A 300 lb Puerto Rican stole my Seta~!~!

[Van Westervelt]

Any more pics of the subframe reinforcement kit?

-Erik

Negative. Ive been working on crap so much that I forget to stop and take pictures. 4 plates total. One goes onto the bottom of the motor mounting surface, and the other is a triangular plate the eliminates the sag/broken mount flange. It has a hole in it so you can tight then motor mount though. Turner's kit come with instructions too.

it's missing two cylinders though!

Hah, you are correct, but I am keeping the heart BMW on this one.

UUC has them as well... got mine from there.. pretty cheap from what i remember.

Dont even get me started on UUC :roll:

dude, you have too much stuff to do. i will try to help this week

You betta! I got sooo many other lil things I have to do this week on Ron.

I didn't get a call so I'm going to assume you haven't dropped it in yet? Get that shit done bro :D

I got the worst sunburn of my life yesterday :(

I did not get it dropped. I passed out at like 6 last night tho. Why you always gettin burned mang?

you can have the seta back for payment in rice and beans!! oh and some fried bananas and a box of envelopes!!! ill be down in a bit to help out.

I dont have any rice and beans to give nugga! Wait, I still have my seta! Who wants a peice of it?! For sale! :)

[StereoInstaller1]

Curt, Ryan (E30Idea) is looking for a SETA.

PM him, PM me your phone number, I will call him, or any combination of the above.

If you are going to let it go reasonably cheap, let me know.

You know I want it, but I is a broke nigga. Want to trade for a badass subwoofer?

Luke

[CleanAzzE30z]

fucking nice!@!!! WHat tranny are you using?? MAN that looks tits!!


Mariano

[VAPORBLADE]

Oh so sick! :)

[FredK]

The swap probably takes 30 hours or so to complete, assuming you don't touch much else besides the engine. It looks like you've already made a lot of progress! The only thing that could be a hiccup is the exhaust. Good luck man, and keep us posted!

[JJe30]

Nice to see some progress on this since the last time I saw it

[Van Westervelt]

The motor is in its muther f***ing home!!! Just dropped it into the bay with smonkbmw this evening.

Of all things, the load leveler broke while the whole motor and trans was at a 60 degree pitch. With some creative thinking and brute force, she finally sat in her holes.

Headers cleared no problem and didnt pose an issue once.

Took about an hour or so since the load leveler literally bound, then I forcefully made it work, hence stripping it to the point of no threads and it just slid.

And yes, that is me putting on the lower mount nuts :)

[backtrail69]

Awesome. Keep it up!

[PiercedE30]

your expression in that photo (what you can see) is funny.

[MR 325]

Excellent.

[KangamangusDriver]

Very nice!!

Can you fill me in on what you used for the 5 lugger swapage?

[FredK]

Damn, that's the same piece of shit load leveler I used to do my swap, and the top D ring started to bend as I angled it down to install it into the bay. Fortunately it didn't fail!

For my second swap, I decided not to entrust a nice engine/trans combo to a $12 load leveler. So I went to Harbor Freight and picked one up for $30. Sure HF doesn't have a great rep, but this one was really well constructed, and the D ring isn't 1/4" rod bent into a U. It's a nice cad plated oval ring that's around 5/8" in diameter.

[smonkbmw]

this was the $30 pos from harbor freight. the adjuster actually started stripping the threads off itself. it was great

[Jesse30]

thats it. im calling junkyards tomorrow for an s50.


everyone is leaving me behind and going to swapped motors while i still have my m20.

[FredK]

this was the $30 pos from harbor freight. the adjuster actually started stripping the threads off itself. it was great

Nah, I got that same POS off Ebay for $12 shipped. The 1-ton HF load leveler is made out of nice angle iron, and it attaches to the engine crane with a beefy ring that goes through a really thick piece of steel that allows it some articulation. Sure the screw isn't that great, but once its lubed it works great!