SoCal General Chat

[e30trooper]

by cammed you mean increasing it from a 2.5 - 3.0 or what?

sig worthy :nice:

[Balleristic31]

No. Cammed meaning putting a new performance camshaft in. It will not change displacement at all.



Edit: lol ben

[Robert]

:rofl: a 2.7 stroker cant pull on me...

[Balleristic31]

Idk fool, you won't be going anywhere with broken axles anywayZ...

[Robert]

Thanks a lot, but got that fixed. It was my diff hanging for dear life. Only had the rear bolt & one front bolt left

[Balleristic31]

U mad?

[Robert]

I ain't even mad.

[Anguz]

hey Spencer(turge) ,

listen to us man. Take a breath and thoroughly think it thru on what you want on your car.

Bimmerfest isnt that big of a deal .

our e30s are more important than the plastic BMW convention .

[Robert]

hey Spencer(turge) ,

listen to us man. Take a breath and thoroughly think it thru on what you want on your car.

Bimmerfest isnt that big of a deal .

our e30s are more important than the plastic BMW convention .

Agreeed! :up:

[e30trooper]

:rofl: a 2.7 stroker cant pull on me...

maybe not a m50 w/ s50 cams.. But a stock m50 yesh

stock 325i vs e30 w/ nv m50 and headers/chip

[turge]

I ain't even mad.

not even sad?

hey Spencer(turge) ,

listen to us man. Take a breath and thoroughly think it thru on what you want on your car.

Bimmerfest isn't that big of a deal .

our e30s are more important than the plastic BMW convention .

If I wasn't leading the caravan I would skip it and save up for a month or two to get everything right. Although I could carpool with someone to the event.

My options as of now:

1. Rebuild current engine (resurfacing the head, new headgasket, and fixing whatever else broke)
2. Just put in a new headgasket, bolt shit down, get through the summer, then m50 or s50 swap.
3. Take the current engine out, sell it, save for a proper m50 or s50 swap, and bike everywhere or get rides to and from work.
4. Take out a loan and m50 swap now, although I hate being in debt.
5. Buy a low mileage m20 from a friend and swap that in if the damage is too much on my current engine.

I would love to have my car operational before Bimmerfest. Eventually I want to 24v swap, 5 speed swap, get an OEM (mtech) body kit, get a new paint job on my car, keep it bronzit (haterz gonna hate), probably add a roll cage, and then fix the miscellaneous stuff that's wrong with my car.

All of this costs money of course.

TLDR version: I want to 24v swap in the future.

[Anguz]

haha we really dont need a leader dude .

its a short drive

we can take care of ourselves .

[turge]

lol dude... point being, if the guy who made the caravan thread didn't show up to the event, it'd look bad.

[Ayman]

[fatsooo]

I think youre making this more complicated than it should be.
Pull the head, get it checked for flatness and pressure tested at the least, then put in fresh bolts and gasket.
Enjoy bimmerfest.
Hold off on 5 speed until motor swap.

Time and money is obviously a constraint. this has the least turn around time and is the least expensive IMO.
I wouldn't want to rush into a swap like that if I was you. I would take proper amount of time to do necessary research and collect the right parts over time to get it done right than trying to rush it in time for a yearly car meet.