Corey's S52 Swap

[coreyw]

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Purchase
3. Engine Teardown
4. Oil Pan Swap

More power was needed.
S52 was found.
Aforementioned S52 was purchased.
And here we are.

My first swap. Before this I've only done suspension work and oil changes. So this shall be fun.

Working List of Parts

My car a few months after buying it (chyah, what was I thinking??):


A little bit later with euro bumpers:


And most recently (suspension refresh):

[coreyw]

2. Purchase. 2/22/12

Found a local wrecked '98 E36 M3 with a good S52 motor in it, about 147k miles on it. Called about it and picked it up a few days later.

[Danny]

Car looks great.

[coreyw]

3. Engine Teardown. 2/25/12

Just starting to take almost everything off the engine block. Getting ready for OBD1 conversion.



Harness off

[Wh33lhop]

Awesome. Suspension, motor, early 4-door with great paint. :up:

[e30_neverstock]

nice Corey, leme know if you need any help. ;)

[blocke]

Off to a great start! Long forward to updates

[red_e30]

nice looking good

[Acehye559]

Nice. We need more 24v e30s in cali

[joecassie]

nice i just finished mine two days ago

[dball4]

We love wrecked e36's don't we. Thank you to the tool bags that drive them!

[Vivek]

Looks like you're about 3200 in (added up a rough estimate in about 30 seconds) and you've got most of the stuff. So you're looking at about a 4k swap to put about 250 to the wheels. Looking good...

[catuned]

Looking good man. Update the build. :)
Let me know if you need anything.

[MattAvino]

quite clean

[StreetMafia21]

props nice early model