Canada E30 M3 S54 Swap

[bimercatracho]

Nice

Hey man great work, i will be going the same route very soon with my 325is.

[synergy141]

Another update,

I got the brakes and clutch all set up properly and bled. I deleted the ABS and ran the hard lines with a T fitting to the master cylinder.

Here's the oil drain line I made from the head to the pan.







For the fuel pump I used a Walbro 255 inline pump hooked up in the stock location with 12mm and 8mm fittings and the foam Walbro sleeve. I fit real nice in the stock bracket.



I'm not running the large e46 fuel filter. I decided to use the stock E30 filter and put my Fuel pressure regulator in the engine bay. I bought a barbed adaptor fitting and put it in the spot where the stock E46 Filter screwed into.



FPR in the bay.



I'm tackling some wiring today and it's going to the exhaust shop next few days. I should be firing it up within the week. Stay tuned.

[E30.WLA]

Starting to gather S54 parts

Came out really nice!:coolphoto:

[synergy141]

I used the manzo ones off eBay. I'll see how they do if they leak I'll fork out the $$ for better ones. But so far they seem to be okay.

[carlb]

Which headers did you use?

[synergy141]

Modified the dip stick. I heated it up and bent it into an S



I had to make a bracket to hold the dip stick to the Intake manifold. I found some bracket off the parts car, welded it on and made it work.

[synergy141]

Some more progress...

Since the M50 Motor mount arm did not have the bolt hole for the intake manifold support bracket I cut it off the E46 arm I had. It bolted right up to the original holes on the block.









Heater core hoses installed. These are the stock E46 hoses. The longer one was shortened.




I kept the stock S14 expansion tank. I had to mount it on an angle to clear the motor so I made a bracket for it. I reused the stock S54 expansion tank hose connector. I cut the clamps off the stock hose and attached a longer coolant hose I got from the auto parts store to reach the expansion tank.







I cut the stock S54 expansion tank hose in half and kept the small moulded 90 degree piece to clear the motor, Hooked that up to the reservoir and a plastic extender to attach to the main hose pictured below.



Headers installed with zero clearance issues.



Another shot of the hydro boost reservoir. I'm running the brake/clutch fluid reservoir from a 2002. I'll mount it somewhere by the shock tower.

[Andrew325is]

Awesome! If you want to wire the 2 pressure sensors on the hydroboost, they're wired in series with the brake fluid level switch, so it'll trip the warning light on the dash if there's a pressure problem (in instrument cluster section of an E23 ETM).

[synergy141]

I did put red thread lock on them and torqued to spec. Hopefully they hold...

[gobuffs]

I had the blue FW in for years. One time I haft he tranny out and said "I should check the FW bolts" but then said " they have been fine for years, let sleeping dogs lie"...next event they backed out where I had to drop the tranny. Sucked. I have heard the "they fixed it" but still hear of problems (but admittedly not recently). I wouldn't risk it- there are other products out there.

[diesekte]

The flywheel bolts backing out was an issue with the UUC flywheels a couple years ago. Supposedly it has been fixed since. I have the same set up in my s54 swap, though I used the getrag 420g and I'm not worried

[17sd]

Awesome build.
Keep the good things coming.

[synergy141]

Sooner or later those FW bolts will back out. BTDT, got rid of the blue FW.

Even with red loctite on them? I ran one of these in my e36 m3 for years without issue.

[gobuffs]

Sooner or later those FW bolts will back out. BTDT, got rid of the blue FW.

[b-rad]

Nice thread, I'll be following


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