Hi, I really interested to your project and maybe will kswapping my e30. Do you have an ig account? May i know how bad the vibration is? Is it still tolerable for daily driving? Thank you
@@audraf I don’t have an ig, no. If you’re going to daily drive it, get rid of the poly mounts that the KPower kit comes with. The vibrations were bad enough for me that I swapped them out for a set of rubber OEM BMW e28 535i mounts. Much better, but there is still some NVH on deceleration, and a very slight buzz at idle. Not enough to be annoying.
Thank you! I really need to. I’ve changed some things up since this original video, including converting to a Volvo power steering setup and adding AC.
Surprisingly torquey down low, so you don’t need to wind it out for around town driving. It’s definitely not as smooth as the M20, more NVH overall, but a lot of that is dependent on engine mount choice. I ended up switching to oem e28 mounts, and it reduced a lot of the vibrations.
Overall, pretty good. The header is not so good, or at the least the one I got. Fitment was not great, was rubbing the control arm and contacting the underside of the body. Had to get it modified to fit better. Also, the flange was a bit warped, so it wouldn’t tighten down evenly. Oil pan took 4 months to get made and shipped, so plan accordingly.
@@onemannedgarageI agree the header is pretty trash. I had to cut off the flange and replace with a v-band. Do you have problems with the bolts holding the slip on together? I used lock washers and Loctite, and still have problems with them loosening from the vibration.
That’s what I’ve heard. All depends on where your coding chip is. If it’s in the front, then you’re good, but if it’s at the back of the cluster, you might need to swap for a later year cluster.