Topic: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

3 years ago, I bought a cheater car. I brought home a 1994 E36 318i with a blown motor and a bunch of cosmetic issues. It's been the worst kept secret of a project, and I want to talk about it so that I'll be a bit more motivated to finish it. It kinda went on the back burner when we built the Saab because, well, the saab is reliable and we kinda like that.

So, if you're me, and you buy an E36 with a blown motor, what would you logically throw in the engine bay? Right, a 13B rotary. At least, that's where we started. I bought the rx7 before i actually bought the E36. I have the full drivetrain, wiring harness (which I started stripping out to bare essentials), and a whole bunch of other parts from that donor car. I actually bought that rx7 so long ago I was trying to figure out how to adapt the brakes from it onto the daytona at one point.

But. rotaries are expensive. And in the aftermath of scrapping the Daytona I looked around my garage, and noticed just how many parts and engines I still have.... So what does a dumb engineer do at this point? If you guessed set the long term goal of making both engines work so that one day you can show up, race saturday with one engine, and sunday with another, you win! That's the stretch goal anyway. For now, Daytona powered E36 is the first step.

Some know this plan already. I keep secrets like a cracked bucket holds water. I wanted to keep it quiet and just show up with the car, but honestly, I need motivation to keep working at something faster than a snails pace. And talking about it helps. Talking about it keeps me excited. So I'm going to start a build journal.

Alright, so what's the status of the car right now? Well, I found a transmission, built some mounts, and a dummy engine is sitting in the engine bay. I've been working on re-engineering the intake for reasons I'll talk about later on. The car is caged, the seat is mocked up. I have an engine on a stand waiting for a tear down and refresh. I need to order a custom clutch and drive shaft. What I really need is time.

To pick a point to start however, let's talk about the transmission. what do you do when you have an engine that was transverse originally, but you want it longitudinal? Internet rabbit holes. In 1994 and 1995 the dodge dakota came with the 2.5L 4 cylinder. The same common block that was in my daytona. That engine was mounted up to a 2WD AX15 trans. What is so magical about that? Well the AX15 shares a bellhousing bolt pattern with the toyota R154, as well as the Aisin AR5 (also known as the MA5 in chevy cars/trucks). Cool. So I bought a 1994 Dakota AX15, telling myself I'd start with that. It was direct fit after all. Until I stuck it in the car. Because it's a truck trans, the shifter wanted to come up through the tunnel where the HVAC mess was. Not ideal. So I started looking around, and the MA5 from a Solstice/Sky is not that expensive. Junkyard prices are downright reasonable actually. And the gear ratios are way better. So dad and I drove to Jersey and picked one up. You would not believe how naturally this rig bolted together, and went into the car. The engine sits perfectly over the cross memeber, and the shifter is right in line with the stock trans tunnel opening. Now all I need to do is measure a bunch of things, and see if I need to modify the input shaft at all to make it line up correctly with the crank and pilot bearing.

Pictures are worth a thousand words, I'll get some posted tonight and tomorrow once I figure out the best alternative to photobucket after they broke the internet.

This should be fun.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

Curious about oil pickup when converting from east-west to north-south.  Is any mod necessary?  Also, I'm transitioning out of the 13B world so let me know if you need anything.

BTW, the saturday/sunday engine conversion has long been Spank's dream but he's been surrounded by people like me doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ixckCSoN9M#t=22s

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

We have the same issue with shifter location on the Dodge AX15 we're using in the V8 miata.  There's no more HVAC stuff in our car, so I'm just making a long dog-leg shifter.  What clutch setup were you able to run with the AR5?

Sounds like a fun project.  Flickr has worked well for me lately and has 1TB of storage for free with full resolution upload capability.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

cheseroo wrote:

Curious about oil pickup when converting from east-west to north-south.  Is any mod necessary?  Also, I'm transitioning out of the 13B world so let me know if you need anything.

BTW, the saturday/sunday engine conversion has long been Spank's dream but he's been surrounded by people like me doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ixckCSoN9M#t=22s

I don't think anything is necessary in this engine. pickup sits in a low spot in the pan anyway with no baffles. however, I think I need to modify the pan to clear the crossmember, so I'll have to modify the pickup anyway. Might as well add baffles while I'm in there.

No idea what I need for the 13B. It's been so long since I looked at it. Likely gaskets and exhaust. but shipping exhaust is stupid.

I really want to get to the point where I can do the saturday night engine swap. I think it would be fun. We'll see how much work that takes.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

egesledder wrote:

We have the same issue with shifter location on the Dodge AX15 we're using in the V8 miata.  There's no more HVAC stuff in our car, so I'm just making a long dog-leg shifter.  What clutch setup were you able to run with the AR5?

Sounds like a fun project.  Flickr has worked well for me lately and has 1TB of storage for free with full resolution upload capability.

I won't abandon the HVAC. I like having a functioning defroster in the car. That's why I moved on to the MA5. For a clutch, I'm just going to have someone make me one that's a standard daytona clutch with the GM spline. Shouldn't be hard to get done. I'm sure if I search through mountains of catalogs I can find an off the shelf that works, but I already don't have enough time on my hands.


If you happen to be on the east coast and want a questionable AX15 with no bellhousing, I can load it up and bring it to a race.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

TheEngineer wrote:

But. rotaries are expensive. And in the aftermath of scrapping the Daytona I looked around my garage, and noticed just how many parts and engines I still have.... So what does a dumb engineer do at this point?

Fuse the crank shaft of one of the Daytona engines to the output shaft of the rotary and use it as a torque augmenter?


TheEngineer wrote:

If you guessed set the long term goal of making both engines work so that one day you can show up, race saturday with one engine, and sunday with another, you win! That's the stretch goal anyway. For now, Daytona powered E36 is the first step.

Oh, or that I guess.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

TheEngineer wrote:

...

Pictures are worth a thousand words, I'll get some posted tonight and tomorrow once I figure out the best alternative to photobucket after they broke the internet.

This should be fun.

I've been using:
https://postimages.org/
for pictures I post and forget.

Guildenstern wrote:

Fuse the crank shaft of one of the Daytona engines to the output shaft of the rotary and use the rotary as a supercharger.
...

ftfy.

Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

Pictures from picking up the MA5 and fitting it to the engine the first time

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/813/27392116828_1c45033d55_k.jpg

Comparing the AX15 and MA5. Shows just how far off the shifter was on the AX15
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/870/27392116138_01ce92a318_k.jpg

Bellhousings swapped, ready to bolt to the dummy block.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/813/27392111038_5426e6fecd_z.jpg

Bolted on, without the oil pan so it looks weird.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/790/40369416275_c6293cd166_z.jpg

Hanging in place so I can align it and make mounts
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/866/27392110138_d0a37b63c8_z.jpg

Showing just how perfectly the shifter lines up
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/894/40369415535_263737821e_z.jpg

Sitting on engine mounts for the first time
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/785/40369412705_e6953498fa_z.jpg

Starting to check accessories. Water pump is fine, but the alternator interferes with the frame rail.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/877/27392102978_4e622f30e1_z.jpg

One just for fun. How I picked up the latest extra engine from the junk yard. Hatchbacks rule. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/816/40369409885_e0722a7358_z.jpg

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

Big project prior to installing the cage, fixing the jack points. The chassis was fairly solid, but the actual jack points like to rust out on the E36. Bad enough that I couldn't lift the car on the stock points on a few corners. So I build some boxes to put the car up on while I worked under it. You don't want to know how I got it up like this.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/820/39456213730_854bd284ff_z.jpg

Example of what I found when I started cutting out the bottom of the rockers.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/820/40369405775_d9d2fdba76_z.jpg

Example of how I fixed it. Welded in spreader plates up inside the rockers, backed up against the areas the cage lands. Then more spreaders that tie out onto the bottom of the car. Weld in a piece of DOM with a few pieces attaching it to the spreaders as well as the stock lift points (behind the DOM in this pic)
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/885/40369403095_c2e04de571_z.jpg

All sealed up and primed.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/878/40369402455_3e6a70f3e9_z.jpg

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

I'm skipping forward a bit because I don't want to go over the cage build just yet tonight. So lets talk about the intake. The stock intake has a 90deg elbow that wraps the throttle body around the engine. This is fine in a transverse layout, but in the BMW that puts the throttle body up against the firewall. See here:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/877/27392102978_4e622f30e1_z.jpg

Because of how the intercooler piping will run eventually, this is not ideal. I'd really like the throttle body facing forward, and look at that freeze plug just begging to be knocked out. So what I really want is something like this:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/822/26393833677_f0a62fc17b_z.jpg


However, there's a problem. And it's the inside of the intake. The way it's cast the runners aren't fully open inside, they're up on a ledge and the incoming air blows over them as it comes through the elbow. When I move the throttle body it just pressurizes the intake and air has to make a big curve up and around to go through the runners. See this picture from when I cut the intake open to make sense of what i'm trying to say.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/787/26393831997_1c2f8f46f2_z.jpg

So what to do. I decided I might as well cut the runners open and then weld it back up. I mean, how much worse can I make it? Runner length gets shorter, but in a race you're always in boost, so who cares. So I did that.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/788/26393831317_75ef344ecc_z.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/785/41221848562_3982577da5_z.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/865/41265266361_b3fef48209_k.jpg

After that it's just a matter of welding it back up.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/784/40551984164_381e2fdcb3_k.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/902/41265625521_0987de752b_k.jpg

I'm not 100% done with it yet. Need to weld on the throttle body and seal off the other side. but it's close.


