E30 Zone

Hello Everybody,

I've got an E30 M3 and I want to put M3 3.2 Evo engine in. Could somebody tell me how to do it? Any information would be helpful.Thank you!

Simon246

It's been done plenty of times, and is a costly conversion!

But for the life can't you put it in a E30 shell and not the E30 M3 one

check engine swaps mate.lots of info there.a few people have done this conversion

hth

click search and then enter terms like "E36 M3" "s50b30" or "s50b32", plenty of threads there to read.

or you could buy one ready built, and properly built and save lots of money

If you take on this conversion, i have a set of of the S50 manifolds developed by BTB exhausts (including X-pipe) needed for installing the S50 engine into the E30 chassis. These are exactly what you need to have a hassle free installation regarding exhaust manifold clearence and steering shaft issues.
Brand new never used, just taken out of the box for pictures. (I'm using my E30 for Production BMW Cup now so have no use for these manifolds)

Here is a pic of what they look like (hopefully Jhonno won't mind me using his pic). There were about 9 of us in a year long group buy to get these from BTB (thanks to the hard work of lots of people, including Ste & Old Skool 2002)


Let me know if your interested.

As others have said, have a look in the 'engine conversions' section and browse for S50, E36 M3 etc etc. There is tons of info on this along with lots of tiny problems you will encounter that people aways forgot.

It isn't cheap though

Cheers
James

Thanks All for information! I know it's been done a lot already but I enjoy doing it myself.Where is the fun if you buy it already done?

Cheers,
Simon246

This is my version of the EVO manifold

go on frag that m3 just to annoy all the purists.


use the serch function mate, plenty of imformation regarding the conversion.

Well at least the manifold would be easier with it being left hand drive

1an wrote:go on frag that m3 just to annoy all the purists

then drop a ford engine into it and watch their heads explode

I might add when you are reading the threads that you don't need a LHD wiring loom, I used a rhd loom and still got the DME in the glove box, from memory there were only 2or3 wires that weren't long enough to reach and none of them were interference suppressed so were just cut and lengthened.
The above photo is the EVO manifold, you can see where the 1/2/3 pipes are standard but the collector box has been reshaped to clear the xmember, 4/5/6 well 6 was cut off at the collector and thrown away 4 and 5 became 5 and 6. I got another 4or5 pipe, can't remember which ( got it off Ian, who else.) and it became No4 but joined onto No6 at the collector box, you can see where it's sleeved so that the shape and equally the length is correct. The rest of the exhaust was twin 21/2" pipes to an EVO ACS back box, sounded great but after a r/r session I had to fit a center box to introduce some back pressure to get the torque back up to standard EVO level.
Hope this helps if you go ahead.

fuzzy wrote:

1an wrote:go on frag that m3 just to annoy all the purists

then drop a ford engine into it and watch their heads explode

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now that is something i would love to do then turn up to bmw car club show at Gaydon

1an wrote:

fuzzy wrote:

1an wrote:go on frag that m3 just to annoy all the purists

then drop a ford engine into it and watch their heads explode

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now that is something i would love to do then turn up to bmw car club show at Gaydon

i would have liked to have done that myself but after the reactions from some for befouling my touring i can amagine there would be angry mobs of purists decending on my home to publicly flog me for b4st4rdising the car created by god himself.

Yea but a ford engine will never look like this

HenryM3 wrote:Yea but a ford engine will never look like this

true,but that bmw engine probably wont ever go as fast as my ford engine

HenryM3 wrote:Yea but a ford engine will never look like this

Yeah but a ford engien will always be more perfectly balenced a better handling and more powerful car

HenryM3 wrote:Yea but a ford engine will never look like this

what,you mean lying outside the car on the garage floor in bits? it manages that no problem

Don't do it to a E30 M3 as you will decrease its value dramatically... E30 M3 are rare and beautiful beasts just by a tasty e30 touring shell and do it to that as you will have the 50/50 weight balance you require instead of th 60/40
Do Not do it to the M3 its sacralidge ( Spelling is crap its 5 am)
Regards
Ben

fuzzy wrote:true,but that bmw engine probably wont ever go as fast as my ford engine

But the BMW engine will keep on going without melting or leaking oil

Its no use Ian, who said ignorance is bliss? Was he a ford man?