Impressive work. I changed out my brake fluid yesterday... and by that, I mean I had our senior tech do it. Your skill level makes me sad lol
Got my 11" rotors back from a machinist friend, had to open up the hub bore 1mm to fit. I also ordered all of the -3an lines and necessary adapters from Pegasus racing to fit the wilwood calipers. Only thing left is to get bar stock for the caliper mounting bracket and I can get the front brake upgrade sorted.
What part number are those calipers and rotors? I've got a friend with an E30 that may be interested in doing something similar.
Wilwood forged Dynalite calipers 120-6806
11" Corrado G60 rotors with the center bore opened up 1mm
14" long -3an brake lines
Chassis side brake line fitting
Caliper side brake line fitting
After a sad realization that I won't be driving this car before the snow flies, I haven't worked on the BMW in a while. I got back to it today and pulled the motor so that I could paint up the engine mounts, install the power steering delete block, and clearance the core support for the intercooler piping.
I tried cutting the passenger side of the core support with the motor in the car and basically made a mess of things. Once I had space to work without the motor in the way, things went much more smoothly. I don't think the 2G throttle body elbow will work with my setup though, it dumps right into the radiator fan. I think the best thing to do will be to make a TB flange out of mild steel plate and then I can weld piping to whatever angle I need as the cold side piping is so short.
This is awesome, great work!
Good work! I had that exact dynalite/corrado brake setup on my old 318is. I cheated and used a CNC mill to do the brackets though. You got very good results with the torch/drill press/grinder method although I do remember having to face a step in the bracket to get the caliper centered over the rotor.
Thanks for the nice comments, I really appreciate them. I like dumb motor swaps and I'm glad to share mine with GRM people.
Got the motor back in after painting the motor mounts, here's what the engine bay looks like currently.
Noticed the camber was off on the RF tire and looked into it, the control arm bushing has seen better days and is allowing things to move where they shouldn't.
Looking at how your intercooler is mounted, I'd say probably? But since you've got that large elbow right there, you may be fine.
Yeah, I think I'll hold off until I get it running and see how much the motor mounts flex. I can cut the pipe whenever to add one, a lot more work to take it out.
This turned into a huge information dump, so it's really wordy.
I didn't do anything too exciting to the car this week, it was all finishing up little things on the car. I installed the clutch slave, bent the hard line to clear the motor mount, and bled the air from the system. I also installed the final fitting I omitted from the original order for the front brake and then bled the front calipers. The pedal feel was good, I was unsure how the master cylinder would react to the different calipers so I'm happy that turned out well. I also remade the shifter patch panel but left it in primer until I decide whether to put a gauge or a push button start in the center. That decision hinges upon me figuring out why the starter signal wire is showing 12 volts in both the start and run key positions. I found a heater hose at the parts store that had the bends I needed for both hoses once I cut it in the right spot. Intercooler piping got painted but I screwed up on that one by primering the hot side pipe before installing the blow off valve flange, whoops. The fuel pump hanger got reinstalled and I got the wiring for the inline Walbro 255 run into the trunk where I'll put a relay wired up to the battery.
Great work! Cool project.
You didn't happen to make that front caliper adapter into a pdf template did you?
I haven't yet and I put it back together with blue loctite so you'll have to ask very nicely for me to bust out the calipers on it. I don't know jack about making a machinists drawing so you'll have to settle for various caliper measurements.
I wasn't thinking anything that fancy. Last time I made some metal bits, I just put them on the copier at work and emailed them to myself. Turned the contrast way up and hit send. Worked pretty well.
In reply to CarRacer:
Stop being a girl and get us the schematics
I'll make you a dimensioned print. Just give me a picture of the part next to a ruler, or better yet, set the part and a ruler on a scanner.
tuna55
UltimaDork
11/10/14 10:09 a.m.
Like 4/5 pics aren't showing up but the ones that are are really exciting!