take many pictures.

I found some hoses that will work for the upper and lower radiator

I mounted the expansion tank in the battery tray

I plugged up the ecu and all the ground wires and everything except the temp sensor and the gas pedal

I'm still waiting on the gas pedal bracket and a tap to make a new hole for the temp sensor.

I did get the new fuel pump in

The massive booster delete is installed with the modified pedal and master cylinder.

I need to extend or make some new brake lines though since the master is now 3" closer to the fire wall

All in all I'm about 80-90% and pretty much ready to start her up in maybe a week


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[Andy Mechnic]

I can't wait to jump on this bandwagon..... everyone else is S54 swapping, why shouldn't I? :D

[WannaBe30]

So parallel to the ground while sitting on the ground? Fantastic. I'll adjust that today.

Yes I know I do i am probably going to get the longer e92 335 bolts with the torx ends and just re do it later

Thanks jb325is


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[Jb325is]

You want the sway rear facing arms of the sway bar to be parallel to the ground. Once you get the height set, tighten one end link then adjust the other so that it is free (you can move it freely with your fingers), then tighten it. All of this should be done with the car on the ground.

Sucks about the headers, but that's why I went with the SGT's. You gotta find a way to get those other nuts on, it's going to leak like hell

[WannaBe30]

So I've never installed an adjustable sway bar but it's there and attached. I will have to look into tweaking it the right way later. If anyone has any links feel free to share.

Here's what it looks like





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[WannaBe30]

Wannabe30's s54 swap

Thanks for all the positive words. This project is really moving along even though I feel like I haven't spent that much time on it.


Bolted up the eBay headers today and I must say.... I wish I bought the longer studs with torx on the end and I still might. But for now i would not recommend buying eBay headers unless you like exhaust leaks.

The nuts that came off the block with the tuds in them fit back great other than a few of the holes didn't line up .. 2 or 3 overall

And also I couldn't get one but back on one of the studs because the headers are a lot thicker than the stock manifolds and the studs are not that long. But that particular hole on the headers the weld is actually blocking it so I will try to chisel the weld just a bit to get that nut on.

I also plan on re torquing everything after its ran a bit hoping it will kind of line everything up itself with heat

Also the 02 holes are obviously going to need to be relocated and I never understood why you need pre and post holes on headers when no one is going to add cats to headers???

Also even with the lollipops the front header is touching but I will be able to bend that a bit by heating it up..

All in all I guess you get what you pay for and I knew that going in as I have installed a different (slightly more expensive) headers on an s54 but that was in an e46 m3 and so I get not all fits are perfect.

For 150 shipped I defiantly got what I paid for but they will work for now

On to the few pics I took








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[Alpina]

S54 on E30 is absolutely great.......

very nice car

[WannaBe30]

My new fuel pump finally showed up:

I got a new e46 m fuel filter and fuel pressure regulator that had to be ordered. Then when I picked them up and got back I realized that the fuel pressure regulator didn't come with either one I figured it was already attached.

So I sourced a used one

Here they are all put together:


It is a monster of a thing so there's not too many options to mount. I will probably just do what everyone does and put it in the engine bay under the brake lines somewhere.


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[WannaBe30]

I decided to try to come up with a heater core bypass for this s54 and I do think it will work out great... Never found any info searching on Google so I will post after I get this thing running to confirm it works.

Here's what I did:

Took the stock hoses:


Trimmed em up a little bit:


Homedepot auto parts:
This is a 1" brass elbow I found in the plumbing section:


Joined together:


Boom!



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[WannaBe30]

Thanks

Fuel pressure regulator
Fuel pump
And fuel filter still haven't got here

And I just found out that Ireland engineering sway bar some reason got messed up in the shipping and it's still in California so tracking says feb 10th and booster delete still isn't here yet but that's from Canada

I hate waiting on parts


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[jink0619]

It's moving along nicely, good work! can't wait to get home and continue on mines.

[WannaBe30]

I couldn't get the stupid steering shaft on the rack so I moved on to other things



Bolted up the drive shaft:


Connected some basic positive power cables

Test fit the wire harness from Andrew just to make sure I knew what plugs go where

Then after some beer a lot of aggravation I got the steering shaft on from the top hammering it

So that's good news for me.

Fuel filter and fuel pressure regulator should be in tomorrow so I will hopefully mount those up

If not I will work on the oil cooler


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[dude8383]

Sub'd.

That subframe and oil pan are fucking beautiful.