Hi everybody!

Me and two friends of mine started a team called Magnus Racing a few years ago, now it's time to make it more official.
We lived in the same city in Finland and we still have our garages down there. Everyone has their own car to build, aim is to go faster without looking bad.

Like us on Facebook to see those other projects and more updates:
http://www.facebook.com/magnusracingteam

This thread is for my BMW E30 built to streetlegal TimeAttack racer.

Everything started from this, orginal BMW 320i 1987:


In few months I had bought and done a lot of stuff and car looked like this:
18" wheels                                   http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … asa007.jpg
D2 coilovers and 325i disc brakes  http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … aan011.jpg
Headers                                        http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … C03164.jpg
Typ188 differential                       http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … ivusta.jpg
Powerflex bushes                          http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … saa006.jpg
Sparco seat and Momo wheel        http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … taa002.jpg

By that time I had made all the chassis work to make it rust free, good subject to start a bigger project.

BMW was hold in the garage for few years and I only scraped some stuff together:
M30 engine                                  http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … rsu007.jpg
E36 M3 spindles                           http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … uva141.jpg
Had a cheap coilover kit                http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … s09009.jpg
E34 M5 rear axle                          http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … G_4774.jpg

Recent years I've done more or less, at least I've tried
First fitting for the engine             http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … G_4937.jpg
Something was missing                http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … G_5396.jpg
Looking better                              http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … G_6414.jpg
Twin charging components           http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 000622.jpg
E46 steering rack                         http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 000849.jpg
6-speed ZF                                  http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 000975.jpg
Test wheels                                 http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 3ff646.jpg
Roll cage work in progress            http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … a3afad.jpg
Battle of axles E30 vs. E34          http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 501abc.jpg
Pedalbox fitted                             http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … e0e5dc.jpg
Seat and steering wheel re-located   http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 05feeb.jpg



All pictures can be found from photobucket:
http://s187.photobucket.com/user/mice32 … ry/?page=1
Highlights from garaget.org:
http://www.garaget.org/?car=291564
Our team facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/magnusracingteam

Thanks for watching, more updates coming soon!
Också fattar och skriver lite svenska, men allt i Facebook ska skrivas på engelska!

Got BBS RF wheel centres today, they're from 8x17" ET40 wheel:


Fitted them to my friend's car which has 325mm discs with Wilwood Superlite calipers, needed 15mm spacer to fit.
I'm planning to buy same discs (E46 M3) and Cayenne/Touareg 6-piston calipers in front. There won't be too much space:



Also made little room to rear seat area so I can make the new shock towers.
From this:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 1ce5f7.jpg
To this:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 6a4d8c.jpg

Ser väldigt trevligt ut!

Prem lagd!

Tack!

I had to make more room for the rear axle as it didn't fit as high as I wanted, next step is to modify body beams if that's not enough.
Otherwise there would be problems with trailing arm and output shaft angles with desired drive height.


http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 55d59a.jpg

New plate allowing even more lift of the axle if needed, now there's about 4cm space above the carrier:

Today postman brought this quick release/snap off hub for steering wheel, it would have been very hard to climb in and out of the car when the rollcage is finished with the door X-brace.





Now I'm waiting my custom K-Sport coilover kit, it's based on the Circuit -model, but customized at the factory to my needs.
Front coilovers are E36 M3 type and rears E34 type which are a lot shorter than E36 or E30 shock.
They should arrive soon..

Coilover order came today, thanks for K-Sport Finland for an easy and fast transaction!

Looking good


http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 93b91b.jpg



I need to design topmounts to the front with 4-bolt fastening, which allows me to make caster adjustment into the chassis. Also rear end topmounts need a little bit of modifying, thinking of spherical bearing instead of solid mounting.

Now I got all the parts to finish the rollcage, lot's of work on the way!

Started with the front end last weekend, now it starts to take form.

This was the beginning, only showing approximate location of the top:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 1746c7.jpg

Took this picture today, other half almost ready:

And another:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 86b427.jpg

Placing of the roll cage tube:


Also made a 3D model of the front top mount, just needs to be machined:

Started with the rear end, but ended up to cut a lot metal off.. Pics coming soon.

Designing the shock tower:


Finally found the brake calipers in affordable price. Porsche Cayenne Brembos 6- and 4-piston calipers:


And E46 M3 front discs:

Time for a little update.

Worked with the rear end a couple of days, lots of cutting and welding new structure.
Axle is now 5cm higher than orginal mounts would allow, that should be enough. Only little sheet metal work to do.

Looking empty, again:


Almost there:

Massive brakes? Guess does the caliper fit with the E36 king pin? Nope, needs "a little" modification too



Compared to 1,5liter bottle:


Ingen som vill kommentera? Bra eller anus?

Jävlar vilket häftigt bygge, prem lagd!

Först tänkte jag, ah det bromsoket var ju inte överdrivet stort men sen när andra bilden kom....

Ja jävlars vilka bromsar!

Najs bromsar och najs bygge! Kämpa på

Ceasarsalladen skrev:

Först tänkte jag, ah det bromsoket var ju inte överdrivet stort men sen när andra bilden kom....

Ja jävlars vilka bromsar!

Najs bromsar och najs bygge! Kämpa på

Jag tänkte PRECIS likadant

Dom är ju ganska manliga

Here comes the update part:

Not much progress with the car last days due to working all day, but I have to try this week. And next week we'll go to Gatebil Mantorp, as usual 

But, I've done little modeling and measuring in my 'billet steel rocker arm' project. Bought a new orginal rocker arm and got it measured at job.


Maybe we'll get something like this:

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 8bc6be.jpg

Also bought a new fuel cell, 60liter JAZ, which will be placed just about down there:



Check out our facebook page, there should be some updates of BMW E21 project soon

Wasn't satisfied of the rear seat area design I made earlier, so I made it again and it became much better I think. Looks a bit more orginal and more simple:


Some slot to be welded:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 79b933.jpg

Also got shock towers and half of the inner wheel archs done:

Not much happened this summer, but today I continued with the rollcage.. Also rear shock towers are finished.

Fitting the pipes:


Dropped the cage for welding:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 75837f.jpg

More coming soon, keep in touch!

Some welding.. What do you think? Not much experience, but I think it's good enough:


Decided to put a pair of extra pipes to the cage:


Next week should be more productive, I dream of finishing the rollcage, we'll see

Ser skitbra ut!

Ta-daa!





http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x281 … 91e8c7.jpg

Also bought a nice differential and propeller shaft, which are durable enough, at least I hope so..