M3 smoking like a demon 7:55 😮

Just a peanut gallery comment here. Not a personal attack. You are fitting this modern drivetrain to a vintage car, while you should be fitting the vintage car to this modern drivetrain. This is a case were you can't beat the BMW factory setup. You shouldn't do the external 8hp controller, or a standalone ecu, or fueling, or whatever else you are going to spend thousands and thousands on to try to make this work over the next 3 years. I see so much of this crap. You are going to add a solid year or more to this project trying to get all of your aftermarket control to "play nice", and still have a car that will have drivability issues. The aftermarket 8HP controllers are mid, at best. Same with most aftermarket controllers you may be looking at to manage that V12. They are totally fine for drift, race, and drag cars, though. Builders and fabricators completely neglect the fact that BMW already did virtually EVERYTHING you need for you. One of the few I've seen who totally understands this is Chris from B-is-for-build. Sure, his fit and finish isn't ever fantastic. But look at what he did with the S550 mustang and the BMW V10 powered datsun Z for an idea of what I am on about. His approach is not to modernize the old car with new stuff. It is to antiquate the new stuff with the old body. If you had driven a stock G12 M760i you'd quickly realize what you are going to be missing out on. You probably spent more on that used engine alone than a complete running, wrecked M760i sells for at Copart or IAAI. You should have just bought a complete wrecked M760i, taken the Kombi, the BDC2 module, both DMES, the engine, the fuel pumps, wiring harnesses, the transmission and anything else you want from that donor car and grafted them into the 850i shell. Hell, the subframes and EPS could be made to fit easier than it will be to find a custom solution for the E31 steering with that N74 in the way. You are already to the point where you are talking about cutting up frame rails, so what does it matter? You aren't preserving more than the shape of the car, and the stock interior anyway. With those items, some frankensteining b-is-for-build-datsun-z-style, and a little BMW esys programming you would have had a turn key swap that actually worked well so you could then focus on the other fine details of the build. Not to mention, you'd have had an anti-theft/immobilizer that actually works and can't be cracked by any tool as of today. You could even have an emission compliant swap at the end of the day. All packaged more effectively than any of us ever could manage without a team of engineers working on it for 10 years. The stock DMEs have a fantastic tune that will twist that E31 in half. And if it isn't enough, there are tons of off the shelf tunes for those DMEs that can get you near the numbers you want. Not to mention the crazy amount of I/O the stock DMEs offer that absolutely will not be found in any standalone setup under 30 grand. Much less one that will communicate well with the transmission. High-pressure fuel management, oil pressure management, charge management, engine cooling management, A/C? the list goes on. So many reasons to use the stock DME and required modules. The stock 8HP95 from that M760i can handle more torque than you could ever throw at it with that V12 on stock turbos, and can easily be converted for RWD output only. Even better, it's already tuned and programmed PERFECTLY for that engine application. If you have any gripes with that, there are again many off the shelf upgrades and tunes that can easily change that. Need anything else like battery management? Power distribution control? It's right there in the donor car. pre-engineered, pre-packaged, ready to be adapted. Just suggesting you take a step back for a wider view, if you actually want to finish this project. BMW already did all of the hard stuff for you, yet here you are trying to reinvent the wheel. Clearly you see the benefit of using the factory engine and accessories, because BMW did it more efficiently than any of us ever could without spending 300,000 dollars. So what I am asking: why stop there? Your time would be spent treating the 850i as a moldable shell to modify, rather than treating that marvel of a v12 drivetrain as the moldable item. We are talking a job of general fabrication, design, and programming to make a near ready-to-run package fit VS you trying to completely reengineer, modify, retrofit, and troubleshoot one of the most complex drivetrains on earth to work in a car designed 50 years ago, THEN still have to do the fabrication, design, and programming... It's a no brainer dawg. Best of luck with the project. I respect just forcing your way through it to get it done though, even if it seems like the hard way in my experience. I hope you finish it at this rate. It breaks my heart to see how many of these projects start strong, seemingly great, then they slowly fizzle out until we never hear about them again. Maybe a video of them starting on a dyno one day, and then silence for 7 years after as they realize they bit off more than they can chew with a complete cluster they have created and can't finish. You know how it is. You see the car in the background of every video taking up a lift space in a working auto shop for years and years. -Keyboard warrior

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Ya know what? Usually, the cars look like shit when they use this sound. Bit that thing looks tight my man.

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beautiful car

I don’t think people are cross shopping a new M5 with these due to the price difference. Rich vs broke that sort of things

because of rust...

There is no such thing as a “2024 M5”🤦‍♂️

Great vid.

firee

Now that’s a WANG

Nope, still an ugly ass porsche.

I had one

Is the swap running?

Nice video, love the 190e but both cars are historic

Cost me just £80 per caliper to get them coated. Looks awesome 2 years later.

Just my opinion but you shouldn't own an m2 if u cant put the car on stands and take the calipers apart yourself, you could easily cut the middle man out

Lol so you’re sending it out to be powder coated and it’s still a hard job? 😂

"Do not let them put a chip in your head" -Mo 😂 But seriously that 190E is gorgeous Great video 👍

got a e31 myself.. hmmm. what about s85 swap. i know its been done before. wonder if i can afford to do it! god knows i really want it.

Gone are the days

This car will i grew up with one

That car will get you in trouble💯✅

Out of the 3 I’d take the Benz be out here ridin like Meech😮‍💨🙌🏽

1982 RX-7 GSL-SE owner right here! Miss that car😢

This song matches every nice looking car fr

Its not a 78

One of the most beautiful z4 i’ve ever seen

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That’s older than 1990 that’s a 1980’s rx7😂

Evo2 was 2.5l

Beautiful car!!! Is this paint darkened vs. most C5s? The shift boot is perfection and totally ties the car together along with the badge color mod. Great work!

I have a customer with his abandoned V8 Esprit in the garage, parked next to the Exige he bought to replace it. I want that car, even though I damn well know it's going to be a nightmare.

I still want a yellow one.

a what edition? my brother in christ…

Is that a VW Corado?

„Nisimo Edition „ 😂

Try puting it in 2nd gear

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Found you guys through Instagram and this series is really cool. You guys definitely deserve more views and subs lol

Gotta love BMW guys.... "The engine shakes quite a bit... the whole car shakes." Amazing to have these two in at the same time.

I am proud to be a customer of a shop that cares so much about the cars they work on. That Z sounds great!

Was the 190E imported from Switzerland? It has a plugged up Intake as i can see at 10:12. This plug was designed to reduce the intake noise that the engine had due to Swiss federal regulations.

i swapped an e36 with a 2.5 engine and put a turbo in it

E36 ir E46? In your opinion.

FYI .. That's an M3 base that makes 200hp. 240Tqe .. M3 Evo was compared against the 190e Evo that both have a history of RaceCars .. E30 M3 is 4 years older then the 190e Evo , this was poor journalism ....

You've got the story wrong! The E30 M3 was released nearly 4 years before the 190 EVO. 2 The 2.3 16V DTM and the EVO 1 DTM got spanked by the E30 M3 DTM. Mercedes then released the EVO 2 in 1990 which was a 2.5 litre at the end the tail end of the E30's production run. E30 M3 looks like it's burning coolant.