How much did it cost to engine swap my E36? (M52B28) 

"The most expensive thing you can buy is a cheap BMW" - Albert Einstein

Excellent quality video! Would love to see more E36 content.

Interesting to see how many people are doing something similar to me. I have a 318iS E36, came with the twin cam M42B18, but it was also anemic. After the bolts snapped in my head (twice) during a thermostat replacement, I cut my losses and put in a 2JZ. Finishing up the wiring now

good video mate, wish you all the best with your project!! doing the same atm but I am privileged that my father is working for bmw

Thanks, man for the warning and other instructive things :Dd now i will know that if I want e36 I need to get it from Poland and with good spec engine

Great video

We have the iron block M52's (Canada) here and there are still good scrap 328's and 528's to be found for rebuilds. Nothing great for doing a direct swap with no work but most buying this engine are doing a M52B30 with the M54B30 Crank. Effectively a US S50 once its back from the machine shop. ECU tuning can be done with RomRaider for free.

I'm deff interested to see more videos involving 3 series rebuild, or swaps. I've been wanting an e36 or 46 and do a 1jz swap

We just bought a rusty 330i for 2200e. Came with 2 sets of pretty nice wheels and tires, close to 1000e in value. So essentially we paid 1200 for 330i donor car. The interior and other stuff are getting sold as well, hope to make more of our money back. The body is terrible all around, but the engine has been well maintained. Service history shows vanos refurbishment, DISA replaced, etc. Clear oil and doesn't seem to lose oil, not by much from what I can tell. Power is definitely all there. It's a big advantage to be able to test drive your new engine for a while before installing it to the actual project car. We are now looking for an E36 to drop the engine into. Just need to find one without the brown salad bottom, which might be hard here in Finland.

It must suck having no room for availability for the 6 cylinder models. I got my 328is for 2000 USD and swapped a ZF gearbox in it myself in a few days for around another 1200. At least you guys have the better M3!

Planning on doing a n54 335i swap on my e36.

Oooohh,so much memories,now i won't do a swap like that,i would buy a Bmw with bigger engine from factory, but hey,we all learn!

Thanks for the insights, I'm planning on swapping a m52b28 for my m50b20. What do you think about the power jump from a 1.8 to a 2.8?

Heelo! From where I stand the lowering on your car looks perfect. Can you share the details, like coils, springs, centimeters etc...?

Dude, i thought you would say 10000 or so €, but 2700€ pretty cheap for an engine swap. But youre right, you just should have bought an e36 with the engine you desired. I can understand you, because im also in an engine swap proces. Did it before, it worked, it was fairly cheap, but had to remove the whole swap, because the chassis was to rusty and put it into another car/ same chassis And what have i done, becuase im a mechanic? I rebuilt the engine. The plan was OEM rebuild, but i ended up stuffing forged pistons, rods, improved oilpump and a dozen other stuffs, bigger turbos, an intake plenum for 1500€ etc. At the end i could have bought another decent car for the money i spent on the engine improvement🙈

Hey man I’m doing the same exact swap except into 320i .. you kept e39 exhaust manifold when swapping exhaust ? Also you only changed oil pan? Did the oil pump remain from e39? Thanks in advance

Slavs love e36

In america we swap e36 motors into e39s. I have a few videos of my turbo s52b32 e39 touring. I spent more than 10x the money. It does make over 600 to the tire.

I was wandering *what about to install an M20 engine in the e36*

God Thanks I live in Poland 🤓

sanāk, ka kulise un kardāns paliek no 4cilindrinieka?

yes used cost the same but you buy a used 328 in this case you put a lot off new parts, so in that way was cheaper.

I say you got to do the work yourself if you want to be cheap. Probably better to sell that original car and buy one closer to what you want! Cheers!

Have a e34 m30b35 300000 km normal maintenance engine bullit proof

СВАП всегда затратное дело.

u should have searched for everything for way cheaper in lithuania. Germany assembled all the bmw and Lithuania dissasemble all the bmws xd

Costed?

How much it cost* not costed... 😂

Come to kosovo you will find any engine you can imagine to find

This man looks soo bad and sad 😂😂 sell the bmw 😂😂