E30 Zone

Hi guys

I left the sunny shores of England for Australia last year and took my E30 320i with me. To get it road legal here I have to have various jobs done, one of which is fitting a catalytic converter and associated sensors. My car is Jetronic and I have been told this system can't run a cat.I have been able to source a 2.0 Litre Motronic engine from a 89 320i that has done only 47,000 miles, the wiring loom and ECU, as well as a spiggot bearing.. The donor car was in a bingle and is being repaired and converted to a spare race shell.

Will this be a straight take my engine out and pop the new engine with loom and ECU in?
The donor car is an auto and mine is a manual, will I need anything other than the spiggot?

and finally, does anyone have any advice for doing this?

Thanks in advance for any help, i would really appreciate it.

Matt

edited - please ignore

The motronic will support the cat, that is what I have to change to. Tha car currently runs the earlier jetronic.

Matt

Can anybody offer any suggestions as to how straight forward this swap should be?

Thanks

Matt

If you're dropping in a Motronic engine in it will already have the extra sensors that this system needs so should be a straight swap as long as you connect up the wiring and ECU properly. As far as the auto/manual swap goes, the auto engine won't have a flywheel so you'll need one of those. It would be a great time to lighten lighten it/machine off some bulk which will make it more eager to rev too - not too much tho'!

Thanks for that. Does anybody know if I can just use the flywheel from the existing set up or is there a difference between the older and newer flywheels?

Cheers

Matt

Don't think there's any difference as long as it's from the same engine type.