never seen this before sr20det swap...

[M-technik-3]

:? Why do a lot of people who do shit to go in magazines do what they do?
to be Different. Not that it's the best idea, but hell, they will do it.

Bastardize.....who cares. It's power.

True true. It just seems to be going in reverse. Now merging two sr20det on the same crankshaft like Audi did with two 1.8l 16v would be wicked cool.

[!RocknE30!]

quote off the site

I want to buy my teenager a E30. Give me one reason why I shouldn't!

These cars are NOT toys! These cars are capable of pulling sub 9 sec ¼ miles, top speed approaching 200 Mph!!! 0-60 in the 4.5 to 5 sec, this is not a car for a kid...Think of it as a loaded weapon, do what you will, but choose carefully.

:roll:

Yeah I saw that too. I was like what the hell, sub 9-second 1/4 miles and 200mph!? Heh..

[boostboss]

Ive seen a couple in Aus, the conversion looks fairly straight forward. A bloke just put down ~150rwkw in his sr20det e30 in Queensland.

On the nissan/e30 topic: i sat my rb20det into one of my e30's on the w/end and would seriously consider the swap, but couldnt butcher a quality German.

[burtonownz]

I'm not a fan of this swap into an E30

[Jon325i]

quote off the site

I want to buy my teenager a E30. Give me one reason why I shouldn't!

These cars are NOT toys! These cars are capable of pulling sub 9 sec ¼ miles, top speed approaching 200 Mph!!! 0-60 in the 4.5 to 5 sec, this is not a car for a kid...Think of it as a loaded weapon, do what you will, but choose carefully.

:roll:

One of the more rediculous things I've read recently.

Jon

[DEV0 E30]

Labor - Including Install of above /Considerably cheaper if you do it yourself. $1500/$$Beer$$

Holy shit.

I was expecting much more. That site is being bookmarked. And my god, That looks like one hell of a summer project.

[CobraKai]

Labor - Including Install of above /Considerably cheaper if you do it yourself. $1500/$$Beer$$

Holy shit.

I was expecting much more. That site is being bookmarked. And my god, That looks like one hell of a summer project.

SR20's are easier to come by than most think..And are really easy to make insanely fast.. :-|

[Axxe]

Yeah right. Maybe with 600 hp.

[1985bmw325e]

Yes why would you remove Nissan's great V6 to put a baby anemic 4 banger. It just doesn't have the off boost Torque that the V6 does.

If you owned a 350Z, you would know that the weight distribution is fucked up, being taht it is front heavy. The sr20 took a lot of weight out of the front, considering it is a lighter motor and beign positioned farther back to almost make it a dead even 50/50 distribution. Getting 600 rwhp out of an sr20 is not particularly hard, so hp was not an issue, more of just a front heavy 350z

[civicsi#2]

Man what an awesome swap. I've been looking for days for info on this, mostly just reading up on the sr20det. I thought it would be damn awesome to throw this into a E30 M3 with about 350HP. I want to do this so bad now. Anyone got an E30 M3 with a blown or dead motor? I seriously can't think of a downside or reason not to.

[e30 gangsta]

i would do this.... becuase when u stroke it to 2.2. liters... the sr20det becomes a beast and gets more bottom end.... and lag isnt as bad... plus everyone in florida has touched a sr20det once in there life...

[Erick]

Man what an awesome swap. I've been looking for days for info on this, mostly just reading up on the sr20det. I thought it would be damn awesome to throw this into a E30 M3 with about 350HP. I want to do this so bad now. Anyone got an E30 M3 with a blown or dead motor? I seriously can't think of a downside or reason not to.

Now doing this to an M3 is bastardizing it. M3s should stick with their s14s. The e30 M3 is BMW's history.

However doing it to a non-M, hell yeah. However Guillermo, dont dream too much as costs go up by thousands when you do. Assuming you get a red top SR20DET, tranny, standalone, custom driveshaft, custom tranny mounts, custom engine mounts, intercooler, wiring harness, so on and so forth, you'll be paying at least 3x your car's worth. And these are only stock components.... now add the stroke, the boost, tuning, etc etc..... Because Richard cant tune your car for you at his shop, and dynos require $$$, to tune your car right.

Just because it's relatively cheap to put an SR20DET in a 240sx, it doesnt mean that it's the same thing for an e30.

[civicsi#2]

Man what an awesome swap. I've been looking for days for info on this, mostly just reading up on the sr20det. I thought it would be damn awesome to throw this into a E30 M3 with about 350HP. I want to do this so bad now. Anyone got an E30 M3 with a blown or dead motor? I seriously can't think of a downside or reason not to.

Now doing this to an M3 is bastardizing it. M3s should stick with their s14s. The e30 M3 is BMW's history.

However doing it to a non-M, hell yeah. However Guillermo, dont dream too much as costs go up by thousands when you do. Assuming you get a red top SR20DET, tranny, standalone, custom driveshaft, custom tranny mounts, custom engine mounts, intercooler, wiring harness, so on and so forth, you'll be paying at least 3x your car's worth. And these are only stock components.... now add the stroke, the boost, tuning, etc etc..... Because Richard cant tune your car for you at his shop, and dynos require $$$, to tune your car right.

Just because it's relatively cheap to put an SR20DET in a 240sx, it doesnt mean that it's the same thing for an e30.

If i could get my hands on an E30 M3 with a blown or dead motor, I do it in a second.
But I don't think its going to be 3x the cars worth. I'm seriously going to look into this and the first thing I'm going to is figure out how much. A nice E30 M3 is going for about 13k and up with decent mileage. I know of one that has 160k and they want 10k. So say the motor is bad I think 5-6k would be a reasonable offer. Now tack on what the swap would cost. With the kit from the link on the first page they say 5500 to 6500, but its probably more like 7-8k. So the value isn't much different from what a nice M3 would be. I could be wrong.

Either way there are plenty of people who have put tons of money into a car and don't do anything with it. If i was to build this car it would see regular track time. So i think that every penny would be well spent as long as i'm having fun and not just building it and then driving it around town everynow and then.
Here comes the bashing!

[e30 gangsta]

if i had money and bmw didnt really make a differance 2 me i would do it....

but chances are when my m20 goes the s50 or m50 will go in if i plan to swap it.....

[E30-323ti]

Poxy little SR20's.

Snap rockers when you rev them too hard.
Alloy blocks distort after being thrashed for a while (1 season in a NA touring car!!).
600hp easy, maybe, but reliable and cheap and an easy DD, I think not.

Where on the other hand you can grab a stock 2JZ-GTE and have 350rwhp without even looking at the engine, and it is perfectly civilised to drive every day and will do well over 150,000miles.

I sure know what I'd choose.

Disclaimer:
I am in no way biased by having a 1JZ-GTE(the 2JZ's revvy little brother) in my E30.