NickL's E30

[DinanDave]

Super jelly of the new vert! Beautiful color combo too!

[NickL]

Thanks man, your 02 build is looking good.

Having clutch issues currently but ill get that figured out. In the mean time I sold the mk5 and bought another E30. This time a vert. Its spotless, no rust, perfect body, really nice car.

[CubbyChowder]

awesome progress. Super jelly over here

[NickL]

Great progress How clean did you get your block before the paint? I have mine cleaned but im not sure if it is clean enough (see my thread if you have a chance). What's the advantage of the 944 brake booster?

Just degreased it haha. Ill check your thread out. The stock booster is too big and hits the intake manifold. The 944 booster is a direct bolt in with a little modification to the pushrod and is much smaller.

awesome work!

Thanks!

Thank you so much for all the detail. Next winter ill be looking at this for sure if I decide to go s50/52 route. Great work man I hope I get to see it this year in person

You will for sure, let me know if you ever have any questions with the swap.

Seriously clean build, How did you correct the camber with the bag set up, im currently working on mine

Thanks, front or rear? Rear is all natural uncorrected camber, front was adjusted through how I made my top hats.

NOICE! Flawless!

Thanks dood!

really clean build!

excuse the bmw ignorance but what is the s52 motor out of originally?

Thanks man, its out of a 96+ E36 M3

[07NJx355]

really clean build!

excuse the bmw ignorance but what is the s52 motor out of originally?

[Rob&co]

NOICE! Flawless!

[brandunn]

I kinda got a chubby for your e30. I wish mine was this dope

[Hella_RICH]

Seriously clean build, How did you correct the camber with the bag set up, im currently working on mine

[fitted_fit]

Thank you so much for all the detail. Next winter ill be looking at this for sure if I decide to go s50/52 route. Great work man I hope I get to see it this year in person

[DinanDave]

awesome work!

[Earl]

Great progress How clean did you get your block before the paint? I have mine cleaned but im not sure if it is clean enough (see my thread if you have a chance). What's the advantage of the 944 brake booster?

[NickL]

I didn't take pictures of a lot of things because my hands were nasty and its hard to stop and take them, but heres some of the progress.

Coming out




Block painted


Grinded down/rethreaded E30 temp sensor.


Harness from Levent


Cut the X20 off, crimped on new pins, inserted into C101


Valve cover gasket, also showing Condor mounts/Raceland Headers. Also fresh oil pan gasket/safety wired oil pump nut.


Resurfaced/shaved down M20 flywheel


OEM Sachs clutch. FCP EURO has hookup on the full kit w/throwout/pilot bearing. 200$ instead of 270-320$ from other places.


PP


Trans mounted, motor read to go in.


Motor finally in


And done. Intake mani/intake, 944 Booster, M3 harness covers, m42 rad, fan wired with temp switch.





Sorry for the shitty pics, my sister has my DSLR. Ill be taking pictures of everything once I get my camera back.

Things I learned for those who want to do a 24v swap:

Drop in motor with only headers/trans. Leave off intake manifold. 944 Brake booster is definitely the way to go. Direct fit and easy modification with an ATE version. My e34 throttle cable had to be adjusted all the way out to work. Condor mounts worked out flawlessly. Drop the trans a bit to get to the bitch clip, I used a flathead and a hammer to flip it up. If you need to bleed the slave, it has to be done off the car. I hit the clutch pedal on accident and it destroyed the slave. Replaced it and you can not bleed it on the car because the line goes up from the bottom now. Make sure to twist the selector rod or your shifter position is wacky, its easy to do. Use the outside mount holes in the subframe to mount the motor. Raceland headers were a perfect fit. No holes needed drilled out, no contact with the OEM CAB's, all I had to do was plug one of the O2 ports and plug the SAI ports with some bolts.

REPLACE EVERYTHING YOU CAN. I did the guibo/CSB, along with fresh gaskets throughout the motor. Don't half ass it, do it right and it will pay off in the end. 80*C thermo + appropriate temp switch is perfect for an S5x motor/M42 rad.

Thats about it. Ill be getting some much better detailed pics of everything here soon as well as some videos. The harness had no main relay, fuel pump relay, or 02 relay in it so once I scooped those from the junkyard the car started first crank.

Overall a fun experience and I can't wait to drive it. This build thread will continue as the car will get more parts here and there, I'm just excited to finally have the swap I dreamed of having completed.

[Rob&co]

Wow that buffed out nice loL! Get that sucker in there!

[Earl]

Updates?

[NickL]

Good work polishing, wow...quarte almost looked creased.

Note: My MKV needs a quick polish, is the paint hard like Audi's? I'm assuming yes and I'll have to use M105 to get any cut.

P.S. Car is boss...

Depending on what pad youre using you probably wont just to polish. If youre removing deep shit like I had to then yeah most likely. Youd probably be fine with a light cutting pad and some polish. Thats what I used after the wool pad/rubbing compound and it looks nice.