Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Milsom's BMW E46 V8 Project

This is a friends project that i've been helping out on to transplant the 4.4 litre M62 V8 from a BMW 540i into an E46 Coupe body,
Donor car in standard guise

More than two angry horses



Here is a video Ollie took before any work commenced, the engine has manifolds installed but everything else from the first flange back on each side had been removed so it sounded more like an aircraft than a car,


To get a better picture of what exactly we are trying to free we bit the bullet of no more revving at 200db and started to strip the front down,



While lifting and moving equipment is sorted out for removing the engine and gearbox we decided to crack on with removing the loom. The intention is to salvage all engine running electronics from this car and any required interface between the engine and chassis modules. Without the wiring diagrams yet and with this in mind we feel the best option is to remove the entire loom intact, labelling every connector as we go so that we can the dissect the loom out of the car and re-loom all the stuff that we are going to need. As we are intending to swap over all security related aspects including the central locking system it further substantiates that removing the entire body loom is a worthwhile exercise, as we can keep all the ECU / Chassis module key coding etc etc













More to come on this


Taa

Pete

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