I'll leave it there for tonight. Tomorrow I'll show the cage build. And from there? The rest. A long way to go.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

jiggermyster wrote:
Guildenstern wrote:

Fuse the crank shaft of one of the Daytona engines to the output shaft of the rotary and use the rotary as a supercharger.
...

ftfy.

YEA!!!! I mean above their Engineered optimum RPM they spit out as much gas as they burn. Sort of a pre stage burner.

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12 (edited by TheEngineer 2018-04-09 09:02 AM)

Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

I appreciate the ambition of combining the engines. But i'm not that talented. And the engine bay isn't THAT big.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

Chris .....This is Epic!
You need to continue.....
Just the fact that you are using that engine is cool enough!
I would suggest you ditch the intake completely and make one.
Grab the intake gasket and some tube, cut out a thick plate in the shape of the gasket and add a log style tube for the intake.
I would do it in mild steel, easier than aluminum to fab.
Hit me up if you need anything.
Manny

Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

I did think about custom making the intake, but a few things turned me off the idea. It's not a cross flow head, so the intake and exhaust are interwoven. Makes it a bit more annoying. And I have like 4 intakes just laying around. I'll see how the modded one works. If it's a failure I'll go the custom route. I don't mind working in aluminum that much, Welding it is getting easier with practice.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

So. Clutch. I was resigned to having a custom clutch made to get us where we need to go. But I decided to give it one last look, and I think I might have found one. I found this catalogue of clutch parts and looked up the daytona and sky parts.

http://www.manualtransmissionpart.com/m … -16_us.pdf

Dodge - 9.125" disk 13/16-18 spline
Saturn - 9" disk  1.125 26 spline

So search for a 9.125" disk with 1.125"-26 spline. And a bunch come up. All Chevy/GMC/Izuzu. Here's the list I pulled together organized by the LUK part numbers

1. 04-138
S10/T10, Blazer 2.2 4cyl 94-95
BLAZER (FULL SIZE), C10-30, K5-30, R10-30, V10-30, SILVERADO, TAHOE  3.1V6 5 speed 95
S15/T15, JIMMY, SONOMA  2.2 94-95

2. 04-155 **
S10/T10, Blazer 2.2 4cyl  96-01, 04
S15/T15, JIMMY, SONOMA 2.2 96-01
BLAZER (FULL SIZE), C10-30, K5-30, R10-30, V10-30, SILVERADO, TAHOE  3.1V6 5 speed 96-98
Izuzu Hombre 4cly 96-00

3. 04-207 **
S10/T10, Blazer 2.2 4cyl 02-03
S15/T15, JIMMY, SONOMA 2.2  02-03

4. 04-236
Chevy Colorado/GMC Canyon 4Cyl  2.4L 04-06
Chevy Colorado/GMC Canyon 4Cyl  2.8L 07-11
Izuzu I-280 2.8L 06
Izuzu I-290 2.9L 07-08


Store near me has a kit in stock that matches the 96-01 and 02-03 S10. Going to visit after work and see if they'll let me hold a daytona clutch up to it and confirm things like thickness and hub size to see if it will fit under a stock daytona pressure plate.

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Update:
Went to the store and held up an daytona clutch disc to the S10 one. It's damn perfect. Right diameter, right thickness, right hub height, and correct spline. And there is a LUK kit on amazon Prime for $60. I'm calling this one a huge win.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

TheEngineer wrote:

Update:
Went to the store and held up an daytona clutch disc to the S10 one. It's damn perfect. Right diameter, right thickness, right hub height, and correct spline. And there is a LUK kit on amazon Prime for $60. I'm calling this one a huge win.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

Check, check, is this thing on?

I need to finish this stupid car. It's been in my driveway for FOUR FREAKING YEARS. I have Friday off, and I think it's time to work on things again. If it's nice weather, modifying an oil pan to fit. If it's crappy weather, working in the garage on the alternator relocation.


Big things to get the car driving
1. make better engine mounts to finalize it's location
2. Finalize all the accessory mounting on the engine.
3. get a drive shaft made
4. Take out all the wiring and strip it back to just the bare essentials for ABS, windows, lights, and HVAC.
5. Build in the Daytona wiring to the car and integrate to the OEM cluster
6. lots and lots of plumbing
7. Replace all the damn brakes.

I think that will get me to a running driving car. Then it's the thousands of little details to make it race ready.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

I did get to work on the oil pan over the weekend. I pulled the one off the motor slated for the BMW (a junkyard motor that hasn't been gone through yet), and holy hell the oil pan was gross. The oil itself looked scary, but who knows how much condensation has gotten in there sitting in the junk yard and then my garage.

https://imgur.com/4CcI4NY.jpg

There was a quarter inch of slime coating the bottom, which was fun to get out.

https://imgur.com/XwPdzvR.jpg


I finally got it all cleaned up, and then noticed that the gap between the pan and that second inner skin was completely filled with cooked oil, so out it came.

https://imgur.com/F6DLq4e.jpg

I don't have a good after picture, but I got the pan nice and clean and ready to be modified.


Speaking of modifying, I'm now in a pickle on retaining oil capacity. I took an old pan from a non-common block motor, and cut it down to test fit on my dummy motor. I have it cut to a depth that would juuust barely give the crank clearance if it was enclosed. At the back I have barely 1 cylinder's worth of space to build a drop section to hold oil. It's not enough. So I think my options are figure out a dry sump, or move the engine back. I'm leaning towards move the engine back. It screws up the perfect shifter alignment, but we do have a bunch of space between the firewall and engine, so moving it back 3-4 inches would give me enough space to build the oil pan I need. Moving it back would also let me raise it a half an inch and give me some peace of mind on crank clearance.

https://imgur.com/DrxXyBN.jpg


I'll have to find my engine support bars that I had fabbed up before so I can re-hang it and make new engine mounts with the motor further back.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

handful of pictures of the cage from while it was getting painted. We went a little above and beyond with this cage.

https://imgur.com/e7Eo2vi.jpg

The door bars bend outwards more than is evident in this picture. They're really close to the door skins at their outer most point.

https://imgur.com/wtVy1jV.jpg


All wrapped up while the rest of the inside of the car was/still is being painted.

https://imgur.com/GlqKR5k.jpg

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

Been trying to tackle the alternator. Mentioned above in the stock location it interferes with the frame rail. So I'm moving it to the other side of the engine.

First things first, I threw the intake and exhaust manifolds on to look at clearances in the engine bay.

Lots of space, but the turbo flange is at a weird angle. We'll see if I can make it work or if a custom one is needed.
https://imgur.com/eDIbe3O.jpg

Lots of space to move the engine back too. The reason I had set it this far forward to start with is I thought I would use the stock intake and throttle body location, which required it to be forward from the firewall.
https://imgur.com/ZCOD907.jpg

So for the alternator I printed this test bracket and stuck the alternator in place.
https://imgur.com/AgHW01D.jpg

It technically fits, but it complicates things. On the back side the wires coming off the alternator point down, and it also blocks the turbo water return port in the block. Not great.
https://imgur.com/2Qv1ksC.jpg

I stuck it on the other engine too, and I think it's just a slight bit too far forward to line up with the drive pulley. something i can fix easily.
https://imgur.com/NekKp4F.jpg

to try and fix these issues I decided to rotate the alternator 180° and use the single ear as the top mount. This would allwo the wires to exit the top, and it clears up space around the turbo water return. I don't have a picture of the printed bracket, but the new one looks like this.
https://imgur.com/JNHL4Ar.jpg


Big issues to solve still
1. the bottom mount will need to extend a good bit away from the engine to reach the other alternator mounting ears. Need to make sure I can do this while keeping it rigid.
2. I will need to do a lot of heat shielding as the turbo and exhaust manifold are going to BAKE the alternator in it's new home.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

Well, since the first question people ask me when we show up at races is "when will you finish the BMW?", here goes, it is about abandoned. It's been sitting in my driveway doing nothing for years. Life just keeps getting more busy. I've mentioned it before, but I bought the E36 about a month into dating Kirsten, she helped me pick it up. Since then we got serious, then engaged, then married (twice kinda, thanks covid), bought a project house, she changed jobs, I changed jobs, I got a second job by accident. Life doesn't give you more free time.

I still would like to finish it, but we're giving up on the dodge motor. I've sent my piles of spare parts to the scrap yard, and I'm getting rid of the spare motor that's been occupying a corner of my garage. It's just not worth it for a joke anymore. Throwing hundreds of pounds of chrysler parts into a rented dumpster was theraputic.

Likely we will throw the spare Saab motor in this car because we know it pretty well. I've finally got my garage close enough to ready to accept a car, so next year I'll figure out how to drag it in there and see if I can't finally build this thing.

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Re: Our latest build, because stupidity knows no bounds.

RIP the DodgeMW. We hardly knew ye.

Also, you're in the right part of the country to get some RWD Saab-swapping advice, for sure.

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