E39 Project

[Brian.]

[DrLeadFoot]

Hell yeah!  Sub'd.

[wasnt m3]

Very excited to see this car come together!

[DrLeadFoot]

What are your plans for the manifold/exhaust?  Are you going to incorporate your current exhaust into the build?  

This will be epic.

[REKIII]

The manifolds are a bit R&D yet.  I am waiting for delivery of a set of Evolve Long tube headers.  I'm hoping to turn these into turbo manifolds.  At worst we will use them to make custom fixtures, as I already have Stainless flanges made.

I plan to use most of my current exhaust since it is all custom from the stock manifolds back.  Unless the turbos move things around too much, then we will be re making that all again.

[Earl]

Solidifying your badassadry

[REKIII]

Some neato clutch install pics:

[B C]

Looks pretty gay, bro.

[B C]

jk, is the stock clutch slave cylinder like that too? I know they have that style on Ford Rangers

[DrLeadFoot]

Clutch porn. More details!

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[Earl]

Fuhh............THE man doing good shit in here

[REKIII]

No, the stock setup is a slave cylinder with a rod that moves a fork like a typical trans.

Details:

VAC clutch, Tilton components, not very expensive, super long lead time.

[Brian.]

Unf, that is beautiful. I need to get a good clutch setup for my bronze car. =\ I want quick revving, light weight, but not too-lightweight to where it's performance robbing.

[RamRod E28]

This shit is just straight nutsack!!! Can't wait to hear this baby in person when it's done. I really need to get my turbo m20 plans rolling just need cash first

[REKIII]

Hopefully the clutch wont make much noise.

[Brian.]

clutch noise how? Haha!

[Earl]

Ramze46 said:

This shit is just straight nutsack!!! Can't wait to hear this baby in person when it's done. I really need to get my turbo m20 plans rolling just need cash first

REKIII said:

Hopefully the clutch wont make much noise.

Brian. said:

clutch noise how? Haha!

He was being sarcastic=)

[Brian.]

Sorry, I'm out of it. Working 7 days a week till February= I'm half out of it.

[YoungCR]

REKIII said:

Hopefully the clutch wont make much noise.

I think there will be plenty of other noises to overtake that

[REKIII]

Got up to the shop last weekend.  Didn't feel like a lot was acomplished, but we made huge leaps forward in planning.

Got my newly refinished wheels mounted.  They fit.....just barely.  I will need to lower the car a bunch and play with some thicker spacers in the front and rear.  I may have to pull the rear fenders a bit depending on alignment.

Found a home for these beauties

Made all solid bushings for the Diff

Pulled the stock manifolds off and test fitted my brand new evolve headers.....sadly they wont work, but I'm glad we figured that out before we cut them up.  Anyone in the market for S62 longtube headers?

Dropping my spare block off on Thursday on my way to Chippewa Falls.  Manifold mockup will commence.

We figured out the limited mods that need to be done to get the turbos to fit, and came up with a REALLY cool way to route the turbo piping.