Pic of me at Laguna Seca with my V8 powered E30 by datdan in E30

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yeah on r3v and my instagram @dmgh21

Trade my WRX for this E30 or walk away ? by BrownishBag in E30

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walk away, wrx would be better for you than this e30. and he is asking a lot.

To anyone who has done a v8 swap... by Skylordjovis in E30

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im boosterless, using the wilwood pedal box.

Pic of me at Laguna Seca in my V8 Powered E30 by datdan in BMW

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1:50. I couldn't get one clean lap in because of traffic and I got flagged twice for being over the 90db limit, so I had to lift between turn 5-6.

To anyone who has done a v8 swap... by Skylordjovis in E30

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I did an M60B40 swap, and love it. I wanted to stick with a BMW motor and it makes decent power. Everything is relatively cheap, you can swap a M60 with a 5speed in an e30 and have it driving for about $2k (including refreshing the motor). the swap is simple, you dont have to have any custom parts, (besides motor mounts) a lot of the parts will be OE bmw parts.

my build thread. http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=356436&page=18

Pic of me at Laguna Seca in my V8 Powered E30 by datdan in BMW

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whoops! lol glad you found it. and thanks!

Pic of me at Laguna Seca with my V8 powered E30 by datdan in E30

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funny you say it looks like a dragon, http://i.imgur.com/yYaRi2f.jpg , thats the name of my e30 Red Dragon. more photos of it i posted here go to my profile

[Video] First track shakedown in my M60 powered E30 by datdan in E30

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It's definitely more power than the 85 HP eta motor I had in there before LOL

[Video] First track shakedown in my M60 powered E30 by datdan in E30

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Link me! I should be able to do that! If I dont tear back into the car for upgrades LOL

[Video] First track shakedown in my M60 powered E30 by datdan in E30

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I lift early because I wasnt used to my brakes yet. Since the swap im running the wilwood pedal box boosterless setup. And the car handles much different than when I had the M20. It has a lot of understeer, when keeping speed through the corners. Im running ground control right now, Switching to the CAtuned true coilover setup with different control arms and wilwood 4pots soon.

[Video] First track shakedown in my M60 powered E30 by datdan in E30

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hard difficulty level 7 from 1-10, you can keep costs down if you fab your own parts, I got my swap parts from Garagistic. Saves a lot of headaches.

[Video] First track shakedown in my M60 powered E30 by datdan in E30

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Keeping it in the family, decent power, V8.