brakes inside my awesome wheels...boy do they make my calipers pop out!

 

SWEET! those brakes look real good with those wheels cant wait to see the whole car done.
Have a question for you i send it through pm regarding the brake swap

 

Almost there!!

 

IT RUNS!!!!!!!! And it didnt blow up!!!! No oil leaks, it idles, and its just plain freak'n awesome!!!!!!

The car started up FIRST TRY after cranking over for about 3 seconds.
I would say pretty damn good for my first time ever doing a swap, and my first time ever attempting to build a wiring harness and make it all integrated into the car like factory.

As soon as I put my header back on, I will post a good video on youtube and post up the link.

In other news, I found awesome tires on ebay for the front, here they are mounted:



Ill post some pics of them on the car when I post the video link

 

Congrats man! Nice brakes, wheels, and tires ya got there. I'm still waiting to order my engine pistons. It's gonna be a while for me he he he.

 

Well its been a long time since any new progress has been posted. Since last time, the car now runs and drives. I've had a few little adventures ironing out the kinks but hey thats all part of the experience!






First things, first time I drove the car around town two things happened. One, my alternator wasnt charging as there was no positive voltage going to it. That was fixed with a quick parking lot spice into switched power. The second thing was the first pull to redline in 2nd gear lead to a rocker jumping off a pushrod at 6200 rpm...stupid roller rockers and not knowing how to lash them perfectly! But $28, an over head valve spring compressor and some nylon rope, ten minutes later that issue was fixed.

 

Now I also ditched the wiring harness I had built as I needed to hide the PCM under the dash instead of leaving it in the engine bay. When I did this, I managed to screw up the grounds for my main and 3 fan relays, and when the fans tried to turn on, I ended up frying all 4 relays at once. Thankfully that was the only damage done, so some rewiring of grounds and no more problems! I also ditched the '96-'97 LT1 fan wiring with 3 relays to the early model type where the fans turn on independently of each other using only 2 relays.




Even though I only have about 30 miles on the swap, I still took the car out to Thunderhill last monday for some fun. I ended up getting meatballed, or mechanical black flagged, as I was uninformed and assembled my engine two years ago and lubed all my seals with motor oil, instead of engine assembly lube. So I need to replace all my front timing cover seals. But the car still ran great even though I was taking it easy!

I love my paint job at night...

 

hey man good job. glad to see another local getting his project accomplished!

 

Car looks great!

 

Congrats! Nice car, man!

 

Hey guys!! It's been a looong time I know, but I've been working and working and working...those damn BMWs never stop breaking!

I just got done putting a new clutch in the car...took me all of my Easter Sunday...and lets just say that my experience wasn't so bad, if we don't include the customer service nightmare I dealt with this afternoon...

here's the link to the thread I just posted in the aftermarket review...

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/afte...-clutches.html

 

Whelp. I never thought this day would come...but it has!! The car must be sold. My beloved first car must go I got it smogged a few weeks ago so its fully "legal" to terrorize the poor souls who have to be awoken by my SLP loudmouths and have about 2 months to sell before its gotta be smogged again to sell it.

I need some help!!...how much is my car worth???