in that case, they made it the easy way. :) steel plates welded directly to the frame... no rubber mounting ... the mounting point is a lot closer to the frontend, compared to the m20 and m40..
How is the handling with M30? I've read a lot, that big&heavy M30 upsets the handling of e30 greatly, because nice front/back weight balance is lost...
old comment but if its us car it will be the low comp engine with 180hp or something.. also my euro e34 535 wont spin tires if i have too wide tires on it. but with crappy steelies it will spin in 4rd gear if its wet on road
I found out the timing chain was off a tooth, i can't believe how much difference that made, unfortunately my radiator decided to mix trans fluid with the coolant and damaged the transmission.. Got rid of the car, wishing i wouldn't have now, the interior was damn near perfect, a little rust but nothing horrible..
@plytagalvis You get horrible weight balance with the M30. In a M635CSi you got 57% of the weight on the front wheels, which is a horrific amount. The E30 is an even lighter car, and therefore the weight balance is even worse. It's a pity, since the E30 got such a nice and low weight. It would be a track day killer with this amount of power.
It's not a big issue just push the engine more to the fire wall and it' will be 55% front and 45 %back. In Southern Africa specially South Africa and Namibia we have the E30 Bmw 333i with the same engine weight wise but it's a 3litre in size. I have recently done the E30 M30 swap from an E32 735i. It has got a hell of power. It's just plug in and start but you have to do the mounts and electric fan. not that expensive if you have all the necessary parts from m30 car.
the car no longer exists with this setup... but when we filmed it, it was actually bone-stock, just lower springs and emptied cabin. Also, welded diff and worn-out rear tires. At 0:54 he puts it in 3rd gear :)
