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08-09-2014, 03:51 PM | #23 |
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10-01-2014, 10:44 PM | #25 |
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Sorry to hear that it has come to a halt, but completely understandable .
...sure hope someone else picks up the ball on this!
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10-02-2014, 12:48 AM | #27 | |
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My buddy's kid (great kid) is under 1 year, and with him planning 1-2 Norcal road trips/weekends a month, a national meet in 2016, plus the CSL project, and work, there's just not enough time. As for me, when I'm not dealing with my dad, now 92, I'm planning or participating in the road trips as well, trying to work in some track days, and involved in local politics. Or, working with our new Aussie Cattle dog Border Collie mix and Jack Russell. (What can I say, I drive a Z4M, of course I have high energy dogs!) Oh, and there's work too! Now, if we could just find more hours in the day/week! Yeah, seriously. Better to reconsider at this point then get 300 hours in though! Bottom line thanks for the understanding guys. |
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10-02-2014, 06:20 AM | #28 |
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Fail to do that and get sign-off and you risk have the car impounded and destroyed--no reprieve no discussion crush and destroy. So, if an officer were to pull you over, and have reason to look under the hood, and noted the non-standard motor, you might lose a lot. Obviously the risk is greater with a Chevy motor in a BMW (a heavy LS rumble in mid 90s M3 can give that away easily), but it's a risk. Unlikely to happen buy I know of one case where it did. The "plus", if there is one, is that unlike other mods such as a supercharger you can quite easily pass smog tests (ODBII or tailpipe) and have a totally legal car without having to revert to stock to pass emissions checks every 2 years. Just one of the many joys of living in this eco-paradise. |
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10-03-2014, 11:31 AM | #30 |
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bummer this isnt happening. I just put an s65 into a bmw 1 series here in CA and it is CA Legal with the street X pipe.
a z4 s65 would be an amazing car and a total blast to drive. I will say from my experience that the real difficulties in swaps lays in wiring and keeping all of the oem details. |
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10-03-2014, 08:35 PM | #31 | |
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I see your actual experience bears out what we had thought the major issues would be: making all of the wiring and software and modules all get along happily. I think there's probably more in common with the 135 series modules (ABS, DSC, etc.) than the older E46 or Z4 platform, since those are contemporaneous model years and so on. If you had difficulty there, we probably could have multiplied that several times over. We figured we'd have to use all of the E90 modules, retrofit, or code or/around them. More of a software and hardware engineering project than a mechanical project the way we figured it. |
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10-03-2014, 08:42 PM | #32 | |
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My car runs an m3 ecu, m3 guage cluster and has m3 axels front and rear. The difficulty was wiring the m3 harness to the 135i body harness. That was probably the most insane thing of all. Mike Benvo of BPM Sport did all the coding. He is a genius and sorted out a ton of little fixes. everything works in my car like oem it is pretty insane. If I did a z4 i would do a similar approach. m3 ecu, m3 cluster and fit the m3 diff, and rear axel if possible. Essentially make it a mini m3 like my car but use the shell of the z4. I have no idea how realistic that is. |
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What's the reason for the M3 rear axle and diff? Is it because of the speedo output?
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