What would you do?

[BavarianSwap]

I recently picked up a 91 318is for close to nothing. I want something that I can reliably drive daily and take to the track. I have a limited budget ($3000) and would like to make decent power. What would you do?

Rebuild M42+boost
or
M50 Vanos+boost

[CHIF8008]

swap it baby

[alB5]

M50 + boost, M42's are awesome but you'll get way more power out of an M50. (This coming from an M42 owner who wanted to boost it)

[BavarianSwap]

Thanks for the feed back. Is the M42 not worth boosting? Is 300whp out of the question?

[Bimmerman325i]

Thanks for the feed back. Is the M42 not worth boosting? Is 300whp out of the question?

Is it doable? Yes. Should you? mmaaaaaybe.

However, if you just bought the car, that $3k should really be spent catching up on maintenance. plugs, cooling, suspension bushings, driveline bushings, fluids, clutch, tires, alignment, shifter, brakes (!!), shocks/springs, etc.

You'll find that $3k will go very quickly to maintain and properly sort the car, but you'll be much happier in the long run to have a well-running base car to boost later vs a boosted car that is falling apart because you neglected to tend to the maintenance it needs now and will soon and did need before you bought it.

my 2 cents, do all needed/future maintenance now, boost later.

[dannyyisntt]

Look up grippymonkey's project thread and follow suite.

[Massimo]

Asschuggen has 300hp turboz M42. You can do this with stock internals and low comp pistons.

[MattAvino]

^lol 'asschuggen'



S62.....do it

[BavarianSwap]

However, if you just bought the car, that $3k should really be spent catching up on maintenance. plugs, cooling, suspension bushings, driveline bushings, fluids, clutch, tires, alignment, shifter, brakes (!!), shocks/springs, etc.

You'll find that $3k will go very quickly to maintain and properly sort the car, but you'll be much happier in the long run to have a well-running base car to boost later vs a boosted car that is falling apart because you neglected to tend to the maintenance it needs now and will soon and did need before you bought it.

my 2 cents, do all needed/future maintenance now, boost later.[/quote]

Thanks for that. I Already have the suspension, brakes, wheels tires etc taken care of. My question is what motor I should go with considering my M42 is going to need to be rebuilt? I plan to boost one of the two in the future, not immediately.

[MikeDE]

swap it

[devon.818]

The m54b28! yeah!

[FunfGan]

M62. Be a man. Or hell, m67.

[slammin.e28]

M62. Be a man. Or hell, m67.

Fuck that bro....go goldfish....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Goldfish_V16

[BavarianSwap]

Looks like everyone is leaning toward the motor swap

[grantlacey11]

Is it doable? Yes. Should you? mmaaaaaybe.

However, if you just bought the car, that $3k should really be spent catching up on maintenance. plugs, cooling, suspension bushings, driveline bushings, fluids, clutch, tires, alignment, shifter, brakes (!!), shocks/springs, etc.

You'll find that $3k will go very quickly to maintain and properly sort the car, but you'll be much happier in the long run to have a well-running base car to boost later vs a boosted car that is falling apart because you neglected to tend to the maintenance it needs now and will soon and did need before you bought it.

my 2 cents, do all needed/future maintenance now, boost later.