We have some updates to the build thread that we started in September 2013 for our BMW E36 LS1 project. This car is being built for NASA ST2 and TT2 classes, so it will have a full cage, fire system, FIA seats, and all of the wheel to wheel safety gear.
In hits, our 2nd update to this build thread, we cover the work from the past two months. This includes stripping and selling an hail damaged, engine-less E36 M3 4-door “donor chassis” that gave up all of its delicious M3 bits.
Once the M3 subframes were removed we had them bead blasted, then welded in several reinforcement kits and had them powder coated. The ST2 chassis also got a lot of attention including seam welding and additional reinforcement kits installed.
Last up we start talking about the cage that is going into this car, which has the main tubes already bent. This update has a lot of pictures showing what goes into a typical BMW race car build. You can begin reading the latest forum updates here. Enjoy!