BMW 323 - Turbo

[kam]

Anyone got any experience?
My mate wants to turbo his E36 323 as a project.

I can handle the mechanical gubbins (Manifolds, oil/water feeds etc) but I dont know the engine. Can they take boost? My mate mentioned using a diesel bottom end? Are there any piggyback tuning options out there? What can the OEM MAF's take?

I'll be doing the BMW website trawling but I wondered if anyone here knows them?

Ta

[Egon]

have a butchers at http://forum.e46fanatics.com/index.php
They have all sorts of nutter type projects on the go there...

[godzilla200sx]

egon is that forum worth joining , im on bimmerforums.co.uk but takes a while and not much help sometimes , sorry for the hijack pal

[Egon]

np, its a bit, urm, american, but they have a shitload of helpful guides and how to's.
bimmerforums is ok, if a bit slow and anally retentive. bmwland is ok too as is e46zone. the BMW-UK one is really painfully slow and has a lot of older people on there.

[godzilla200sx]

cant be doing older ppl lol cheers for the heads up, i like guides and how to's

[spencer_foxwell]

I believe it is very tricky to turbo our BMW's because the steering colum is in the wrong place Super charging is easier so I hear

[godzilla200sx]

SC now id like that on mine, bet its expensive though

[mestew87]

have a look over on pure performance factory forum, its a swedish based forum mainly with high BHP turbo'd bmw's

[spencer_foxwell]

Kits;

http://www.ca-automotive.co.uk/produ...tcF9pZD04.html

[mestew87]

that kit is designed for the M50 engines not the M52 style engine he has

[godzilla200sx]

there is one abit lower on the page i think for the m52 but its 600 notes more

[kingj]

I think the general consensus on putting a turbo on a Bmw engine is that it is very expensive to do properly and not worth bodging If you can do it for under 3-4k id be very impressed

[spencer_foxwell]

Well how about an engine swap instead?

People drop in the 4.4 v8