fitting a cosworth YB into a e30

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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:56 pm

hi I'm thinking about fitting a sierra cosworth engine into my e30 as i have a engine in the garage already does any one have any experience doing this conversion or any parts i will need to do it????......
any help or advise would be great thanks guys....
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:31 pm

It has been done before. i think its a good plan btw.
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:50 pm

i found a old thred on passion ford but it had very little info about whats needed then the guy smashed his e30 up and there wasn't anymore posts......
iv found pics of some done just thought its worth looking into as iv got a engine box loom ect and the e30 has a big engine bay and gearbox tunnel so shouldn't be much cutting about to get it in....
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:55 pm

I've seen it done several times

as for the ins and outs.... no idea

where's fuzzy and spadge :D
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:40 pm

I got a little "abuse" for fitting a m52 engine so good luck with getting that approved by the purist gimps lol
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:46 pm

P_VIDDY wrote:I got a little "abuse" for fitting a m52 engine so good luck with getting that approved by the purist gimps lol
really ?

M52's are the best swap going for an e30 and not many people would slag one off unless its done badly
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:54 pm

Or someone put it an M3.

There has been a many YB conversions. I'm remember there being a guy who did a great bulld thread on here when he built his, but that was many moons ago.

Kos, you rememeber 'chip-3door' I think his username was? He was a ford guy.
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:56 pm

Chip 3 door, I remember him, he's the guy that said vauxhall nova's made better track cars than E30's :D
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:00 pm

From what I remember Kos layed into him a time or two, that's when the zone was much more chilled out, and there was no swear ban :)
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:26 pm

Kos wrote:
P_VIDDY wrote:I got a little "abuse" for fitting a m52 engine so good luck with getting that approved by the purist gimps lol
really ?

M52's are the best swap going for an e30 and not many people would slag one off unless its done badly
I'd like to think I'm doing a very good job. However I have a 325 2 door chromie that is apparently too rare to molest pfft
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:49 pm

I don't think most people care about m52'ing e30's tbh.

As said, YB has been done many times. Iirc fuzzy's had a chopped up sump to clear the crossmember and custom engine arms and box mount
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Post Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:37 pm

maxfield wrote:From what I remember Kos layed into him a time or two, that's when the zone was much more chilled out, and there was no swear ban :)
Yep, over nitrous when I was quite big into laughing gas.
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Post Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:30 pm

so no actual helpful info then lads eh???.....lol....
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Post Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:46 pm

If you type 'Cosworth' into our Search function, it will bring up 28 pages of threads.
I'm sure that hidden in those 28 pages is plenty of practical info.
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Post Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:07 am

harleuFXRS wrote:so no actual helpful info then lads eh???.....lol....
The most helpful advice I can give is to sell the ford scrap to somebody with tattoos and fit a BMW engine winkeye
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Post Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:13 pm

I can imagine the sump and crossmember interface being an arseache and given the YBs sensitivity to oil feed and breathing I'd be a touch nervous about getting that bit right. I'm kinda with Dan on this one - Cosworth engines are very good if they are done well - I have seen many many Cosworth engines done very very badly...