E30 Zone

dough wrote: i got the old out and new sat on the mounts bank holiday monday, as you can see its very, very tight! The engine is an M30 3.5, with around 220BHP as stock, good basis for turboing, as BMW used to race these turboed back in the day!
Had to ahem reshape the slam panel slightly to allow the motor to fit, its very tight and i was working alone, i will redress this at weekend when i refit the bonnet





here the rad is fitted, its a deep narrow rad (alpina derived), and is again a very tight fit!, had to remove the existing fan to get it in, and dress the seams back with a hammer, also the car had been towed by the front crossmember, so had to reshape it into line and dress the seams (sledge hammer job!) As you can see, i had to remove all the bumpre, spoiler and front panel to fit the rad, fan etc




tonight i decided to fit a fan in front of the rad for joel, to make some space and tidy the bay, its from a pajero, i extended the wires and made some mountings thus

rad


fan position


brackets, using captive fixings, 2mm plate steel



brackets bent and welded on



and fan in place, done this way so the fan can be rempoved without disturbing the rad if necessary and to save valuable space and weight!


refitted, belted and piped the powersteering pump. Needed to nick a pipe from my car, as the pipes on the 4cyl cars come out at odd angles that wont reach


Final fitted the rad, fan and wiring, horn relocated, but i may move it elsewhere as i dont like it obscuring the top of the rad where it needs the most cool air, 6 cyl e30s usually have twin horns under the wheelarches, so may move it there, but will move easily if there is a problem



And finally made ad fitted all the rad hoses, the elbow was supplied wit the car and has a tee piece that goes to the heater



refitted the bonnet, and it actually closes!


refitted the front panel, including a clearance hole for the new fan (will be invisible behind the bumper)




This side of the engine and bay are now complete, fuel and return pipes fitted, header tank brackets made, painted and fitted, heater hoses made and fitted, rad filled and part bled. Made a throttle cable adapter to use the stock cable, fitted the harness shielding at the bulkhead top, and reharnessed the wiring, which is now all in place, just needs tywrapping into place



red wires in the above pic are power and switch feed to the fan relay that i tucked out of sight behind the front panel, they will be harnessed into the main loom once routed and trimmed to length

throttle cable bracket



header tank


maf fitted and wiring covers all done


wiring routed, relays nowmounted in the car out of sight



so really waiting for exhaust parts now, will do a few fiddly bits in the week, spent all morning flipping the steering linkage to try and get the stock manifold to fit, which it almost does, bu i cant grind much more away, so going to fit the e34 ones that definately fit with good clearance!

mcbonio wrote:Brilliant! Rough and ready m30 swap. Liking it!

zaust wrote:What nos set up are you planning for it ?

Sykopaf wrote:Doug tells me the downpipes just landed and I ordered the exhaust manifolds and prop today so we're not far off hearing her fire up

zaust wrote:^^^ I know . But a 24lb bottle! I run a 11lb bottle in the touring don't know how your gona mount that correctly.

dough wrote:Looks a turd to me ;) lol

The nitrous system has three solenoids, a purge built in, its a rebranded nos kit

Front manifold is now modded, have a late finish at work tomorrow, but hope to make some headway weds


Cheers

Bristol_Jer wrote:Get a new one from BMW, I did as mine was split, can't remember how much but it wasn't expensive

dough wrote:first vid, ten scott mills points for spotting why its hunting profusely!

Speedtouch wrote:

dough wrote:first vid, ten scott mills points for spotting why its hunting profusely!

I'm guessing because you didn't have the idle control valve fitted, and there appears to be a leak in the exhaust.

Speedtouch wrote:Ace. I can supply a good chip to liven it up even more if you need to.