M30 ????

[NWMF]

Ive been pondering to turbo an m20 325i engine. And just recently the m30. My question for an m30 does that come out of the e34? Does it bolt up to an m20 tranny? I don’t know jack about an m30 and ive searched and cant find anything that helps. What I have in mind is turboing it so thanks?

[bmwm3n528]

"all i will say is that i have no respect for big-six swaps unless they are HEAVILY, HEAVILY modified motors. if you're swaping in a stock or close to stock big six, then that sucks for you.."

...What Alex McHenry has to say about the M30 'big sixes'

[kylebes1]

this local guy has a close to stock m30 in his 87 325is. He only has shavd the head to up the compression. that and a 8 lbs flywheel form the s38 m5 and that car is very fast.

[BS87]

The real benefit of the M30 comes with boost. It responds very well to boost.

[UNHCLL]

"all i will say is that i have no respect for big-six swaps unless they are HEAVILY, HEAVILY modified motors. if you're swaping in a stock or close to stock big six, then that sucks for you.."

...What Alex McHenry has to say about the M30 'big sixes'

:roll: :roll:

[kylebes1]

3.5 liters with a nice large turbo would be killer, the stock compression was not all that high so you could run factory intenals I suppose

EDIT: the odler engines have an 8:1 compression!

[Bokes]

http://www.e30.de/335e.htm

have fun reading.

[iXer]

You can get ridiculous power out of a turbo M20B25, so why chose a M30 engine when it inherently brings a lot of work to fit the E30 chassis?
No, the M20 tranny won't fit, follow the link that Bokes posted just earlier: http://www.e30.de/335e.htm

/Mattias

[BS87]

Because you can get 400+ rwhp out of a turbo M30.

[808BMW]

Because you can get 400+ rwhp out of a turbo M30.

You can get 600+ rwhp out of a turbo m20.

[M3 Ryan]

Because you can get 400+ rwhp out of a turbo M30.

You can get 600+ rwhp out of a turbo m20.

Yes... but it sure won't last as long as an M30 doing it!!

[BS87]

It takes alot more effort to get 600rwhp out of an M20 than it does an M30.

[808BMW]

It's not like either one is going to be easy anyway :P

[Bokes]

m30's last forever. literally.

[E30/M30]

m30's last forever. literally.

.....and they don't suffer cracked head's like m20's do,well the latter m30's don't.