Beautiful car.
Happy I was able to help.
Looks like Jake has put together a great car for you. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Thaniel
I know how that goes. I used to keep my dirt bikes in a buddy's garage in East Rutherford. I rode my street bike to FL last winter and gave up my parking spot in the city. When I tried to get my spot back before this summer, the garage manager (who I always generously tipped at the holidays) told me she gave my spot to a guy with nine cars who's paying $6K a month
Tipsy
E90's and E60's use a different set of can bus messages. In should be possible but would take more work. I helped do a similar thing on an Audi EV that has totally different messages. If interested in Can stuff feel free to post in my can bus thread. Link is in my signature.
Thaniel
Update - went today to get corner balanced and a track alignment. We put the car on the scales, and to our surprise it required zero adjustment - it was already well balanced. The car weighed in at 3555 lbs including driver (~170 lbs) and half a tank of gas. Interestingly, without the added weight of the driver the weight balance was slightly in favor of the rear (1671 lbs front/1714 lbs rear) - very close to 50:50.
How's the car running?
Tipsy
How much do you charge for e36 ls2 swaps?
the 325ix S54 that Jake did last year (or earlier this year, I forget) is up for sale...really trying to keep myself off of BaT to not bid on it
Those Who Stay Will Be Champions
Yes best to email me. Too many options to really go over on a forum.
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Your's will be done VERY soon. All the little odds and ends take so much time. The list is getting shorter by the day.
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1970 m42 swapped 2002
1985 LS1/T56 Swapped e28 (557e)
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If this is ever for sale... I'm interested.
Very nicely executed swap. But I'm curious the motivations of the owner? The S54 is a pretty capable engine and makes a lot of the E46 M3 experience what it is. I get dumping LSx's into an E36 with it's "fake" M engine we got here in the US. But this isn't something you see often.
It's cool, but again, just curious.
In one word.... TORQUE.
The LS that is in this car makes 469 ft/lbs of torque at 4400rpm.
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1970 m42 swapped 2002
1985 LS1/T56 Swapped e28 (557e)
Follow me on Instagram for constant build updates @classicdaily
Jake gave perfect one word description. TORQUE.
All NA bimmers lack torque badly... By doing this swap, the transformation of this car is amazing. Though it is not as drastic as on e36, but still worlds of difference. Also, on top of performance gains, you're loosing cost and complexity of maintaining S54. Now the part that cost $600 for s54 becomes $150 part available everywhere, which is quite a big deal especially if you use the car for the track as it was intended.
- 96 328is 6.0L. (LS1 to LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...ad.php?2098938)
- 96 328is 5.7L. (LS1 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1289987)
- 95 ///M3 6.0L. (LS2 build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1619249)
- 97 ///M3. (e46 Fender Flares/track car build thread: http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1727098)
- 96 328is (Dual Fuel Pump to Surge Tank thread: http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?1964025)
Man seeing Jake's builds pop up make the want for an LSx E46 sedan come back something fierce...
An LSx motor is also very inexpensive ALL the way around compared to an S54. Not to mention the huge aftermarket support it enjoys. I love the e46 and the S54 but with a LS swap the e46 becomes the car it should be.
+1! S54 is a great motor, but the instant torque response on an LS at most any rpm is pretty addictive. The uniqueness of the V8 rumble turns heads at stop lights as well. You'd have to spend a lot of money to get that type of power and torque number from a BMW engine at least without torque lag, heat soak, etc.
Shea Burns
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