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I wanted to have an idea how the front suspension from e36 would fit, so i fitted it with tie-raps:



now i have an indication where the control arms should be.
The steering rack is to low now, so i bought a sump from a bmw x5, which does not have the sump in the front.
with the x5 sump fitted, the powersteering pump will still be in the way. so i bought a electic pump from a citroen berlingo
i hope i can make that work.

when i got rid of the powersteeringpump the situation was like this:

so i used a pulley from the timing belt from a m40 engine, and put it on the tensioner.

Some great custom work and more coming up, thanks for sharing!

wow...this is going to be good

There are still several things that need to be done before the engine can get into the engine bay.
I made some progress on the base plates where the engine mount will be welded to.
the right side was not that big of a challenge.

however, later i made an other one because on the top right side, this one isn't exactly perfect.

on the left side, the oil lines run trough the motor mount on a 740i.

i found out that on a x5, the motor mount is mounted on a other position and there is a separate flange.

so i made this:

some nice work there mate. never seen the oil lines go through a mount before!

Very cool. I'll be watching this project intently.
It's almost like a merger of both of my own BMW's (E21 and E39 540i)

Amazing work. Could you show/photo how you integrated the rear lollipop bushes for the new front arms?

I haven't mounted them yet. first I have to fabricate the front subframe. But i have to fit the engine in the engine bay to see how to make it.
I have been busy with the flywheel. when that's finished, the transmission can be fitted to the engine.

so.. I deleted the part closest to the engine from the duall mass flywheel.
the part what is left looks like this:

Then I had a machine shop make this bushing for me, and pressed it in.

I had a flywheel from a automatic trans, milled the center out, put it over the bushing and welded it to the flywheel.

then milled all the excess material by the machine shop.

I TIG welded the bushing to the flywheel and brought it to a clutch/flywheel specialist who balanced it for me and made me a sinter clutch.

Nice works again, Adje!

Impressive detailed work indeed!

any progress adje? its been a while since we have heard from you? im interested in your e36 front suspension please can we have more pictures of this? im interested to see how this has turned out.

I'm not pleased to say I have made verry little progress.
It is becouse I had to move it all to an other shed.
This is the last week of moving, but then I still have to get the new location installed as a workshop again.
I allso have been busy drifting my e36 325i. That allso took some time.

Oh I feel real sorry that they made you go drifting lol

I know its not e21 related, but this is one of the reasons why I build this project.
I hope the e21 wil be more sideways with more smoke than the e36.
so here is another picture:

and hey, its stil a BMW

now i'm almost fully installed in the new workshop. The e36 goes on-hold and i hope to get cracking on the e21 drift car in the coming evenings again!

pic of the new location: