College kid budgeted 325e M60 swap, PIC HEAVY!

[MJCRO]

Update: March 25th

Refinished four of my six salad shooters I picked up last week. Still need to finish the rear 9.5's and then tires!

Also gutted the interior today. I'll be rebuilding my dashboard which I'll have a separate thread on that. ATM I have around $3000 cash saved plus another $2000 coming to me this week for a total budget of $5000 on this build. Every penny will try to be saved on this, though every swap has its unexpected costs involved.

Goals for this week:
- Refinish the other two wheels.
- Start my sourcing for an E34 540i donor car via junkyards.
- Rebuild my dashboard.

Stay tuned.





The 9.5's on the right which I still need to do.







Squirrel/mouse issue with this car since it had sat for a while.



Dashboard out!

[Rob&co]

nice progress pal! Love the early model choice too!

[MJCRO]

Update: March 27th

After looking at motors online and calling junkyards, I decided to go with an M60B30 871 Alusil motor with the build date 7/94. I can't describe how clean this motor is. The throttle body plate is almost mirror clean. It came out of a manual 95' 530i with 86k on the clock according the junkyard owner. Compression is good and there are no visible leaks anywhere on this motor. I'm planning on doing a intake manifold and throttle swap from a B40 combined with a chip later on to make up for the difference in smaller displacement. From what I've gathered online with those components upgraded, power is increased to 250ish at the wheels.

I also bought a Canon T4i Rebel a few days ago so the quality of my images won't be blurry anymore!

Anyways, moar pics.















The manifolds are really clean as well.

[MJCRO]

Update: March 29th

Nothing new, just shot a short video of my garage to test out my new camera.

https://vimeo.com/62967310

[Welfare]

sub'd for sure.

[MJCRO]

Don't have time to update multiple threads but here's my main build thread over at r3vlimited. I will be posting the finished product on here when the time comes. Thanks guys.

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=274825

[Nuts]

Looks like this is going to be epic build. All the best bud.

[244Brick]

EPAC! haha