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Can you move the subframe further forward if you only need "a little more space"??

This will give you a bit more castor but may move the wheels too far forward in the arches!?!?

Just a thought...

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It looks like the E30 M42 sump is out, The front sway bar will be in the way

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started to weld up the new front sub frame and control arm mounts tonight, but ran out of gas for the mig

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Can you turn it around and remount it behind

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Can you move the subframe further forward if you only need "a little more space"??

This will give you a bit more castor but may move the wheels too far forward in the arches!?!?

Just a thought...

yer- I looked that, but I think I will be modifying the sump

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Can you move the subframe further forward if you only need "a little more space"??

This will give you a bit more castor but may move the wheels too far forward in the arches!?!?

Just a thought...

yer- I looked that, but I think I will be modifying the sump

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Can you turn it around and remount it behind

I think the exhaust may be in the way,but I will check that out

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I have decided that I will modify the sump. So there's no turning back all the front mounting points have been welded in place now.

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The factory E36 steering coupling is to long for the 2002 engine bay. I so made a shorter one out of two.

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A new toy arrived today (not the RC car) here are my first attempts at ali welding.

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You have some awesome fab skills going on for that front end. Good work.

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Wow, Nice TIG.... that's something I really want to have a go at...

Projects going good man!

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Thanks for the replies, I hope the certifier thinks its a good job :unsure:

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With your inlet manifold are you just going to cut the two flanges and then weld a piece of alloy pipe between the two then smooth the inside out??

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With your inlet manifold are you just going to cut the two flanges and then weld a piece of alloy pipe between the two then smooth the inside out??

yes that's pretty much it

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I have finished modifying the sump, so it was time to move onto the engine mounts. I needed to make to new mounts on the cross member as the standard mount holes were to close to the chassis rails. Also new mounts for the block were needed as well. The rubber engine mounts are for a skyline . In the second picture you can see the cut out in the sump so the engine could moved forward.

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Did you consider Adding Wings on the sump to Bring a little extra oil capacity ?

I have seen this done on a few cars where portions of the sump have been chopped out, some to add extra capacity some to simply return capacity back to stock

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Did you consider Adding Wings on the sump to Bring a little extra oil capacity ?

I have seen this done on a few cars where portions of the sump have been chopped out, some to add extra capacity some to simply return capacity back to stock

Yes I did. And may still do that.

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Got the rear gearbox mount done, shortened the gear selector by 150mm, welded in the hanger bearing mount, Made the new front half of the drive shaft.

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Love it, great read.

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Mounted the E36 Radiator after work today. Also put the rocker cover back on. I painted it with some VHT wrinkle plus and gave it a round oil cap to try and give it an old school look

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I dummy fitted the steering column off the E36. It looks like I need to use the standard E36 coupling and not the shortened one I made a few days ago. I'm not happy with the angles that the universal's are running at. I can't do much to the steering until my pedal box turns up.

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Got on the piss after work so not much progress tonight.

Did make a start on the inlet manifold- cut up a toyota beams inlet manifold to rob the runners out of it and drilled the holes for the side draft flange

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I feel retardedly slow when I read all these updates ha.

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^ Me too!

Awesome progress (again) Eddie.

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