engine swop?

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fastdave
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Post Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:11 pm

I have just bought a tourer with blown engine i was thinking of putting a m5 with 6 speed 3.8 is this a worthwhile project and if so how hard?cheers dave :mad:
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Post Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:16 pm

worthwhile yes .

hard , depends on your abilities and what tools you have.

expensive , quite
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Post Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:33 pm

Is their someone who has done it and would like to chat about it ie chat on a landline cheers dave winkeye
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Post Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:10 pm

A lot of work and money, and not an easy conversion to do right.

Here is Karans thread on his conversion, he got it running recently.....

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... highlight=


Also a few on http://www.e30.de
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Post Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:07 pm

whatever engine your seriously thinking of transplanting,someone here will have done it already,use the search function and see winkeye