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Post Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:05 am

What cars are these actually fitted to? Have been looking at the e36 325s but there are so many variations with slightly different specs. What's what?
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:22 am

M50 is in early E36 and E34's (325i 525i) M52 is in E36 E38 and E39's (328i 528i 728i) from around 1994 to about 1998.
Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place.. :o:
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:28 am

Brilliant, thanks. What about the e36 Ci models?
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:31 am

You mean E46 ci? not 100% but im sure there was never an E36 ci.
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:32 am

leeparkes wrote:You mean E46 ci? not 100% but im sure there was never an E36 ci.
Yeah sorry, typo.
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:35 am

:)

E46 engine are not ideal, whole load of chew to get them running.
Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:57 am

Yeah I wasn't really payng attention, thought we were talking about e46 engines the whole time (duh).

Thanks for the info, understand a lot better now.

What about the M50TU?
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:36 pm

A M50tu is a with a sinle vanos
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:37 pm

Yes, I'm trying to gather which models/years it was fitted in.

Same goes for the M52TU, so that I can avoid it.

I'm after a standard M52 ideally.
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:52 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M52
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Post Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:54 pm

Heh. I totally missed that when I looked before...

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