Biggest / Best Engine swap for a 325i ie 740 engine? etc?

[rwdonly]

OOOH Karan, whats that Bad Boy?

M30 = 5 series (535i) F plate on? sorry please excuse the ignorance.

And suzie650, 340 touring? id like to see that!!

[suzie650]

karan's got an s38, the e34 m5 engine. It can be described as a 24V M version of the m30, although I don't think they share much in common.

I am not the first one to do a 340... but certainly the only one fool enough to hope to be able to register it (read get it road legal) in Switzerland...

[rwdonly]

Now thats stumped me, road legal in Switzerland? WTF? LOL

[handpaper]

A good starter guide to all things BMW, especially engine and body codes HERE

BMW got over 700 bhp out of the M30B35 (fitted to the late CSL and running two huge KKK turbos )

[FormerMember]

BMW got over 700 bhp out of the M30B35 (fitted to the late CSL and running two huge KKK turbos )

You can take over 1000bhp out of almost any 6-cyl BMW engine (M20, M30, M50, S38, S50) - it's all been done already.


Anyways, M30 or M50 swap are the cheapest, S-swaps are way more expensive.

[rwdonly]

Very coool , but ive got to ask how much £Â£Ã‚£Ã‚£ are we talking?

Thanks for the help too, much appreciated!

[whipsey]

cheapest option will be to buy a complete car so you have the engine, gearbox, loom ecu etc then break the rest and sell it to recoup a bit of the cost which is what were gonna be doing for my cabby you sllllaaaaaaaaaaaggg

[rwdonly]

Were going to be doing to the cabby???



Yeah makes sense!

[FormerMember]

Very coool , but ive got to ask how much £Â£Ã‚£Ã‚£ are we talking?

Thanks for the help too, much appreciated!

Of course it's very expensive, 10k┚¬ at least.
Anyways, www.pure-pf.com is worth checking, lots of beemers, almost all of them punch 500-800hp, few even +1000bhp

[rwdonly]

OUCH!!!

[fowler]

its alot easier when you have no steering rack in the way !!!! LHD

[oze30]

OOOH Karan, whats that Bad Boy?

M30 = 5 series (535i) F plate on? sorry please excuse the ignorance.

And suzie650, 340 touring? id like to see that!!

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[whipsey]

OOOH Karan, whats that Bad Boy?

M30 = 5 series (535i) F plate on? sorry please excuse the ignorance.

And suzie650, 340 touring? id like to see that!!

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and it sounds fuggin awesome oze30

[rwdonly]

arrrr is that the one?

[whipsey]

yeah thats the one

[rwdonly]

OOOooh er missus........

V8? thats the way to go, you cant beat the sound of an eight on song, even if the battery decides it cant hold on as you accelerate!! lol

[whipsey]

your lucky you didn't run over the bloody thing

[rwdonly]

Ill say!! when it hit the wheel it did make me wonder if the wheel had come off!

[whipsey]

you were not going fast enough to notice

[oze30]

[rwdonly]

At last a sensible post! Nice was the conversion hard to do?

[rwdonly]

you were not going fast enough to notice

True i hadnt even squeezed the pedal down, i was having traction problems!!

[ed325i]

Agreed with fozzy !!!!!!!! but twin turbo

Like this ?

[rwdonly]

Now that is very naughty!!

How much power?

[whipsey]

thats fuggin awesome i want one

[ed325i]

More info here >> http://www.bilforumet.no/prosjektforum/ ... turbo.html

[rwdonly]

Thankyou. Sorry for the late reply been away for the weekend at a Yank car show!