s52 and 5 speed swap difficulty ?

[helalo]

how hard is it to do both swaps ? how hard is it to source all needed parts ?
i never did any critical work on the car but would consider it.

if i let a shop do it, would it be a common thing for most private shops to know what theyre doing on big jobs ? even exclusively german car shops might not be the best option sometimes or they jack up prices a lot. i seem to trust private (1 or 2 mechanics) shops more than any dealer/chained shops/private larger companies

im new in austin city and trying to see who i can trust to touch the E30 if i decide i cannot do the swaps.

[estoguy]

Google will be your friend... there are lots of S52 builds.

[flyboyx]

There really is a ton of info here already. You would potentially be about the 1200th person to do this swap. Perhaps 300 of them have a day thread.

[AwakenNoMore]

Did my 5 speed swap a year ago. The hardest part was getting the auto crap out. Its Lego level plug and play, including bypassing the auto harness under the dash. I've been doing the research for 24v engine swap too, with a pre-made harness it also looks ridiculously easy.

[Nick's e30]

The only hard part is the wiring. If you pass that off to someone else this swap is literally like legos. It was made for this car.

[Ali//325i]

Terry Sayther's in Austin can certainly do the swap for you, but they are probably going to be quite expensive. As most people are mentioning, the swap is really not that difficult. You just have to make sure you buy a very complete motor/transmission or a totaled car or else you'll find yourself constantly buying random parts.

I have a spreadsheet I can share with you regarding all the parts that I'm buying, with prices and links, but the DIY sticky threads have all of that really. It takes some patience to find all the parts, and you can very quickly blow a budget if you aren't careful.

I personally don't feel like pulling my motor back out of the car in a year to repair it, so I'm spending the money now to reseal the entire motor and having the wiring professionally merged, as well as buying all new parts.

I've seen people do m50 swaps for as little as $1000 bucks and S52s for just under $3000 and my m52 swap will cost pretty near $4500 when all is said and done. The costs are really whatever you want to make them.