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Atom's Amazon Wagon Project Update Thread

Dash fiberglass with a rough trim.

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Mock up front clip thanks to My local BMW parts guy! Get this propped up and use it to mock up all the components for the swap ahead of time to ease the swap into the Amazon.

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How will the engine management work once you've swapped a white block in the car ? I'm assuming the BMW cluster won't be much use to you at that point, since the sensors and associated bits will be different ? Will you just keep the cluster face and replaced the innards ?
 
How will the engine management work once you've swapped a white block in the car ? I'm assuming the BMW cluster won't be much use to you at that point, since the sensors and associated bits will be different ? Will you just keep the cluster face and replaced the innards ?

Fuel and speedo are independent circuits (speedo is off the diff). Temp and oil pressure are as easy as adding BMW senders and the rest will be handled by MS3. I believe it has a tach output (to be honest I’m not super familiar).
 
You truly are an inspirational man of talent, each time I visit your thread I'm left stunned.

Thanks man. I just hope by sharing all the details (probably too many details), I?ll either A) create a how-to that someone else can use on their own project or B) it?ll get someone to try something new because they can see the steps and the finished result.

This guy on Instagram has that same gen whiteblock in his 220: https://www.instagram.com/son_of_klaus_/

It?s a rad swap

I?ve seen that. The first time I saw it I was like ?man, he deleted the booster all together? then I noticed it was on the other side. LOL.
 
I don’t know what it is about this car, but when I’m driving it’s just chill. I don’t feel a need to drive aggressive. I don’t have the urge to just get where I’m going. I just can sit back and drive. It’s pretty cool.
 
A little more dash work. Trimmed down the interface plates, added spacers to accommodate upholstery materials and a bit of air so they don’t squeak or anything.

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Regular resin

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Add thixotropic

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More work tomorrow before work maybe
 
I?ve seen that. The first time I saw it I was like ?man, he deleted the booster all together? then I noticed it was on the other side. LOL.

Took me a while to notice that too!

That intake manifold seems really ideal (fitment wise, not sure performance wise) for the tighter 120 engine bay. Kind of wish it fit the older motors.
 
Took me a while to notice that too!

That intake manifold seems really ideal (fitment wise, not sure performance wise) for the tighter 120 engine bay. Kind of wish it fit the older motors.

The fact that it?s OEM two piece (and the fuel rail mounts to the lower half) makes it ideal for a custom plenum. Yeah, the bolt pattern is 100% different.
 
Took some time this morning and on lunch to take measurements as best I can. The depth measurements are accurate. The inner surface of the two bellhousings are just “best I can” measurements. I scribed every inch going in (then two more at half inch in the Getrag).

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Then I broke out the trust old “large scale” MDF calipers

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Took a bunch of measurements

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Converted the measurements to 2D CAD

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Overlaid the two

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Looks like the M20 throw out bearing contact surface will line right up with the B5254T clutch fingers.

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I won’t be able to set final depth until the clutch slave cylinder shows up to measure resting depth. If my math/understanding is right, if I put a spacer between the flywheel and pressure plate that is the thickness of the clutch disk minus frictions (at least to the rivets) than tighten the pressure plate down, the finger height should be the maximum “stack height” and should be where the throw out bearing surface rest depth is. Correct? (Does that even make sense)
 
Some more dash work. I didn’t place the ribs exactly right (protrusion wise), but it’ll be good enough. I plan on adding a “chrome” (polished aluminum) strip between the top and bottom half. Black top, red bottom.

Reference:

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Now for the foam

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And roughed to shape

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Next I’ll resin coat it to make it a bit more rigid, then start filling.
 
Where your you installing the airbags? :-P

Nice work though, as usual. I like the idea of using foam to form. Looks like it makes it much easier than stretched cloth between the ribs to form the corners.
 
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