You also need the E46 M3 5 bar fuel pressure regulator.
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Ordered this and the housing for it... should have everything now!
The engine showed up today so now I can finally get started on things
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It's in good company
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The parts are all here... this is basically a complete S54 swap sans exhaust and engine
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Cluster have been sent off to get coded and converted into Z3M cluster functionality. My cluster was an earlier version I don't know if they had worked with before but I guess we will see if it works. If not I may need to source a correct donor cluster but I'll get there when I get there! I'm just ready to get the engine on a stand and get it built!
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So this project stalled for a bit because the S54 I bought had a bad head gasket and was giving Paypal time to work that out because they didn't want me to disassemble the engine further... somewhat oddly, Paypal did not rule in my favor, citing that the engine I bought does look like an engine (seriously, that was their reasoning)
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Oh, and the freeze plug was blown out. Might have actually served its purpose as a freeze plug. Guess its better than a cracked block
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But anyways. That's behind me, now I'm looking forward...
Stripping the S54 has gone pretty quickly. Have a lead on a good head so I'll probably just go that route and rebuild this as a spare head to keep around.
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These S54's are really remarkably easy to work on. I've found that to be true for pretty much every M engine I've worked on. Err... every "S" engine I've worked on...?
Have about 1,300 miles to put on the car before I can take the car off the road and really start the swap - have the cluster coded to 216,000... so a bit of driving to do but that gives me time to get the engine rebuilt
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For the clusters - I'll post some pictures and stuff about it once it's in but hit up busterhax on here. He takes a non-M Z3 facelift cluster which have the CANBUS features built in, with custom programming to convert it to S54 spec, as well as installing a Z3M style gauge face. It's really cool and a lot cheaper than the new Z3M cluster. I actually had an OE S54 Z3 gauge face lying around I had him install in mine, so my cluster is indistinguishable from an OE one
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It will look no different than an OE cluster.
If I may ask, what is the total $ going to be? $20k in parts + the purple car?
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i didnt spend anywhere near 20k for my swap and a i did a full rebuild with OE parts/gaskets.
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Im in it about 9k plus the car right now. That includes custom interior CF parts and manual swap stuff too. Thats my total for the whole build, currently...
Still need a head, exhaust, driveshaft, bellhousing, some other bits
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Remembered to take a picture of the busterhax gauge cluster today
Indistinguishable from OE (which is the one installed in the above picture)
My swap got put on hold because we are working on a RHD E34 525i auto wagon at my shop, swapping in an S52 and 5 speed. My car is next up though I also need to figure out what I'm doing about the engine... part of me says I should cut my losses with this one and just buy a complete, good S54... but then again, if this one only really needs a head, I have a buddy who will sell me one for like $400ish. But then there are more questions... idk.
In hindsight I should have bought an E46 M3 donor car. So, note to anyone researching this in the future - save yourself the hassle because you need a LOT more than the engine from the E46 M3. Pedal, exhaust, everything else. Just buy a donor car up front. I should have... theres a $5k running E46 m3 vert near me right now. Would have been perfect.
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But contact busterhax if you need a cluster. The one I am holding started out life as a Z3 facelift cluster and I sent it to him. With some coding magic it functions as a Z3 S54 cluster. I happened to have an OE gray gauge face to install, but there are replica gauge faces available that look like the OE one (minus the M, due to copyright reasons).
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Glad to hear there are more cluster options than when I went through this-- I got super lucky and found a Z3M S54 cluster on ebay for pretty cheap.
Lemme know if you have any questions! I'm rarely on bfc but pretty active on m3f. Should be a link to my build thread in my sig, if it helps at all.
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Any updates?
Nothing to write home about yet...
Ripped apart a 525i/5 as a parts car for the E34 S52 swap, then did some bimmerfest prep and went to bimmerfest, now I'm back to working on the E34 swap and may have another swap project coming into the shop afterwards...
I still need an S54 to make any progress on my car unfortunately. I may just part out the S54 I have to recoup some money towards a good complete engine or try to fix the head on this one.
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Thanks for the post and info! will be reaching out to busterhax for a Z3m s54 cluster for my s54 swap.
hows this build coming along now?
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