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The m10 Turbo thread!
Hey guys! This is the first official post on the up coming turbo build I'm doing to my car! I've been wanting to turbo the car for quite some time and I finally have the means to start my build thread!
A little bit of back round on me and my car: My name is Noah and I am 19 years of age. I've always loved e30's and its kinda manifested into me finally being able to now only own one but work on one! I actually got my car one year ago this month! I fell in love with e30s manly because of Forza! I always used to play the e30 M3 on Forza and because of that I wanted an e30! So Iwent out and got extremely lucky in finding this gem. I went and saw two other e30s before the this one and they had an ungodly amount of problems.
So I made sure to check Craigslist every single day at the break of dawn, and finally the perfect e30 had appeared! I immediately contacted him and was the first person to come see it! It was also a 4 hour drive LOL worth it. Anyway, the next day my father and I drove up really early in the morning before school and bought it for $3200.00! Needless to say I was smiles all day! This is my first car and I couldn't be happier.. When I bought the car I could;t even change my oil without help, now I've learned so much from my mechanic brother-in-lawand can do way more than I thought I'd ever learn in a year!
Now this car is a 1984 318i. The car is super cherry, resprayed, no rust, perfect interior, ran great, it was a steal! I immediately put it on some coils and dropped it three inches and put some nice wheels on it! So its not a hot rod, its got a m10 engine which satisfied me for about.... two months.. So I decided I needed to start working towards doing an engine swap or turbo or what have you... Well about two months into owning the car I stumbled upon Kamotors Turbo Kit for the m20! When I saw that I knew i had to buy an m20 way the engine and buy his kit! In fact if you search hard enough Im sure you'll see some post I made months back on his thread lol. However when I had set my mind on that I still didn't know anything... I hadn't realized all I needed to do to have a successful turbo.. So after many of hours of research and reading I learnt myself lol. In order to have a reliable successful turbo you need to do an engine rebuild, there's a lot of small stuff involved in turning a car not just slapping on a snail and going!
After doing some hard math I came to the conclusion that buying an m20, rebuilding, and turboing it would be very expensive. However, I digress.
My next idea was putting in an s52! Then I went to the idea of putting a Foxbody 5.0 in it! Then I went back to the s52! I could not make my mind up for the life of me. I seemed hopeless.... Until I decided the best, most fun, cheapest and most unique way to do this is to build my current m10 and turbo that! seams obvious enough right? LOL
Anyway now I'm here and I'm very excited. I bought a head from a fellow R3v'r for $60 and sent it to Shan't for a complete rebuild. Port, polish, H.D. rockers, springs, valves, reground cam, etc for $1200.00 if I remember correctly... it's beautiful.Next was the block. I purchased all my engine parts for the rebuild from Ireland Engineering. The list includes:
Rod Bearings for M10 - Factory - m10rodbearing
bearing-size: standard
Main Bearings for M10 - Factory - 02mainb
bearing-size: standard
Rod Bolt and Nut - OEM - 02rodbolt
M10 Lower Gasket Set - 02gaslower
Timing Cover Gasket Set - M10 - m10tmngcvrst
M10 Upper Gasket Set - 02upgas
Performance MLS Head Gasket for M10 - 02compgasket
ARP Head Stud Kit for M10 Engine - 02headstud
Timing Chain Tension Rail - M10 - 02tensionrail
Water Pump for 2002 - 02wp
Timing Chain for M10 - 02timchain
type: 2-row
Timing Chain Guide Rail - M10 - 02chainrail
Forged Pistons for M10 Engine - m10forged-custom
head: 1.8
bore: 90mm
comp: 9.0:1 (stock)
rods: 144mm
stroke: 71mm
Turbo Application
Coming out to $1600.00 for the entire rebuild. Which isn't bad!
After the rebuild I plan on buying a Garret 2871, or something similar thats cheaper. I need to find out what intercooler kit to get, and I need to figure out fuel pumps. However i think I already have a Bosch 404 which would be perfect for it. Idk i have to look. Then I plan on running AEM EMS 4 with a custom harness being built. a Local performance shop will be installing all of that because thats not my forte. That'll cost around $6000.00 for the ECU, harness, al of ignition, injectors, tuning, and labor. So not took bad. :x
Anyway, now that I have my engine parts its time to rebuild which will be starting in two weeks! I'm very excited! I'll be posting pictures regularly on the entire build from engine rebuild to putting on the turbo and what not. I can't wait to document the entire thing and share the experience with my favorite community, R3vLimited.
Here are some pictures of al the new shiny parts! More pictures to come!
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