Who Performed the 1st 24v Swap

[frolf]

most likely someone from Finland.

no kidding right? I wouldn't be surprised, if in fact it did come from Finland, if the first one was also turbo charged with all sorts of "hey look at this simple/incredible metal fab work I did in my shed" bits.

[Mr. Burns]

no kidding right? I wouldn't be surprised, if in fact it did come from Finland, if the first one was also turbo charged with all sorts of "hey look at this simple/incredible metal fab work I did in my shed" bits.

exactly.

lets face it.
we're decades behind in "cool factor" swaps/engineering/ingenuity when compared to these crazy guys

[reelizmpro]

Pete McHenry pioneered many BMW conversions and was the goto guy for performance modifications. He was big on stroker m20's before moving on to 24valve m50/s50 swaps. Back then it was like 10-13k for an m50/s50 swap...so I didn't feel it was worth it. Things are different today. Information is shared and more people are involved. I don't know if he was first in the world but more than likely was in the US.

[bastianshaw]

prob a s38 not an s/m 5x

[golde30]

Local guy had an s50 swapped 318i with zender widebody when I first hit the e30 scene in 2002. The swap had been in the car for years already, so late 90s.

[lukeADE335i]

Probably Callaway with their "Quadros" 24 valve M20 in the 80's. Of course then BMW brought out the M50 and it all died before it got off the ground.

[delatlanta1281]

we still have our project orca stuff....

[SkiFree]

I was always told the white sedan that belongs to John Barlow here in SoCal was one of the first (late nineties).

[BUDNUNTA]

I remember the BMP Designs having swaps back in the day

[Der Ruffian]

When did the first Hartge H35-24 E30 M3 appear??
Some of the German tuners did the swap in late 80's-early 90's.
Says here the Hartge H35 came around in 1985.

http://www.supercars.net/cars/6124.html

[Der Ruffian]

Learned about the H35-24 when I did the S38B36 swap, and wanted to atain a TÛV for the swap.

[e30m3s54turbo]

Hartge 24v in a 1985 or 1986 e30 323i. Hartge called it H35-24 286hp. Hartge first H35-24 e30 m3 330hp was built in 1987.

I remember in 1995 I started to hear and see m50 s50 swaps in e30. At that time was expensive to do the swap.

[mr2peak]

"At that time it was expensive to do the swap"

S85 swaps are just becoming somewhat popular and documented… Mmmmmmm. 5 year plan?

[PeteD]

Scheneller BMW

I think Schneneller BMW may have been one of the pioneers. They swapped an s38 back in 92-93 (see picture). As far as I know, Mike was also friendly with Pete McHenry and they exchanged notes often.

[Hansel]

My M3 I bought out of san diego was swapped (i'd need to check the paperwork to be sure) in '99 or '00 with a 1k mile s52 from a '99 e36 that was totalled.
I have some of the paperwork/pics from the shop that did the swap. I haven't gone through the paperwork too carefully, but it cost the owner well over 20k for the swap according to some of the invoices.