LS / T56 swapped wide body e36 M3

Just completed the swap on 1-27-2017

[@GurvinderMinhas]

Great job clean job!

[@Drew_peaballs_128]

Nice work!!! Sounds good!

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Thanks

[@Crazyfable13]

Man sounds so nice

[@ronaldescoto27]

Nice ride how much do you spend and this swap

[@jean-philippericard452]

Really like how exhaust isn’t too loud. Any under body pics of the system? You said 2 x-core muffler? One 14in in the center and one at the back? No resonator? No drone?

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Thanks. That set up did not have any drone. No resonators. I've since changed up this exhaust. Feel free to check out my IG. I'm not super active on there now a days, but there are plenty of pics and a few videos of the car. My IG @c_mac_75 ... Thanks 🤘

[@interestingstuff-ag1890]

how much did it cost you? Engine mounts, and transmission mount and drive shaft and electrical work are a ton of work . Did you do it yourself or had professional help? Awesome fit and finish. Looks factory

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Interesting stuff-AG Cost of builds like this vary. Yes this was done by myself and a friend of mine last winter.

[@diegovilla219]

How hard of a build is this? What ecu are you running with the wire harness

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Diego Villa ... Not hard at all if you have the ability. the LS is runnng on the GM PCM. The wire harness is a plug and play harness from Wiring Specialties

[@tailopez5106]

Clean build but I think you have the top hats of your coilovers rotated the wrong way

[@Xcooldudekj15X]

How long did it take you I plan on doing this over the summer hopefully I could get some insight and hints from you . I wanna do a ls3 swap into my e36

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Native Asaad's Customs Not a whole lot of planning. Just did some research to see what's been done and a lot of parts research. The swap is pretty straight forward

[@Xcooldudekj15X]

Chris McCrimmon ok cool how was the wiring and the diff setup

[@Xcooldudekj15X]

Chris McCrimmon I live in North Carolina as well . I'll record the process so that I can someone with better experience see how I went about approaching it

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Native Asaad's Customs Wiriing is Wiring Specialties pro harness. Diff remained the same.

[@simeonpetkov768]

Did you have to cut the firewall, tunnel, etc? Anything actually.

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

No cutting of firewall needed

[@keithcarpenter6815]

So the wiring harness u used did u have have to tell them what u were putting it in to plug up with the bmw cluster?

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Keith Carpenter No. You just have to use a BMW coolant temp sensor and BMW oil pressure sender for the gauge readings. The tach signal is changed with HP tuners.

[@keithcarpenter6815]

Christopher McCrimmon. Is the fuel system bmw or gm? And how much of the new harness is there that plugs and play? Thanks.

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Keith Carpenter I have a Walbro 255 pump in the tank. The fuel filter set up is your standard C5 filter with regulator. From the filter to the engine is a SS braided line I had made using my measurements. Fuel rail is stock LS1/LS6. Lines from tank to the filter are stock BMW

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Keith Carpenter If you are on Instagram you can follow the car there. My IG address is above in my KZbin info.

[@rjbrar6]

with that wiring harness you got, was it just like plug n play? from ls into BMW connectors?

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Wiring Specialties LS Pro Harness. I'm also working on wiring in the chassis diag connector back into the engine bay so I can still talk to ABS and also clear my service message in the cluster

[@thehomeofbiglspower]

How did you get the tach to work?

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Went into the GM PCM with HP Tuners and changed the Rev counter settings. Been a while so I forget exactly what we did but it wasn't hard to find the info on how to change it

[@senglebe]

This is awesome, do you have a write up on the build?

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Thank you. No. I don't really do forums much anymore but if you're on Grassroots Motorsports forum I did do a simple write up there. grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/yes-another-ls-swapmy-e36-m3/124020/page1/

[@rjbrar6]

how much are you into the build? what year is your e36?

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Not a whole lot as I parted out the F-Body that I used for my donor car and I sold everything from the S52 drivetrain. It was a built S52 and had a bunch of other speed parts

[@ronaldescoto27]

Car still running

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Yep. Why wouldn't it be? Has over 10k miles since it was completed

[@shawnbanks82]

Was it worth it?

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Shawn Banks Absolutely !!!

[@shawnbanks82]

Christopher McCrimmon I have a few questions I'm very interested in doing this do you have a number I can call or somethinn

[@chrismccrimmon6699]

Shawn Banks I'm on Instagram if you'd like to follow me there. lots of pics from the conversion on there. @c_mac_757

[@jeancharlesrabaux5658]

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