Project 840ci

[turbogtr]

quick update guys. guess the holiday season went on a little to long for me LOL.
Supercharger kit was just sent to get powedercoated black and the steering is wired in with all the controls
working!! (working on wiring the cruise control in). Also picked up a 3.64 gear ratio and an lsd from the e46 m3. Waiting on UUC to send me a custom made dssr and short shit kit. Also there are some other parts on back order from germany im waiting for.
PICS TO FOLLOW SOON!

[Draggin_ma_balls]

Love this already! Sub'd!

[a3 german]

wheels, it need wheels

[DannyE32]

short shit kit lol...

[BADwayz]

Wow! I cant wait to see more of this, your 8 is EXACTLY what I would dream of doing to one. Very jealous.

[mshriver]

This is going to be good. Sub'd

[DeeAOne]

This build is going to be soo awesome!

[Francois Dillinger]

i don't know how i missed this thread....so jealous. this will be awesome.

[X5X]

Very nice! I saw this on bimmerforums, love your 8!

[TeckniX]

Always nice to the 8 still kicking around. Sub'd for more updates!

[JonD]

So much love for the 8-series Beemers <3

[G535]

So much love for the 8-series Bimmers <3

Fixed & x2! Love the color!

[turbogtr]

Sorry for the lack of updates i have a huge one here...

Firstly most of the 6-speed conversion parts arrived from gault bmw a couple weeks ago



Also got a e46 m3 3.64 lsd for the e31

Next i had the center console vinyl wrapped in piano black to get rid of that horrible wood trim and it came out great



then last week came the oem 840i 6speed drive shaft ( i was told its the last one left)



i also opted to get the flywheel and the 850csi clutch fully balanced. When I started this project i noticed that my hydraulic booster was leaking so i got a rebuild kit and went to it.

Here is the hydraulic booster behind the brake master. removing it was a bi*** and i have the v8 i wonder what it would be like in the v12.


After i removed both the brake master and booster i separated the two and dissembled the booster and this is what came out


then i removed the large piston from in the booster as well to replace its seals.


in the first image you can see a black plastic cup. its the oring in there that ends up
leaking so i replaced that whole assembly with this aluminium machined one and replaces all the orings on the pistons aswell

after getting the master cleaned up this is what it looked like


since most of the parts are here we decided to remove the autotragic tranny out
this past weekend.

exhaust off


While removing drive-shaft

a quick drive shaft comparison shot

and then the 500 pound tranny finally came out




Now we wait for the final order of parts which includes a one off uuc double shear
selector rod for this car. and just for fun a shot of my m3

[autoE34]

you can't work fast enough. thumbs up

[Pysio]

nice working!