My M5 S54 Build is DONE

[clongo]

What a great build! I love the attention to detail. I bet she moves pretty well with that S54.

[leadphut]

Very nice indeed!

[B7Turbo]

I love the look of the finish product and the engine looks awesome in side the engine bay!, and I am really looking forward to finish min now.

[alpinewhite]

"Chuckne" your build is absolutely brilliant!!! To say that I'm envious would be a gross understatement - Kudos too you.
Would you be so kind to post up some links to a sound bite or two if at all possible?
I'm dying to hear what and how it sounds, especially knowing that it has a custom made hand fabricated exhaust system!


Cheers!

[87royal]

Awesome!
+1 for video with sound clip

[ealoken]

Nice i just bought my self a s50b32, and then you do this


I have some questions.

1. What did you do to the oil pan and oil pickup ?
2. How did you solve elecrtic and ecu?
3. What kind a engine mounts did you use / build?

I used the m50 oil pan/pickup. I was a little worried about going from a dual (front and rear) oil sump/pickup of the s54 to the single m50 setup so I installed a 3 quart accusump in the trunk. Have had no oil pressure issues plus I get a 3 quart pre-oil on every start-up.

I am running a reprogrammed stock ECU. Retains full dual vanos. Basically, it just eliminates the body side inputs into the ECU and all the security/anti-theft inputs. The stock e28 gauge cluster, warning lights, etc all function as they did in the e28. I did have to install a drive-by-wire pedal to make it work correctly. Functionally, the only thing that I lost with the swap is cruise control as the s54 CC is driven off the ecu using inputs from wheel speed sensors, etc.

Custom engine mount arms on 7 series "rubber" mounts.

Thanks, im also using a m50 on my s50 engine, but im redoing the bafflepans and rebuilding the oil pickup and widening the oilpan.

[Chuckne]

Sound clip of the exhaust will have to wait until it warms up...it sounds great....trust me. I have also added some additional pics in the first post to answer some of the "how did you do....." that I have received about the project. It was a fun project, lots of research, lots of do-overs and lots of beer consumed (I mean a lot of beer...maybe that is why there were so many do-overs) but in the end it turned out to be exactly what I wanted. Also, no I won't build one for you...this is my hobby...all done by me (and a small crew of my beer drinking friends)....in my garage...at home. I don't have any secret sauce and will answer any questions that I can.

[Mab1957]

Very cool, Chuck. I hail from your fair state. I was back in Nov for some pheasant hunting. I'm keeping my M5 stock, but appreciate the effort you put into this swap. Are you an engineer?

Matt

[ElGuappo]

VERY cool.

Its great to see an ambitious project get finished, and be AWESOME.

[Road Trip]

Wow. Clean job! Perfect. I'm especially jealous of the Scout II project - One of my favourite 4x4s when customized right. Keep it up!

[nsxguy7]

I have wanted to do this swap for some time on my 83 e24, but everyone told me its almost impossible. The only thing that scares me is the ECU...could you tell me who burned yours to work correctly?
By the way...amazing workmanship and congrats...Thanks!

[tig]

Bump for awesomesauce.

[Jelmer538i]

No, bump because this is the engine your Arktis Blau will get!

[leadphut]

blast from the past.

[1st 5er]

Glad I was subscribed.

[jdp530]

Very nicely done! I wonder how this car is holding up now?