E30 M50 Swap | What You Need to Know

Took a while longer than expected, but this is a video covering everything I've experienced doing an M50 swap in my E30, with ABSOLUTELY NO HELP (This is my first engine swap too).
This covers everything for a Right Hand Drive E30 M50 engine swap, which is fairly simple, but there's quite a few minor things you'll need to get it to work.
I've completed my engine swap just over a year ago using a Dicktator 60-2 ECU and did the first start, road tune and tidying up entirely by myself.
I have lost a lot of images, however the voiceover does cover everything I've needed and things I've come across along the way in one video.
My future plans for the vehicle? To be a fully legal, fully functioning absolute monster, as I've wanted the car since my school days. However for now, just learning and modding it step by step will teach me a lot more, which is what it's all about.
I hope you've enjoyed the video, or found some elements that is of use, and to stay up to date, subscribe for more and ask questions!
Video to Spanner Rash's cooling system bleed with the M40 Radiator below.
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[@bmwe30club64]

Great video my brother. I'd just like to know real quick. I have no clearance between my fan blade and radiator
I'm using e36 arms and e34 rubber mountings
Whhat could i be doing wrong

[@CARJOURNEY]

Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it! How's the engine sitting, more to the front or the back?

[@CARJOURNEY]

There usually isn't any clearance for the viscous fan to sit, so what I did was a electric fan, then I used a fan controller to operate a relay that overrides the Aircon fan with the electric fan - one pushes, the other pulls. Car has no temperature issues sitting in traffic or hard driving. You can use a Peugeot 206 fan switch, but then you can use that switch to trigger a relay - 12v on the switch to pin 85, 86 to ground, 30 is a 12v, 87 to your Aircon fan and 87a to your electric fan between the radiator and motor. And then ground each fan to the chassis. That's how I did the relay wiring and it's been 100% reliable. Hope it helps 🙏🏽. For the mountings, I see quite a few people mix e34 and E36 mountings, but it makes the engine look more twisted. I just used the E36 mountings and it's dead level with the car. Got those my Master parts.

[@bmwe30club64]

@@CARJOURNEY thank you very much for that info, I'll get on to it tomorrow and will post an update here on my comment 🙏🏼 thanks once again

[@bmwe30club64]

@@CARJOURNEY the engine is sitting more to the front
And at the back close to the firewall there is like 3cm of clearance between engine and wall

[@CARJOURNEY]

Mine is also about that yes, I used an M40 radiator and had to be careful with the inner electric fan placement, people have had no issues with just using the Aircon fan, but I had a whole lot of cooling issues when the car had an M40 engine in, so I was paranoid and rather went overkill.