★ ★ Project Glacier | Make the E30 a Daily Again ★ ★

[MrBurgundy]

You can get a diamond encrusted timing belt


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[lambo]

Ok. I’m back on the M20 hype train. Selling all the 24v stuff I accumulated should put me in a good spot to do some nice things to the M20.

[MrBurgundy]

Are you talking about the valve ticking?

Lol

That plus those injectors; it sounds like an American Apparel sweatshop. A glorious sweatshop


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[2mAn]

There's something sweet about an m20. I don't think I could bring myself to take swap mine for a dual cam straight six. The noises it makes, man. Those delicious, sweet noises.

Are you talking about the valve ticking?

[ak-]

M20 turbo. Easy, affordable, and sensible power for a street e30.

People who break them are usually the ones who are senselessly trying to shoot for the moon in power without the hardware to back it up, fudge up tuning, and/or don't set safety parameters like boost-cut thresholds or temperature cut offs.

I enjoy mine at 12psi more than 17psi.

[MrBurgundy]

There's something sweet about an m20. I don't think I could bring myself to take swap mine for a dual cam straight six. The noises it makes, man. Those delicious, sweet noises.

[Danny]

If I lived in a state which did not require smog checks I would have forgotten about the entire swap completely and just turbo'd the m20 my car had in it. Parts are cheaper, easier to work on in the E30 bay, and the horsepower goals I actually want for this chassis would be super easy to attain.

Basically, I wish I didn't have to smog my car because then I would have just added a turbo instead of swapping an S50.

[wworm]

well that changes everything...if i had access to an M60 id hop on that train in a heartbeat. TORKSSSSS BRUH!

yeah now you have another option to throw in there. I recently decided to lean towards an m30 instead of the (probably cheaper) m52 donor car I could have bought because I wanted the car to maintain that single cam character while still getting power and torque down. The m52 just never felt right to me although nothing sounds quite like revving out a 24v i6...I dont know just throwing my opinion in here to confuse you even more lol

[TeXJ]

If I had the money I would be doing an LS3 swap...for now I have an m52b28, and I like it.

[Echo30V]

My fav is still the S54.

[MPLFoster]

My roommate has an E34 540i/6 parts car sitting in our side yard right now

well that changes everything...if i had access to an M60 id hop on that train in a heartbeat. TORKSSSSS BRUH!

[lambo]

M60 or no balls. hahahah

My roommate has an E34 540i/6 parts car sitting in our side yard right now

[lambo]

Are you in CO still? a little off topic but was just curious haha

yeah I am

[lambo]

You guys aren't making it any simpler lol. I think I'm going to do a compression test on the M20 and try to get a gauge for how healthy it is. It would kinda suck giving up on the engine right before hitting 300k haha it's at almost 289k right now.

The goal of the car definitely isn't to be a purist special, but I do value maintaining the character of the car and I think keeping the M20 is the best way to do that... but, it sure is hard to argue with a proper M52 setup.

[delamaize]

M60 or no balls. hahahah