Operation .5 liters per cylinder.

Okay guys, as most of you know I am planning on rebuilding my engine with the rotating assembly from an M54B30. I'm hoping to start with in the next week so I figured it was build thread time.
So far I have the bottom of an M54B30 with the oil pan off sitting in my living room (hells yes for not having a woman in the house) and I'm about to order Bavauto gasket sets for the top and bottom end of my engine.
If any one has a lead on a set of S50B30 camshafts I would certainly appreciate it if you'd point me their way.
I was toying with the idea of a baby turbo, but I'm poor so that'l have to wait.

Here's a few pics of what's happening so far:

Engine Hoists:

Are for pansies.

Here it is opened up:




Stay tuned for sexy updates.

Hell yea **** engine hoists

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Now, what the heck happened to your chest, Chip?

Originally Posted by hornhospital

Now, what the heck happened to your chest, Chip?

He didn't use an engine hoist........



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Looks like oil..

Lol Boss

and theres money on the floor.....finders keepers

Originally Posted by RhymeGrime

Hell yea **** engine hoists

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let's see him do that with a cast iron block

I am excite for this engine build.


also I thought all -52 series motor cams would work with the M54? Turner Motorsport has a used classified section for parts and I've seen S52 cams there. This is assuming that they can work.

Wow Chip you sure are sexy!!!

I've always had a thing for oiled chests!!!

...always my ass. Y'know that's a Korean thing

Oh damn. Now I have to get going... I've got competition.

But at least I have an actual engine lift... Good luck getting that M50 out and back in, it ain't no aluminum block

Hilarious.

Rhymegrime, Word.

Old Ken, see Chad snr's comment

Chad snr, exactly

Jesse, Yes.

Dino, that's actually a playing card, I wish I had Benjamins laying around my house .

Not old Ken, I'm working my way up to it, and I'm keeping M50 heads so I either need S50 cams or to do some work on newer cams.

Brad, Thanks.

Ed, .

CJ, It's on like Donkey Kong, looser buys the winner a cookie at Bimmerfest East

Karl, .... I don't know how to respond, but I didn't want you to feel left out .



Update: Bout a 1/2" breaker bar, but there's no one around to help hold it down and I couldn't stand on the block and turn the wrench at the same time.

shoot if the m54 is that light.... i want one more now

Hmm, maybe Frank and I will let you rent the tool we used to get the crank bolt off of his M54

What tool was that?, oh pretty please do tell.

A piece of a think branch we found in his yard.






We agreed to split the profits renting it out on bfc... but I haven't heard back from him... I think he's taking all the profit for himself

i am soooo jealous....



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Couldn't get the engine to stay so I took it out on the porch and built a 2x4 frame around it, put my new ($26) 1/2" breaker bar on it, put a 10' stick of 1" black iron pipe on that, pulled on it...... and sheared the breaker bar off where it connects to the socket.

CJ, how did you get that damn bolt off?.

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DAMNIT WHY CANT I DO ALL CAPS...

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Originally Posted by miles_trail

Couldn't get the engine to stay so I took it out on the porch and built a 2x4 frame around it, put my new ($26) 1/2" breaker bar on it, put a 10' stick of 1" black iron pipe on that, pulled on it...... and sheared the breaker bar off where it connects to the socket.

CJ, how did you get that damn bolt off?.

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You didn't think it's reverse-threaded, did you? It is normally threaded (we wondered the same thing). Honestly, I can't imagine any bolt that would not come off with 10' of leverage. Something must be up...

You need impact Chip. If you don't have an impact gun, use a sledge hammer on the end of your socket...

Originally Posted by cj.surr

You didn't think it's reverse-threaded, did you? It is normally threaded (we wondered the same thing). Honestly, I can't imagine any bolt that would not come off with 10' of leverage. Something must be up...

I was afraid you were about to tell me that it was in fact reverse threaded, I would have felt super dumb.

Originally Posted by crisscross

You need impact Chip. If you don't have an impact gun, use a sledge hammer on the end of your socket...

Thanks, I'll try that tonight.

Any way, here's some pics of my failure.

Holy crap, someone please tell me it's possible to make these work in my head:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-S54-CAMS...sories&vxp=mtr

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=793643

Post #8. According to this you can. I'd verify elsewhere from another source first myself though.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1302724

Post #6 here says no.