So my car started out as non sunroof 318 touring
Get asked alot why a touring, well it was pretty much rust free, red and had no sunroof.
Originally I fitted a M50B25 from a E34 525
I ran it for a while, got bored very quickly of it and the idea of turbo reliability/blowing up/cost just seem to mount up and I really wanted turn key reliability
So the M50 conversion was removed and sold, I gutted the engine bay and started to clean up and paint/prepare it for a test fit of the V8
But before test fitting the V8, I installed E36 M3 Evo wishbones, hubs & brakes (uprights aswell so the car could be rolled)
I also fitted a E36 325 steering rack.
Test fit of the engine, I used 'copied' E30.De engine mounts, alot of time was spent ensuring the engine sat as far back as possible (without massive work) and getting the engine sat low enough.
It came to light that it simply sits to high without the 20mm subframe spacers.
So a couple were machined up and the engine sat in
Oil cooler & powersteering cooler fitted.
Oil cooler is big as the car will always be used hard on track and drifting. Powersteering cooler as drifting puts alot of pressure on the system plus the hoses run very close to the manifolds, fluid failure/boiling isnt fun.
The engine then came back out for some serviceable work before the manifold work began.
You can notice in these photographs the extended lines for the oil filter housing, this is already remote mount so a company re used the existing fittings and the housing was moved into the front corner of the engine bay out of the way of the hose to the top radiator.
Manifold work was a pain, I had a set of E34 540, E39 M5 & X5 manifolds, I ended up using bits from them all, and I really cannot wait to rip the fuckers off and have a proper system on the car.
Ill continue it on as I find more pictures
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