project e30 m3 s52, comes to a screetching halt, Authors note: I f*&^king quit..

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This project has been one big bitch and I quit

I was all ready to drive the car today, Just needed to bleed the clutch and brakes. Oh how that went wrong.

I was trying to bleed the clutch by myself without a power bleeder, I forgot to open the bleed screw on one run and blew the slave cylinder up in the tranny...

So now, I quit. Im done with this crap.
 
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Time to step back and regroup, bud. Give it a couple weeks.

That's a mighty ambitious project you're doing. Are you putting an S52 six into and E30? Why? Plenty of easier ways of adding power to an E30 M3 aren't there?
 

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Dude you did a relatively easy swap and are already so far into it. Plus you had a garage to do it in. If you quit NOW, that makes you a pussy.
 
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The car will be done, Im just going to have a shop finish it, im just going to have them:

Fix my slave cylinder
Bleed the brakes
Align
Tranny fluid change
Bolt the tie rod ends down
Put in some coolant
And fill my diff up

Because I just dont have time or effort to do it anymore.

And Pete K, no there isnt. Not unless you want to spend gobs of money on a s14 when a s52 with a few bolt ons will still blow it away.
 
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epj3 said:
Dude you did a relatively easy swap and are already so far into it. Plus you had a garage to do it in. If you quit NOW, that makes you a pussy.

I think you under estimate it. I dont have a "garage" really, not like a shop, just my dads 2 stall, with a heater, which is nice for winter. But I am severly limited with tools. The s52 is the hardest swap, expesially in an e30 m3, the only thing left in the drive train that was stock was the driveshaft, and its going to need to be replaced in about 15k miles.

OBDI conversion is a massive bitch to do, especially when you have 0 experience with the e36 engines, diving right into the electornics is a challenge.

Considering how the most intensive engine work I had done before this swap was changing an intake manifold gasket and ICV on the s14, I think I have done pretty good, slow work, but it all fit more or less.

This isnt any s54 swap, or some crazy v12 in an e30 frame. But I wouldnt call it easy unless you do this stuff for a living.



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And just to add to the fun, 1/2 the stuff I have heard online to do, or what fits in what, dosnt. So its a lot of making stuff up as you go lol
And to add some more, I went ahead and did some bolt ons, 540 HMF, 24# injectors, chip. But those fit in easily, the 95 m3 steering rack didnt want to work at all, I had to make my own linkage and get custom PS hoses made.
 


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