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Originally Posted by Henn28
Thanks...its all on a long, slow burn. That probably good though as my ADD would get me sidetracked if I had lots of uninterrupted time to to work on the X5 and this motor.
Is the B58 going into your X5? I think that is the motor in my wifes x5 50e. Love the straight sixes...so smooth and linear with the power, and man that thing has tons of power. An e53 with one in it would be a monster!
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Ha. No, I wish. The X5 is OBD2 and we have emissions inspection, I don't think there's any way I could get everything to say "ready". In a few years I might be able to have it exempt.
The new to me E36 is a 93 OBD1 so I can put about whatever in there and pass inspection. There are already kits in the works for that swap. I'll be doing the m52 swap into that one in a couple months to get a feel.
But now currently I am rebuilding the super clean donor engine I bought, but destroyed, just trying to change the rear main seal. I had never did that before, and I didn't center punch the drill, and the drill walked over and put a nice scratch on the crank. Sometimes you learn by destroying. So I am reusing the crank from my stock motor that blew up into this clean donor motor and redid the clearances. All good really I still have a good core to rebuild later if I can get the crank snout fixed and may put it into the E36. I just had to spend some money on tools and learn how to do all this which is okay. B58 into e53 would be cool, but the m54 is pretty close, I think a good supercharger would do the trick. Tonight I did the valvetronic springs on that one and the m52 m54 is so much simpler.