The previous post with the question about the airbox might give a clue of what is going on... but here are the full details for stuff done in November, a lot.. 138,5h spent on the car (+ a lot of more scratching the head, looking for parts etc).
Starting off with the finishing touches on the hood. Panel gapping and making the final adjustments here:
Next on the list is reinforcing the differential attachment points:
And we turn our attention to the parts piles. First, the big stuff... does the gearbox I had on the M30 work with the S38?
Yeah, not quite as see on the previous photo. The bellhousing is slightly thinner on the bottom side so cannot be bolted to the reinforcement plate the S38 has.
And no place to put these flywheel sensors:
After a bit of head scratching, we find a refurbished G265 from a E30 M3 in the workshop... and it is exactly what we need. A S14 bellhousing fits perfectly so we quickly source one
M30 dogleg vs the S14 dogleg bellhousings/gearboxes side by side
After ca. 1,5 years the car has come off the dolly, so we can start throwing more stuff on the car to test fit everything, make necessary holes, shave off a few more unneeded brackets etc. All of this stuff will later come off the car of course to be completely renewed as well when the body goes to the paint shop.
And we can now also get to some areas that still needed welding:
Rear subframe going in:
There...
And all buttoned up now
Time to test fit the engine:
Nope, we have some clearance issues here:
So in jumps a familiar fellow with his 3D scanner to scan the whole engine bay:
And the complete engine-transmission-front subframe assembly:
So he can play around with the parts without heavy lifting
Well,...
we told you, we have clearance issues
. So the brake servo/pump part has to be redesigned:
With the brake components removed, we can push the engine in.
The downpipes are a bit too close to the floor, thus need to be modified.
But all clear here (I have the S38B36 headers as you can see)
The damn reinforcement plate most probably needs to be modified too. We ordered a fresh set of engine and transmission mounts to verify we get the most accurate position first.
We might also need to hammer the firewall just a bit.
Throwing more stuff into the engine bay.
Should we keep the coolant radiator from M30?
Nope, it does not fit nor belong here anymore. Go with the trash...
We will order a new one from E28 M5
Fuel tank, neck etc fitted, but it was sitting way too high. Now that I look at it more, I think we need to try mounting it from the bottom as it is a 1974 car...
Steering column and heater box too. We will be going to install AC however and although I have parts from a E3, we are thinking about at least a semi-custom solution
November update continues in the next post...
