{"id":1379,"date":"2017-12-04T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2017-12-04T14:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:51:53","slug":"e36-rhd-ls-swap-development-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/e36-rhd-ls-swap-development-update","title":{"rendered":"E36 RHD LS Swap : Development Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since our last post 6 weeks ago we have been utterly swamped in our service shop but we made time to continue the development work on the “Alpha” build for the LS swap kit for a <strong>RIGHT Hand Drive<\/strong> E36 chassis. This will be important to you Aussies, Kiwis, and Brits!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Vorshlag-Private\/1703-Capital\/n-65wtJ\/i-2jtmMCt\/0\/5ea9cdf5\/M\/i-2jtmMCt-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can read the latest update to the R&D thread for the RHD E36 swap starting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58620#post58620\">here<\/a><\/strong>. We started off by adding a number of items to the LS3 engine to make it fit the E36 chassis – and those parts have been added to our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vorshlag-store.com\/collections\/bmw-e36-lsx-swap\">E36 LS swap products page already<\/a><\/strong> (some of the items fit both LHD and RHD E36 swaps – but not all).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Vorshlag-Test-Pilots\/Jack-Griffens-RHD-BMW-E36-LSx-Swap\/i-wnQL3Zm\/0\/4a327c07\/M\/DSCN0554-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vorshlag-store.com\/collections\/bmw-e36-lsx-swap\/products\/vorshlag-e36-competition-steering-shaft-assembly\">E36 competition steering shaft<\/a><\/strong> was needed and fit, and the ABS relocation was also necessary. This was somewhat easier than the LHD cars – only 2 “jumper” hoses have to be made and no wiring rework. The unit moves up vertically to gain room for the full length exhaust headers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Vorshlag-Test-Pilots\/Jack-Griffens-RHD-BMW-E36-LSx-Swap\/i-W7Dttk8\/0\/6b74697b\/M\/DSCN0565-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of time was spent locking down the driveline placement and the prototype motor mounts and transmission crossmember are built.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Vorshlag-Test-Pilots\/Jack-Griffens-RHD-BMW-E36-LSx-Swap\/i-NtpHLP8\/0\/cfec95bb\/M\/DSCN0568-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All of the work above was done first so we could tackle the hardest part – the long tube headers. These will be specific to the LHD swaps, of course. Again, you can read more <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58620#post58620\">here<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since our last post 6 weeks ago we have been utterly swamped in our service shop but we made time to continue the development work on the “Alpha” build for the LS swap kit for a RIGHT Hand Drive E36 … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/e36-rhd-ls-swap-development-update\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-thread-update","category-new-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}