My e30 Project... Mtech II sedan, Jlines, Vaders, M50 and much more...

[rafiki]

damn

[motorsports_3]

I got a little bit of work done the past days.

Since I had modified the stock tranny brace to accept the tilt with the new motor. I had to re weld it back to its stock location.





I also decided to change the Rear main seal, Pilot bearing, and throw out bearing. The clutch has been changed before and is in good condition.



Tranny off


Old RMS out, new one in





I took out the wire harness finally, does anyone know what this harness connects to? It was connected and I could follow it, but I am limited in space right now.



The pilot bearing was too small


The throw out bearing was also wrong, so thats it for today.

[e30m20beast]

nice work man!!!! I have read every single page and it's getting better and better.


BTW In what part of Miami are you?

[Slick92GS-R]

Go man Go... i hope that this recent rain is not holding up progress.. let me know when you going to install and i'll come by..

[motorsports_3]

nice work man!!!! I have read every single page and it's getting better and better.


BTW In what part of Miami are you?

Thank you. I am in Kendall near the Hammocks, you?

Go man Go... i hope that this recent rain is not holding up progress.. let me know when you going to install and i'll come by..

Lol, this rain is killing me, plus this weekend I am booked so I dont think it will be in till next week. I have to install the throwout bearing and pilot bearing, then its ready to drop in

[motorsports_3]

I got the harness, or should I say prelim harness done the past two days (Thanks to my friend Frank). I hope it works (knocks on wood)

[e30m20beast]

[quote=motorsports_3;1886309]Thank you. I am in Kendall near the Hammocks, you?

I am right south of the Miami int. airport. I still can't belive that the car you started with is the same car you have now!!! it looks awesome:up:

[motorsports_3]

I decided to change my oil filter housing gasket since they tend to leak.

New gasket


Alternator off


Old gasket


Old and new. Good thing I changed it, because the old one was really hard


New gasket on


Housing back on


P/s pump on


Alt on


Done


I figured out how to mount the spring clip in the tranny


Fork and new throw out bearing on


Old pilot bearing and new one


New one installed


All done for the day

[motorsports_3]

Sorry for the lack of updates. This damn swap is taking me forever for no reason.

So I got the flywheel on


Locktite on those bolts

Bolted down

Clutch alignment tool being used


Done

I also cleaned out the bell housing and lubed it up




Tranny bolted back up. That is pretty hard to do alone


Now on to placing the motor





Demodified tranny mount

Mounted up

In place



Changed this



Connecting the shifting components is so much easier with no driveshaft in the way



Fuel lines connected

Motor had to be lifted to get the booster in


Mounted


Now I am stuck here. I am waiting to get the bar shortened and welded. Next update should be soon.

[motorsports_3]

I went to install my fan and found my resistor to be broken. Great another thing to replace. I considered soldering it, but decided to just replace it

New one


Installed


I got the booster shortened


Finally installed

Lines attatched


I installed the slave cyl


Fabbed a dipstick bracket


Installed the condensor

New valve cover seals


Installed



Temp oil in

Throttle cable installed

Exp tank installed

Rad installed

Test start #1


:(

I found out the starter power was not connected

Test start #2


Still no start WTF!!

Turns out I was missing a ground for the relays.


Vac line installed


P/S res on


Ran the lines


P/S works great. Thats it, till next time

[dude8383]

Nice progress!

[SamE30e]

Everyone I've know has forgot to ground the relays. I did it too lol.

[moving3e]

Upddatte please!

[motorsports_3]

So I had to remove the radiator to mount the aux fan

When I replaced the coolant, I used half of the container of Water Wetter, with a 50/50 mix or water and antifreeze.


I got my A/C lines mocked up




I mounted the driveshaft.

That was the only pic, because the guy gave me the wrong CSB when he sold me mine, and I installed it. So I had to run a mission to get the correct one, and I didnt have a chance to take pics of the progress.

A/C lines got done

I ended up getting a custom one from the comp to the condenser because my adapter was too large.



I noticed the SS kit was very close to the Drive shaft so I lowered the tranny a bit


I made a little bracket to hold the bottom of the e36 radiator


At this point I was at Friday last week. All that was left to do was bleed the brakes and clutch to drive the car. While bleeding the clutch I noticed fluid coming out of the front of the trans. I figured out that the slave cylinder rod was stuck in the trans. I got really discouraged and stop working on the car until Weds, when I duck taped a name tag magnet to a cloths hanger and got it out after a few hours.


I also decided to go with a remote brake fluid reservoir. Look at the clearance, or lack thereof



I introduce you to 2002ti res


Where it will mount


Draining fluid


Res off


Grommets off


New ones on


Mock fitting the res


I am still waiting on BMW to get me the 90 degree adaptors so I found some temp ones

Lines ran


Clutch line adapted


This needed to be extended


Done


Look at the clearance now


Making the bracket for the res


All mounted and happy



As soon as I get those fitting from BMW I will add fluid, install the new slave cyl, and bleed the system.

[raafhimself]

that looks effing awesome! i gotta check that ish out.