Welcome to my dream build. I don't have money to fund my dreams at the hands of a professional, so with a vision, willingness to learn to overcome whatever may stay in the way, and me little garage, I've been notchin away
Here she is now a rollin
a little sliding
She started as a 100k 93 e36 shell for a couple hundred bucks. My plans are to give her a full track treatment and throw in all my m3 guts into her for an ultimate sliding maching.
Poor ol salvaged contorted shell m3…..
oh wait, really poor m3 shell
her hitting the wall
and the newby
and the teardown began
So all the while I”ve had the idea of truck plaguing my mind…..
I’ve seen e30’s, e39, 240’s, and subies chopped to trucks. I’ve always liked the idea if the lines allowed, so after a little tinkering my mind was set……
motivation……
Having not seen any e36 trucks made before and knowing it could look sweet with ghetto photoshop renditions, Out came the angle grinder and badabing, truck is under way.
sawzal and plasma cutters are over rated angle grider ftw …..
initially my plans were to go crazy with my roll cage to make up for the noodle rear end I’ve created, as this is a full purpose built slider. She just happens to look like a truck….
then after a bit more searching I found this and decided to go this route for the bed cage. Much easier to get the bodylines I wanted, and I figured I could get good support in the rear this way. Not to mention keeping the weight as even as possible as I would hate to mess up the way the e36 handles.
This is where I mention at this point I hadn’t welded before other than learning on a couple pieces of tubing with a borrowed welder…..no better way to learn than by necessity eh?
so got the bed frame and the rear body lines underway,
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onto the cab makin. And idea came to make the rear of the roof flat, so why not mock it up.
and flat roof
b pillar and rear frame mockup…..
just freestylin and kinda went with it all up til this point. Usually the mock ups have to be changed etc, it all looked good enough to go with it.
Nearly done with the bed before fiberglass
gutted the sunroof for the roof….
then for the hitch…..The trunk’ll work nicely
And why not, more teardown….
wires of fun
And a bit more ghetto photoshop fun
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and incomes the roll cage tubing. Big thanks to Vitaly Spokan for bending it all for me
After thinking of the fiberglass bed for so long, I decided to just sheet metal it all in and make it permanent.
(after having welded a bunch starting with flux then finally getting a bottle n a bit of comfort, 26g sheet metal was another task)
to tie the cage in fully
And finally, we have a bed
And a working tailgate…
Hell yes! Sub'd.
S38b35 w/ Metric Mechainc intake cam, Fresh head rebuild, Trans, Megasquirt II fully built but needing to be wired up
got crazy with a wirewheel
Also got a fuel cell with the motor, but I like the stock tank location
And onto how this front sump’d motor is going into this car
Of course a custom rear sump oil pan would be ideal, but I don’t have the $ or tools to do so, so maybe e34 pan, but no go.
what if you moved the steering rack rearward to clear the sump?
barely worked with the stock arms, but not with the e46 that I’ll be using
a little added enforcement
some more cage workin
then found a way to get a bit more clearance out of the oil pan to move the rack farther forward
Thanks to Evil Engineering for the alum moddin I have yet to undertake
and since I’ve gone passed the point of no return into racecardom, some more gutting and wirewheeling
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More with the cage
the sunroof warped a bit when welded, so I replaced it with a piece of new sheetmetal which warped elsewhere, but is finally ok after some series massaging
Fully stripped, seamwelded, and por15d…..nearly ready to be rolling again
bed welding for days
and nearing the finalization of all the monkey bars
Time for suspension to go back on
Bushings first
car’s worth hardware n a bit more ready to go back on
rear end on
and she’s got wheels on again
wow! You should have just tube framed it!
Lots of work and I can see your welding skills getting better throughout the build!
Post pics after paint! Should fill all of the cracks of the soul!
wow! You should have just tube framed it!
Lots of work and I can see your welding skills getting better throughout the build!
Post pics after paint! Should fill all of the cracks of the soul!
after having done it and gaining the knowldge I have, boy would I go about it much differently. Live n Learn
we'll see how she looks after paint, but her soul is gonna be shinin ....
and out she rolls from the garage for the first time
the steering works
and on suspension over at the paint shop, sittin like she’s meant to
in for the first time, she fits, uhhhhh, kinda
n that’s it for now……more to come as time allows
rat truck :d
this is the coolest thing ive ever seen, i want one so bad now!
this looks amazing.
-Andrew Mensah
this is going to be amazing!
what s going on with the door bars? there are a bunch of load paths that just end making for a VERY weak design throughout.
crazy build! and loving the progress...
Props men, thats awesome.
Very cool build. I like where this is going.
crazy build. i really dig how the trunk is turned into a functional tailgate.
the rest of the cage looks spot on, but i have to agree the door bars look pretty haphazard. great work from a first timer overall though
new projekt 11JZ111...
For sale???? say it aint so....
I'm sorry, but that cage is totally @#$%.
Last edited by MauiM3Mania; 02-26-2011 at 02:35 AM. Reason: profanity
-Mike
k since the cage is @#$%, or moreso just door bars, constructive criticism rather than @#$% eh?
would a simple x door bar be stronger?
or persay if I were to remove the bar coming from the dash bar and replace it with a bar connecting it to the rearward union of the ending diagnal bar? thus making it a fully connnected x with a parallel bar running longitudinally?
Last edited by MauiM3Mania; 02-26-2011 at 02:37 AM. Reason: profanity
WOW, amazing amount of work! I need to see this thing painted.
( originally posted by PROTOMOR )
"It's like telling your child it's ok to snort coke off a cheap hooker's ass. It's ok if you do it, but you really shouldn't. And by doing it in front of your child, you are telling them it's ok to snort coke off a cheap hooker's ass. "
would have been easier to start out with a convertible?
dam im inspired to make one my self or turn my e34 to a two door
93BMW 525i -16"momo, KN filter ,Daily driver
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