BMW e30..... SR20DET***

Cum bitches:


So I present you my new shitbox:



I bought it auto, and more or less stock, decided to drive it until I found parts for the 5spd swap, and as you can see above, I motivated myself to do the swap sooner by blowing up the tranny drifting around an autox event, 1st gear auto drifts FTW






Of course doing a tranny swap isn`t the only thing on my mind, I bought some wheels off of s4cr which should be coming in a little bit, but god knows I don`t have that much patience. Which brings us to these wheels:
16x8 et 52 all around, falken 502 205/40r16 on all of em








Euro bosch headlights
Euro girlls
Euro trims
Euro plate filler
Euro plate
Euro keyless glove box handle
oem IS lip
New bmw emblems
Removed 325is logo
Stock rear bumper
oem shadowline
Mtech 2 steering wheel

I'm sure there will be many more *****'s once I do the motor swap, I don't really care if people dislike what I do, I do it because I like it or it amuses me. Such as the exhaust, it makes me laugh, people ask me about it, and it backfires like a whore, it gives the car personality. That and it's only temporary untill the motorswap, needed something cost free for my trip down to h20 next week which is over 1100km's for me.








Time for the swap I'd planned on doing since the summer, brought the car home with my old jetta and a tow rope, pulled the interior, dash, carpet (soaked from coolant) pull the faulty heatercore, pull everything out of the engine bay, delete the abs, shave all brackets, start to tuck some wires and prepare for the motor to come to move further.

So far I've been collecting parts, heres the list of have and need:

Have:

Doner car
Mishimoto intercooler
Custom intercooler piping
Custom 3" downpipe with wastgate bung
Custom trans mount
Wiring harness
Boost gauge
Nissan brake master
Nissan throttle cable
Custom braided stanless clutch line
4 cyl e30 rad
4 cyl + 6 cyl e30 rad hoses

Need:

Electric fan
Driveshaft
Powersteering lines
Motor mounts
Oil temp gauge
Wideband
Metal headgasket
ARP studs
Boost controller
Turbo timer

Plan is to get the motor running smooth in the doner car (got it for 800.00 because it cranks but no start) and then throw it in the e30, make some motor mounts and a driveshaft and pull it back out to shave/ wire tuck and paint the engine bay.

Hopefully I can get the motor in the e30 and running within the next week, then I'll get to work on painting the bay and putting everything back together.


Doner car:



Redtop SR20DET:



Bit of an update:

Took some pics of some of the parts i've gathered:

Mines tuned ecu:



Mishimoto Intercooler:



4 cyl e30 radiater with overflow



3 inch test pipe with 3 inch megan catback



Ghetto boost gauge that came with the car, will get a better one later



New plugs



some eibach race springs for when I build up some proper suspension



and the motor is ready to come out wiring/hoses wise

Well, a good bit of progress so far this weekend, and got lucky with some good help, beers, and some good pictures finally.

I got the sr out of the doner car, and booted that car outside. So it was time to put the sr into the e30 for the first time.





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After much trying, we realised the transmission was far to long, and considering we couldn't get more angle with the engine leveler due to serious lack of safe lifting points on the sr, we improvised.

Elevate the rear of the car, to bring the rad support down, while still leaving room for the tranny to snake under the tunnel.







quick shot of the little snail and some interference issues




It's alive!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3brDdF8BU


Turns out all my wiring was good except the one that signals the ignition to turn on and off. So, a quick change of that wire and it turns on and turns off properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=DACUdsApGo4

I dailyed the e30 for about a month, had a few problems due to po's neglect of the engine and trans, but got it sorted until the engine spun a bearing. So being frustrated, moving, and changing jobs I left the car alone for a while, saved some money etc.

Well now I have be working my ass off, ordering/buying parts and doing work on the car, along with the help of good friends. Seem to be at the shop more then home these days.

So far I have ordered/bought:

Suspension:
OEM offset control arm bushings
OEM control arms
OEM tie rods inner/outer e36
used e36 steering rack
OEM sway bar links front and rear
OEM sway bar bushings front and rear
OEM sway bar brackets front and rear
OEM rear subframe mounts
OEM differential mount
OEM trailing arm bushings

Brakes

SS gel coated brake lines
Caliper rebuild kits/ rust free calipers
TRW Brake pads front and rear
OEM ebrake spring kit
TRW ebrake shoes
Brake rotors front and rear
New hardlines here and there

Engine

Nissan piston ring set
Nissan engine gasket set
ACL race rod bearing set
ACL race main bearing set
HKS oil filler cap
Nissan dipstick
Nissan thrust washers
Used oem crank
Used oem connecting rods
Nissan water pump
Nissan tstat
Nissan oil pickup
ARP head stud kit
Apex'i bov
Hallman pro boost controller

Engine bay:

OEM m3 engine covers for firewall








I've made a bunch of progress in everything, but haven't been able to finish anything due to parts hold up's

So far I've stripped the engine bay of seam sealer, cut some holes, and welded some fresh metal in to get rid of dents/holes. Hopefully priming the bay tomorrow, fixing anything I missed and spraying the bay this week.






I've Stripped, reinforced, and rust painted the front subframe, stripped the steering rack and swap bar and painted those too. Installed the tie rods, Installed, the control arms with the new offset bushings pressed in, so all of that is waiting
to get put on, once the bay is painted.




