What all is involved/needed for OBD 1 conversion

[Avus_325is]

Unfortunately we've had a second casualty this month among my friends(just the car, nobody was hurt), my buddy's gorgeous e36 328i. He is thinking of buying it back and parting it. I was wondering what all would be involved with switching it over to obd 1 since I could cheaply get his engine(he owes me for all the work i've done on his car) and then any nessesary obd 1 parts could be retreived from another friends recently totalled 93 325i. Stu please chime in here bro....

[mentaleeill]

you need the intake plenum, throttle body, bellow, m.a.f, harness,and dme. i have heard that you need to switch vave covers too but not %100. also some say you need to get a custom mapped chip for the car to run, but my friend did the obd1 on a 3.2 and the car ran fine without the chip. when the chip finally got put in it seemed to really up the power to its potential though.

[JasonH]

you need the intake plenum, throttle body, bellow, m.a.f, harness,and dme. i have heard that you need to switch vave covers too but not %100. also some say you need to get a custom mapped chip for the car to run, but my friend did the obd1 on a 3.2 and the car ran fine without the chip. when the chip finally got put in it seemed to really up the power to its potential though.

Add to that...sensors and fuel rail (the very cool M/S52 will work, but requires some fabrication). It isn't necessary to switch the valve cover, but some work with a dremel is needed so the fuel rail and coil covers will fit.