S54GASM: My e36 Build

[Bimmerteck]

Your garage looks fcking awesome.

That is all.

Agreed. A whole lot better than......oh wait.....I don't have a garage. Or even a driveway for that matter

Haha + 1 on no driveway! I have a shop, but I cant get my car in it without raising it a few inches

Thanks for all the compliments on my garage! Once I button up Mike's swap it has some improvements waiting as well.


I have a gauge designed for mike's swap, it bounces back and forth between Empty(wallets) and Full(schedules) rarely stopping in the middle for some work.


Erik

[hi its me alec]

What's the block off plate for? Oil level sensor?

[Bimmerteck]

It's a block off plate for the air pump valve location on the head since we won't be needing to pass emissions and what not.


Erik

[Steinke]

So so so excited to see this finished! I remember when you first popped up on BF.c with your stock car. It has come so far............cant wait to see it running again!

[M.Burroughs]

Just a quick pic.

[Bimmerteck]

look at hw messy my poor garage has gotten.













JK your car is coming along nicely.

[e30bmw]

Are those angel eyes? I didn't take you as the angel eyes in an E36 kind of guy.

Can't wait until this thing is done.

[Geoff.T]

Good to see progress is being made. Keep it up guys.

[saturnstance]

the front looks so mean. looks good!

[TheStig]

I would be happy having just the money and time for a project like this. Haha

[M.Burroughs]

Are those angel eyes? I didn't take you as the angel eyes in an E36 kind of guy.

Can't wait until this thing is done.

It was like the first thing I got for the car, 4 years ago. I'd kill to have normal citylights- but I paid $550 for these ZKWs back in the days before DDM and such. I can't pull the housings open to remove the eyes either.

[e30bmw]

It was like the first thing I got for the car, 4 years ago. I'd kill to have normal citylights- but I paid $550 for these ZKWs back in the days before DDM and such. I can't pull the housings open to remove the eyes either.

Oh, well I have always liked angel eyes on E36s if they are done right.

[Schieldrop]

Are you going to run it on E46 wiring loom and ecu, with the emissions pump and everything from the E46? 'Cos if you don't use the emissions pump, original wiring loom and ECU the vanos and other cam timing will not be as effective, so you will in fact end up with a less powerful and less revvy S54. There's a guy near me running an S54 without these, and he in his own opinion F'ed up. He also had to resort to removing the vanos which really killed the S54s buzz. Not trying to be negative or imply you guys don't already know this. But using S50 parts and dropping some functions will make it less than it could've been.

[e30bmw]

Are you going to run it on E46 wiring loom and ecu, with the emissions pump and everything from the E46? 'Cos if you don't use the emissions pump, original wiring loom and ECU the vanos and other cam timing will not be as effective, so you will in fact end up with a less powerful and less revvy S54. There's a guy near me running an S54 without these, and he in his own opinion F'ed up. He also had to resort to removing the vanos which really killed the S54s buzz. Not trying to be negative or imply you guys don't already know this. But using S50 parts and dropping some functions will make it less than it could've been.

I remember reading that Mike was using everything out of the E46, down to the AC unit.

[Schieldrop]

Sounds good. No point doing things half way