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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Engine Swap Project & Checklist

« on: August 07, 2012, 09:55:14 PM »

Loving this thread.

You can fit a M/S5x 240mm clutch setup in a G240 but it takes a bit of "clearancing". I bought a M42/G240 package and the bellhousing was not pretty, but did work. The very outer corners of the pressure plate were also ground down slightly.

An M30 flywheel and clutch maybe a different profile however as the "m3" setup my thing had was a direct replacement for dual mass flywheels, and the flywheel had a massive offset. If the M30 is more like a conventional M20 single mass flywheel and the pressure plate cover is not excessively thick you may get away with it.

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Turbo Race Car, No More

« on: June 25, 2012, 10:06:38 PM »

sorry to hear about your loss! I have done a similar thing. Spent the last 12 months working out the bugs of an SR20 swap. Has been very painful but I'm on track to a winner now.

Changing because want to race a different class / series or as mentioned budget?

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Turbo Choice

« on: March 20, 2011, 04:38:47 PM »

I'll be running E85...should keep things a bit cooler

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Turbo Choice

« on: February 06, 2011, 05:41:18 PM »

I'm using a GT2560. It should get me to just shy of 200kW based on what people are achieving with these on CA18's.

I wouldn't bother with a cheap silvia (240sx) turbo unless it was off an S15. The earlier turbos are on a bush bearing and getting a bit small. I would personally go for a GT2860 or 71 if I had my time again, but I'm going with what I got and we'll see how it all ends up on the other side

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Engine + Driveline / Cams M42 to M44

« on: February 02, 2011, 05:48:05 PM »

want to sell the cams?

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / M42 race engine

« on: January 24, 2011, 10:41:59 PM »

Munyard = TK? You will have to keep me posted on the numbers the head starts with and gets afterwards.

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / E30guydownunder's Track car build.

« on: January 20, 2011, 07:19:45 PM »

Postman stopped by with a few things today:



Boost Valve courtesy Rz

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / E30guydownunder's Track car build.

« on: January 20, 2011, 07:19:00 PM »

Work continues. A day off work is just the time to get some shit bowled over. My radiator showed up during the week. A Nissan S14 no less. $200 ebay special, twin core blah blah, looks pretty fantastic for $200 shipped! Going to get a set of AU fans to go on it, a very simple conversion according to Nissan Buddies.



So now that I got that I can get cracking on mounting the thing. Take some old broken swaybar links???



BAM, you got yourself some lower radiator mounts, had to make it go around the radiator drain too:







I pressed the rubber bushes out while welding and drilled the centres to suit the radiator. Pretty stoked with how it turned out.

I made some top mounts for the radiator as well (that incorporate the intercooler mounts), but no pictures. So thats everything sitting in there nice and pretty.



The standard top hose works perfectly! Clears the new intake pipe very nicely indeed.



The 135 silicone bend showed up. Clears the radiator nicely. Might have to rejig to position of the oil filter / hoses, but nothing major:



And that was today. Had a quick look at the lower radiator hose and will get cracking on the sway bar mounts.



And now another update

I managed to drag my ass outta bed about 12....the wedding reception was perhaps a bit bigger than anticipated, but hey can't say no to free beer! All good as I got plenty done yesterday.

I threw a few of the other bits in to get a feel for how it is all coming together. Going well if you ask me!





Got the fans in and mounted, upper (standard 318 ) and lower (hacked up M20) radiator hoses finished, upper radiator and intercooler mounts done, all the intercooler pipes dummied up and threw the BOV in for an idea on required real estate. The accusump just out of shot, about where it will go.

A view from the front can see all the coolers air filter and other shit.



The intake pipe was a tight fit on the fan shroud



I modified it with a bit of heat and hammer The 10mm intake spacer coming will help add a bit of extra clearence also



Alternator in and spaced out. Going have to knock a bit off the spacers to get some more clearence on the chassis rail. Got plenty of clearence over the oil lines anyway.



The new fans and alternator position are occupying where I previously had the oil filter setup. So i have moved to to behind to headlight. making it nice and serviceable from below also. The hoses will work out ok too, with the turbo oil feed and stuff all pointing the right direction



And from under neath



While were down there, here is the lower radiator plumbing / electric water pump (i'm yet to make a mount, but it's in there!)



And a shot of the turbo pipes, fans and lower radiator hose all nice and tightly packaged in there

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / E30guydownunder's Track car build.

« on: January 20, 2011, 07:17:25 PM »

Thought I might update you guys aye this is going to be a dirty copy and paste, but gives you a quick run down on the last month or so.


