Our BMW E30 with the 5.3L LM7 V8 swap has sat in the corner of the shop for months, broken and ignored. After it (twice) shattered drivetrain parts at the drag race portion of the GRM $2010 Challenge event (Oct 2010), and killed our chances at a top 5 finish, we haven’t touched the thing. We recently found another 5-spd transmission and Costas cracked it open to inspect it closely…
The trans looks “good enough” so we have been working on swapping the T5 into the car, along with some other small fixes, this past week. We had to drop the entire drivetrain out of the car to get the trans swapped, as you can see above. The plan is to autocross it next weekend and run it at a NASA Time Trial event the weekend after. You can read about the latest updates in the E30 project thread.
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