sr20 in to e36 coupe

[Dermot]

I'd go with a rb25, the e36 has the room for it..

[Mac_C]

@Dermot
Was that the omega that was at castlefinn ??

If so was looking at it and was a very tidy swap !

It look very neatly done looked OEM

[DaveM-sport]

You can buy reasonable road-going E36 M3s these days for around 2K if you don't have a E36 shell thats is almost ready to go already...

Get one, sell the diff and interior, buy coilovers and one or two adjustable arms if needs be and weld up a 4.1-4.45 diff for it and away you go.


If your looking for seat time quickly, thats the best way to go.

If your still determined to do something different after a while and have your teeth cut on drifting and some seat time under your belt, you can buy an SR20, RB, 1JZ, LS1 etc if you really want to and sell off the M3 engine to fund some of it then when your ready to pull it out.

Or just keep the M3 engine and supercharge or turbo that

[Dermot]

@Dermot
Was that the omega that was at castlefinn ??

If so was looking at it and was a very tidy swap !

It look very neatly done looked OEM

Yeah Mac that was it. Survived its first day on the track

[twailbait]

You can buy reasonable road-going E36 M3s these days for around 2K if you don't have a E36 shell thats is almost ready to go already...

Get one, sell the diff and interior, buy coilovers and one or two adjustable arms if needs be and weld up a 4.1-4.45 diff for it and away you go.


If your looking for seat time quickly, thats the best way to go.

If your still determined to do something different after a while and have your teeth cut on drifting and some seat time under your belt, you can buy an SR20, RB, 1JZ, LS1 etc if you really want to and sell off the M3 engine to fund some of it then when your ready to pull it out.

Or just keep the M3 engine and supercharge or turbo that

What he said! For the price you can pick up M3's now a days you'd be mad to go for anything else!

[patt]

thanks for all the info lads now what do i do what to do... Lol

[DaveM-sport]

Oops... dis-regard my pm Patt!

got mixed up with another pic of an engine I posted up here the other day.



Engine in the E36 in this thread is an S42b20. It was what was in the early E36 Super-touring cars in DTM etc.
Was based on a 318iS engine.

280-315bhp from a naturally aspirated 2L

[damodeane]

id go with dermot with the price of rb engines now it would be as cheap as a m3,and when you want more power it wount cost as much as the m3 to upgrade,

[Bradley_Motorworks]

A better pic of the Rb omega


here is a pic of an SR20 we put into a Sierra...