Engine swaps for E30's

[gotKRAUT]

Originally posted by Halon@Aug 27 2004, 12:04 PM
who cares about the RD story, don't come back here until you've done the rotary swap. I'm serious.

dude STFU lol get over this rotary thing i agree with the above post...put a spec v motor in it!! LOL

[RealBMW 02]

dude, if you really want to own everyone at the track, and even most in a straight line, get a 2002 that needs an engine, put the strocker kit on your engine, and swap it to the 2002. Your car completely gutted will still weigh more than a stock 02 (they are about 2200 lbs loaded) put an equivalent suspension on it, a cage and some breaks and with the power you could get from your engine (250 you said) you would be unstoppable. You could probably get the weight down to 1800 lbs or so. How does 7.2 pounds per HP sound??!!! pretty damn good to me

[jsigone]

Originally posted by XtremeDream@Aug 27 2004, 12:06 PM
I read a story in the MODIFIED magazine of a guy owning a RX-7 and he got sick of rebuilding the engine so he put in a nissan sentra spec-v engine in it and is pulling 440hp or something like that. Now that is sick man. But his car is pretty bad ass.

it was a SR20DET w/ a FAT turbo not so POS SpecV motor....how u gonna fit a FWD motor in a RWD car

Let us know how the stroker kit goes!

[M-technik-3]

Originally posted by jsigone+Aug 31 2004, 07:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jsigone @ Aug 31 2004, 07:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-XtremeDream@Aug 27 2004, 12:06 PM
I read a story in the MODIFIED magazine of a guy owning a RX-7 and he got sick of rebuilding the engine so he put in a nissan sentra spec-v engine in it and is pulling 440hp or something like that. Now that is sick man. But his car is pretty bad ass.

it was a SR20DET w/ a FAT turbo not so POS SpecV motor....how u gonna fit a FWD motor in a RWD car

Let us know how the stroker kit goes! [/b][/quote]
Same way as VW does with the 1.8t 20v engine. Longitudinal in passat 4Motions and transverse in Golf IV's.

[lumpy]

Nissan SR20DET is a fairly common swap in Australia, cos the engines are cheap(ish) and BMW stuff is very expensive. SR20 comes in RWD configuration in JDM Silvias, 180SX. Can achieve over 300 rwkw from "bolt-on" mods alone.

There is also a couple of 1jz-gte toyota powered 323i's around the place - 1jz twin turbo is the baby brother of the mighty 2jz and puts out 208kw in stock form. Almost unbreakable bottom ends - put a BIG turbo on them and think 600Hp with an unopened motor.

Rotaries (13B turbos) are used as well.

Interestingly, most of these swaps are cheaper options in Australia than building a worked BMW engine. We share the same RHD configuration as the Japs, so it's probably much easier to do engine swaps using JDM stuff.

You may scoff at the percived poor quality of japanese engineering compared to the BMWs, but generally the later generation motors are extremely strong. One of the top drag cars in Australia is a quadrotored 3 series BMW!! Quad Rotor BMW

[jsigone]

Originally posted by M-technik-3+Aug 31 2004, 08:53 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (M-technik-3 @ Aug 31 2004, 08:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

it was a SR20DET w/ a FAT turbo not so POS SpecV motor....how u gonna fit a FWD motor in a RWD car

Let us know how the stroker kit goes!

Same way as VW does with the 1.8t 20v engine. Longitudinal in passat 4Motions and transverse in Golf IV's. [/b][/quote]
have u seen a engine bay of a FD3S? It's pretty damn small. The guy hacked the crap out of the engine bay to fit the SR motor. It's a damn shame that tuner sold his FD3S w/ it's 400+ HP SR motor on ebay a few weeks after the mag was on the stands.

[gotKRAUT]

Originally posted by jsigone+Aug 31 2004, 07:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jsigone @ Aug 31 2004, 07:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-XtremeDream@Aug 27 2004, 12:06 PM
I read a story in the MODIFIED magazine of a guy owning a RX-7 and he got sick of rebuilding the engine so he put in a nissan sentra spec-v engine in it and is pulling 440hp or something like that.* Now that is sick man.* But his car is pretty bad ass.

it was a SR20DET w/ a FAT turbo not so POS SpecV motor....how u gonna fit a FWD motor in a RWD car

Let us know how the stroker kit goes! [/b][/quote]
correct me if im wrong but isnt the spec v motor an SR? i know its not an SR20 but i know nissan made FWD and RWD SR20's

[jsigone]

the 2000+ SE-R and Spec V uses a POS QR25DE motor.

91-98 SE-r used a SR20DE
91-99 240sx in japan used a SR20DET RWD version
91-?? Pulsar aka Blue bird used a SR20DET FWD version, same had AWD trannys but still used the transverse SR20 motor.

[IHAYO]

Hope it not late to reply.I come from Thailand,and also love in E30.In Thailand trend to modify E30 seperately in two groups.First BMW lover,people in this group will not swap engine to other brand but try to swap bigger engine such as M20B20/25,M50TUB20/25,S14,M52TU or tuneup with supercharger or turbocharger but BMW engine quite expensive here (around 2000USD for M50 and 2500USD for S14 engine and don't ralk about Tuned-up engine such as C2 2.7 it very expensive).Another group need only POWER and don't care brand ,so many people swap engine to JAPAN turbocharger Engine such as 1/2JZ-GTE(280PS! from SUPRA or CROWN),SR20DET(205-240PS from 200SX,Silvia S14-15) because it made much power in lower cost than use BMW engine ( 1JZ-GTE price around 1750USD,SR20DET price around 1200USD all price plus worker wage) and someone use ROTARY from MAZDA !

For Turbo 4 -cylinders engine it's good balance for E30,many people use for Drift cars.But for Turbo 6-Cylinder it quite heavy and very fit in engine room.So most of them use for Drag car (In Thailand have many E30 with spaceframe Dragster 2JZ-GTE full modified around 400-500PS++ and Rotary around 300-500PS++)

But for street users should use only N/A engine (M40B18/M20B20, SR20DE/1J-GE) because fuel consumption is fair!

but My E30 just swap to M20B25 std and I think it's ok ^_^
hope will share with others