e30 325ix-86: with a Finnish touch

[jute91]

new thermostat housing arrived :)

[jute91]

So my friday morning was fucked up.
Didn't get my parts that I was suppose to get in the morning so
I had nothing to work on. Thought I'd have some fun with the widebody idea.

climbed upstairs in our storage and brought some fiberglass fenders down.

Tried ford escort mk2 bda fenders





what it looks on mk2 escort



Then I tried some e36 m3 gtr fenders we did 10 years back with my dad for our rallycross car








I was surprised how little the body details had been changed in e36 compared to e30 :O

[jute91]

Custom pistons arrived :)

[jute91]

So last week I bought some aluminum tube for the intake runners :)



Yesterday, had finally time to check measure the new pistons.
Had to take the ix block out from the chassis and take it into machine shop. m20b20 block will so the job until ix block is rebuilt.







ix block out, b20 goes in.



had some time to test how m10 fits the stock tranny. it's going to be the next setup after m20 shits the bed.

[Wschnitz]

If your going to have to do all that work to swap an M10 in and keep the IX drivetrain it might be worth it just to go all out and buy an S50/52/54 etc and modify that, Which I believe ive seen a 24v IX E30 somewhere online.

[jute91]

If your going to have to do all that work to swap an M10 in and keep the IX drivetrain it might be worth it just to go all out and buy an S50/52/54 etc and modify that, Which I believe ive seen a 24v IX E30 somewhere online.

nah I aint into that. I prefer old and simple technic.

[litu]

Nice test.....That M10 would be epic, whit big turbo in it, it is lighter that those six blocks.

[CorvallisBMW]

nah I aint into that. I prefer old and simple technic.

Am I missing a joke here? 325iX -> 318iX? Not sure if serious...

[litu]

:D :D :D thats good one, but it is lighter and you can get stroke it like 2L and use turbo it, then it is about same, if we talk project car here...

[Wschnitz]

Still its a lot more work for the same power, The S54 block at least bolts up.

[litu]

But one problem, it not legal here...Maybe there is some way to get it legal, but that is some hard work, lots of paper work

[jute91]

m10 can be stroked up to 2.75l wit custom 98mm crankshaft.
Also, ford v8 cylinder head can be used to get 16-valve twincam head on it.

wasn't the downsizing the fashion in these days? replace the discplacement loss with the turbo ;)

I can tell you that ix is much faster on the track with turbo m10 than NA m20. even if it would be an turbo m20, it would lose to turbo m10 on handling. car has better weight ratio with it.

[CorvallisBMW]

But how in the world are you going to run the front halfshafts+diff through the m10 block???

[LJ851]

But how in the world are you going to run the front halfshafts+diff through the m10 oil pan???

Fixed.

That is not so big of a deal.

[Wschnitz]

Basically he has to weld a big tube into it for the bearings, I dont think thats as big as a deal as like 3 of the bolts not matching up from the block to transmission.