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Ok so hears the deal at the moment i have a 4dr e36 s50 it has been vortech supercharged for over a year now and im quite happy with the 360hp supercharged s50.. Ive been through alot the last couple years personal problems which i finally have gotten on the right track in life aswell as financially stable.. So as a result i want to start following my dreams again and start building my car again.. With that being said Lately ive been talking to a buddy of mine and looking too swap to a turbo which would be a fun little setup and keep me busy for some time my plans were to send my spare s50 to my buddy nick who owns diffsonline he was gonna do my s50 bored to a 3.1 je pistons shrick cams rods lightly ported head full arp hardware and so on which would be capable of pushing say 500 hp safely...I have done tons and tons of thinking and debating in which my conclusion was with the amount of money i would spend on swapping from the blower to a turbo and building my spare motor i was looking for about 10 grand or so including the turbo setup .. Now with the m5 popping up into my possession for a little more than half of that how could i say no .. The main issue is i daily drive this car and while i know there are tons of people running 500hp daily on s50s all over the country aswell as outside the country i wanted to stay driveable with less worries and be a little more unique... When i came across the m5 which was hit front and rear i though hmmm i could fix the m5 and daily that and with the price of the car as a whole i couldnt pass up the deal.. After looking the car over it only has 89k miles but the body was just too damaged the front frame rails bent aswell as the rear being pushed in so i started thinking there are alot of people running ls swaps and other kinda v8 swaps and ive been looking into those kinds of swaps for years.. So i feel that with the deal i have got i cant turn down the chance to swap my favorite engine into one of my favorite chassis.. So here i am i will be performing all the work myself as im a bmw tech aswell as a few friends will be lending hands aswell... Only issue im looking at is what im gonna do for management whether i do the complete m5 wiring and dme or do some kind of stand alone....
A little run down my car has all suspension and drivetrain work done already full tckline adjustable coils all reinforcements an e36 can have poly bushings uuc sway bars adjustable rear control arms turner camber upper plates reinforced rear shock mounts diffsonline 3.38 40%lock differential 3 clutch setup strut bars so on and so on same with the brakes cross drilled all around stainless lines hawk pads etc etc.....
Engine will be 2001 bmw m5 s62 400hp engine stock
trans 6spd m5 trans
custom drive shaft
some kind of custom engine and trans mounts will try to use factory bmw parts as much as possible if anyone has ideas and so on please let me know
like i said above i want this car to maintain its driveability i want to be able to hand the keys to my girlfriend or my mother or whoever and not have to give them a list of do and dont do's to be able to drive it i will have factory A/C power steering everything.. I want this car too look like a slammed m3 with wheels like it always has only give away is the rumble of the engine and possibly the exhaust if i go dual.. I want it too look as if it came that way from the factory
Im only able to work on this on the weekends and holidays soo its gonna take a month or so but it will be done by end of the year
time to begin
In all its track glory normally running ccw lm20s 17x10 rear and 17x9 front
A little run down my car has all suspension and drivetrain work done already full tckline adjustable coils all reinforcements an e36 can have poly bushings uuc sway bars adjustable rear control arms turner camber upper plates reinforced rear shock mounts diffsonline 3.38 40%lock differential 3 clutch setup strut bars so on and so on same with the brakes cross drilled all around stainless lines hawk pads etc etc.....
Engine will be 2001 bmw m5 s62 400hp engine stock
trans 6spd m5 trans
custom drive shaft
some kind of custom engine and trans mounts will try to use factory bmw parts as much as possible if anyone has ideas and so on please let me know
like i said above i want this car to maintain its driveability i want to be able to hand the keys to my girlfriend or my mother or whoever and not have to give them a list of do and dont do's to be able to drive it i will have factory A/C power steering everything.. I want this car too look like a slammed m3 with wheels like it always has only give away is the rumble of the engine and possibly the exhaust if i go dual.. I want it too look as if it came that way from the factory
Im only able to work on this on the weekends and holidays soo its gonna take a month or so but it will be done by end of the year
time to begin
In all its track glory normally running ccw lm20s 17x10 rear and 17x9 front
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