M15KYY'S V8 E21 FIRST FIRE UP VIDEO NO MANIFOLDS FIRE PG5

[m15kyy]

hi all,
ive recently joined the forum ( about 20 minutes ago ) but have been a regular at the retro ride gatherings for the past 3 years. this year I decided to bring my e21 project along, which seemed to entice quite alot of interest considering its nowhere near finished, unluckily though we couldn't get it started but anyway I know pictures say a thousand words and you lot don't wanna hear me bleating on about the ins and out of my car so here come the pics.

the rescue mission with huxmk1 way back in 2007

my mate benj doing some final checks

services and huxmk1 on the blower

and back at base camp with benj giving it the "i'm shy" pose



the original plan has to fit a 1.8 twin cam e30 318is M42 engine, so me and my dad made a spit frame to get the car on to start some car cancer treatment,

windscreen seals (can get very nasty on an e21)

all sorted

all was going well then this arrived and yes that is an old shopping trolley lol

trial fits into the engine bay we're interesting to say the least, the engine fitted in but i'd stripped all the ancillaries off it and it was still mega tight, plus it had no room for exhausts


oh yeah and the gearbox didnt fit in the tunnel soooo

TA DAH!!!

I made a new tunnel at work which turned out like this

........ on reflection what the dash was I thinking?so out came the grinder again I will post pictures of the new tunnel in the next update as hux has been tricking it out a bit, all these pictures so far have just scraped into the start of 2008 so ill now get cracking on the second update. hope you've enjoyed thanks for looking.

[rodit]

Superb start to showing what it takes, second installation please ;D

[brett89]

Saw the thread title and all I said was, "OH HELL YES." Cannot wait to see where this goes.

[grizz]

Welcome to the actively posting part of the board.

Saw the car before, and love its balls out bonkers approach to shopping.

[m15kyy]

right then part 2

by this point ive fitted a Fritz's Bitz e12 diff conversion ( thats a M5 diff conversion for you non bmw boys) to take the S@!t ill be giving this thing . doing a project like this as many of you know means you have to think about everything, whats going where, how its going to fit, what i you've gotta take something out etc, so refering to the engine space problem i had i decided to entrust the car to this delightful chap.... the HUX



as some of you may or may not know hux has his own business building roll cages and tube chassis'd race cars, kinda handy then that he's my best mate so off went the car to hux's domain.






yeah so getting back to the engine space problem, little nip here little slice there...


then insert a bit of drag stylee space framing and voila!!!




and to protect my lovely self


and loads more room, mission accomplished!!! so then it was back to my place, for some more fettling


lick of primer on the cage and then cut the whole of the floor out (well almost)




i got in touch with a local sheet fabricators which we use at work to make machine guards, told them what i wanted and i got this, two sections of transmission tunnel and some 4"exhaust tunnelling. the transmission tunnel is 22 inches wide at the mouth lol its a tad excessive but i wanted the room.

[stefan]

very cool seen bmw v8's in e28's and e30's but never an e21 good job

[Mark]

Kudos to you Sir. That is how you say ''the plums''.

[Mark]

Please come here too!

e21.ownforum.org/index.php

[m15kyy]

not going to annotate this one too much, this is part three with the bulkhead being made and the new tunnels, thanks for looking.












and i know its not retro but this is my daily, e36 323i on eibach suspension and some genuine schnitzers,

[carmad]

excellent will keep an eye on this

[mfroble]

hell yeah thats uber nice!
I am thinking long and hard about an e21

[murran]

wow. heres me just wanting jit a bias pedal box and to turbo the 325i lump in mine.

this is awesome will be watching this!

[Mark]

Are you fitting a fibreglass front or will you be using the old stuff. grills, lights etc?

[Fiat Daft]

awesome.

[Siert]

Oooffff

[m15kyy]

yeah will be eventually gettings fibreglass front sorted, but for the minute ive used the original panels and welded them together to make a 1 peice front end that slides off, plus with the original panels it looks alot sleepier still got the 316 badge on the back

[Mark]

Excellent. Can't wait to see and hear it.

[substandard]

This is awesome!!

[m15kyy]

right then last dump of pictures until i get the car back, as ive put in the thread previously the car is over at huxley motorsport having the following done

new gearbox mount

false floor in the boot to take aluminium fuel tank

front strut towers put in to take some compbrake adjustable spherical top mounts

steering column position alterations

bias pedal box installation with remote reservoirs.

and last but by no means least, a 3 inch exhaust system off either bank straight through with one back box on either side. (cherry bomb turbo 3 inch in 3 inch out)

heres a sneaky peek at the work so far.













i apologise for the small pictures don't know whats going on :S will take a fresh batch in the new year.

[Mark]

Your my hero!