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Followed your thread. Assumed I would apply this magic to my 540. Even bought a low mile '01 Formula T56 for the donor. But now thinking I should ditch the lackluster M54/auto in my 525iT.
Need pricing all the way around as I have couple customers interested as well.
todd at tmjbimmers dot com
Thanks for all your efforts sir!
Todd
'02 X5 4.6iS schwartz (wifey)
01 530iT_6 titanium (daily)
'95 M3 daytonaviolet (getaway ride)
'95 M3 dakar (track car build)
'94 530iT turd (drift wagon)
'89 325iS zinnober (surplus daily)
T M J
Thanks for the great info.will your motor mounts work on an lt1 engine?
If your headers and adapters will work on my lt1 send a price and I will buy them from you.
Will not work on the LT1...at least not without fabbing/starting over. LT1 mounts are SBC mounts.
First set of revised headers
Looking good playa glad to get to be the first!!!
JF, what's the install procedure on these headers particularly the driver side. I'm guessing it has to be done from the bottom up?
2003 M5 LSx l 6 Spd Manual l 4.10 LSD
Build Thread
The chassis must always be regarded as a means to an end and never as an end itself
V3...
Damn. I need to stop looking at this thread or else I will start to get sad when I see V5 lol.
Nice work! Are these still 1 3/4 primaries?
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How costly would it be to get the single tubes bent with more of the bends? Seems like your build costs are tied up in the cutting/fitting/welding ops.
540i-LS3-TR6060 swap thread
To have the tubes bent full length, or even in sections, it would be extremely costly. I emailed and talked to a few different mandrel bending companies and they said to make it worth their time programming each piece into their bender they'd need a minimum order of 20 SETS @ $1000 ea.
I don't have that kinda cash to sit on. Lol
I even emailed American racing headers, they said they already do BMW swap headers for Vorshlag. Never heard anything past that.
A machine shop a few doors down from my work has a mandrel tube bending machine. He decided it was worth purchasing after paying so much for an outside vendor to bend up tubes. Out of curiousity, I'll ask him what diameter capacity his machine has and whether/how he could do complex profiles.
540i-LS3-TR6060 swap thread
I've debated buying a mandrel bender as well, and just selling bends online like a company local to me does. But they're certainly not cheap. Lol
I've been thinking of making a spare 1 3/4" set to send around for quotes. It's kind of hard to give accurate prices off of emailed pictures.
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I think Bassani does the charge piping for Hellion Turbo kits. Might be worth a shot.
AWESOME jobs! Do you think that V3 version will fit e38 740i?
You will get +1 customer if its fit.
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