Hi All! New E36 owner here. Just picked up a '97 E36 with a blown head gasket. Looking to replace engine and found a good deal on a engine and tranny out of a e46. How much of a hassle am I looking at on the conversion? Owner of E46 will supply DME, Harness, keys and anything else I want off the car. He also says it's a m52b28 engine but the e46 had the m52tub28 engine don't they?
Thanks for any advice!!
Swapping dual vanos into single vanos is not usually easy. If you want easy, buy a single vanos motor.
E46 had M52TU - it is a completely different DME setup. You will need to build or buy an adapter harness. M52TU used a cable to operate the electronic potentiometer on the throttle body, so you shouldn't need to retrofit a DBW pedal but electronically it will still require a fair amount of work to retrofit
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Thanks! Yeah from what I've read and your suggestions I think I'll be better off taking some more time to just find a decent m52b28. Thanks!
Or do a LS swap!
Diving in at the shallow end!
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