The engine has been disassembled and cleaned, along with painting all the parts ( some I will do once the block is
assembled), I got my engine parts in the mail today, so tomorrow I will begin assembling the engine fully. I've picked colour for the bay and valvecover, which is sparkly red, because, who doesnt like sparkly red right? Turned out awesome on the valve cover so I'm excited to see how the bay will turn out.

Another update,

Took some more pic's of parts/mods/new stuff I have for the car:

Isis SS 3" turbo elbow




Isis SS equal length bottom mount with stock t25 and lines etc:



Brake rotors and innovate wideband




Finished dissembling and cleaning the engine out, and installed the "new" rods on the original pistons, along with plasti gauging the bearings and putting the crank in for good, tomorrow I'll install the piston rings, put them in the engine, and put the head etc on.

"new" rods, "new" crank and some other parts



Heating up the piston/rod to slide the wrist pin out:



Heating new rod and old piston to reassemble:



Cleaned block with main bearing halves set in for plasti gauge



The valve cover after shaving the Nissan logo, paint, clear, Bings coilpack cover and HKS oil cap



My buddy Matt at Gt exhaust accross the parking lot hooked me up and tig welded the flange I made for the apex'i BOV on, along with welding shut the old bung hole on the hot side

heres a shot of the piping welded up with the bov

Update

So since I wanted to roll the car across the parking lot to my buddie's exhaust shop so he can help me weld up the engine bay (use a gasless flux core sucks ass) I had to make some suspension for the car to roll on. Obviously even something temporary still had to be low.

Checking to make sure the tires wont rub after I welded the perches on.








Update

Well, I said I'd have some pics, but I ended up working on the car/motor more then taking pics. Good for me, bad for you

Here's a pic of the motor pretty well assembled, after this pic I installed the oil pickup, baffles and upper and lower pans, the new tstat and a few coolant housings. Then masked any openings I didnt want overspray on/in and sprayed the engine flat black, tomorrow I'll finish installing the manifolds etc and it will be pretty well ready to go in. I guess it's time to get my ass in gear on the bay.




Update

Tough crowd huh? Guess I'll make a thread in the showroom when it's finished up. But for now, on to some progress.

Seem's like the bay has taken me the most time out of anything, beginning to regret the brilliant idea of filling some holes and making the bay a bit cleaner. But the prep is pretty well done, just got go over with fine sand paper, then spray base, followed by clear.





Sprayed the bay, and some clear, gunna lay some more clear tomorrow morning for heavy gloss




Update

Progress progress progress, it's all I care about at this point, wanting to drive it so badly. Cleared the bay again this morning, let it dry while I did my job. Then 5pm hit (or sometime at the end of the day haha), cracked a beer and got to work.

Started putting the front end back together, threw in some shorter springs up front, modded the steering linkage for the e36 rack, installed front subframe/suspension again, installed brake booster, master, some wiring, SS brake lines up front (do the rears later) and redid the hardlines for the front to tidy it up by the master. (deleted abs when i originally did the swap and it left my lines looking rather crappy) It's all bled, pedal is rock hard so threw the wheels back on, and torqued them for the first time in a long time in anticapation of a test drive

No mames, otro pedo ese bimmer con sr20det, se antoja encabronadamente comprar uno así y meterle ese motor el pedo mas grande es el dinero

James_Dean escribió:No mames, otro pedo ese bimmer con sr20det, se antoja encabronadamente comprar uno así y meterle ese motor el pedo mas grande es el dinero

este es un proyecto de un canadiense, y en el foro en el que lo postearon, decian que para ellos un SR20DET es la forma mas barata de obtener HP's. pinche diferencia bien cabrona de este lado. LOL

Verga....!!

Proyectazo

¿Se imaginan llevar a cabo algún día un proyecto similar?


Yo si, y lo voy a llevar a cabo, chingo a mi madre si no.

Nice thread, Raoul ... rep +

Le vas a meter SR20DETT a tu taxi flako?

Aun no acabo de leer el articulo pero ya tienes rep+ raoul

El Raoul escribió:

James_Dean escribió:No mames, otro pedo ese bimmer con sr20det, se antoja encabronadamente comprar uno así y meterle ese motor el pedo mas grande es el dinero

este es un proyecto de un canadiense, y en el foro en el que lo postearon, decian que para ellos un SR20DET es la forma mas barata de obtener HP's. pinche diferencia bien cabrona de este lado. LOL

Pues en este pinche país tercer mundista como no jeje

Alterman!! escribió:Le vas a meter SR20DETT a tu taxi flako?

No, definitivamente sería otra plataforma ...

que bueno que les gustó el tema. gracias por la rep

El Chaco escribió:

Alterman!! escribió:Le vas a meter SR20DETT a tu taxi flako?

No, definitivamente sería otra plataforma ...

Como que se te antoja?

Yo me iria por una caribe... me encantan esas chingaderas.

Alterman!! escribió:

El Chaco escribió:

Alterman!! escribió:Le vas a meter SR20DETT a tu taxi flako?

No, definitivamente sería otra plataforma ...

Como que se te antoja?

Yo me iria por una caribe... me encantan esas chingaderas.

Un Tsuru II

yo kiero una de estas

Yo quiero uno de estos

Son el mismo coche no?

Mira nada maaaaaaaaaaaas!

ahuevo jurnchis una caribe con 1.8 BT

o un VR6 para verse mas freson

awebo... un vr estaria muy mamon en esa chingaderita.

La caribe de charly esta bien mamona.

El Chaco escribió:Yo quiero uno de estos

Chidas calaveras