he IS nice, but it takes ages to get a hold of him or for him to process orders. hopefully it doesn't take 1-2 months to get your angle kit like it did my half kit
We will see I guess. The car will be down for the swap until December (very optimistic) so I don't mind waiting on a quality product. It seems their isn't much of an option either, the only other kit I've found is Wisefab which costs almost double and has awful reviews.
More parts! My Painless chassis harness arrived in the mail today. I'm blown away by the quality of it, and it seems like its going to be pretty simple to install.
there's a guy on one of the BMW drift facebook groups who's talking about making CNC'd aluminum control arms/ angle kit for $800. doesn't seem like it'll be ready until spring though
BTW if you've never had a v8 car before, you're gonna LOVE the swap. i had a v8 e30 for a while and man, was that thing fun. the only thing i'd worry about with your car is the frame. i know you did the turner subframe reinforcement plate stuff, but do a forum search for subframe failure. a bunch of guys who reinforced their subframe mount points ended up ripping the entire trunk floor out because the subframe mount points wouldn't budge. it seems the only way to fully cure this e46 problem is to do one of those triangle setups in between the rear shock towers, run bolts through the rearmost subframe holes and into the cabin, then secure them via sleeves welded to the triangle support
Good looking out. I'm having the roll cage weld a bar between the rear shock mounts and then triangling them to rear subframe mounts. There's a BMW drift facebook? It won't come up when I search.
I've had lots of v8 cars, just never an LS. I have a 5.7 Hemi Jeep, and I sold an SRT8 Jeep to fund this build. I also have a 73 Nova with a 496 Stroker.
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Got a TON done this weekend, what a pain removing all the sound deadening out. Tried both dry ice and a torch (mapp torch worked best), and it still took almost 10 hours to get cleaned up all the way.
Then we painted it all with VHT Roll bar and Chassis paint in gloss black.
I ordered the S2R sunroof delete panel in fiberglass last night as well.
Just for fun I stole my fiance's scale and did some weighing.
OEM wire harness - 53lbs (painless 10lbs)
Sound Deadening - 40+lbs
Sunroof - 34lbs
Heater box - 15lbs
Seats - 65lbs each!
I'm going to try to get some more weights of things in the upcoming week, just because I am curious how much actually came out. That carpet is HEAVY + the airbags and all the small stuff, i'd bet there is 500lbs out of the cabin.
Nothing left to do now but put it on a trailer and send it to RallyBuild!
Last edited by Novablue454; 10-04-2015 at 06:32 PM.
oh my... this is gonna be one of those clean, minty fresh builds. are you building this for pro-am or something? car will be gnarly when done
in a straight line, the bmw's obviously gonna be slower than your nova. i had an old coworker who swapped a big block in, i think after he bored it out it was a 460 or 468. that thing was wicked fast. the turn in of the bmw, on the other hand, will obviously be a night and day difference
so apparently it's a closed group (and also called e30 drifters, not bmw drifters), but i took a screenshot of the post about the new proposed kit for you
Pro-Am is the end goal. And I appreciate the link! I am just really trying to pay attention to detail on this build. I've cut corners on past builds and been unhappy with the end results, so I'm being pretty anal about everything as I go. I just really want to do this one right.
Last edited by Novablue454; 10-04-2015 at 11:22 PM.
just a suggestion in case you weren't planning for this already - seriously consider a road race pan with the addition of an accusump. not sure which pan will fit the e46 (IIRC the sump needs to be shortened a few inches compared to an e36) but if one's available, get it. too many people i know (myself included) have lost v8 engines to oil starvation issues. the odds of something happening are low, but at the very least an accusump is significantly cheaper than another crate LS6
I will look into that! Part of the Vorshlag swap kit is the Holley pan:
http://www.vorshlag.com/product_info...roducts_id=596
It's not cheap, so I really hope it's sufficient.
ask the vorshlag guys if they know of anyone who makes a trapdoor baffle for that pan. or actually, if you call holley up they'll probably know. the baffle pictured is a very very very basic baffle, it won't do much for longitudinal or lateral G forces sloshing the oil around. who knows, you'll probably be fine with it as-is, but it doesn't hurt to be safe.
It appears Holley makes one for it.
https://www.holley.com/products/acce...s/parts/302-10
Looks like i'll be getting that before the engine goes in!
I actually had to remove the one I installed with my LS2 swap.
When I was upgrading my LS1 to LS2 in e36 I ordered similar baffle with trap doors from a known supplier for F-Body pan. The oil starvation issue was horrible with the baffle in place at the road race track. So I had to go through removal of the oil pan to install the stock oil pan baffle. After doing that, the oil starvation actually became way less of an issue. This is my experience with baffles.
- 96 328is 6.0L. (LS1 to LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...ad.php?2098938)
- 96 328is 5.7L. (LS1 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1289987)
- 95 ///M3 6.0L. (LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1619249)
- 97 ///M3. (e46 Fender Flares/track car build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1727098)
- 96 328is (Dual Fuel Pump to Surge Tank thread: http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?1964025)
Weird. Well I will definitely be installing a pressure gauge, so i'll keep an eye on it!
just double checking, but that wasn't a drag race baffle was it? because they don't do much for lateral Gs
No, it was not. Pictures of it in post one of my build thread.
http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?2098938
After talking with the company and letting them know about my results with their baffle, they were nice enough to refund me the 100% of the price after I sent it back. Also I worked with them when they wanted to troubleshoot their product in my car and get every little spec of info and details, but after sending everything back I never heard about updates to the baffle. So, I'm still using stock one.
Last edited by bimerok; 10-06-2015 at 12:02 PM.
- 96 328is 6.0L. (LS1 to LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...ad.php?2098938)
- 96 328is 5.7L. (LS1 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1289987)
- 95 ///M3 6.0L. (LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1619249)
- 97 ///M3. (e46 Fender Flares/track car build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1727098)
- 96 328is (Dual Fuel Pump to Surge Tank thread: http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?1964025)
double weird. it's pretty baffling that you had that issue, most people have really good results with the road race setups
Yeah, I really had high hopes for it... Oh well. I just have to take it easy in the left hand turns and braking lol
- 96 328is 6.0L. (LS1 to LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...ad.php?2098938)
- 96 328is 5.7L. (LS1 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1289987)
- 95 ///M3 6.0L. (LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1619249)
- 97 ///M3. (e46 Fender Flares/track car build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1727098)
- 96 328is (Dual Fuel Pump to Surge Tank thread: http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?1964025)
accusump?
Looks good man, Looks real good Nice work
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Thank you!
Not much to update. My sunroof delete panel arrived from S2R Tuning, looks to be a very nice piece and i'm stoked to install it! Unfortunately FedEx decided it was too much of a hassle to not bend it, so it arrived broken in 3 different places with obvious creases in the box.
He is sending me out another one and we are dealing with FedEx to get it taken care of.
Car leaves next week to get the cage done, and hopefully the engine will show up in the meantime so I can get to work on that.
ugh. that sucks dude. i've had that happen on parts before and it's always frustrating.
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90 BMW 535i/5 - i should probably work on this again...
i didn't notice a rubber seal in that box... does it come with one? i'm assuming it's supposed to have one?
- 96 328is 6.0L. (LS1 to LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...ad.php?2098938)
- 96 328is 5.7L. (LS1 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1289987)
- 95 ///M3 6.0L. (LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1619249)
- 97 ///M3. (e46 Fender Flares/track car build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1727098)
- 96 328is (Dual Fuel Pump to Surge Tank thread: http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?1964025)
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