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Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: audioscience10 Date: March 27, 2014, 1:44 pm |
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Alright so I'm bored so I'll start up one of these things. First |
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off my name is Nic and I live in Grand Blanc. |
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So I actually started building this around this time last year, |
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but it takes a while to do stuff when you don't have any fancy |
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machines and have to do everything by hand. This will be a quick |
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run down since its already posted elsewhere. |
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Bought this at the end of 2012 and drove it through the winter. |
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Knew right away I wanted to get a little crazy with it. So I |
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picked up this for parts. |
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http://s78.photobucket.com/user/higdon2k3/media/IMAG1196.jpg.html][IMG]http://i… |
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First thought was just do a motor swap but I realized I wanted |
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to get into drifting so I decided I wanted the e36s suspension |
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too. So I pulled everything I wanted off the e36 and got rid of |
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the extra stuff. |
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I built some subframe adapters for the front that would have a |
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rear mount for the lollipop. |
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The steering shaft didn't quite reach with the factory dampener. |
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Next up was to do the rear. I decided easiest way was going the |
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be to use the stock e21 sub as the start of an adapter. The |
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problem is the trailing arms front mount locations on the e36 |
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are wider than my whole car. |
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I did notice though that the stock trailing arm location was at |
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the right angle and I made the spacing right so the arm could be |
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the right length then I did this. |
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and this. |
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and this. |
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and wound up with this. |
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Both sides done. |
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Next was to make room for my driveshaft to clear the subframe |
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adapter and reinforce it. A quick coat of paint and I was left |
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with this. |
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Ready to go in. |
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Had to make a little clearance. |
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Welded in the rear mounts. |
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Sits a little rear of stock because of the length the trailing |
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arms needed to be to maintain geometry. |
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So I did this and will be fixing it with some wide flares. |
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http://s78.photobucket.com/user/higdon2k3/media/IMAG1366-1.jpg.html][IMG]http:/… |
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I decided since I wanted to use rear struts instead of the |
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divorced setup on the e36 so I went ahead and built camber arms |
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for the top instead of the bottom. I may end up reinforcing them |
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a bit more. |
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My first plan was to mount the strut like this since the factory |
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e36 shock mount was way to far back to use the e21 strut tower, |
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but I think I've since changed my mind and will either be |
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building a new strut tower where I need it or going with a |
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cantilever setup. |
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First plan was to use the m52 from the donor car so I went ahead |
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and mocked it all up. |
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Then recently I got sick of screwing with the complicated mess |
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that is the BMW engine and bought this. |
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And that is pretty much how it sits right now. Next thing to do |
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is make an adapter to put the zf 5-speed behind the lq4. I don't |
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know how long it will actually last, though there are guys in |
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the BMW world getting close to 1000+hp with them and they are |
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way cheaper than a t56, so we will see how long it takes to blow |
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it up. |
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Oh and just for the heck of it one of my other bimmers. |
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#Post#: 617-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: Cavi Mike Date: March 27, 2014, 2:26 pm |
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That's ridiculous. What motor is that? |
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#Post#: 619-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: tungm Date: March 27, 2014, 3:45 pm |
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holy crap you're doing serious work. |
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This thing will look balling I hope! |
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#Post#: 623-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: audioscience10 Date: March 28, 2014, 6:18 am |
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Thanks guys. I tell everyone I need to get to a real shop |
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because if I can do all this with hand tools, imagine what I |
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could do with proper equipment... |
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[quote author=Cavi Mike link=topic=61.msg617#msg617 |
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date=1395948411] |
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That's ridiculous. What motor is that? |
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The new one is and LQ4 from a 2007 Chevy Cargo van. |
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#Post#: 746-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: audioscience10 Date: April 21, 2014, 12:30 pm |
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Ok I don't want to start a new build thread and my second car is |
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a Bimmer also. So since the v8 car is a long ways off I decided |
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that I needed to put something together so I can do some |
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drifting this year. |
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Well I had this laying around just waiting for me to do |
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something with it. |
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I decided that it didn't quite have enough power in the current |
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state (125hp stock) so over the course of the last couple weeks |
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I did this. |
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Just a junkyard turbo, modified stock manifold, some scrap |
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tubing I had laying around, and a Volvo 240t fuel system. Some |
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crappy welding later and she breaks the tires loose in a |
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straight line shifting to 3rd. |
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I also have a spare diff for it that I welded up and spare |
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spindles that I'm thinking about modifying for more angle (the |
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car is manual steering tho and don't want to make it a pita to |
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steer by getting rid of my leverage.) I will for sure make sure |
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I get out to AutoCity next time. |
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#Post#: 747-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: joemakesdrifts Date: April 21, 2014, 6:14 pm |
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Wow.... u got a lot of awesome things happening |
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#Post#: 763-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: audioscience10 Date: April 23, 2014, 8:40 am |
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[quote author=joemakesdrifts link=topic=61.msg747#msg747 |
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date=1398122051] |
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Wow.... u got a lot of awesome things happening |
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Thanks Man. |
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So in the last few days of driving trying to get it where I want |
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it with the turbo I think I've decided that this particular |
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turbo is way too big on this 1.8l for my liking. Now maybe I'm |
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spoiled because my daily is a Solstice Gxp and has almost zero |
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lag, but this one hits 6psi at 6k and has trouble building over |
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6psi. That is way too slow for my liking. I do have a spare t3 |
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with I think a 50 trim wheel that I think I'm gonna try. |
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On top of my lag issue I need to figure something out to stop me |
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from blowing my motor up since there is no rev limiter. I am |
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thinking I may just install a shift light that I have to grab |
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the tach signal and instead of having the light come on I am |
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going to trigger a couple of relays to kill fuel and spark. Or I |
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may use a spare throttle body and solenoid that is setup as |
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always open unless I go over a certain rpm then the solenoid |
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will close it and choke the engine until the rpms are under my |
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threshold. |
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And since an update should be accompanied by a picture, I |
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cleaned the front end up and broke out the rattle can... |
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#Post#: 768-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: Cavi Mike Date: April 24, 2014, 1:58 pm |
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I hope you're an engineer or at least going to school to be one |
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because the engineering and ingenuity into this shit is awesome. |
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Execution needs a little work but the ideas are f'in awesome. |
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#Post#: 769-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: audioscience10 Date: April 24, 2014, 3:00 pm |
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[quote author=Cavi Mike link=topic=61.msg768#msg768 |
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date=1398365882] |
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I hope you're an engineer or at least going to school to be one |
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because the engineering and ingenuity into this **** is awesome. |
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Execution needs a little work but the ideas are f'in awesome. |
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thanks for the ccompliments man. am an engineering technician. |
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I know my execution needs work but I am working with very |
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limited tools and like 90% of the metal I use is |
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repurposed/salvaged, I buy very little as far as new steel. I |
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tell everyone if I had a machine shop and propertools iI would |
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be unstoppable. |
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Re: Doing stuff to an old Bimmer... |
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By: audioscience10 Date: April 29, 2014, 6:40 am |
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So I've been busy and haven't had a chance to work on the car |
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lately. I figured I would swing by and share the new tow rig |
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with you guys though. |
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[IMG] |
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Now I just need to pick up a trailer. |
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