This road rocket has been my daily driver since I fired it up on Oct. 16, 2005.Appears bone stock except for wheels/tires, exhaust pipe tips and, of course, engine compartment. email me for a detailed Word doc on the project.

 

I have a stock one M3, lets see some pics!!!

 

I agree, need pics. What's up Steve?

 

Third for pics! A friend of mine is desperate to swap a LS1/M6 into his 1993 E34.

 

Nothing much, Just working, and working on the car, cleaning ready to start putting things together,

 

TTT for pics and project documentation

 

pics.

 

I don't have enough posts to submit pics, I don't think.

 

With less posts than you I've posted pics.

 

We need some pics!

 

Yeah - get the pics up. I love 3 series swaps!!

 

Put them on www.imageshack.us and then just [*img] tag them.

 

or email them to me and I'll slap them on my mac.com homepage for people to view by hyperlink or on the site, no log-ins required.
(owen_the_soyboy@yahoo.com)

awesome project too, love those BMW's with LS1's!

 

Thats sounds cool dude

 

I'll take some pics tomorrow and try to post them or email them to one of you and you can post them.

 

cool

 

I emailed owen v8litew8 some pics.

 

okay, got the pics!
it looks incredible too, nicely done and glad to hear it was an easy fit. I didnt think you could fit an Ls1T56 into one of these early model BMW's without making it a trackcar because I didnt think the engine bay could swallow it all. VERY COOL CAR and so glad to see it looks stock on the outside, thats freakin wild!

 

Thanks for posting the pics, Owen. As you can see it is a very descent, stock appearing car, inside and out, except for the wheels/tires, exhaust pipe tips and, of course, the engine compartment. The car looks much shorter in these pics than it is. I've got to clean up the wiring a bit, get the AC working and I should eventually find somebody to paint the rear wing and trunk lid as someone keyed them before I bought the car. The engine/tranny fit like they were made for the chassis, i.e. plugs are easy to R & R, heads on studs can be R & R'ed easily without removing the engine and the shifter came up in the exact place as the original BMW shifter. It is a zero rust, zero damage, 99% original paint, car. I really love driving it to work every day and after having an '00 M Roadster, an '01 M3 convertible (3700#, 333hp) and an '03 M3 Coupe (3400#, 333hp) I finally realized my dream of a lightweight (2700#, 450hp) BMW M3 with excellent street manners and gobs of torque and hp from 1000 to 6500 rpm. I bought the engine new and personally built it to my specs and the T56 is new as well. All of the stock gauges and pedals were retained, after some fabrication, and work very well. The power steering was discarded with no problem as were the power brakes (used a Wilwood MC and changed to pedal ratio to make the brakes work very well) and ABS. The PCM and fuseblock are fairly neatly situated in the glove box. I had Ed wright program the PCM and I wired the PCM to engine myself. The GMW is self explanatory, the CSL is what BMW has called their semi-race street cars. I think it means Coupe Super Light or something like that. Anyway, it's a blast to drive. I am fantasizing about replacing the LS1/6 with an LS7 but I really don't want to go back to my '76 F250 4 X 4 while I have it apart. We'll see. I have a several page Word doc describine the project in more detail. Email me if you want to read it.

 

No longer "zee car must be faster than zee engine"!

Looks great!