Dallas Performance, LLC has partnered with Vorshlag Motorsports, LLC to build what will be an engine swap kit like no other. Dallas Performance offers fabrication, engineering, and production services second to none. Vorshlag offers BMW suspension design, engineering and manufacturing experience, creating a combination that will produce the best swap kit in the industry.
What happens when you take one of the best sports coupes ever produced (BMW E36 chassis) and mate it with one of the highest performing engines ever produced (LSX)? Some have already called it "a religious experience". We call it the best performing, most affordable super car on the planet. Imagine a car weighing 2500-3000 pounds (depending on weight saving mods) with 500hp for $15-$20,000. You can easily build a car matching the performance of cars 5 times the cost. An LS1 powered BMW E36 creates a marriage that no single manufacturer could ever build. This may not be the first E36 LS1 kit on the market, but it will soon be the best.
Design Goals
We've been listening to customer feedback over the development of this kit. The Kit reflects what we've heard customers want:
- Quality - Dallas Performance produces these in house to ensure that we can build reproducible kits every time in quantity. Details like engine placement and angle were not overlooked.
- Performance - This Kit will allow our customers to build "mild to wild" cars. Whether your goal is a daily driver or a dedicated track terror, this is your solution.
- Flexibility - Some of the highest names in the aftermarket have asked for parts from our kit. We know that you may want to build your own parts and use just pieces of the Kit. Either way, you'll have the options available to you without breaking the bank.
- Price - Since we are using production runs to build this kit, you will receive a kit that benefits from higher quality and similar price to other kits. We encourage you to compare our kit against others, the value for your dollar with our quality components will be readily apparent. If you had a set of high end headers built with these features it would cost what the entire kit does.
- Keep the BMW in it - This kit allows you to maintain the steering and braking feel that makes a BMW a BMW. ABS will still work. Steering feel will be OEM quality. Compromises to these two key BMW systems can ruin what makes the E36 chassis so universally admired.
The Stage 0 Kit
As a collaborative effort, our design goals, and customer input - we've broken the kit into several stages. This Stage 0 kit includes the following:
- Motor Mounts (Powdercoated, TIG welded with poly mounts)
- 1 3/4" SS T304 headers (CNC bent primaries & precision formed collectors, 3/8" laser cut head flanges, aircraft based V-band collector flanges, Argon back purged and TIG, built on our elaborate fixtures). Stainless steel weld-on O2 bungs are also included. Due to chassis constraints near the collectors these need to be added just downstream of the header V-band collectors in the after-header exhaust system (not included).
- Vorshlag Spec'd custom 2-piece collapsible steering shaft with BMW specific splines at both ends (Chrome-moly needle bearing steering shaft built to withstand the extreme duties of this Kit while reducing steering slop and increasing header primary clearance)
- Transmission Crossmember (Powdercoated, TIG welded in our fixtures, with Nylon bushing for NVH control)
- 1 piece race inspired driveshaft (3" aluminum, including Spicer U-joints, T56 input yoke, and custom 4 bolt BMW 188mm axle flange)
- New bolts and hardware for steering shaft, motor mount, and transmission crossmember installation.
These production built pieces get the hard core DIY'er or shop the essential parts you need to get started on this swap without the need for fabrication work on your own.
Buying this proven kit vs. "making your own" parts saves you trial and error mistakes as well as hundreds of hours of engineering, layout and fabrication time. This Stage 0 kit gets you well on your way to a running V8 BMW without having to spend time and money designing and fabricating custom headers, drivetrain bracketry, custom steering shaft and driveshaft, etc., and the volume we can build these parts in lends savings to an individual as well as better production manufacturing methods (laser cutting, CNC bending, production fixturing, etc) that make for a more precision built part.
Additional Parts
The optional Dallas Performance/Vorshlag E36 LS1 Stage 1 Kit has most of the additional parts and systems needed to make a running and functional street car, such as a radiator, coolant hoses, power steering hoses, fuel line connections, fuel pump, new/custom T56 hydraulic Throw Out Bearing and remote bleed, etc. That stage will be available on our website soon. We will also be distributing these kits using approved shops in certain locations that have experience with these types of installaitons - please contact us with your location if you would like to have a shop contact you about an installation quote.
Stage 0 Price: $4,825 + freight.
We have a reliable freight carrier and costs from previous Stage 0 kit shipments have been in the $100-150 range (80 pound pallet, no liftgate deliveries needed). Please include a ship to address in your order that has someone available during normal business hours on weekdays to help manually unload this pallet with the help of the driver and/or with a freight dock (please note this if available). If this is being shipped to an installation shop in yoru area please include a separate contact name for someone at that location. Customers local to the Dallas, Texas area can arrange for hand delivery.
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