Build Thread?
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Updates!
Lets see, yesterday I dropped out my old diff (3.73lsd) which is already sold. I was not looking forward to doing the top two bolts on the diff and I went to go loosen it, seemed loose so I went up with my hand, sure enough they were both hand tight.... oops!
Changed the gear oil in the new diff (glad I did, the stuff that came out was black) I had enough left overs from previous changes to fill the new diff!
Rented a pilot bearing puller from advance to get my pilot bearing out, and that didn't work so I devised a little contraption of my own with a 2lb slide hammer
Worked like a charm, and I am glad I did get the old bearing out, it was pretty rough.
Blue! And as you can see I got a set of Condor solid motor mounts, those should be interesting.
Got the water pump out, got the new one in and got the new thermostat in with new gaskets obviously.
Will be ordering the clutch today if everything goes right, and that makes me happy!
Also took this and thought it was pretty cool, loving the new Razr M
More updates soon!
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I rented a pilot bearing puller from oreillys when I did my clutch and the end was too big to fit into the bearing. I used a contraption such as yours except just clamped a vise grip on the end of a rod and pounded on that with a hammer. Also way back you said you needed an m50 starter, I assume you probably have one by now but if not I have an extra that you could save big money on.
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I bought the motor for this build in the form of a running car. So I am set on the starter, but thank you!
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Ha yeah. Just be ready to open the wallet real wide.
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UPDATSESSS|SAESESSAFAWESS!!!!
So, to start things off I got the new diff in, nothing special there!
Picked up a new daily beast!
Guy in fondulac had it, he also had an m50 swapped e30, e39 5 something with an m5 kit, an e39 528i and a four door early model e30 325!
Thing is awesome to say the least, m50nv, five speed, black heated leather, all around awesome!
Mods started soon after...
All red tails
And some projectors from Dan!
Also did the valve cover gasket because that was super dry and was leaking!
It is going on an AASCO 11lb aluminum flywheel, so the combo should be pretty sweet.
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Ordered some custom length flywheel bolts for it, 40 bucks shipped for eight bolts. Ouch
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keeping the parts rolling in!
Got a set of used calipers to replace mine (one broken bleeder, on sticking slide pin) and rebuild kits, that is tonights project! Black calipers freshly rebuilt for the kids.
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I thought tonight's project was welding up the E36?!
Can't wait to see this thing on the road!
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I get done early today! I get to do two projects today!
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Update! Got the clutch and flywheel onto the motor, all kinds of fun there.
Put the motor in, no shot of that because they are all super blurry lol
And now comes the game of making everything fit.... my god
The oil drain line may have to run through the frame after I make a hole for it, the turbo itself just squeezes in there, everything is nice and tight. Oh well.
I don't know what else to say, it is in the car so a lot more work can finally be done.
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Since I am a rowdy teenager that loves building things I will show you this.
420cc motor with a snowmobile clutch/trans on it.
That should be driving tonight!
Size comparison
We had to extend the frame a few inches to make the motor fit
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Can't wait to take pictures of you doing burnouts in that.
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The woes of megasquirt begin, having some small issues with getting things up and going here.
But order more parts as always.
I start school this thursday, so that is going to be fun"!
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Doubt it Jeff.
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Quick fun story. Went to stance with Tim in the m50'd e30. Had a blast, but on the way back the highway didn't agree with our oil pan....
The car got taken via tow truck to a friends nearby college were it sat overnight while we arranged a way to get it back to Appleton (pan blew out about 5 minutes away from the stadium.)
Got a race trailer from a friend and headed down with his dads truck to pick the car up. Got there and he went to get in the car to move it, he pulled the handle and it was locked, reached into his pocket for his keys and just gave me that look. He had forgotten the keys to the car... So the drive back to appleton started. Luckily a friend grabbed the keys and met us in Fondy so we could save some time. Drove back down and got her all loaded up.
Brought her home safely!
Update time!
Finally got MegaSquirt to work, was having issues with getting the fuel pump to turn on. Turns out that I solder in r39 instead of r40. Duh. So that works now.
Have been getting more little things done lately so there is no large visual differences. Got my injectors for a steal from a guy on r3v, got my front calipers rebuilt.
Put in one of my last orders for parts before she should be on the street!
And before it gets asked why there is another motor in the garage I will share!
Tim (deadskittles) had my m50 swap in his car, and a friend had an s52 in his e30 and the s52 was burning a german ton of oil per hour. Tim jokingly asked if tyler would trade him. And he did. So tim obtained an s52 burning tons of oil. Time to tear it apart.
Things were odd (other than the fact that oil seeped out from the intake gasket when we pulled off the intake manifold, everything was suuuuper clean on the inside. Like, oddly clean.
Friend of ours eric notices something stamped in the cam, we take a peek.
Well would you look at that, schrick cams! Thats insane, s52 is awesome, cams are even better.
So we continue pulling it apart when we notice something else.
Stamped into the head, hmm.
Google led us to find out that Bavarian CNC does CNC port and polishing and oversized valves..... Holy hell, she was turning out to be a very interesting motor.
Kept working and got ready to pull the head. Popped it off and sure shit she had more secrets inside of her. After meticulous cleaning...
CNC'd pistons, custom of course.
This thing had a history for sure.
Started looking into the pistons and noticed that some were sitting oddly in the cylinder so they got taken out. The findings were less than desirable.
All of the pistons were toast... Looks like someone never upgraded the stock injectors and just overheated the cylinder walls.
After much deliberation he decided to drop the money and get the block bored out to 87mm and get new pistons (similar to what was in it) but raise the compression to 11.5:1 while in the process. Make the thing really rip!
So that is the story on that for now!
That's all for now!
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