FuturisticConcept Art BMW E36 with a V8 on a bottom dollar budget

[B C]

One request: Please no external oil cooler.  It is becoming the fedora of the tuner world.

ALTHOUGH after spending hours upon hours trying to get a proper oil cooler to fit on my current setup I can now understand how it came to be.

[GunMetalGrey]

Snap said:

One request: Please no external oil cooler.  It is becoming the fedora of the tuner world.

ALTHOUGH after spending hours upon hours trying to get a proper oil cooler to fit on my current setup I can now understand how it came to be. 

You aren't kidding, that's for sure. Roof mounted oil cooler?!?

I saw this e36 floating around, and I'm impressed to see that someone bought it! I look forward to seeing what you do with it!

[Jdesign]

Thanks for all the feedback guys, Im sure I am going to need it. Its a pretty large mess to tackle, and every time I manage to fix one thing, I find three more issues. 

Snap said:

As im scrolling my first thought was "those vinyl decals arent going to last a day". Continued scrolling... Im an idiot.

For someone with as much attention to detail as you, it means something that you did not turn this car away.

wasnt m3 said:

Before even opening the thread, I read the title and I was like "please don't be that one..." Sure shit, it was that one. I sincerely wish you luck sorting that one out.

GunMetalGrey said:

You aren't kidding, that's for sure. Roof mounted oil cooler?!?

I saw this e36 floating around, and I'm impressed to see that someone bought it! I look forward to seeing what you do with it!

Yeah, im surprised I bought it. Im trying to get out of my comfort zone on this one.

I already have a spare oil cooler, but I dont know where im going to put it. Most likely cut a large hole in the hood and stuff it behind that. Who knows.

If you guys have any cool suggestions to make it look more "mad maxed" feel free, I dont think just a few zip ties and some paint are going to cut it on this one.

I really want to try and find some window louvers, maybe an old mustang in the junk yard? 

[Bassboy3313]

Dont forget the flamethrowers and machine gun out of the sunroof

[Jdesign]

Bassboy3313 said:

Dont forget the flamethrowers and machine gun out of the sunroof 

Not entirely sure I want to deal with answering to the local law enforcement as to why I have a turret mounted on the roof of an old BMW.

[wasnt m3]

Some inspiration for you. This car was at the Appleton meet back in 2012.

[YoungCR]

wasnt m3 said:

Some inspiration for you. This car was at the Appleton meet back in 2012.

[straight6pwr]

you've got a catchy project title, an overly dramatic story, and the IDGAF attitude.  mike burroughs would be proud.

[Daggerty]

Jdesign said:

Thanks for all the feedback guys, Im sure I am going to need it. Its a pretty large mess to tackle, and every time I manage to fix one thing, I find three more issues. 

Yeah, im surprised I bought it. Im trying to get out of my comfort zone on this one.

I already have a spare oil cooler, but I dont know where im going to put it. Most likely cut a large hole in the hood and stuff it behind that. Who knows.

If you guys have any cool suggestions to make it look more "mad maxed" feel free, I dont think just a few zip ties and some paint are going to cut it on this one.

I really want to try and find some window louvers, maybe an old mustang in the junk yard? 

You could make some Louvers out of sheet metal. Cut the scoops out and bend them out, I don't think you could get anything to fit the side windows at the scrap yard. Then rivet it into the body because rivets look rugged!!

[Jdesign]

Daggerty said:

You could make some Louvers out of sheet metal. Cut the scoops out and bend them out, I don't think you could get anything to fit the side windows at the scrap yard. Then rivet it into the body because rivets look rugged!!

Yeah for sure. I was thinking vaccum formed like the ones on that 240. I looked at the salvage yard for stuff today, but couldnt quite find what I was looking for.

[Jdesign]

More updates:

I have yet to shoot myself in the foot but I have come very close.

I found a guy on Facebook parting out a black E36 that was rolled over and drove to the middle of nowhere AKA Belmont Wisconsin. I managed to get a bunch of parts for a good price to help myself justify the headache I got myself into.

- Drivers door

-Heater controls

-Taillights

-fuse box cover

-Taillight switch

With this I fixed the door latch by replacing the entire driver door, fixed the tail lights that didn't work at all with the brake switch and new lights(was much harder than it sounds), and was able to test the heat and blower motor which to my surprise works great!

Feeling successful, I bought a new water pump, and decided to tackle the slightly weeping old pump and clean up some of the crazy noodled coolant lines on the front of the block. This luck of fixing and unbastardizing was coming to a quick end though, as I found out loosening the second bolt to the water pump, that someone already took it upon themselves to replace the water pump once before and was nice enough to cross-thread any bolt they could find into it. Thus the bolt sheared right off at the threads with minimal effort.          Yay. Time to bust out the tap set  

[Jdesign]

You will all be happy to know that I got it all back together last night, and started pouring coolant in it just to watch it all pour out the bottom of the water pump. Turns out I used the wrong gasket. Luckily I have the right gasket still sitting in the package, waiting. Updates soon, hopefully followed by burnouts and more broken parts to replace.

In the meantime, I realized this car was missing something important, which I also ordered.

[KaiserRolls]

Jdesign said:

You will all be happy to know that I got it all back together last night, and started pouring coolant in it just to watch it all pour out the bottom of the water pump. Turns out I used the wrong gasket. Luckily I have the right gasket still sitting in the package, waiting. Updates soon, hopefully followed by burnouts and more broken parts to replace.

In the meantime, I realized this car was missing something important, which I also ordered.

I hope to God you opted to order that with the hardware...

[B C]

Good stuff

I imagine the water pump is pretty quick and easy with the hardware situation straightened out

[Jdesign]

KaiserRolls said:

I hope to God you opted to order that with the hardware...

Nope! Living life on the edge on this one. Lag bolts will be fine.

Snap said:

Good stuff

I imagine the water pump is pretty quick and easy with the hardware situation straightened out

Yeah. I tapped all 27 holes on the front of the block and got new hardware where needed. This biggest problem is that 5 or so of the bolts went through the water pump then through the timing cover and threaded into the block. So I had to pull the timing cover and harmonic balancer off. But this was okay because I was able to replace the front main seal and the timing cover gasket which was slightly leaking as well.

[KaiserRolls]

I meant hardware for the fittings. I have the same one and went without. It was a PITA finding stuff

[Jdesign]

KaiserRolls said:

I meant hardware for the fittings. I have the same one and went without. It was a PITA finding stuff

Why? What size were your fittings? Also, mine wasn't the same as the one pictured above, but it's similar.

[KaiserRolls]

Don't remember, it was a while ago. Pegasus should have some. I ended up getting mine from John Prusinski as he had one leftover

[Jdesign]

Good to know. I bought it off of ebay so im sure it will be a fun time finding what I need.

[Jdesign]

So I got the whole water pump deal back into the car for the second time, only to realize that it was still leaking from somewhere. It turns out that if you own a Ford you have to get really use to taking things apart more than once. So what happened is there is a second set of holes in the timing cover for an older style waterpump. SBF's have been around and in production for a longggg time. Apparently my understanding is that I have a reverse rotating timing cover which is common for older carb'd 302's and mine is a newer fuel injected motor and I am using a regular rotating water pump.

Nice. 

So I can run this timing cover but I will need to thread some type of plugs into the bolt holes that the coolant is leaking out of. Ughh.

On the more aesthetic side of things, I have come to the conclusion that I am going to add some red accents to the car to make it seem more, uh demonic or devilish? I ordered red window tint and plan on adding some red halos and red leds here and there like so: