Kevin Shasteen Posted August 14, 2004 Share Posted August 14, 2004 I was combing the archives of LS1tech.com when I came upon a thread asking for information on the BMW LS1 Swap. The reply was to check out the obvious...Vorshlag.com but also gave another site where the BMW LS1 swap has been completed...and the guy gives excellant tech info. The site is http://www.Nash8503.com For those of you who are interested, this link also has other BMW SBC conversions listed on the "Cool Conversions" link on the left - simply scroll downward till you find the link and click away. I must confess...this swap has caught my attention. If/when I ever do decide to commit on the LS1 swap I may have to flip a coin between the Z and a Bimmer (?). BTW: I did email Mike Collins..the owner of the Nash8503 site - and he advised me that he will be putting together a kit for the engine install. Hopefully he will complete his kit a lot quicker than the Vorshlag.com folks. Kevin, (Yea,Still an Inliner) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john kosmatka Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Man that would make one sick daily driver. An ls1 325i with air and all the amenaties. I can dream cant I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruxGNZ Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Thanks for the link Kevin! I tried searching for V-8 conversions in BMW's, but only came up with two or three hits. A buddy of mine wants to do a LS1 in a 3 series and wanted me to find some information for him... and me !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stony Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 hmmmm moving the motor off center to clear the steering column???? thats sounds like bad juju. and holy cow i hope those are just sample headers so theycan build a jig and do some quality welds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustrocket Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Perhaps the exhaust woes could be remedied by some upswept headers? I always thought this conversion was awesome, and i've been trying to find these links forever. Has anybody seen the sr20 and 2jz-gte bimmers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Shasteen Posted August 19, 2004 Author Share Posted August 19, 2004 I just received an email from Mike Collins (owner of the BMW LS1 site) regarding the projected time-line we can expect the kit to begin/completed. Quote: "I will definately be creating a kit but I just dont see it being ready until this winter. I am giving a lot of thought of how to do this. The motor mounts are very custom and would require a core exchange with the crossmember but I have some ideas that might simpligy things. I wont have A/C working this summer either. I know it (A/C) will fit but requires a custom bracket that will b easier to fabricate once the motor is out of the car this fall. Right now I am having way too much fun driving the car so I dont want to start tearing it down just yet." ....having too much fun driving it(?). I can only imagine how much fun that could be! Kevin, (Yea,Still an Inliner) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaniel Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Man that would make one sick daily driver. An ls1 325i with air and all the amenaties. I can dream cant I. Sorry for dragging up and old post but I couldn't resist. Yes it does make a wonderful daily driver. Been driving mine for nearly 2 years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG58 Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 hmmmm moving the motor off center to clear the steering column???? thats sounds like bad juju. and holy cow i hope those are just sample headers so theycan build a jig and do some quality welds Chrysler did it in the 60's to give the correct U-Joint geometry. Seems like a similar Idea... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators BRAAP Posted September 9, 2009 Administrators Share Posted September 9, 2009 (edited) Sorry for dragging up and old post but I couldn't resist. Yes it does make a wonderful daily driver. Been driving mine for nearly 2 years now. Thaniel! Didn't know you were a long time member here? Belated welcome to HybridZ. Take a gander at our BMW Daily driver thread, and please share your LSx E36!... (when I started my LSx BMW M3 conversion I may have mentioned/linked your build in that thread...) http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=147547 Edited September 9, 2009 by BRAAP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators RTz Posted September 9, 2009 Administrators Share Posted September 9, 2009 Chrysler did it in the 60's to give the correct U-Joint geometry. Seems like a similar Idea... And the OE location for the L-series in an S30 is also off center Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaniel Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Thaniel! Didn't know you were a long time member here? Belated welcome to HybridZ. Take a gander at our BMW Daily driver thread, and please share your LSx E36!... (when I started my LSx BMW M3 conversion I may have mentioned/linked your build in that thread...) http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=147547 Yah my first love is Nissan. I joined up on this board when I was doing my Nissan V6 into the Rx-7 project. That was a fun car although small. I'll check out your thread. On and for the record my engine is mounted down the centerline of the car. The offset thing is what some swappers did for clearance. Not that I have anything against that it's just I didn't have to on mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators BRAAP Posted September 9, 2009 Administrators Share Posted September 9, 2009 And the OE location for the L-series in an S30 is also off center Common in OE. Crank centerline is offset to the passenger side in the BMW E36 too. JTR V-8 Z is offset to the passenger side! If you stop to think about it, it makes sense to offset to the passenger side on a few levels. 1) For a track oriented, left hand drive sports car, a slight passenger offset of the engine/trans offsets the drivers weight for more equal left to right weight distribution. 2) As mentioned, for US market left hand drive cars allows more steering-to-engine clearance. 3) Lines up truer to the diff input! The diff input is offset to the passenger side in rear wheel drive cars. Some manufactures will offset the diff case back to the driver side a smidge, but in most cases, not enough to center the diff input to the center-line of the car. In the case of the BMW E36, the diff case is centered in the car, so the input of the diff is offset to the passenger side by 1â€. With how BMW designed the piloted driveshaft/Guibo trans coupling, they offset the engine and trans centerline to the passenger side by the same amount for a straight and true shot to the diff input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators BRAAP Posted November 20, 2009 Administrators Share Posted November 20, 2009 Father-son E30 LS1 project; http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=699289 Video of car running; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators BRAAP Posted August 25, 2010 Administrators Share Posted August 25, 2010 Here is a list of the known LSx BMW E36 kits available or in the works; As mentioned early on, the Vorshlag kit; http://www.vorshlag.com/index.php?cPath=0_1_4_63 Nash was also mentioned and linked early. New Age Hotrods; http://www.nahrods.com/ We all know JTR with the V-8 Z kit, well they are also working on a BMW conversion kit, hopefully to be available soon! I am fortunate enough to be working with them on the prototype kit, we're finalizing few details before JTR offers the mounts, headers, etc to the public. JTR is also going to offer traditional SBC kit as well. (I am currently working with JTR on the LSx kit with my '97 M3, finalizing a few specifics before committing on the final mount design. Hope to have both shorties and long tubes available as well). http://www.jagsthatrun.com/BMW_Order.html Ford 5.0 conversion kit/instructions; http://e36v8.com/index.html Samberg Rod and Custom, (of LSx RX7 fame) recently released a very nice kit; http://www.norotors.com/index.php?topic=623.0 Here's a short list of a a few guys have recently got theirs fired up and running. Thaniel of corse has his, as did Rao, but he parted his out. HBZ Member MAS280 is running the Samberg kit, just out of paint, not on the road yet; http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1214157 A gentleman local to us here in Portland, using a Camaro LS1/T56 in his '97 M3 sedan and also the Samberg kit, hopefully to be on the road this weekend, (taking my HPTuners over there this weekend for VATS delete and tach signal change). http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1503369 Bimerok built his own mounts, headers etc. His headers came out wonderful; http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1289987 357i recently got his up and running, another DIY conversion; http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1347123 RahgBag recently got his up and running recently, Vorshlag kit; http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1363423 Last and certainly the slowest progress of them all, mine. http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1259268 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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