Every BMW E46 Engine: Mechanical Overview and Ranking

[@haegor1877]

M52TU 2.8 owner here. Motor feels fantastic now at 25 years of age. And feels very reliable, cooling system fully replaced.

[@BabaJansGarage]

They’re great engines! Pity that BMW has fallen to smaller turbo 4 cylinder in the majority of their newer models.

[@korndog3415]

No idea who this guy is, no idea why KZbin has been suggesting such good small channels lately but im not complaining. Subscribed

[@sheriff1292]

Good grief this video was a wonderful watch! I'm an M57D30 owner here; got a 02' 330d Touring. Its an absolutely brilliant engine and although it doesn't have much of a personality compared to the M52/M54, its utterly incredible. Great power and easy 50+MPG on my long journies; I love it!

[@titosyettos2689]

Damn man im subing for more of this.

[@titosyettos2689]

300th subscriber🎉

[@BabaJansGarage]

Thanks so much! New video is already in the works 😄

[@mikestergaard517]

Please make more of these videos about BMW models, love to see one on e36, e90, e34

[@przypierdol]

11:36 thats m50b25 in e36, not m52. Also i think you forgot to mention increased oil consumption in m54 compared to m52 due to piston rings, but still this video is really good and provides a lot of info.

[@moneyshifters]

Good work bro. We made an e46 buyers guide when we first got into them and the video did really well despite being a bad video. This was good and informative. I hope it does well.

[@BabaJansGarage]

Thank you so much! I actually watched your video when I first got interested in these cars, so your support means a lot! 😄

[@moneyshifters]

@ oh wow that’s cool. What a nice coincidence. Keep up the hard work

[@leonardkriepsdupong744]

vid goes hard as hell, all the work was deffo worth it👍

[@ImNotJust]

This video is amazing my dude, keep them coming you got something good going here 🤙🏼

[@moham1287]

Great video, hope there are more similar rundowns to come!

[@marcwillard]

Great Work! This channel will continue to show growth, as you do have a distinct and easy to follow format. Nice Quirky graphics, clear delivery… what’s not to like…

[@liviupateu4793]

so much work for this video,and you only have 280 subs, keep up the godd work

[@HueWave]

love the hotline miami and half life soundtrack used throughout the video

[@MaybeKian]

Dude, you will explode if you keep going

[@1UNIONBUSTER]

great video man, very high production quality

[@arian3837]

Damn, more of this please!

[@CheeseGrater.]

Of this became your type of content I wouldn't mid! More of these please?

[@dogmanlol6998]

such a well made video, thanks

[@alida4790]

Great video, very well delivered. Thanks

[@autism3997]

amazing work. hope to see more of these !

[@sirlorax9744]

iron block M57 here. >incredible fuel economy >since it's a manual it never had swirl flaps >egr deleted >no power upgrades (yet?) >455000 km and still running like a charm it really is the pinnacle of e46 engines if you can live without the glorious sound of its petrol siblings

[@Papareel12]

Can you do a video for the e36

[@kxlxv2137]

really nice video

[@FearlessYT2]

About to buy an E46 328ci Thursday and this drops

[@lachlanoconnor4221]

lol juust got the same modle, mines currently waiting to get an entire sub frame reinforcement tho

[@FearlessYT2]

@@lachlanoconnor4221was it cracked or you just safe like that?

[@gabrielpuebla5930]

I didn't know the n42 uses valvetronic, that's really cool

[@antoniomartingarcia6229]

actually not... from the stand point of realiability at least

[@vojtisekveprek]

Realy nice video man! 😁 I really like the style of this. The 3 dials, retro gaming style (i really liked the use of TF2/Half Life music, its fits really well!), and the informations about engines are great. Be sure to continue with this style. It would be cool to see engines in other Bmws maybe.. idk e36 (even though e36 is very similar to e46), or maybe some Mercedeses (idk.. w124 maybe) but whatever. With this style you can you video about anything, and it would entertaining anyways :DD Keep it up! Its gooooood.

[@BabaJansGarage]

Thanks so much for your support! I hope to make the next video a mockumentary type video about a car I find really interesting yet underrated, but I for sure will continue to make videos in this style as well. The W124 engines would definitely be something I’d be interested in making, especially considering the 5 cylinder units they fitted 😁

[@1UNIONBUSTER]

@@BabaJansGarage I LOVE 5 cylinder !!!!

[@aldin7903]

love the video style good work

[@Gezza424]

Fire vid

[@BabaJansGarage]

Thanks big dawg!

[@oliestarkyshitposting5647]

Id like to say, for anyone lookng to buy an e46, go for the 328i version. Simply because the M52TUB28 has better oil control rings around the pistons. The M52 uses much less oil than the M54 does. And while you wont get the power of the M54B30 engine, you can still just swap the headers for catless ones, get the ZHP camshafts and get a proper tune, and you should see power increase from the 192 HP to somewhere around 240.

