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  1. #126
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timothy Prewitt View Post

    For those of you that follow this thread, the car was down for a couple months due to a series of unfortunate events and no time to fix them. However, it's back up and running with a new 420G that I bought on eBay. It was an e46 M3 SMG transmission that did not come with a bellhousing and that had been in an accident and sheared off the smg pump mounts. They listed it as unusable except for gear parts. For my case however, it was perfect! I swapped over the bellhousing from my blown 420g and spaced out the pilot bearing and away I went. New transmission with 109,000 miles on it for $245.
    Any pictures of that transmission process? I never realized the smg case was so similar to the regular 420g

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    I didn't take any, but it's pretty straightforward. You just take off the smg bellhousing and bolt on the regular V8 bellhousing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by akinshok View Post
    Any pictures of that transmission process? I never realized the smg case was so similar to the regular 420g
    I do have one picture showing the transmissions side by side, but Photobucket no longer allows free 3rd party sharing. Stupid Photobucket....

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    Quote Originally Posted by akinshok View Post
    Any pictures of that transmission process? I never realized the smg case was so similar to the regular 420g
    Main difference is the bell housing, but the V8 transmissions also have longer input shafts, which is why he had to space the pilot bearing out I imagine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerraPhantm View Post
    Main difference is the bell housing, but the V8 transmissions also have longer input shafts, which is why he had to space the pilot bearing out I imagine.
    That is correct.
    1994 BMW E34 540i/6 S62 swap
    2002 BMW e46 M3

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    Started on the interior yesterday. This is going to be interesting...


    1994 BMW E34 540i/6 S62 swap
    2002 BMW e46 M3

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    My leather dye kit came in from Leather World Technologies yesterday! Can't wait to start on this part of the swap. I dyed the door cards black and am going to be dying everything else in the interior black as well, except the seats, which are going to be cinnamon. Will detail the process as I go along if anyone is interested in doing the same thing.
    1994 BMW E34 540i/6 S62 swap
    2002 BMW e46 M3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timothy Prewitt View Post


    My leather dye kit came in from Leather World Technologies yesterday! Can't wait to start on this part of the swap. I dyed the door cards black and am going to be dying everything else in the interior black as well, except the seats, which are going to be cinnamon. Will detail the process as I go along if anyone is interested in doing the same thing.

    This is a very interesting swap and ver good write-up
    One thing i need to ask you for
    The obd2 wiring, could you post the wiring you did?
    Thanks

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