S52 EVO Engine into E30

[GermanGorilla]

Hi,

I beleive that Ian 332i has done this conversion and a few others are either working on it, or just starting.

My question / problem is this, if Ian, or any of the other's can help,

We have taken the 'Tacho' pluse from the ECU into the 'Dakota' electronics converter, which is emitting a converted pluse, which should be compatiable with the Tach /Rev counter dial, in the E30 dash binnacle.

However we can not get the Tacho to respond to the pluse from the Dakota Pluse converter.

The pluse that comes direct from the E36 ECU for the Tacho is also non compatiable with the E30 Tacho / Rev counter.

We have fired the different Pluses into the Rev Counter, but with no joy.

We suspect that our problem is that the American Dash Binnacle and its Clocks that we have, are in some way different to a UK or Euro set up.

The Dash binnacle and clocks are from an American M3 E30, which had the 160 mph speedo and a 8000 rpm rev counter with the Oil Temp Guage at the bottom.

Can anyone assist or help by explaining what they have done in order to make the E30 Rev counter work, when the signal/ Pluse is being taken from a E36 S52 Evo ECU ?

Any assistance gladly received !!!!!

Regards,

The Gorilla.

[m-dtech]

if someone can give me the outputs i can build you a board to convert.

[GermanGorilla]

Hi,

Thanks M-dtech, but sorted.

We have now resolved the problem.

Basically we have had 3 faulty Dash pods and the forth one has just burst into life, so we are taking the modules from this one to make the original pods work.

Regards,

The Gorilla.

[ian332isport]

Looks like you have it sorted now, but let me know if you have any further problems.

Any piccies of the engine conversion ?

Ian.

[GermanGorilla]

Ian,

Many thanks for replying, we have overcome it I beleive [ hope !]

Will post up some pics taken a few weeks ago, when my son comes home from school as I can never get the pictures to post !!!!

Seems electrics and posting pictures are not my strong points.

Regards,

The Gorilla.

[GermanGorilla]

Hi,

Trying to post some pictures, but everytime they are loaded the Webpage just crashes.

While computers are not my strong point, Is there any reason for this ?, not allowed to post pics?, or the fact that I load pics from a Mac?

Any pointers ?

Regards,

The Gorilla.

[ian332isport]

I use Imageshack.

http://www.imageshack.us/

Simply browse to the pictures on your computer, and then click upload.

Once uploaded, just post the link on here.

Ian.

[GermanGorilla]

Hi Ian,

No, even the Image shack way will not work.

Regards,

The Gorilla.

[E30BeemerLad]

Gorilla

I had used imageshack for a while and often found it crashed out at the end of uploading a pic

try www.photobucket.com

have found this much more reliable and the pics are automatically resized for you so they can be viewed on the zone without having to scroll across to the right all the time

Hope that helps fella

[GermanGorilla]

Hi,

Am I missing something here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, just registered for Bucketshop and every time I try and load, it crashes every time.

Even tried Jpeg's without success.

Any body else got any suggestions ?

Regards,

The Gorilla.

[Dan318-is]

www.imageshack.us

free and easy

[tylerma]

if you want to email the pics to me i will host them for you and put the pics up

tylerma@rootgod.com

[tylerma]

the pics







love the look of that manifold

[Sirnixalot]

tylerma,
can i get some more pix or info on your exhaust manifold. What did you have to do to get it to fit. It looks like the front half went in fine but the rear manifold's rear most runner needed modifying.

Also what steering rack are you running? If its the E30...does it look like there is enough clearance for the e36?

sorry for all the questions but im really interested in using those headers on my future M50 swap.

[tylerma]

tylerma,
can i get some more pix or info on your exhaust manifold. What did you have to do to get it to fit. It looks like the front half went in fine but the rear manifold's rear most runner needed modifying.

Also what steering rack are you running? If its the E30...does it look like there is enough clearance for the e36?

sorry for all the questions but im really interested in using those headers on my future M50 swap.

its not mine mate
i was just hostiing the pictures for GermanGorilla
he is the man you want to speak to

[jmc330i]

What did you have to do to get it to fit. It looks like the front half went in fine but the rear manifold's rear most runner needed modifying.

Also what steering rack are you running? If its the E30...does it look like there is enough clearance for the e36?

The front section wont fit straight in because the E30 subframe gets in the way and with the E36 rack fitted, which moves the steering joint closer to the engine, it needs tweaking slightly to clear that as well.
Using the E30 rack will probably make things a bit easier.

You can see in the pic the welding work thats been done on the No.6 pipe and No.4 looks very close to the splines on the rack, although that could be down to the angle of the photo.

[Sirnixalot]

oops my mistake

thanks again for the explanation jmc

would love if there were more pictures of the mods done to the manifold....guess i will see when im in there

[Rallyprep_UK]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

im seriously considering this conversion, i have a 3.2 motor lying around and an e30 325 track car.

its time and money im short of