V8 Swapped E30

johnprusinski

I took the time to try and fit the 6.0 in the car the other day. I day to pound out the trans tunnel with a hammer. the combination of beers and a hammer caused my trans tunnel to split and create a hole. I will fix that once I get more gas for the welder. right now it works as of right now, the motor fits in the car.

johnprusinski

well after a few months of dumping all my money into my VW and other E30, I didn't get anything done on the V8 swap. I tore it down and decided what im going to do for power. I cleaned it up, painted and installed the oil pan. I also ordered a couple gaskets and sensors that I broke along the way.im also starting to buy the accessories for the front.

im switching to LS1 accessories so i started by buying a LS1 crank pulley.

here is a basic idea of what the motor looks like now. i have the motor mounts back on it now.

i ordered a pedal assembly for the car so when that gets here i can start running lines.

B C

Is that oil pan made for e30 purposes or just generic ls swap into anything purposes

Boris3

Kind of reminds me of a Paul Poore SE30 pan

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=368336

CMart

Nice progress. I picked up an Cheby V8 E30 recently. I'd love to check this out some time

johnprusinski

The oil pan is specifically built for LS bassed e30 swaps. I am currently prepping the cab for the cage by getting all of the tar out, which is not fun.

Jdesign

johnprusinski said:

The oil pan is specifically built for LS bassed e30 swaps. I am currently prepping the cab for the cage by getting all of the tar out, which is not fun.

Dry ice is your friend.

johnprusinski

I learned that the hard way. It wasn't hard to get the sound deadning out, it was the residue. I used aircraft remover and it worked great, but I should've used dry ice.

B C

why did you remove an aircraft from your car?

wasnt m3

What in 9/11 are you talking about, Snap?

andyhundley

Jet fuel cant melt sound deadening. #neverforget

B C

If removing sound deadening from your E30 causes your skin to fall off

youuuuu might be an aircraft.

Jdesign

I have a green car.

johnprusinski

Ha-ha I like where this is going.

johnprusinski

Time for an update. I short of maxed my credit card out to buy a perts to rebuild the head on the black e30 and a cage for the v8 swap. The cage has a pretty huge leed time so I probably won't see that for a few months. I did however get my garagistic brake booster delete bracket. I won't go into details about the scrap they sent me. I also bought my pedals and masters. On February 19th I'll be buying coilovers. I also mounted my resivoirs for the pedals.