Reasonable price for an M30 Swap???

[Jean]

Good thing I didn't keep track of my build haha.

[Lurker27]

Sometimes it is best not to know

[E30SPDFRK]

Yeah George, you're a brave man for keeping track of everything

[talltorontoguy]

I did my swap, replaced every gasket, every hose, rebuilt the engine down to rings and bearings. I don't even want to think about what it really cost.

Then this year, I decided to turbo... so it starts all over again. New parts, new custom exhaust, new motor mount blah blah blah


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[george graves]

I just noticed I have the drive shaft work on there twice. Looks like it's $400 less. $3600.

[Roysneon]

Every person's goals are different. M30's are rock solid motors - and yea, you can do then for under $2k. That and the amazing amount of TQ puts this swap leaps and bounds above a m50 swap. It's harder to do, but most of us are stupid that way and like to wrench - so that negative is actually a positive.

It looks to me that an m5x swap would be harder/more expensive. Maybe because I'm thinking about my car in particular being an early model 318 so I could still use my transmission.

[1craze30]

seems you can do an m50 swap for way less