M5 V8 Engine into E30???

Post Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:32 pm

Has anyone ever tried or done this?? Ive got an 325i Sport & fancy more go-go, been offered a 2001 M5 thats for breaking only.. Thought it would be a awesome conversion!!!![/b]

Post Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:35 pm

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Word, get you wallet out though I'd imagine.

Post Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:47 pm

It's doable, but S62's are very expensive engines.

Basically the physical stuff is same as swapping M60 or M62 (lots of info on www.e30.de and here're my project pics http://users.tkk.fi/jhaukile/E30_V8.html ).

Electronics are the "big problem". You need to buy and map new ECU (Autronic, Motec, KMS) => lots of money, or try to get original S62 ECU with all CAN-stuff to work with E30 => lots of problems.

So basically it's doable. I imagine budjet around 10-15kâ‚¬ is realistic.

Here's one, more pics here.

Post Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:25 pm

If you have a spare evening theres a thread here thats a 28 page monster by glenn, its heroic though

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... pic&t=2882

Post Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:19 pm

stonesie wrote:If you have a spare evening theres a thread here thats a 28 page monster by glenn, its heroic though

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... pic&t=2882

thanks stonesie

:bow:

Post Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:35 pm

This looks impressive!
Really nice conversion

Post Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:45 pm

Jonsku wrote:or try to get original S62 ECU with all CAN-stuff to work with E30 => lots of problems.

Seems like you can run the engine without all the CAN-bus equipements by remapping the ECU . Some dude from M5board swapped this engine into an E34 M5. The biggest hurdle was to get a proper ABS signal that could be recognized by the ECU.