A little firewall massaging - M30 swap + save the earth

[george graves]

Getting things ready to drop the m30 in...can't wait - 3.5 liters baby!

http://www.e30m30.com/fire.mpg

[Rob]

what a little hammer :P

[george graves]

Yea, I switched it to my led mallet - and that did the job...

[Mot]

you doing the full install yourself? cause if you arnt jordan will hate it

[Spaz]

dude thats a carpenters hammer :shock:

get a real hammer, a ball peen!

[riverdale21]

George, I might sound stupid by asking this... whose car is in your sig pic and where can I find more pictures of it?

[george graves]

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !!!

- The let mallet works good for moving a large aeras - the carpenters hammer works well on stubbern aeras.

The car in my sig is some dude's in europe - search for a thread "who's red car is this" - it's a wounderful mess of different part...

you doing the full install yourself? cause if you arnt jordan will hate it

As if I give a flying fuck - Yes, me and M3 Ryan are doing it together. Don't worry, Jordan won't like it anyways - He thinks the m30 motor is outdated. I don't know why - it's a LOT like a m20 - but the cam is CHAIN driven, and you get a LITTER more displacement. The motor is not a peaky HP motor. It's a tourque motor. Oh and it's smoth as silk, and unbreakable (300k easy)

Remember guys, peak HP is great - but it's the *aera* under the curve that counts!

With a m30 stock motor, I'll be eating e36 m3's for breakfast.

Oh, BTW - if you're thrifty/lucky, you can do this swap for under $2500.

So nay-sayers can put that in their pipe and smoke it. :D

[rs4pro3]

Ya so far I've spent $1224.67 on my motor. All I need is motor mounts, driveshaft, shortening of driveshaft, shift linkage, tranny mounts, down pipes, exhuast work. And it will be done. Will be a good bit under $2500 when done.

[Jb325is]

I love how m30's feel and sound. The torque difference is definately noticeable between the m30 and the m20. The m30 also sounds much better than the m20 in my opinion

[wastedincome]

So what kinda spec's does the M30 have Hp?? Tq.???

[bmw335ist]

us spec 185hp 201tq e28 m30 the e34 us 208hp 214tq both motors made max tq at 4000 rpm

[iXer]

us spec 185hp 201tq e28 m30 the e34 us 208hp 214tq both motors made max tq at 4000 rpm

Is that _really_ the US spec M30B35 ?

Just to give a few examples:
The European spec M30B35 had 218 hp @ 5200 rpm / 229Nm @ 4000 rpm, unsure about the chassis it can be found in. Probably in all of E23/28/32/34.
The M30B28 (with Motronic 1.x) I have in my "Euro" E23 728 (-85) has 184 @ 5800 / 177 @ 4000.

/Mattias

[Jb325is]

I think the US motor has 214 tq and the euro has 224...I read that somewhere on mye28.com. but I cant find it

[bmw335ist]

any chip you buy for the m30 new or old will give you 242tq

[demlotcrew]

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !!!

- The let mallet works good for moving a large aeras - the carpenters hammer works well on stubbern aeras.

The car in my sig is some dude's in europe - search for a thread "who's red car is this" - it's a wounderful mess of different part...

you doing the full install yourself? cause if you arnt jordan will hate it

As if I give a flying fuck - Yes, me and M3 Ryan are doing it together. Don't worry, Jordan won't like it anyways - He thinks the m30 motor is outdated. I don't know why - it's a LOT like a m20 - but the cam is CHAIN driven, and you get a LITTER more displacement. The motor is not a peaky HP motor. It's a tourque motor. Oh and it's smoth as silk, and unbreakable (300k easy)

Remember guys, peak HP is great - but it's the *aera* under the curve that counts!

With a m30 stock motor, I'll be eating e36 m3's for breakfast.

Oh, BTW - if you're thrifty/lucky, you can do this swap for under $2500.

So nay-sayers can put that in their pipe and smoke it. :D

Dude they drink too much fuel, its just not practical to have a car that’s so un efficient, its a drag racer nothing more. ( in Europe the fuel costs and fuel efficiency is a big consideration to a cars worth)

Andrew