E36 Five Oh Swap

[SnazzyQ]

Not much motivation these past few days. Just a few parts shy of having everything to complete the swap. Tomorrow plans are to setup the power steering, do some cutting and tilt the ABS unit for header clearance.

here you go:






EDIT: I found one more

[ChanceTheNapper]

you must finish for all that is good

and MURICA



and because monster burnouts and skids. You ever get the pulley and balancer off? You're normally suppose to use a puller that makes your life 100x easier and prevents throwing of wrenches. This thing should be sick. If you need any advice I can try my best to give my guidance. Now get to it, we're all rooting for you.

[oHSo EuRo]

you must finish for all that is good

and MURICA



and because monster burnouts and skids. You ever get the pulley and balancer off? You're normally suppose to use a puller that makes your life 100x easier and prevents throwing of wrenches. This thing should be sick. If you need any advice I can try my best to give my guidance. Now get to it, we're all rooting for you.

Yea I used the puller the first time and for whatever reason that shit didn't want to come out. SO much so that I ended up breaking one of the bolts off in the balancer lol. Then I tried it again a few months later the same exact way and it came out with no effort.

[ChanceTheNapper]

well glad thats over. so you just have the deck surface to clean and gasket? are you touching the internals at all?

[oHSo EuRo]

Dropped the motor off the be reassembled so I won't have any worries about me fucking something up lol.

[oHSo EuRo]

Removed the Power Steering system and got a better look at the bottom on my rack haha get it?





Peek a boo

That's the drain plug on the bottom on the rack, apparently ground through it

Cut off one of the tabs that the PS return line bolts to so the oil pan will clear and not be interfered with.



Also, did some cutting so the T5 shifter will fit.



Removed almost all of the insulation to drop some weight and clean the bar up a bit.





And this is where I'm at.......

[Zic]

This is great man! keep it up.
Also, I want a garage/shop like that

[Minuki]

Looking good man. You can send me that central locking button too haha

[oHSo EuRo]

Wheels were one of the last things to get to finish this off but I found a deal on wheels that was too good to pass up.

[oHSo EuRo]

Got my radiator in so I started doing some test fitting and cutting to make it fit. So I am using a 93 - 95 Thunderbird Radiator. The mounting tabs on it make it much wider so I cut them all off in order to slide it down in between the rails.

Before







After


It's a tight yet perfect fit. The radiator gets wider the farther you go up. By the time it is unable to go down any farther, it is at an almost perfect height to mount up to the core support.





That's about where I left off today.

Also, found a fellow enthusiast with a 302 swapped E36. He has done multiple swap and has offered to combine the harnesses for me. He will be removing any unnecessary wires so it doesn't look like a birds nest in there and can be semi clean.

[Motoman325]

I was just gonna ask you about the wiring part. :/

Nice wheels, specs?

and inspiration

[oHSo EuRo]

Wheels are 17x9 and 17x10

That's Tommy in that video. He's local to me and has answered a few questions about this swap that I've had.

[Earl]

Do the Breytons have et32 faces?

[oHSo EuRo]

No idea. They are still in transit.

[Earl]

Do you know the offsets of them currently? Lol