{"id":15996,"date":"2017-05-08T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=15996"},"modified":"2021-04-08T00:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:06:51","slug":"bmw-e21-with-a-3s-ge-beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=15996","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: BMW E21 with a 3S-GE BEAMS Black Top"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This 1983 BMW 320i is for sale on eBay<\/a> (ESD may earn commisions when a product is purchased from this link) located in Urbana, Illinois. The factory M10 inline-four went boom so the owner replaced it with a 2.0 L 3S-GE “Black Top” inline-four and six-speed manual transmission. The engine is controlled by a Adaptronic e420d ECU and the owner states it could still “use some tuning” but drives well enough to get you around. As you can see from the photos the car needs some work. The factory red paint now finds itself under a coat of blue Plati Dip.<\/p>\n

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Source: eBay<\/a> (ESD may earn commisions when a product is purchased from this link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 1983 BMW 320i is for sale on eBay located in Urbana, Illinois. The factory M10 inline-four went boom so the owner replaced it with a 2.0 L 3S-GE “Black Top” inline-four and six-speed manual transmission. The engine is controlled by a Adaptronic e420d ECU and the owner states it could still “use some tuning”… Read More »For Sale: BMW E21 with a 3S-GE BEAMS Black Top<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e21"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1983-BMW-320i-with-a-2.0-L-BEAMS-inline-four-02.jpg?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68314,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=68314","url_meta":{"origin":15996,"position":0},"title":"1971 BMW 2002 with a Toyota 3S-GE","author":"swaptastic","date":"March 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1971 2002 rolled out of the BMW factory with a 2.0 L M10 inline-four. 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