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So i thought i would finaly create my own build thread as im almost half way with my m42 swap. Not so good at english so ill keep it short. First ill show you where is started with. Then you also know why my username is Dutchtouring without having a touring. warning: wil be a thread with phone pics
started with a 1992 e30 318i touring that looked like this
Had the touring for half a year now. One day i was just searching the internet for cool pics of e30's and other older bmw's. So found a super cool picture of a rusty e28 (you al know wich one i mean
) and thats what got me to this forum. So id thought id sign up. Began to like the whole stance thing more and more every time i visited the forum. So started saving some money to sort off make my own bmw stance worthy. Bought some lowering springs and shocks for it. A friend of mine parted out his 325ix and did this with his old hood. dont know why i did but i did
So after driving around like this for like a year i got bored and went looking for something different. Ofcourse bmw
Fell in love with 02 series so started searching the internet for one. the first one i found and drove 1.5 hours to see was complete junk. the guy who was selling is told me he had made 1 good car out of 2. almost wanted to ask where the good one went
. so searched al little more and came across my present car after month or so. Sold my e30 a few weeks ago so drove 45 minutes and fell in love instantly. there was some work to do in her but i couldnt resist leaving her. Picked her up as soon as possible and gave her a quick wash
signed up at the dutch 02 forums and bought this front spoiler from a member. brand unknown
test fitting
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bolted on but there are some clamps on it to make sure it stays on its place while the kit dry's.
so after driving it around like this for about 8 months i got tired of the old m10 engine running so bad. tried all sorts of things but couldnt get it right. luckily for me the younger brother of the friend who parted out the 325ix totalled his e36 318is and i could get the engine for a good price. it wasnt that hard to take it out because the whole front of the car was gone
so got the engine home and put it on a engine stand.
when i was searching the internet for other people who had done these swaps i found
the bmw2002faq and came in contact with a guy named jake from classicdaily.net. He fabricates engine mounts, transmission mounts and exhaust manifold to do this swap. so i bought the engine and trans mount and the exhaust manifold from him and within 4 weeks they were delivered at my house. he was kind enough to send me a whole walkthrough of the build and told me what parts i needed
started searching the internet for other parts i needed to make the swap happen.
got a e30 318is intake manifold, e30 318i radiator, e30 318i oil pan and crankcase. and a( dont know if this is the right word) air mass meter because this got lost in the crash
So sprayed the valve cover and intake matte black and did some other smal things to the engine.
Got the old m10 out and started to clean up the engine bay a bit
Went to the paint shop with the idea of painting the whole engine bay black but found this cool looking creame like camouflage color. So i bought 1 can just to try it out. After spraying the can empty i really liked the outcome so bouht a few more and this is what it looked like after spraying the whole engine bay. didnt take really good pictures but youll see the outcome later on. also resprayed the brake booster but didnt make any pics of that.
in the progress of painting
After replacing most of the gaskets on the engine started putting it back together. here's a pic of it on the stand with the new crankcase and oil pan on it
now the engine was complete again i wanted to fit the trans back to the engine so i build the worst engine stand evaaahh
but it worked
transmission is back on so its time to get the engine in. a friend of mine helped me out thank god cuz it was a hell of a job to get it in propperly took it in and out 3 times. first time in we couldnt get the transmission into the tunnel far enough because the old mounts of the transmission hadnt been removed yet second time in the transmission hit the steering rack if its called like that so took a grinder and took a small piece of the underside of the trans. 3rd time in again hit the steering rack. so took a little bit more of the trans and now the engine was on its mounts. stil the trans was hitting on top of the tunnel. so took the grinder and grinded out a small bit of the tunnel. didnt take many pics of it cuz i was a little frustrated
So this is where im at at the moment. will probebly go on working on it this weekend. trying to get the transmission mounted and thins like that
started with a 1992 e30 318i touring that looked like this
Had the touring for half a year now. One day i was just searching the internet for cool pics of e30's and other older bmw's. So found a super cool picture of a rusty e28 (you al know wich one i mean
) and thats what got me to this forum. So id thought id sign up. Began to like the whole stance thing more and more every time i visited the forum. So started saving some money to sort off make my own bmw stance worthy. Bought some lowering springs and shocks for it. A friend of mine parted out his 325ix and did this with his old hood. dont know why i did but i didSo after driving around like this for like a year i got bored and went looking for something different. Ofcourse bmw
Fell in love with 02 series so started searching the internet for one. the first one i found and drove 1.5 hours to see was complete junk. the guy who was selling is told me he had made 1 good car out of 2. almost wanted to ask where the good one went. so searched al little more and came across my present car after month or so. Sold my e30 a few weeks ago so drove 45 minutes and fell in love instantly. there was some work to do in her but i couldnt resist leaving her. Picked her up as soon as possible and gave her a quick washsigned up at the dutch 02 forums and bought this front spoiler from a member. brand unknown
test fitting
[/URL]bolted on but there are some clamps on it to make sure it stays on its place while the kit dry's.
so after driving it around like this for about 8 months i got tired of the old m10 engine running so bad. tried all sorts of things but couldnt get it right. luckily for me the younger brother of the friend who parted out the 325ix totalled his e36 318is and i could get the engine for a good price. it wasnt that hard to take it out because the whole front of the car was gone
so got the engine home and put it on a engine stand.
when i was searching the internet for other people who had done these swaps i found
the bmw2002faq and came in contact with a guy named jake from classicdaily.net. He fabricates engine mounts, transmission mounts and exhaust manifold to do this swap. so i bought the engine and trans mount and the exhaust manifold from him and within 4 weeks they were delivered at my house. he was kind enough to send me a whole walkthrough of the build and told me what parts i needed
started searching the internet for other parts i needed to make the swap happen.
got a e30 318is intake manifold, e30 318i radiator, e30 318i oil pan and crankcase. and a( dont know if this is the right word) air mass meter because this got lost in the crash
So sprayed the valve cover and intake matte black and did some other smal things to the engine.
Got the old m10 out and started to clean up the engine bay a bit
Went to the paint shop with the idea of painting the whole engine bay black but found this cool looking creame like camouflage color. So i bought 1 can just to try it out. After spraying the can empty i really liked the outcome so bouht a few more and this is what it looked like after spraying the whole engine bay. didnt take really good pictures but youll see the outcome later on. also resprayed the brake booster but didnt make any pics of that.
in the progress of painting
After replacing most of the gaskets on the engine started putting it back together. here's a pic of it on the stand with the new crankcase and oil pan on it
now the engine was complete again i wanted to fit the trans back to the engine so i build the worst engine stand evaaahh
but it workedtransmission is back on so its time to get the engine in. a friend of mine helped me out thank god cuz it was a hell of a job to get it in propperly took it in and out 3 times. first time in we couldnt get the transmission into the tunnel far enough because the old mounts of the transmission hadnt been removed yet
second time in the transmission hit the steering rack if its called like that so took a grinder and took a small piece of the underside of the trans. 3rd time in again hit the steering rack. so took a little bit more of the trans and now the engine was on its mounts. stil the trans was hitting on top of the tunnel. so took the grinder and grinded out a small bit of the tunnel. didnt take many pics of it cuz i was a little frustratedSo this is where im at at the moment. will probebly go on working on it this weekend. trying to get the transmission mounted and thins like that
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