I've been cracking on the brake master cylinder / inlet manifold clashing problems straight up. Once I get that done, focus can turn to making the other shit work. Whats the point finishing the engine install if I don't have any brakes???

Here is what we started with, nice tidy and business like. Let the shit FLY!



First Problem, c*rather nice people*s don't design their shit to fit in an E30:



So I'm back at the beginning but with a handful of master cylinders and a balance bar. So lets make our own shit.

I have finalised on a pedal ratio of 5.85:1. This is slightly less aggressive than the pedal box I bought (5.3:1) and much better than the factory pedal setup would have been (4.8:1), but that is on a booster system. I have done this because the pedal box I bought came with mammoth cylinders. 2 x 7/8's and a 1". I am going to give the 2 x 7/8 a go and hopefully it works out half decent with the standard calipers.

Having said all that I am working towards a brake upgrade that will include fixed calipers atleast on the front of some unknown origin. Lots of stuff to do before then!

Some more Pictures.

It's a bit hard to get a decent picture without the masters mounted:


 
birds eye view of the setup:





custom hand finished bell crank (non of this laser profiled shit), not finished yet:



As far as I got with the master cylinder mount plate

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Just finished fabbing the pedal box up! Now to paint it, install it and hose it all up.







In this picture you can see the weld off to the side where I have plug welded a 6mm High Tensile Bolt in as a sort of drive pin. Just so there is something mechanical connecting the two pieces, not just weld. Also I will be buying new bearings, of course.







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Brakes are mounted in the car, I have plumbed them up, but haven't filled with fluid and bleed them yet as I have been mucho busy focusing on other shit, like tidying up the yard.

But anyway I have been doing other stuff since the brakes.

Spent a good 4-5 hours stuffing around getting the pieces for the sump finallised. Then we got it all tacked up for the final time!





Brother has some new found TIG skills and with our recently acquired bottle of Argon the TIG has been working overtime. Welding of the sump is about 50% complete.



Well I still haven't bleed the brakes! But I have got all the parts on the inlet dummied up. Just waiting for the correct silicon joiner before welding it all together. Also made up a TPS mount for the new TPS on the M30 throttle.



I have also started to modify the fuel rail. Normally the fuel reg pipe goes down the inside (ghey) so I have removed the fuel reg and will be welding on fittings either end for the supply / returns and then running a different fuel reg (probably a Subaru one as I have heaps of them)



I got out my spare E30 alternator mount and looks like this is going to work better than the E36 one. Because of the way I made the take-off plate for the oil system I need to space it off the block, but this won't be a big deal

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / M42 race engine

« on: January 20, 2011, 05:55:20 PM »

Seen my JE pistons that arrived fro top end performance? They are pretty nice.

Ended up $810 shipped including Heavy Duty wrist pins ($60). But I didn't get any of the lightweight or Total seal ring options that you mgiht go for.

http://www.racetep.com/jebmw.html

Was very easy to deal with these guys Pick a bore and CR  and any of the options and go.

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Engine + Driveline / Cam swap - Intake cam on exhaust side

« on: January 12, 2011, 06:39:38 PM »

Any chance of you setting all the cams up in an engine with a degree wheel on the crank and measuring them boyracer? That is the only true way to determine whether any / all the cams are the same.

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / E30guydownunder's Track car build.

« on: September 28, 2010, 06:30:36 PM »

not heaps lately. i have a thread i update and talk shit in more regualrly on r3v. but not alot has happened on the turbo front, being busy fiddling with a new road car and uni. im still aiming to be boosted by the end of the year though

http://r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=156425

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / ITBs

« on: September 09, 2010, 12:17:21 AM »

Your in Australia. You get around on any other forums? pm dsm2002 he had a set of E36M3 throttles modified to fit, was a simple matter of hacking the old lugs off and welding some new ones on, but looks like you know that

Will be interested to see what mods you have planned for after the ITB's

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / 2.0l M42

« on: June 07, 2010, 10:17:21 PM »

He is probably talking about the M47N crank which is 89.6mm and almost unobtanium

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Engine management / Mark D Chip Install

« on: May 15, 2010, 05:43:14 PM »

Holy shit! A pre/post dyno on an m42 engine mod! Factual performance information! This forum needs more of this.

BlueBMW, you are the man.

I posted a before/after dyno graph in the Mark d Chip GB thread.


BlueBMW nice results there, I picked a similar sort of gain up top, but the mid range gains around peak torque are what completly transformed the driving experience.