Most Popular Swaps?

[E30?]

Guys can someone help me out and tell me whats the diffrence between m20, 30, 40, etc engines and what do most people do as a swap?

Whats the easiest and leasrt costly? Best bang for the Buck.

And do most of you Turbo or just keep it NA?

Im just trying to learn more about the options. Thank you once again.

P.S. Whats the weight diffrence of the sedan vs Coupe? on the e30's?

[chadthestampede]

The search button is your friend.

[ethree]

Read the site. Just read and absorb information before asking these types of questions.

[dashboardmonkey]

[!kid]

it depends on the year they are not all the same

a 90-91 318i 4door is 2657

a 87-88 325i coupe is 2850

89 325i is 2895

90-91 325i is 2811

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M50

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M40

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M20

[E30?]

it depends on the year they are not all the same

a 90-91 318i 4door is 2657

a 87-88 325i coupe is 2850

89 325i is 2895

90-91 325i is 2811

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M50

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M40

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M20

Thanks !kid. !kid is my friend more than the search button.


Thanks

[xwill112x]

eh, ill give him a week..

[Nic01101011]

i predict a lack of actual engine swap in the near future

[e34john]

I am not going to just say search. But it really is helpful then getting a bunch of answers from a bunch of people most of whom will be wrong. Check out the different sections and read the threads that has a bunch of replies. You will be researching for a while because there is a lot of information on here.

[shiftbmw]

Most popular swap is the S50/S52 swap from an E36 M3.

The majority of the board has NA setups. Turbo is well covered though and has been done many times. Best bang for your buck is the S52...you drop in a stock motor which provides very few headaches and good power for relatively cheap.

There are a couple versions of the M20...the low revving 2.7L(325/325e) and the high revving 2.5L(325i/325is). M30 is the motor from an E28 5 series/E24 6 series and others.

[ethree]

There are a couple versions of the M20...the low revving 2.7L(325/325e) and the high revving 2.5L(325i/325is).

I wouldn't call the m20b25 high revving. 8-9+k is high revving.

[Farbin Kaiber]

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[!kid]

I wouldn't call the m20b25 high revving. 8-9+k is high revving.

i think his point was that its the high revving of the M20 motors

[TexasTerp]

This site covers all your questions without fail. there have been tons of threads and complete sections dealing with this. The search button is your best friend. Around here threads like these from newbies is just going to garner you a lot of asshole remarks. tread carefully.

[dvs909]

i predict a lack of actual engine swap in the near future

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