Easiest Swap

[Ether-D]

OP, i opened this thread expecting you to get flamed for the thread title/topic and was going to offer my two cents anyway, but i have been completely surprised by r3v here. everyone has only put useful and thoughtful information here for you so good job r3v, on not being our typical asshole selves.
i personally did the 885 head swap and motronic 1.3 upgrade on my 86es and am loving every minute of it. i swapped the entire I top end onto the E block and its fantastic, only cost me about 100 bucks for parts and i spent 100 on a 2.7i chip. now i dont know if you would consider it a swap? but its definitely a fun engine to be had on the cheap. i think the swap took me, maybe 4 hours of actual work aside from undocumented problems i ran into (alternator belt size differences, o2 sensor wirings etc) but i made sure to document those in the 2.7i thread. so all in all i did it in about 3 days. plus its a great base if you ever plan on turboing someday. ok. thats my bit.


ps. since its basically a head swap you can do it with all the tools most of us have in our trunks, the only special tool to have is the head bolt sockets and a torque wrench...but if you're like me you have those in your trunk too.

AKA 7/16" 6 point socket.

And I second the part about r3v doing a good job of actually just being helpful. See? That didn't hurt, did it?

[Regnar75]

AKA 7/16" 6 point socket.

And I second the part about r3v doing a good job of actually just being helpful. See? That didn't hurt, did it?

ahh i meant the e14 torx sockets. but yea sure :)

[Bullhead]

OP, i opened this thread expecting you to get flamed for the thread title/topic and was going to offer my two cents anyway, but i have been completely surprised by r3v here. everyone has only put useful and thoughtful information here for you so good job r3v, on not being our typical asshole selves.
i personally did the 885 head swap and motronic 1.3 upgrade on my 86es and am loving every minute of it. i swapped the entire I top end onto the E block and its fantastic, only cost me about 100 bucks for parts and i spent 100 on a 2.7i chip. now i dont know if you would consider it a swap? but its definitely a fun engine to be had on the cheap. i think the swap took me, maybe 4 hours of actual work aside from undocumented problems i ran into (alternator belt size differences, o2 sensor wirings etc) but i made sure to document those in the 2.7i thread. so all in all i did it in about 3 days. plus its a great base if you ever plan on turboing someday. ok. thats my bit.


ps. since its basically a head swap you can do it with all the tools most of us have in our trunks, the only special tool to have is the head bolt sockets and a torque wrench...but if you're like me you have those in your trunk too.

Right on and thx for the info, and I do have a T Wrench in my trunk fsr lol. These guys in R3v have been cool as heck to me. It's probably because they know I have read all the stickies and I research too. It seems a lot of times though you will get different or better answers if people know your not a DB lol.

[Bullhead]

Dangit Ether were gonna have to meet up in the future so you can help me do the 325i head swap and I will weld anything up you need welded, and maybe bring you the metal to do it :)

[Bullhead]

Can anyone point me to a good thread on here or somewhere else that has an in depth look of turbo charging the 2,7i setup the right way? I have an old HX 35 in the shed I took off the 3500 Dodge when I put the 35-40 Hybrid on it. I am assuming this would be way to big though and the lag would be horrific.

[dirtie30]

HX35 is perfect, get a new turbine housing with the appropriate sized A/R for the power curve you want. Also need to swap it out to get a T3 flange so that it'll bolt up to practically any manifold out there.

[Ether-D]

ahh i meant the e14 torx sockets. but yea sure :)

me too...

[E30NJ]

M30's are also kinda thirsty but are cool. You could get a supereta block with a "i" head and push 200 horsepower. However you have to do a lot with throttle and such.