S62 must be mega. I’m edging toward an S54 still, on the look out for a car that I can break for parts and hopefully make more back doing that than paying outright for an engine. Most seem overpriced and with no ability to see what I’m buying not ideal. Let’s see what comes up in the next few months.
Sorry earlier, when I mentioned the bearings, I mean ACL or King race bearings with ARP fasteners, I'm just used to saying ARP as we use them for everything fastener etc wise.
On that note make sure you use ARP's torque specs and not OEM, should you ever use them, the tollerences are completely different, for obvious reasons.
The S62, haha it's hilarious, it's also mapped too
On slicks it will destroy basically anything as I say power to weight/response/handling, and drifting it is amazing too.
He has loads of cool cars from Porkas/Rari's/Masa to loads of custom BMW's, he has last time we checked 1 of 9 manual 850CS V12's, with the best manual notch free gearbox/civic like light asf clutch you'll ever use, a 32k miles 0 owners ex display Cosmo Swartz E36 coupe 3L M3, E34 535i, E34 540i, MINT fully restored Tech 2 325i Sport Alpine White 2 E30 coupe, an E36 coupe drift car with a M62 540i 4.4L V8 in, E30 M3... Last time I asked he had 64 cars, he restores/modifies/builds stuff to spec and sells it and breaks cars for bits too.
Yeah any even the 'average' rip off going rate for them will still have had their head kicked in and ragged from cold financed by chavs/drug dealers just like EP3's when new, I remember EP3/46M3 being the go to cars that were treated poorly when they came out by everyone.
Yeah definitely buy one and break it, that is the way to do it, then get the crank reground if you're lucky, do the bearings and valve clearances, and all the usual leaking bmw gaskets like the sump/oil filter housing/rocker cover/replace the pas line that always weeps, the oil level sensor, o-rings in the oil pump where the dipstick connects, rebuild the vanos, replace the exploding coolant system, decent ally rad etc etc, then get an Alpha-N map and a Geoff Steele CSL airbox, and you'll have a weapon!
If it was me, I'd find someone on a group/forum with a m52b28 m50 mani/remapped E30 coupe with minimal interior/light and a short ratio LSD, and go out in that, will fly and be side to side with a S50B30 or B32 E36 M3 and Evo.
Or personally I'd put a S62 in it or an older E34 M60b40 in, OR an M30B35 if you want to keep it period correct engine swaps... My mate above has a absolutely mint 535i E34 with a very tasty lsd, and I've driven it hard and it flies, even at the weight difference of a E34 vs E30, my other mate chucked one into his E30 and it was awesome 15-17 years back.
S54 are awesome but the power is all mid to high end as they obviously rev to 8K, so a bit vtec'ish, but it's still fast before that, i don't mind revving stuff out, only thing I hate about the S54 is the exhausts sound awful, I'd want a custom system with hand chosen resonators/silencers throughout, as they just sounds tinny and raspy and like a knackered backbox with the packing ******... Yet a S50B30 sounds awesome stock and with an exhaust... Easily fixed though!
I love a custom exhaust anyway versus all this crapily made over priced stuff, with terrible welds, I like TIG and pie cuts/proper turns, no bending/step downs in diametre dog ****, nor having a million awful cheap clamps, I've used posh V-bands, and on a car with poly bushes/rose joints everywhere, thick arbs/decent coilies, they just end up undoing themselves or are a 1 time use of doing them up then shake loose, and they're not cheap, so I stick to proper flanges now with a gasket, simple and works, none of this sleeve clamp cramp that always blows and also can undo, and ends up corroding anyway and looks *****.
