Blunttech / Classic Daily S85 V10 E30 M3 Swap

[jakeb]

This swap is just getting underway and will be a little slow going as I am working on other swaps as well right now. The car showed up yesterday so I felt I should get the threads going. This car is being built for Steve for at Blunttech.com. He sells OEM and aftermarket parts...lots of BMW and VW. As well as many brands of performance parts.

As I build this car updates will come in this thread but they will come slightly earlier at the following URLS:
http://bmw.blunttech.com/ and on my site http://www.classicdaily.net
You can also follow updates as they happen on instagram @classicdaily

A quick overview of the build

88 E30 M3, DS on black
V10 S85 with 6 speed from a 2010 M5
Fortune Auto Coilovers
Completely rebuilt suspension
Big brakes (either will be Porsche 996 or brakes from a 135...hoping to go with 135 brakes but we will see what fits the best)
Engine will be run complete standalone with Megasquirt 3 Pro from DIY Autotune (launch control, etc etc)

A few pictures of what is going on so far....

Here is what it is going into.... this is it coming off the trailer last night and going into storage for a bit



S85 when I picked it up a few weeks ago


Back of my truck...




mmm

[CrackerTeg]

Holy fucking hell! My interest you have.

[jakeb]

Parts are showing up for the Blunttech S85 Build.

Fortune Auto Coilovers are here.



The goal for this car is to have a fairly quiet exhaust system. So we are looking to the OEM world. This is a take off exhaust from a Dodge Viper. Before the resonators there will be a cross over pipe....oh yeah and electric cutouts.

[MGW]

Oh. My. Goodness. Wow. If this was going into an e21 or a 2002 that'd be insane, but to think youre putting an s85 into an e30. Still Epic.

[JRodigan]

This will be awesome!

[dav3design]

OH...

[edmandcars]

My lawd

[justaneffer]

oh my sweet lord

[jakeb]

Long time no update but moving ahead now. Steve from Blunttech flew in for a couple days to rip it all apart. On to some pictures....

On the new lift...pulling brake booster and hood.




Pulled front subframe and struts


Deep in thought


Rear Subframe down...which was a bitch.



The 135 brakes fit inside the 17" throwing stars. The 135 rotors are a bit to deep tho. Going to have to look for some different rotors.




Just random under body pictures.




Pulling more out of the engine bay


The standard in engine bay photo


asleep until tomorrow...

[244Brick]

So cool!

[e39hamann]

Definitely going to be following this!

[99sil-teg]

Oh. My. Goodness. Wow. If this was going into an e21 or a 2002 that'd be insane, but to think youre putting an s85 into an e30. Still Epic.

Highly doubt it would fit unless you moved the firewall back, an M10 fills the bay quite a bit.


Awesome build, can't wait to see more.

[jakeb]

It's been done a handful of times before. It fits.

[jakeb]

We are making the core support removable to make getting the engine in an out a lot easier.




We got an e46 M3 rotor to try the 145 brakes.



The engine is sitting on a pallet on wheels. So we tried rolling it in. Will need to lift it in with an engine puller but we wanted to try anyway.


As far as we can get it for now without pulling it off the pallet.


Cleaned up some of the surface rust on the bottom and put some POR on it.



Cleaning up the engine bay to make it a little nicer to work in.



End of the day...Steve is heading back home tomorrow.

[rmehrIV]

I followed your build on ls1 e28 that was an awesome build! I can't even image how good this one is going to turn out!

PS: I will be sending you a pm in the future on some questions about ls1 swap into my e24! haha