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Definitely seems like a good deal, Febi (OEM redesigned) rockers are going for $21/piece, and apparently they only ever break with really high lift cams. That's a $50 difference, really only worthwhile if you plan on running an extreme cam.
Definitely seems like a good deal, Febi (OEM redesigned) rockers are going for $21/piece, and apparently they only ever break with really high lift cams.
Oh, I didn't know there was a redesign. How do they compare to stock, and these?
My built m20 with a high duration/lift cam and a 7100rpm limiter did just fine with the revised FEBI rocker arms. There is no one on this board that needs anything more then those in a street car/engine.
Furthermore said FEBI rocker arms are $18 each or so. Billet rockers are upwards of $80.
Most e30 owners can barely swing $216 for 12 new OEM rocker arms, let alone upwards of $960 for billet ones.
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Took that from bf.c a while ago, so I guess prices have gone up, but I only checked BMA really quickly. They were re-designed in the early 90s I think, and from what I've read there hasn't been a recorded case of one breaking with stock cams and a sane red-line, even after hundreds of thousands of miles.
+ hardly any faster, if at all compared to the money you'd be spending on the swap could be used for new rockers + chip/cam + lightweight flywheel + exhaust.
No matter how you look at it the M50 is far superior to the M20, although I'm selling my M50 and sticking with the M20...I <3 my 12 valves
Far superior if you're willing to shell out a good 4-6k, which would refresh an M20 and build a solid turbo kit. But yes, it's definitely the better engine.
m50 = heavier + far more money + unknown maintenance history.
+ hardly any faster, if at all compared to the money you'd be spending on the swap could be used for new rockers + chip/cam + lightweight flywheel + exhaust.
lawl.
Only by 50ish lbs, and you can find the maintenance history the same way you'd find it for an m20 engine.
I spent under $300 on my m50 swap, and it runs absolutely perfect, and pulls much harder then my m20 powered track car that is 300+lbs lighter. If people are spending $4k+ on an m50 swap, they are doing something seriously wrong, or doing a full rebuild top to bottom with parts form the stealer.
+ hardly any faster, if at all compared to the money you'd be spending on the swap could be used for new rockers + chip/cam + lightweight flywheel + exhaust.
lawl.
No timing belt, much newer in general and better in every single way, but whatev floats your boat.
besides, if you wanted to do it on the cheap, i bet you could swap an m50 into a 325 for under a grand.
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