E36 Five Oh Swap

[drift55]

This is going to be savage! Are you from RI? I think I've seen this car in person

[bostongrnM3]

this thing sounds awesome. a good friend of mine did a 5.0 swap in his drift e36 and he loves it

[oHSo EuRo]

Almost everything I need to assemble the motor has come in and also pleased to say that I will be moving into my new garage space within a few weeks time. Once I'm in the garage you can your bet your hipster ass's more updates will be coming.

[Earl]

That too haha

[oHSo EuRo]

It's a Low Gloss Black Engine Enamel

[Earl]

Im a sucker for wrinkle black=)

[oHSo EuRo]

Painted the upper manifold today. Gotta get more paint and do the lower.

[oHSo EuRo]

Welp here is my awesome work space as of right now.



Started stripping down the motor some more, got most of the front dress off and other misc. pieces.

[oHSo EuRo]

Nice, looking forward.

If you have any 5.0 questions hit me up

Will do man, thanks!

Little bit of progress was made. Got the motor on the stand and into the shed. Thats about where my motivation ended for the day. Will hopefully make more progress tomorrow.

[SnazzyQ]

I really look fwd to this.

I really look front wheel drive to this?

lol i agree this is going to be soo badass

[GTShunter]

I really look fwd to this.

[delvin]

Nice, looking forward.

If you have any 5.0 questions hit me up

[oHSo EuRo]

Why such a mild cam? Don't forget to do lifters and pushrods with that cam if it doesnt already come with them.

Torque from that pushrod motor is going to make that car feel like it a 500HP monster at times. I've thrown around the idea of doing this swap several times myself as its stupid easy and its been done many times before.

Run a tap through any threaded hole in that block you take a bolt out of. Iron blocks love to hold onto bolts. Use never-sieze on the header bolts too, it will make your life so much easier if you ever decide to change manifolds.

Dont use any aftermarket edelbrock or holley BS aluminum valve covers, they all leak, and they are flippin ugly. If you want dres up there are some relativley cheap alumunim bare covers on emay that look really nice. And as always, change the water pump, timing chain, etc, hopefully most of this ytou already know but it sucks haveing to take an engine out of the car 3-4 times because you didnt do something right the first time.

Was thinking maybe a stage 2 or 3 cam. But pushrods, valves, retainers, lifters and such are all being replaced.

[DonkeyPunch]

Why such a mild cam? Don't forget to do lifters and pushrods with that cam if it doesnt already come with them.

Torque from that pushrod motor is going to make that car feel like it a 500HP monster at times. I've thrown around the idea of doing this swap several times myself as its stupid easy and its been done many times before.

Run a tap through any threaded hole in that block you take a bolt out of. Iron blocks love to hold onto bolts. Use never-sieze on the header bolts too, it will make your life so much easier if you ever decide to change manifolds.

Dont use any aftermarket edelbrock or holley BS aluminum valve covers, they all leak, and they are flippin ugly. If you want dres up there are some relativley cheap alumunim bare covers on emay that look really nice. And as always, change the water pump, timing chain, etc, hopefully most of this ytou already know but it sucks haveing to take an engine out of the car 3-4 times because you didnt do something right the first time.

[Miroteknik]