hey, Im new to the site. Trying to get active on this board so i thought i would post my Turbo M3 build I just finished. All Plumbing/piping/manifold etc was custom fabricated by me. All done on a very low budget!
Info on the car. Its a 1995 E36 M3 with a 3.0 S50 motor. All stock internals with a thicker MLS head gasket (.070).
Turbo is a Garrett 50 trim.
Top mount Manifold is made by me out of sch 40 steel.
Downpipe is made by me and is 2.5 inch and goes into a 3 inch exhaust with a vibrant muffler. (no cats or anything)
Wastegate is a 38mm and is vented to atmosphere out the side of the car. (Side Exhaust looking vent right behind passenger front wheel).
Right now its running with a pretty bad (soooo rich) tune good for 8PSI. I have an even more thicker MLS head gasket (.140) that I will be installing once i get some time. Once that is on I plan on running 15-20 PSI. Also planning on a different turbo with lower boost, something like a gt35 or t61 etc... ummm think thats about it.
Let me know what you guys think... http://s743.photobucket.com/albums/x...o%20m3%20pics/
Looks pretty good for keeping it on budget! How is it tuned and what injectors?
Where in IL are you? There is a pretty big group of turbo e36s around here
ohh and btw, .070" headgasket is stock thickness
Luke
03 330i
What are you using for tuning. Its really interesting. I think the 50trim with .140 hg and more boost should be sick fun !!!!!
I would rather not say who did the tuning for it because its the worst tune known to man lol. A place did it on a dyno using tunerpro and ostrich emulator. once the thicker HG goes on it will be running AA software (already talked to them and given them info on the setup).
Nice build!! Can you still retain AC with the manifold?
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I can't pm you. Anyways, I was wanting to talk to you about the manifold. Basically, i can install the manifold while the engine is still in the car and I don't have to change any ac lines, correct?
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Anyway, Im not sure if the manifold I made could be installed with the engine in the car or not. I pulled the motor to help line everything up while I was making it then bolted it on and put the motor back in the car. But I did have to take the manifold off and put back on a few times after that to made the bend and flange for the turbo to bolt up. I did it by just lifting the engine up maybe a foot or so to get to all manifold bolts/nuts then dropped it back down on the motor mounts. So if i didn't already pull the motor i could have installed it pretty easy considering i wouldn't really need to disconnect any wires or anything because im only lifting the engine up a little not taking it out.
So to answer your question, you might be able to get away with putting a manifold on with the engine in from underneath the car but it would take a lot of patience and some crazy tool contraptions (sockets connected to wobble socket to another extension socket etc) to get to all the bolts/nuts. I wouldnt want to do it that way, its much easier to just take two motor mount bolts off then pull the engine up a foot then drop back down and reinstall the two motor mount nuts.
And yes no new AC lines are needed, I cracked one of the AC lines a little and just cut off the whole line in frustration instead of trying to repair it. easy fix tho once I have some time. But ya All AC components remain in stock form.
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