Ford Zetec powered E30

Post Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:07 pm

Fuzzy where did you get your bits and pieces.. Burton Power?

Post Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:24 pm

noive never used burton power,it was a drive in drive out complete supply and fit conversion by the garage that cost me £5500 in 2004 iirc. things ive changed since then, 3 different turbos, uprated headgasket,chips,injectors , recon ported and polished head,different manifold etc have come from various places.

Post Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:16 pm

E30BeemerLad wrote:I was muttering about this last night at the Yorkshire meet.

If I had to start over again with an engine swap, I'd not even bother looking at a BMW mill. Small Block Chevy all the way.

Bang on LS3 is very hard to beat in terms of power to pound coins and be brand new engine, non of this 9th hand raped to hell missed serviced, rattly m3 type conversions.

Post Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:17 pm

Sawyer_E30 wrote:
madaboutthe30 wrote:I like the way you think, but seeminly as you want to stick in a foreign engine thats easy and cheap to tune, then why not go for an engine out of a written of civic type r?

Theyre on almost 200 bhp as standard and have a lot of potential!
One problem with foreign swaps is that every manufacture has a different method for dealing with it's engine management.

A different way to handle the idle - A different way of fuel management - A different way to supply and monitor air

From ICV to MAF AFM and MAP and Wideband 02 sensors. They all have they've all got their own methods and it's a pain to try an intergrate with our machinary.

Not any more difficult than using engines from bmw tree, infact many are easier

Post Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:30 pm

if your doing a foreign engine conversion youll be changing the management anyway.

Post Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:46 pm

Yes but still need to link up the dash and trip meter things as some crazy people believe to be gods honest truth. Its the splicing into 20yr old looms with alarms and imobilisers hacked in all over the place along with lashed up stereos installs which makes any conversion difficult.

Post Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:27 pm

ShakeyC wrote:Yes but still need to link up the dash and trip meter things as some crazy people believe to be gods honest truth. Its the splicing into 20yr old looms with alarms and imobilisers hacked in all over the place along with lashed up stereos installs which makes any conversion difficult.

Also previous owners half finished 'custom' jobs.

If so welcome to a world of bad earths and/or blown fuses!