Hi guys,
New to this forum, I'm from Sydney Australia and wanted to share my life savings from the last 5 years with you.
It's an M30B35 powered E30, what was originally a 325e. 5 years or so of building it and sorting all the teething problems, I know it's a common conversion (especially overseas), it's definitely not something you haven't seen before but she runs goes good and I guess that's what matters.
Recently I've just had it on the dyno (motor and everything is bone stock) and only got 82rwkw or 111rwhp. The graph was all over the place, there was a big missfire that was killing its power output none the less I was extremely disappointed. I replaced the distributor cap, plugs, and rotor button. I can feel the difference so hopefully once back on the dyno I will see a much better result. I've read a few threads that say that the M30B35 should have 125rwkw, though who knows, it's the torque that gives my car its up and go.
The plans are now to clear that up and keep it a strong N/A motor, ITB's, cam, maf and a motec computer. Though putting ITB's on an M30 here in Australia isn't an easy task, sourcing OEM parts is hard enough as it is. After endless amounts of research (mostly on r3vlimited) I found that a member here "Madhatter" has the ITB manifold that bolts directly onto the M30 block http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=119482 as his comment on this thread here says. I private messaged him a few days ago, though he hasn't replied. If anyone knows another way to get onto him, I'd love to know as I am very interested if he still has them.
New to this forum, I'm from Sydney Australia and wanted to share my life savings from the last 5 years with you.
It's an M30B35 powered E30, what was originally a 325e. 5 years or so of building it and sorting all the teething problems, I know it's a common conversion (especially overseas), it's definitely not something you haven't seen before but she runs goes good and I guess that's what matters.
Recently I've just had it on the dyno (motor and everything is bone stock) and only got 82rwkw or 111rwhp. The graph was all over the place, there was a big missfire that was killing its power output none the less I was extremely disappointed. I replaced the distributor cap, plugs, and rotor button. I can feel the difference so hopefully once back on the dyno I will see a much better result. I've read a few threads that say that the M30B35 should have 125rwkw, though who knows, it's the torque that gives my car its up and go.
The plans are now to clear that up and keep it a strong N/A motor, ITB's, cam, maf and a motec computer. Though putting ITB's on an M30 here in Australia isn't an easy task, sourcing OEM parts is hard enough as it is. After endless amounts of research (mostly on r3vlimited) I found that a member here "Madhatter" has the ITB manifold that bolts directly onto the M30 block http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=119482 as his comment on this thread here says. I private messaged him a few days ago, though he hasn't replied. If anyone knows another way to get onto him, I'd love to know as I am very interested if he still has them.
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