Hey guys. Building a track-prepped E30 with an M50/Getrag 5-speed swap. I'm at ordering engine/tranny mounts and have a question: Are the E36 mounts usable in the E30 chassis (engine/tranny)?? I'm looking at these from TMS: Turner Motorsport - Item# TDR9980001 - E46/E36/Z3 Solid Motor and Transmission Mount Kit - E36 E46 (http://www.turnermotorsport.com/html/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=TDR9980001)

Do you guys have any other suggestions?

Swap cars usually use the E28 535 (IIRC- whatever model they are green) mounts. I am working on installing some Vorshlag mounts to my car (E30 with a Euro 3.2, but the mount issues are similar/identical I think). I need to add one piece to the procedure to make the mounts sit a bit more flush. The only thing I had to do to one mount was grind the top at a different angle. I am going to try to finish it this week and post some pics.

For the tranny, I bought the UUC red race mounts.

I don't think there is any off the shelf solution for swap cars for solid motor mounts. I would not try solid metal motor mounts...I just don't think they will work.

I used the e34m5 mounts in mine, then i had solid aluminum ones made. Custom one off pieces with the trans mounts too! was pretty pimp

Thanks for the heads up...But what do you think of the solid mounts from TMS??

They don't have the right ones, last time I checked

Swap cars usually use the E28 535 (IIRC- whatever model they are green) mounts. I am working on installing some Vorshlag mounts to my car (E30 with a Euro 3.2, but the mount issues are similar/identical I think). I need to add one piece to the procedure to make the mounts sit a bit more flush. The only thing I had to do to one mount was grind the top at a different angle. I am going to try to finish it this week and post some pics.

For the tranny, I bought the UUC red race mounts.

I don't think there is any off the shelf solution for swap cars for solid motor mounts. I would not try solid metal motor mounts...I just don't think they will work.
This is a popular swap and once we have the prototypes back form gobuffs (thanks for your help!) we will get some production S/M50-to-E30 motor mounts made in Nylon and/or Polyurethane.

Would this be in the near future??

Would this be in the near future??

Hopefully before the end of this year, yes.

Just buy my M52/ZF320 swapped E30 and save your self the trouble. :)

PM me and I'll take a look...

Pictures as promised.

Would this be in the near future??

Oh wow, you're in Dubai.. I cannot imagine shipping a 7k dollar E30 over there. :o

I run a Getrag 260 (E30 325 'box) behind my 3.0 M50 and use the following mounts:

Engine: E28 535i on both sides.
Transmission: M10 engine mount (Driver side) and 635csi tranny mount (Passenger)
--Slight modification (Cut/weld) of the tranny brace was required to get the tranny mount setup to work.
--I've put 80,000 hard miles on it since doing the swap 5 years ago, with plenty
of trackwork and no problems to speak of.

The problem didn't present itself until I went with the DTM replica shifter which is hard mounted to the tranny tunnel and has a double shear shifter rod.

Gobuffs--

Do you have pictures of this shifter setup? Link to retailer?

Thanks,
Stu

A few places sell things like this. Search S14 for "DTM shifter" and you will find lots of posts. Places that sell it: AKG Motorsport (Chicago), Markus from Germany, Muzzi in Germany.

Hereis AKG's website with it...first thing ont he page. http://akgmotorsport.com/e30products.html

Thanks loads for the pics gobuffs...