whats best for a novice conversion m30 or m50?

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Post Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:51 pm

or is there any zoners that would do one cheap? would like ago myself but would like views from people who have done the conversions as to what is more expensive and easyer to do as i would love to have the torque that the m50 lacks over the m30!
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Post Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:58 pm

There must be about 3000 threads to do with this now.. :roll:
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Post Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:31 pm

Is that this week or last week Jhonno?
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Post Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:34 pm

Last 3 days I think fella..
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Post Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:51 pm

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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:45 am

I think all new M50/M30 threads should now be locked there have been a good douzen threads on S50 conversions these past few weeks
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:40 am

well i asked about M50/M52 build... am i in trouble too?!? :o:
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:42 am

leeparkes has done a very good m30 conversion thread mate, search for it and have a read :D
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:45 am

Or why dont we have a specific section for these conversions now, seems like alot of people want to do it now...
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:57 am

bulletproofbob wrote:well i asked about M50/M52 build... am i in trouble too?!? :o:
You're ok, it wasnt the standard which is better, or how to do it thread..
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:59 am

SHAKEELE30 wrote:Or why dont we have a specific section for these conversions now, seems like alot of people want to do it now...
That's a good idea.. We should have an Engine Swaps section, oh and a search function also...! It'd also be a great idea if we stickied a thread with loads of info in it.. :)
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:05 pm

Swap section would be a great idea. Maybe sub forums for the different types of swaps too? Might help sort it all out.
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:09 pm

Sub-forums for engine swaps (or tech help on engine swap cars) would be good, ala R3V, would make for easier searching and keep the worthwhile threads within reach
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:16 pm

Jhonno wrote:
SHAKEELE30 wrote:Or why dont we have a specific section for these conversions now, seems like alot of people want to do it now...
That's a good idea.. We should have an Engine Swaps section, oh and a search function also...! It'd also be a great idea if we stickied a thread with loads of info in it.. :)
:D good idea ! I can add them as sub forums, what do we need :-

M30 conversions
M50 conversions
M52 conversions
M60 conversions
S50 conversions

for a start?
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:03 pm

Also M20 coversion for the 4 potters :D
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:35 pm

M20 FI section?
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:16 pm

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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:19 pm

is there any point when 90% of people who ask about engine swops are dreamers and soon shy away when the real cost come to light especialy with m60/s50 swops and reliably FI
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:07 pm

Kos wrote:is there any point when 90% of people who ask about engine swops are dreamers and soon shy away when the real cost come to light especialy with m60/s50 swops and reliably FI
Perhaps the dreamers are the people who spend thousands on a tatty old bangers :P The ones that don't are living in the real world.
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:09 pm

oakey wrote:
Kos wrote:is there any point when 90% of people who ask about engine swops are dreamers and soon shy away when the real cost come to light especialy with m60/s50 swops and reliably FI
Perhaps the dreamers are the people who spend thousands on a tatty old bangers :P The ones that don't are living in the real world.
How does that work?

Have spare money, spend it on car.. Don't see that as dreaming
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:50 pm

LoL dan, you got that bang on,

i think oakey is getting confused, there are pesants who drive shit boxes, spend a few pennies bodging things and dream up more wonderful budget ideas for their cars when they havent got the coin and dont want to spend doing job right

they are the dreamers
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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:49 pm

I know what you were getting at :mad: My point is that some of these "peasants" may be far from peasants but would rather spend their money on something more "worthwhile". Just pointing out a different POV. Not my own mind you....
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Post Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:36 am

oakey wrote:I know what you were getting at :mad: My point is that some of these "peasants" may be far from peasants but would rather spend their money on something more "worthwhile". Just pointing out a different POV. Not my own mind you....
you still dont make any sence

if what you are trying to say is that people buy e30's and they want to do some upgrades then realise it will be expensive and not cost effective and chose not to do it even though they have the cash, well that still makes them dreamers for thinking they can do it in the 1st place on the cheap
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Post Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:40 pm

I see the sub-forums are there now, but will it stop all of the daily "which is the best conversion?" threads...? :?
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Post Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:28 pm

i personally think it would be great if some one who knew what they were talking about and had sone the conversion made a thread or a guide on one page with no replys available just an info thread and then silly people like me who are always asking questions etc (sorry!) could look at this and know everything there is on the topic be it m60 or m30 or m50. a conversion from start to finish with no replys and not like a 100 pages as the reason these topics keep coming up is people are very lazy and want fast info (me unfortunatly am too guilty of this!) if the fast easy to read on one page info was there there would be far less posts imo. i also think the new engine sections are great! all they need now is a stickey on easch one with the above info.
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Post Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:31 pm

First post on this thread says near enough everything:

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Post Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:49 pm

thats great but still could do with the same thing for the m50 and sr20det etc would be great to have that in a nice easy read format and would stop most of the related posts.
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Post Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:56 pm

There are so many ways, it is impossible.. If you read the info you can make up your own mind how to do it
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