Coming Back... 98 E36 M3 LS swap Drift car build thread

[rpm620]

Sean, I was planning on cutting the back half of the car and creating a wall. A swirl pot would have to be mounted on the rear Side of the wall. So fuel tank would have to be dropped and new lines run back to the swirl pot then out to the front.

i was also thinking about cutting the rear bulkhead speaker tray out and then welding bracing from each rear shock tower and tying that into the rear floor area.

[SLR]

My current system is a 2L pot mounted in the spare-tire well with lines running under the car and popping up into the trunk, then back forward to engine. 044 pump next to swirl pot, OE 328is pump in tank.

If I redid it or built another E36 I would run a completely stock fuel system to the front and just do a 2L fuel pot with an internal or external 044 in the engine bay. (internal 044 is nice becaue it's not so damn noisy.

The way it works is the stock pump easily supplies enough flow to keep the swirl pot full at anything other than long full throttle (like top speed racing). Especially because the swirlpot is low pressure, the stock pump can maintain great flow, and then you have the fuel rail returning fuel to the pot also. You have the port at the top of the swirl pot feed the original return line to the stock tank, so only when the swirl pot is completely full does it overflow, and it maintains the original siphon-pump transfer function inside the OE saddle tank. Affordable, easy, safe, better weight distribution, tons of flow, never fuel-starve, fill-er-up like a normal car.

[rpm620]

Yea the fill neck is in the way of cutting the back half of the car tho... So what then?

[slitz]

I just moved my fill neck today

[SLR]

Yea the fill neck is in the way of cutting the back half of the car tho... So what then?

Well didn't mean cut the whole car off at the axle line now

Just had an idea, it would be kinda cool to have something like a telescoping rear end, where the rear fascia is mounted on a set of 12inch shocks in place of the frame rail legs and you run something like the FelonyForm fenders but not attached in back (think Miro Ovcharik rear quarters). Then the whole rear would just pop back out from a hit haha.

- - - Updated - - -



Kinda like this, but the entire rear facade with bumper, trunklid and quarter panel shells mounted as a one-piece deal you could yank off and replace.

[Mylch]

sound deadening really makes me value the finer things in life, like time

[m3drifffter]

Sounds somewhat like this awesome setup?
JEF0293-L.jpg
JEF0288-L.jpg

[Greenmachine72]

Any updates?

[rpm620]

nope no update's just waiting to get pricing on seats and i need to measure my steering column to order a woodword race column, and once i get that stuff i can have the cage built.. once the cage is done i will order parts such as Felony Form Over fenders, fuel cell, radiator etc.. that way i can get the front / rear tube work done.

[SLR]

Could I interest you in the same style cage we did in Paul's car?

[rpm620]

Could I interest you in the same style cage we did in Paul's car?

Thanks for the offer but im having an FD spec cage built local to me.

[TipsyMcStagger]

Update?

[protomor]

IIRC he sold off the motor and such.

[TipsyMcStagger]

IIRC he sold off the motor and such.

That would explain the lack of progress

Tipsy

[thesav925]

Blowing up a fuel cell is a risk but it takes a lot of inertia, with mounting,running smaller tanks, firewall you increase safety. Mine is in between rear struts for weighg distribution. The frame we made to house cell is a box withinm a box, this allows a gap or crunch zone. Not full proof but now I can run true dual exhaust.

I also have reinforced rear quarters and cut out spare tire holder with a flat sheet. While reinfocing the rear trunk area as well. I hate when u wall tap and fold the upper quarter or have trunk lifted up to one side.

[protomor]

I think he's bought and sold quite a few cars since this one lol.