Euro M30 is Installed and complete!! Runs like a champ.

[M3 Ryan]

Motor is done and installed!!
see photo album for pics: http://photos.tobinhosting.com/album125

[LikeCDoos]

can't wait, that will be one beast of a daily driver

[george graves]

WHOoooo! - that's going to be fun!

George Graves

[Jon325i]

I swear that sedan is gonna have some serious scoot :shock:

Jon

[M3 Ryan]

today is the day,,, I spent a lot of time yesterday getting everything swapped over to fit on the euro motor, so now its time to fire this baby up... still need to finish the exhaust sometime this week, but the motor should be in today so I can at least start the break-in.

later guys!

[M3 Ryan]

Its DONE!
THe Euro Motor runs well, but I need to get an exhuast on it tomorrow.
I will post pics of the final product tomorrow night.

[JPbmw]

Sweet :twisted: , so what going to be your next "daily driver"?

[M3 Ryan]

haha, man... I said I wasn't going to mod this car, and after 2 weeks with it I bought the euro M30 and started rebuilding it.
Man does it rev fast... with the 14lb flywheel instead of a 24lb and the short stroke of the crank it really zips along. its still noticably down on power because of the break in (it only has 10 miles now) so I will post back when I get it totally broken in and dyno it.

[bimmerphile]

Ryan, you kick ass.

[M3 Ryan]

Well, an oil light that wouldn't go out has had me spooked.
I found that the sender was leaking out through the plug and grounding out the switch, so I replaced the sender and all is well. I can now break in the motor more. I am at 20 miles and it feels very strong and healthy.
I am going to need a valve adjustment and fix this damn exhaust (no muffler) because it is wayyy to loud.

I will try and do a write-up on the whole conversion as it was quite involved for what seemed like a simple change.

right now I am sick with some viral infection, just got home from the doctor so I am going to just watch some movies and chill.
later guys.

[SickE30]

Yeah, you're the man dude. Good work.

[Jand3rson]

Let's see some pics of it in the car!

[M3 Ryan]

There ya go!
I just went for a 15 mile drive up a mountain and back down to seat the rings. The motor has incredible compression now. If I try to bump start it at a few mph and dump the clutch in 2nd, it just locks the rear rides and skids to a stop. before it would just turn over and roar to life...

I can't wait to get it all dialed in and drive it hard.
Right now I am really sick and can barely talk, so its not the time to be tinkering with it.

Enjoy the rest of the pics here along with my write-up under each picture.

http://photos.tobinhosting.com/album125

Thanks go out to George Graves and Elliott Meer for their help installing this engine. Without them, it would have been impossible to get this thing back into the car.
Peace out guys 8)

[Jand3rson]

Awesome work, Ryan. Thanks for the pics. I love how the intake manifold says "3.5" right on it, that's so baller.

Hope you feel better. :up:

[M3 Ryan]

yea, the 3.5L one is the most sought after one... the others say 3.2/3.4 on them and don't flow as much as this one does.
I wonder how much each mod made as far as more power is concerned, as there was quite a few changes I made to this engine to make it work in this car...