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Old 06-26-2007, 09:10 PM
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purdy. looks like its coming along pretty well.
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Wow man, I am absolutely in love with this car.
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Holy insane headers.

Sweet swap you got going on.
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Originally Posted by rao
The only road block so far was my decision to rebuild the entire suspension front to back.

The headers are custom made. They should be here later this week.
who made the headers?
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www.nash8503.com I don't know who makes them for Mike.
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Lookin good, Rob. *Subscribed*
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Update. The car now runs

I still have to build the exhaust do some clean up work, but it is alive















Got the bumper put back together and the fender liners in. Unfortunately one of the fog lights was broken

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nice...mabey some new seats!?!?
Old 08-07-2007, 11:24 AM
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dam, looks like it came like that stock
very nice shifter placement also, might be easier to change plugs
on the car than on a camaro
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yeah man NICE WORK! it looks stock'ish too, you could fool a lot of people ya know.
wow, thats going to be sick on the road, those chassis are super fun to drive.
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Congrats on getting it fired up.
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Fan ******* tastic!!! I'm a BMW tech, and haven't done a swap like this yet...

We've got 2/3 cars on the side of the building that NEED this to happen. I want to put one in an E30 M3 in the worst way....
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Another Bmw sleeper is alive,let the jaw dropping begin, nice job. Have you done anything with the rear subframe mounts, when you did the suspension upgrades ?
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The rear subframe mounts were seam welded. I also welded in engine mount reinforcements and a rear diff brace.
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Video?.. Looks sweet.
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it WAS cool until you broke a fog light.

now it gets a 1/10.




just messing around dude, that car is sick as aids. Would love to own one if I didn't fit all goofy in them. only thing I hate about being 6'5" is my inability to fit comfortably in a lot of cars.
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Originally Posted by BAD *** TA WS6
Fan ******* tastic!!! I'm a BMW tech, and haven't done a swap like this yet...

We've got 2/3 cars on the side of the building that NEED this to happen. I want to put one in an E30 M3 in the worst way....
I am a bmw tech as well and think that would be a cool idea. I would also like to see an ls1 in a old 8 series. I think that would be sweet.
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IM not shure if you have allready posted this.... BUT how much does the car weight?
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Originally Posted by rao
The rear subframe mounts were seam welded. I also welded in engine mount reinforcements and a rear diff brace.
Nice, that's the fun part of build...
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great project, one hell of a sleeper. surprising how much room is one of them, ive seen pics of a compnay stuffing the new M5/6 v10s into the new e90 chassis with room to spare


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