The 3.6L e30 project

[jcbe34]

Sweet! How's that thing feel in the e30?

Stanceworks e30 m30 5 spoke club?

It feels great, love the torque and it's a lot of fun around town with the 3.73

haha member #2!

how costly did you find this motor swap? does it pull harder than an m/s 52 swap? are you still using the m20's getrag?

also hows the cooling system hold up?

I'd say harder than m5x but not as hard as s5x, yet, I don't know what will happen when its tuned. Nope, m30 260/6. Cooling system is fine, those issues are a myth. I can see how people would have trouble bleeding the thing though, I had some tricky bubbles trapped back at the heater core.

We can find out soon. I am guessing close to M52 OBD1 but not as quick as an OBD1 S50/S52. Prolly quicker than an M50 E30.

It puts down 200/212 right now, with absolutely zero tuning. My friends car with a 9.5:1 cr and 90mm crank put down 230/250 to the wheels running autotronic SM2. Mine is an 86mm crank an 10.5:1 cr, so we'll see what it does with the megasquirt. But I'm guessing it'll be right around what a bolt on s5x would do, mid 220's but with more torque

[dinanm3atl]

how costly did you find this motor swap? does it pull harder than an m/s 52 swap? are you still using the m20's getrag?

We can find out soon. I am guessing close to M52 OBD1 but not as quick as an OBD1 S50/S52. Prolly quicker than an M50 E30.

[mo diesil]

also hows the cooling system hold up?

[mo diesil]

how costly did you find this motor swap? does it pull harder than an m/s 52 swap? are you still using the m20's getrag?

[Byron]

Sweet! How's that thing feel in the e30?

Stanceworks e30 m30 5 spoke club?

[jcbe34]

Oh and here are a few short, lowish RPM clips. Some better stuff coming soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ybBCoxZ68&feature=related

[jcbe34]

Forgot to update this thread but the car is finally finished, except for the megasquirt. I actually finished it a couple weeks earlier but I had a caliper come off and blow a hole in one of my Azevs. Got that all taken care of, changed it up with 225/45s instead of the 215/40s, and here is the car as it sits today:

[Burn535i]

that this is definitely going to sound so mean with a nice throaty exhaust setup, keep up the good work

[Zic]

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[EThirtySicks]

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[Puma]

Wow. Just wow. If I ever manage to get my hands on an e30 project, I'm deffo following your lead with the 5-spoke wheels. Looks amazing!

[dinanm3atl]

Yum. Super Yummy! Once I get mine all setup we have to take some photos!

[Turbo2]

wow that thing is sick!!! i need to get an e30.

[Token]

okay first thaat video dosent do that m30 any justice.. lol theres no bass so it just sounds like a damn mini lol

whats the final cr?

[jcbe34]

Finally got the thing moving under its own power after many small issues. Here's a quick vid before loading it onto the trailer to take it to the exhaust shop. I couldn't really rev it because, even though it doesnt sound like it in the video, it is unbelievably loud. Didn't want to piss off my parents neighbors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3hvrEAgYrM

The wheels are Azev A's and the motor is a euro bored b35 block with m90 pistons using the longer stroke of the b35, pretty heavily ported head, 290 cam, etc etc