Roddy’s E36 M-Sport - M52B28 Conversion - Huge Spec

take gloves for the bootlid :) keeps yur hands warm :) lol

You gonna push it there ??? Or have you fixed it and no told me

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Black Betty wrote: Good luck with it mate, i do like a good build thread and this one's a craker, last one was Gary's EvoIII M3 so it was due. End of the day the M3 engine will probably be less costly, you did say you planned to do this anyway, it just happened earlier for you I suppose the Council will be missing your help the now as a snaw plough right enough

Thanks mate, Yeah i recon the M3 build is due very soon after this escapade!

Car is going back to CHIZFAB early this week, This is the only place we can get the car off the ground and only dry place where the car can drive into without any help from planks of wood apart from my own garage,
But my own garage is full with car's and motorbikes!

So hopefully be able to pin point the exact problem soon..

I drove the car the night it started snowing and every car behind me was getting spray'd off my 9's, but they had nothing to complain about as like you said i completely clear'd the road ahead for them after a little snow built up on the spliter it just became a snow plow lol

Bummer mate. The M52 cooling system is ridiculously fragile. Anything remotely above half on the gauge and it really needs switching off and investigating.  

I'd forget using the block again. Once the M52 has been cooked it is just a large paperweight.

On the upside you should pick up an M3 lump easy enough.

Update :

Thing have took a turn for the worse over the last few days.

My heater decided the other day "i dont want to blow hot air anymore i think ill just blow freezing cold even tho its middle of winter"

Which i originaly thought it could be a few of the common faults that occur, such as

Water pump is away, Heater matrix somthing like that!

Day later i notice temp is starting to creap up ever so slightly.. Which lead to it shooting up right up to below the read when drive slow and when sitting at crusing speed it shooting back down again once youve got cold air coming in to the raidiator.

Ive personaly never seen a temp gauge shoot up and back down so fast that you can actualy see it move!

So now i have suspected headgasket problem.

and im not a happy guy!!!!!!!!

if this is the case i think the car will be off the road while i build the new M3 engine read for start of next year. im not going to spend money fixing this engine so to then build again so i shall use the block for the M3 build and sell the head and parts i dont need as spares!

What a Xmas this is turning out to be!

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Yeah i no 
Ive been looking up videos and stuff of M3 turbo's and god there faaaaaaaaaaast!

Also instead of the useual US Spec M3 cam upgrade, and paying alot of money and having them imported.

I'm just going to fit a UK S50B30 M3 Head on to my M52B28 block and it will have the benefit of having the bodies aswell. and should be much easyer to create intake plenum for the forced induction, will also have +1mm over bored forged pistons and S50 crankshaft it will be a 3100cc instead of a 3000cc which will increase torque figures..

And i will basicly have a bored out M3 engine!
Which the engine itself will have cost me way less than a M3 lump i could have bought from anywhere and have same M3 performance before the turbocharger at fraction of the cost.


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Webdunk wrote: RoddyE36Mtec wrote: stripped it due to massive insurance cost RoddyE36Mtec wrote: An M3 was meant to be my starting point but i was only 20 now im 21 and i could not insure one so this was the next step Is a heavily modified FI car irrespective of the base model not going to be an insurance problem anyway? If you felt insuring an M3 at 20 was problematic then surely insuring a project such as this at 21 is not going to be any easier?

The plan is not to drive the car as a daily driver and have limted amount of miles per year over show season in the summer.. so performance car insurance is not a problem..

This is realisticly a Group 14 car thats been modified.. so there will only be a slight change to my policy.
The reason a cant insure a M3 is because of it being Group 20 and being a main daily driver the insurance company im with just say no!




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Not realy that a big step mate, as ive have alot of fast cars in the 3 years ive been driving, Ive build a 350bhp track car, and my furst ever car was a supercharged B16 Civic project that got put in then i striped it due to massive insurance cost and sold in parts.. Yeah the 6Cylinder is fast but no where near as fast as it should be for the size of engine it has.

As steve will tell you as he knows a little of what ive told and shown him of my previous cars.. I know what i want and i will do what needs to be done to have it.

My car is my passion and hobby so i put all i can in do it!

An M3 was ment to be my starting point but i was only 20 now im 21 and i could not insure one so this was the next step. and it was always the plan to have some kind of forced induction since the 318Msport was bought it was never to stay a M44. This is been a long time planing not just a decision made in a minute!

And the build of the new engine will be a fair bit of preping and getting things spot on before letting it loose on a dyno.. but will be worth it!

I know for a fact that when i posted about doing the M52B28 conversion and proberly this turbo conversion some folk will have thought "young guy he will never do it" as most forums get these claims daily and nothing ever happins.

I for one am not like every other SPAMING forum user on most forums that post thread after thread about TURBO's & Conversions i carry out my intentions and this has been proven.

and i also understand that alot of folk will not agree with what im doing or done.. but i dont like to be a sheep and follow the leader and make my car like every other E36 that is basicly a "M3 Replica"

The intention is to get mag feature and make the car a one off.








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