Guys, I was in the process of turbochanrging my m20 motor when my gearbox gave up the ghost. I decided to go ahead with an m50 swap. Question, how many of you guys have done this? Anybody with a right hand drive e30 who has done this? What did you do about getting low compression pistons?
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With right hand drive, the least of your worries is the low compression pistons... where are you going to put your turbo? -
Well, most you guys (LHD) have the turbo below the manifold, I was thiniking of placing mine above the manifold...right on top.Comment
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Unless you plan on running some insane amount of boost, why not just run a thicker headgasket instead of different pistons?
A ton of e36 guys run the .140" Cometic headgasket and have great success.
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top mount in the e30 is the easier place to put it imho... you can also fit a bigger turbo up there too.
You are still going to have to have some pretty trick exhaust routing though
i have 8.5 CP pistons.. call them, they already have a set speced for the s50/s52 for turbo appse30sport.net
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