E30-ls1

[PiercedE30]

If you need to upgrade your rear end, just use the stock 325 rear end with an E36 diff cover and add another diff mount, or use and MZ3 rear trailing arm swap for 5-lug and bigger axles and use an E36 diff mount with the added diff support.

[garretvs]

This'll be similar to what i'll do if i bust the diff mount eventually. Cage and rear bars tie down to a custom diff mount (same style as orig. one just made out of plate steel) That pic is from a guy here in Aus who's done a 2jz swap (hope you dont mind i stoled your pics ben! :D)

You guys would have no problem adapting a different diff if need be, your skills are there :)

That looks pretty sexy. I'm sure something of the sort will eventually be done.

Bob Heacox is from Gig Harbor, correct? Last I heard he was upgrading to LS7.

Yes, he is from Gig Harbor and I heard he was upgrading to an LS7 as well. Crazy stuff!!

-Garret

[Pinepig]

This project does not suck.

Nice work.

[craig4ie]

Honestly this project is a learning experience for the both of us. He's got a bunch of experience as chief mechanical engineer for a company in the aerospace industry and is just ridiculously knowledgeable, but neither of us had a bunch of fabricating experience. We bought a welder at the beginning of the project and I practiced on scrap for awhile and that's it. I think that a lot of projects are possible if you are smart, learn quickly, and plan ahead well. It kind of bugs me when I see projects that people just shove off to a shop to do for them...

-Garret

It's nice to see a skilled engineer like your dad using his knowledge for personal projects. What do you do for a living?

I'll be graduating with my Mech. Engineering degree in April and hope that I can one day pull off some professional shit like this.

:up:

[garretvs]

I'm a Mech E Major (Soph) at UW... Who knows what I'll eventually do one day. Guess that's what I'm trying to figure out right now...

[MR 325]

How much to the wheels does a stock LS1 put down?

[Firestorm]

How much to the wheels does a stock LS1 put down?

Usually about 300hp at the treads, depends on the year though.

I'm hoping for a bit over 400hp at the treads for mine though :)

[lt1_man]

man that is some serious engineering.. I have a lt1 and have driven plenty of ls1's and that bmw is going to be insane.

[garretvs]

I have been busy running down the last (almost) parts we need; PS hoses and fittings (hydraulic supply shop has JIC 3/8 (like AN6) fittings for the PS hoses for about $3.00 ea)

Had to drop the radiator off to have the RH end cap swapped since the outlet was right in front of the A/C pulley; new cap for about $75.00

To those who thought that our engine mounts looked weak:

Here is the FEA loaded with 3G's vertically and horizontally and it only used 1/3 the ultimate strength (i.e. it could handle up to a 9G bump)



-Garret

[PiercedE30]

wow....very nice.

[whiltebeitel]

-Garret

Now that's how you bring the tech!

[george graves]

I couldn't figure out what the little force vectors were at first...LOL

[White Nightmare]

Any news ?

[BMW BMXER]

Best thread I have read since I started reading here again.

Amazing work man.

[homegrone30]

this things sweet dude nice work. I remember my dad telling me about one of his friends with a supercharged 350 in his e30. Ive always heard stories but this is the first v8 swap ive seen that looked like someone knew what they were doing