[@AD-pd4mj]

thank you for the informative video !! 😃

[@BabaJansGarage]

Thank you for watching 😁❤️

[@gabrielpuebla5930]

You need to do the E60, they had so fucking many engines they put in that car

[@blackboy-j2i]

Amazing content

[@nacswapzz]

great video!

[@mariuszanfir2298]

Great video. A bit of inaccuracies here and there, like how the M52TU would be somewhere in the middle between M52 and M54, but those are things that only people really into these engines would know. M52 it's actually much closer to M54 than to M52. To be honest, BMW should have called the M52TU - > M54 and the M54 -> M54TU; it would have been much closer to reality. Blocks and heads are absolutely the same on the M52TU and M54, headers and intake designs are identical (the intake is just larger or smaller), ECUs are very similar, sensors are the same or similar etc. etc. Essentially, you can convert easily an M52TU to be an M54 or viceversa, but you cannot convert an M52 easily to an M52TU. Some stuff is outright impossible.

[@THR_-]

M47tu 🖤

[@mihixdd8424]

holy fuck, this is top tier content

[@buraksevingul8324]

I have n42b18 compact and m47d20 (early version) touring model. Both healty engines. I enjoy n42 more than diesel.

[@levilastun829]

This is an excellent video, especially from such a small channel. Count me in as a subscriber

[@jacekp8366]

klaxon beat slaps in the m47 segment

[@BabaJansGarage]

Valve sure knows how to make amazing ambient music haha, hope HL3s soundtrack will go even harder 😆

[@canadianbacon4812]

I own a e90 335d with the m57, 400hp and 800nm of torque with just a tune and delete. Hard to find any car with those power figures getting 40mpg

[@CSI_tuning_solutions]

Nice but not to forget the alpina E46 engine variants

[@antoniomartingarcia6229]

and the V8 fitted in the M3 GTR

[@BabaJansGarage]

I think the Alpina tuned/modified engines need a video of their own, they’re way too cool to get lumped in with the stock production engines. Same with the GTR!

[@FELIPE8226M]

I have a e46 325i with a M54b30 not the fastest but the power delivery of the I6 is smooth

[@moneyshifters]

M52TU the goat.

[@DriftJunkie]

Do you host this information in writing by chance? I would love to be able to reference details from here in conversations. But it is difficult to search through data in video form.

[@BabaJansGarage]

Sure! Heres the link to the script on google docx: docs.google.com/document/d/1IX6Wsjaqiyrswcj7iv9vbM3oozsVTMR8Mn6-vrrnOS8/edit?usp=sharing

[@nasty24k28]

Hoping to see one vid like this but for E36s, gonna subscribe anyway

[@BabaJansGarage]

Already in the works 😉

[@deanjohnson7283]

I know its a stretch but... You should have added the P60B40 from the M3 GTR, its the most iconic engine in the most iconic E46 (mainly because of Need for Speed: Most Wanted)

[@Damianek_Z_Asyrzu]

Do e60 or v8s like in e65 f01

[@GeriElizabeth]

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[@BabaJansGarage]

Imma be real chief, I got no idea

[@Gezza424]

Ur free loot bro

[@alida4790]

Bots are getting weird, man

[@phy9065]

24:15 combussssstion chamber

[@luaxlab]

Theres one engine missing. The P60B40 for the M3 GTR

[@pizzalikevonweiden]

E39 next?

[@Karl_Kampfwagen]

And you didn't even mention the E46 M3 GTR Strassenversion engine at the start....

[@BabaJansGarage]

I tried to focus more on the mass production engines fitted to the E46 lineup, and as BMW only made 10 road going examples, I don’t think that many people have ownership of one of these beauties. I will for sure cover these homologated engines in a later video though!

[@Karl_Kampfwagen]

@BabaJansGarage There was also a hilarious prototype 3-Series Z car with a 5+L V12 under the standard Z hood, but it was immediately axed, because it had a 72% front end weight bias 😭

[@neki2274]

I want an e30 episode

[@frozenmongolian3334]

Rip Rick May

[@hugocunha30]

n42 is not an interference engine. U cannot bend valves with stock cams trough timing failure

[@BabaJansGarage]

That’s on me, from my research, there’s been reports on forums of bent valves in the N4X engines, and I inferred that the engines must be of the interference type due to this. I’ll update the description to account for this. Thanks for the heads up!

[@NikolaTesla-nb5nm]

M54B30 is the King!

[@mplewp]

E46 great engines . Terrible chassis . Not a great car for big miles on the odo . & dont forget . That platform is almost 30 years old .