{"id":531,"date":"2010-07-23T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/?p=531"},"modified":"2010-07-23T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T16:54:04","slug":"more-e30-m3-s54-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"More E30 M3 + S54 talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought i&#8217;d share a couple pics of a swap that was done a little while ago.  This an E30 M3 with S54 in it using the factory ECU.<\/p>\n<p>This looks so damn clean, right?  I thought that the plastic would be too much for the E30 engine bay but am now having second thoughts.  I&#8217;ve noticed that they also painted the reservoirs black.  Normally I&#8217;d think that was weird but it completes this look very nicely.  It doesn&#8217;t make checking the fluid levels any easier, but it looks damn good.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you that are not familiar with this engine,  it came in the BMW E46 M3 (2001-2006) and a few other cars.  It&#8217;s another high revving (8k rpms) 3.2L six cylinder that without the crappy US cats,  puts out about 340hp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n4\/jb0352\/Right_Engine.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n4\/jb0352\/Left_Engine.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought i&#8217;d share a couple pics of a swap that was done a little while ago. This an E30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joeysm3.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}