M3 Engine Salvage

[anonymous-user]

Anyone know a source for BMW M engines?

Specifically I'm looking for a S50B30 and box. Thats the 3.0 E36 M3 engine...

Cheers

Francis

[B19GRR]

These guys will probably be able to help you:
www.fabdirect.com/

Cheers,
Rob

[anonymous-user]

Thanks Rob,

At the moment all roads seem to lead to FAB. Whilst I've dealt with them before and had quite excellent service they seem royally expensive (and who ever heard of paying VAT at a scrap yard )

Anyone know of any others ?

cheers

Francis

[rich_b]

thegavster said:

Blimey, so FAB want 3750+VAT (£4406) for a E36 3.0 lump and suspension! Or you could bid on this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2468731769 , with only a few hours left and stuck at £5k. gav

Very dodgy!!!

[john_p]

It is an M3, according to the DVLA.

www.rac.co.uk/myrac/vehicle_data_check/results?vrn=L251NRA

Agreed, bit odd though.

[cortinaman]

it does say why its cheap,its a stolen/recovered m3 that has had the interior,mirrors and whatever else taken and the parts were replaced with std bmw bits as opposed to the proper m3 stuff.

no doubt its on the hpi register.

>> Edited by cortinaman on Monday 29th March 02:46

[dazren]

You don't. You rip the interior out. Put in a pair of buckets, a cage and harnesses, and you have a serious track day toy for £7k all in.

DAZ

[iguana]

or punt on the engine & box and shoe horn a BMW V8 engine & box in.

V8tastic...

[mags]

Try this bloke:

www.bmparts.co.uk/

Never used him myself tho'

Mags

[anonymous-user]

its worth looking round...i found 1

70,000 miles e36 s50b30 engine gearbox loom and ecu

£1600, in yorkshire, but still in rolled car so i can check it out running tommorow morning =8)

[eliot]

How hard is it to seperate the ECU and loom from the car?
On a [range] Rover V8, it's trivial, becuase everything has been added on bit by bit, so it's simple to seperate out the various components on these cars, I assume that the loom on a BMW is fully integrated.

I drive a 540, the engine is lovely - it would be great to use on of these engines in a kit or a shoe-horn project (Focus V8??)

Eliot.

[anonymous-user]

eliot said:

How hard is it to seperate the ECU and loom from the car?

as far as i know, you need to keep the engine bay wiring loom and vanos ecu, the main engine ecu plugs into standard e30 loom. all you need do is make up an adapter for engine bay loom to main wiring loom. i have collated most the info here (i didnt write any of it)www.francisb.dsl.pipex.com/swapinfo.doc

eliot said:

I drive a 540, the engine is lovely - it would be great to use on of these engines in a kit or a shoe-horn project (Focus V8??) Eliot.

the 4.0 v8 does fit in an e30 but i'd bet it makes it way too front heavy and it'd handle like a pig. i think there are a few e30 v8s on www.e30.de

francis

[dazren]

I know Iguana had recently had an 840i engine in an E36. The transplant was done by a previous owner.

DAZ

[iguana]

dazren said:

I know Iguana had recently had an 840i engine in an E36. The transplant was done by a previous owner. DAZ

IMHO really the 4.0 or 4.4 V8's are the perfect engine for the E36, makes non Evo M3's (which are pretty nippy cars in isolation) feel like a 318!

Evos matched mine on power (mine chipped & de-catted approx 310bhp/330lbft) in fact EVOs are a few bhp more but the difference is the huge extra wedge of torque & that its far lower down in the rev range than the 6, an Evo is prob just as swift if you rev the crap out of it, so prob similar on track, but on the road the extra torque of the V8 makes it a far easier car to drive rather rapidly.

The V8 is not as heavy as you would think, its an all alloy engine rather than an iron block remember.


Anyway my old wagon is a feature car in this months (April) issue of Total BMW if anyone wants to see it in all its glory.

>> Edited by iguana on Sunday 4th April 12:55

[XM5ER]

There is an 3.0l engine in a driving shell advertised in this months which kit magazine let me know if you want further info (its £2200).

[andys2]

Try here:-

www.findit.co.uk/cars/bmw/parts.htm

This looks Ok, but he doesn't say how much he wants, got to be worrth a phone call though.

www.findit.co.uk/cars/bmw/parts/1117847.htm

Goes without saying of course that you need to be very careful about what your buying from this kind of site!!

Good luck anyway

Andy

[Marquis_Rex]

I have an M3 E36 S50B30 that has spun a bearing shell and I'm in the process of rebuilding! I bought it for £350 and it hasn't proved that costly to repair or that difficult. Unfortunately I'm probably going to put this motor into one of my late 1970s E21 323is!!

Sideways to Victory!

[M3BOB]

try bm spares in ashford kent, i know someone whos just brought one from them they have a lot of stock usually

[bmgm3]

Can't help with an M3 engine . Nice E39 M5 400BHP V8 engine on German Ebay right now though .