e30 323i N54 teaser

[the imitator]

Looking clean here rust wise, under the tank yielded the same results, looks real nice there. I'll be cleaning up the undercarriage,
and bandaging up any owwies I can find in the next few days.



Today I was also able to do a little visual comparison, and fitment test on the 335i fuel tank, into my e30 chassis, it is SO close!
I'll be needing to shave roughly 3-4 inches in length off the gas tank; most likely I'll use a heat gun to evenly heat up,
then push in both ends roughly 1.5 - 2 inches, which is very minimal.



Thickness shouldn't give me any beef in regards to install.



For early model cars The secondary fuel pump mounting tabs, that you see bent upward,
and one removed tab help create a little more space for the 335i tank.
In the upper right hand corner, that tab is questionable for right now, most likely it will also be loped off.
Remember, on early models most do not have the second opening for the Fuel level sender. I will
Be making an opening in order to service anything fuel level sender related.

I Kept the Secondary pump wiring intact , The wiring perfect for anyone who plans to run a surge tank such as me,



NOTE: I have chosen to use the 335i gas tank because my gas tank is rusty and old.
If you have a nice late model tank, you can use that tank and even the stock e30 fuel pump
as long as you're running the stock N54 with no bolt ons, or tune.
The tank pump has one role to feed the HPFP on the N54.

[modernist]

Very cool!

[the imitator]

Another small peek here...

I'll make sense of this tomorrow with modules and most everything needed for start,
but this is the body harness of a 2008 335i, this harness is what will be swapped into the E30.

So far so good, next step is getting the gas tank mounted in the correct position,
subframes should fly up quickly and we can start looking at engine bay fitment.


Before:


After:

[DER E30]

I did that same thing with the harness on my truck... What a nightmare! How many hours do you suppose that took?

[the imitator]

I did that same thing with the harness on my truck... What a nightmare! How many hours do you suppose that took?

It was my second time going through a 335i body harness, this took me about an hour and change. Today ill add modules, and hopefully get a better description of whats going on.

[DER E30]

WOW that's fast!

[the imitator]

It only went that fast because I knew what I was looking for, my first attempt was around 8 hours, but I also chopped the complete harness down to the essentials for modules, and start up.

This harness with have eventual goals to utilize some features, for an example, keeping the ABS modules, and sensor leads intact for a future project.

[CubbyChowder]

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[SickFinga]

Hmmm this is interesting. Is that a letter in your VIN? BMW started using letters for the production number in 1989. 323i ended production in 1986. Is that a BMW VIN or a new VIN was issued when the car was federalized?

[the imitator]

The red serial isnt part of the vin although it appears to be; the last 8 digits of my vin are before the red peint in smaller print. By the way, I'm aware you can clearly the numbers are A24470 haha :p

[SickFinga]

The red serial isnt part of the vin although it appears to be; the last 8 digits of my vin are before the red peint in smaller print.

OK, good. I got scared for a second there. I thought that there might be instances where NHTSA would issue a new VIN for grey market cars.

By the way, I'm aware you can clearly the numbers are A24470 haha :p

Not everyone knows that the last 7 are unique ;)

[the imitator]

OK, good. I got scared for a second there. I thought that there might be instances where NHTSA would issue a new VIN for grey market cars.



Not everyone knows that the last 7 are unique ;)

That would indeed suck if that was the case! Would be hard to get euro parts!

I had no clue about the whole letter in the vin after 86 thing you mentioned! That's cool. All I know is, I didn't a shotty job on blurring hahaha

[j4jo]

Hi guys,

Congrats on the project!

We have the complete n54 engine and e30 suitable for swap… But our swap intends to be a lot easier without swapping body harness of 335i but only the engine harness.

So my question is does anybody know how to delete ignition code, ABS on the n54 ECU… so that only car would be able to start with an e30 key and to remove all “unnecessary” features that we don’t need in E30.

I am new on the forum and don’t really know where to ask this so sorry if post in your thread is not welcome

Thanks

[nando]

There is no ews delete. There is an ews4 emulator that might work, but otherwise you have to do it the same way as the imitator. That mean full harness swap and all neccesary modules.

Deleting dtcs is easy, you just zero out the type code (requires a dme flash). But your first and main problem is getting around EWS.