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M20 Swap Pics Thread


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Absorbantnut, I was referring to you and your picture of your engine bay.

 

Did you do any reinforcing, or is the Intercooler the reinforcement? ; ) Looking good! Thanks for sharing man, we need as much up to date info on this from guys currently driving these cars! I know I appreciate bouncing the ideas off you guys.  :lol:

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1991 325iX 4dr/5spd I 2000 323i I 76 2002 - M20/G260 - in progress.

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No reinforcement there yet, I plan to run a bar inside of the nose panel and have it removable. I just need to find the time to measure the angles it needs to be bent at and make the brackets. Everything is solid mounted, so I'm not super worried about anything hitting anything else. 

 

I had to skin everything to fit the e30 radiator and intercooler

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In this pic below you can see how I had to remove the little bits for the hood brackets. 

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Here's a vid of it running

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0OAAzHAw3zw

 

I tried to make a build thread on here for it, but I don't particularly like how the forum is set up. If you wanna follow the progress/see how I did it just google "malaga bomber r3v"

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That's rad. Pulling up your build on R3V now... haha, i'm Kid325e over there. Planning on running hood pins?


What'd you have to do to the frame rails up front to get that E30 rad in there? Pics?!

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1991 325iX 4dr/5spd I 2000 323i I 76 2002 - M20/G260 - in progress.

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Well I guess I can finally post these on here! Shows how long it's taken me to get it mounted after starting this thread haha 4e778b2ad090021ab602e22a30f05334.jpg04c14eff1d76db63fad5bd6cb7dc3e85.jpg

I'm going to cut the nose soon. .. despite what I was originally planning

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I figure it's time to show a couple of M20 projects we're working on at Casty Motorsports. One is an original owner Tii with its original nose and the other is a '76 that'll have to go through California's process to make it legal...

NO nose cutting, an old pair of Dan Williams mounts in one and a MODIFIED 2002Haus front subframe under the other. Electric water pump, modified original water pump to turn it into a water neck, modified coolant crossover pipe, 2002Turbo radiator in one and a modified early E21 320i in the other. Modified thermostat housing. Early M20distributors down in the block that only throw the Motronic spark...

http://s121.photobucket.com/user/tjones02_bucket/media/M20%20Conversions/1D9C287D-3109-47EF-A721-8821E9592920_zpso3ckvvp8.mp4.html

Tom Jones

BMW mechanic for over 25 years, BMWCCA since 1984
66 BMW16oo stored, 67 1600-2 lifelong project, 2 more 67-8 1600s, 86 528e 5sp 585k, 91 318i
Mom&Dad's, 65 1800TiSA, 70 2800, 72 2002Tii 2760007 orig owners, 15 Z4 N20

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