Do you regret swapping out your m42?

[blunttech]

I miss the nimble feeling but forget all about it at 14PSI

[Roysneon]

I had an m40, a little different but I don't regret it at all. The car does feel different but I've made some other changes to the suspension that helped and there is more I could do to bring back the feeling of agility in changing direction it had before.

That being said if I had a proper M42 and not the m40 things would be different, im sure.

[phreshkid]

I regret it. I've owned four m42 cars to date. I've swapped two of them to s52/m52 engines.

Yes the car gets faster. Yes it's way more fun. But it gets noticeably heavier and MPGs go down.

I like the m42 engine a lot. Every swap from here on out will be to an m20 powered car. Because I never liked the m20.

M42 is the perfect motor for a 318is.

[E30SPDFRK]

Nope. The m30 and m60 were better in every way. The m42 was fun in a slow car bopping around type of way, but the extra power is easily more fun and less boring than that.

[eur04lif3]

With my m42 just turning 211,000 on the clock i realized that sooner or later i will be faced with the decision of either rebuilding the good ol m42 or swap to a different platform.

So i'd like to hear from the guys that have done the swap, and if you regret it or wish you had done it sooner. (please vote)

Note; this is not a thread about how great the m42's are or what a POS they are. They are plenty of threads for that subject.