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The beginning


absorbantnut

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It's about time I started a thread for this car.

I picked up this '02 from Carlos at Condor Speed Shop down here in Florida in October 2014. My turbo e30 had just been totalled & I was searching for something new. This popped up and I found it tough to say no. The car is a 1973 malaga 2002 with unknown mileage. The m10 it came with was supposedly “built”; apparently it had cams & some head work.

The car when I bought it had been sitting for a few years. Somebody before Carlos had decided to paint the hood, roof, and trunk with house paint in a poor attempt to stall the spread of some rust. Hopefully I'll get around to refreshing the body later this year.

Next I pulled the old m10. It only took a couple of minutes to get out.

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M10 removed:

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Next I cleaned the car with a pressure cleaner; I rolled it out of the shop & snapped a few pics.

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Of course I had to test fit my old RS's!

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And then I decided to widen them a little......so to help them fit I ordered some turbo flares for the car.

After thinking my options over & perusing a few good threads, I decided to drop in my old turbo m20 motor. Before I dropped it in I'd do all new seals/gaskets and refresh it. SO I ordered my parts & once they were on their way I started prepping the motor/chassis.

The wiring harness was an easy enough task. After stripping the body harness of all the old loom I was able to trace the wires back a few feet to see their original color. Using the “6 does go into 2” DIY, I was able to locate the wires that I needed and wire them up to an e30 c101 body harness side plug. Then I ran a few new wires, like the fuel pump +12v wire, and labeled them all.

I ended up using Sin City mounts, which place the motor pretty high up. I had a very tough time getting these to work, and after exchanging many emails with the company I had apparently been sent the wrong mounts, which explained why they didn't work. I was getting tired of waiting around though, so I ended up modifying the subframe to make these work. I had to push the passenger subframe holes out about an inch and then modify the drivers side motor mount.

Said motor mounts:

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I decided to mess around and run barrels as lips on my old RS's to see what it would look like on the car

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Tons of to-do lists help me stay organized lol

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Here's the trans brace I made

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Picked up some decent seats. Still need to make brackets for them

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Drilled & tapped the compressor housing for a barbed nipple instead of the dumb press in plastic fitting it came with

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The transmission tunnel widening made this swap nearly impossible. I realize that not a lot of people run a g260 transmission because it requires a "little bit" of extra hammering, but I didnt realize just how much that was until I got everything in place.

Pre BFH:

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The beginning of the trans tunnel surgery

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Here's a pic of how high the trans sits in the tunnel

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Had to cut out a few rusty spots on the floor board & replace them with some good metal

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I ended up drilling the firewall to run the harness thru

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Of course I'm gonna need some great bushings to run on this car to support the m20 and keep everything from falling apart........

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I test fitted the turbo flares to motivate me to finish the swap lol

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Then comes the wheels...........

Transformed my old barrels into lips with the help of some friends at Spintech

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Rear:

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Front:

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While the motor wasn't in the car I figured it would be a good idea to refresh all the seals & rotating parts on the driveline. So I installed a new rear main seal, timing belt, SS brake/clutch lines, new center support bearing for the driveshaft, new guibo, a fresh, non cracked oil pan, I resealed the whole transmission(input, output shafts and the shifter selector rod seal), all new turbo manifold gaskets, fuel pressure regulator, and a variety of other things.

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Got the flywheel resurfaced while everything was apart & also did a new clutch/pressure plate

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Test fitted the motor again for the 20th time

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I'll post the rest of the updates tomorrow

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