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 Frequently Asked Questions: (9/2008)
(and general information about the Euro engines)
The euro motor requires more radiator that a US stock E36 coupe or sedan came with. The MZ3 or MZ3 Coupe came with an upgraded one, a Euro one would work, or one of the aftermarket aluminum upgrades would be fine. PWR or Zionsville come to mind.
You can not bolt up US spec exhausts directly to the Euro headers. Supersprint makes track pipes and mufflers for these engines, or factory parts are available as well.
These engines are for race purposes only, and are not legal on the street. Please contact me for details.
EWS is only an issue for the 3.2 engines, and a very few rare late 3.0 engines.
You have EWS II or III in your car: I can pre-code your euro dme to work in your car transparently.
You don't have EWS II in your car, and you'd like to add it, and perhaps use it as a safety device to prevent a stolen car. (removing the key from the key ring makes it virtually impossible to start and drive away the car): Jon Siccardi (Treehouse Racing) makes a very nice bypass set up for this situation. Additionally, I can supply some harness bits, and you can do the wiring yourself.
You want to bypass EWS in your transplant: I can now flash out the EWS from the Euro DME for 3.2 engines. It does cost something however. It does simplify things somewhat. If you have EWS in the car already, and its aligned properly it would mean that you could just plug the DME in, and go, not needing an alignment at all. If you unplugged the EWS module, you'd have to short two pins at that point to make it work. The shorting of the pins does NOT work unless the DME has been modified by the re-flash. (don't even bother to try on the euro dme, it may work on US M50's, but not on the siemens S50B32 dme...it has an ISN that needs to be stored in the EWS module, and it DOES check for it, or it won't release the injectors/coils etc...)
These engines make wonderful transplants into E30 cars. To use the stock headers, one would need to look at Jon Siccardi's company, Treehouse Racing to get simple converting plugs as well as the excellent front control arm bushing solutions he has. He has helped many people with pre-wired solutions.
Many of the engines are RHD, but the harness can be flipped in the splice box, and made to work very easily. This is fact for the 3.2 engines, but it may be more difficult on the 3.0 engines. My mechanic has done it on a 3.0 engine.
One wire must be added to the euro cluster to activate the oil temperature guage that is standard with that cluster. (deletion of the mpg guage is a nice plus !)
If a customer would like an engine delivered with the CF intake, race cams, race prepped head, custom shimming of the lifters, reprogramming of the DME and ready to go, this would would be an additional cost of $7500. Of course, this seems like a lot of money, but it includes the CF intake, the cams, the gasket sets, the reprogramming of the DME, the dealership and machine shop labor, and an aweful lot of running around on my part to put it all together and get the parts where they need to be. On the flip side you've got an engine which will put out an honest 370 to 380 hp at the crank, with a bone stock bottom end to boot!
We can supply Group N programming with or without EWS intact.
If your car has traction control, you may have a difficult time re-doing the car to have it function as a 3 channel non TC car. This will include aquisition of a 3 channel abs unit that matches your harness, rewiring the ABS pump you have to run the rear channels together at the same time with the one output for the rear from the pump. I have a limited supply of ABS units that came with Euro 3.2 cars for sale.
What does an engine package from me come with?
DME, vanos controller if 3.0, EWS package with key, full harness, 02 sensors if its a 3.2, not a 3.0 as they are usually gone with the cats. WP, Alternator, PS pump, AC and air pump if desired, all pulleys, clutch flywheel, headers, intake manifold, throttle bodies and HFM. Reservoir for water included.
Missing is occasionally the clutch operated fan.
No radiator, oil lines or oil cooler can be promised.
Almost all of my engines are RHD currently, its the exchange rate.
TMS and VAC offer oil cooler hardware to adapt AN -10 lines to an aftermarket oil cooler, and this is a natural for E30 transplants and racers. Its a very cost effective option compared to the stock parts which hang low, but are easy to install if you have a factory radiator for a euro of course.
I sometimes try to add in the oil lines and cooler and a radiator if the miles exheed 75K, which is rare.
I do have a limited supply of cats and mufflers. $600 for the pair if you're buying an engine from me.
If you buy an engine and gearbox, I include the driveshaft. Euro 6 speed driveshafts are occasionally in stock, and sell for $300 if you didn't get a complete package from me. The euro 6 speed DS is 6 bolt flange to the diff. If you have a 4 bolt diff, you can retain the back half of your current DS, and use the front half of a six speed, or, the front half of a Automatic M3 DS, but this relys on a 1cm gap, and the give and take of the slip joint. The halves are said to be balanced separately, so this works.
Euro 3.0 headers do not include the 02 bungs as the cats had the bungs on them. For this reason, you may need to buy 02 senors for a S50B30
COST: Massive changes in the exchange rate, and poor availability of low mileage examples has forced a revision in the price policy. For me to bring in a low mileage example, I'm also having to bring in other higher ones at the same time. I have implemented a rather crude formula for calculating the sale price if a motor and gearbox with accomodation for miles on the unit. These prices are in effect now, and are the reason for "odd" numbers. I've set these prices to barely clear what I need to keep the enterprise running, so there is minimal wiggle room other than deletions of such items as clusters or oilpan set ups etc...
I can have rod bearings/bolts and oilpan gasket replaced affordably here.
I'm working on an estimate for this, and for more aggressive refreshment of engines.
If you have a 4 bolt diff, there are potentially difficult issues converting a euro six speed drive shaft to work.
Please submit additional questions to xyobgyn@aol.com and I will try and post them here as time goes on.
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