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  • E30 M3 LS2 swap...

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    Interesting swap, and cleanly done, but the E30 poses challenges that are hard to ignore:
    • The engine bay is so short that most of the engine sits well in front of the front axle centerline
    • Engine bay is very narrow
    • The brake booster impedes the LS1 engine location greatly (notice - they removed it and went to manual racing brake MCs)
    • The rear suspension is crap

    Doing a race car build makes it easier because you can ignore some of the fitment problems and hack away things like the firewall, brake booster, etc. Personally I would have cut the firewall out, set the engine back another 6", and made for a better weight distribution. Its a race car with a custom dash anyway.

    There's a well documented E30 LS1 street car build-up on bimmerforums ("garrett and steve") but the mods they do to the strut tower to remotely mount the brake booster/mc are more fab work than most want to tackle, and the engine location is on the nose. Not a swap Vorshlag will be tackling.
    Terry Fair - www.vorshlag.com
    2018 GT / S550 Dev + 2013 FR-S / 86 Dev + 2011 GT / S197 Dev + C4 Corvette Dev
    EVO X Dev + 2007 Z06 / C6 Dev + BMW E46 Dev + C5 Corvette Dev
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