{"id":4092,"date":"2014-12-23T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T22:00:52","slug":"bmw-e30-with-a-m52b28-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"BMW E30 With A M52B28 Motor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=5189\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5189\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5189\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=5189\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMW-E30-With-A-M52B28-Motor-02.jpg?fit=811%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"811,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"BMW E30 With A M52B28 Motor 02\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;BMW E30 With A M52B28 Motor&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMW-E30-With-A-M52B28-Motor-02.jpg?fit=811%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMW-E30-With-A-M52B28-Motor-02.jpg?resize=811%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BMW E30 With A M52B28 Motor\" width=\"811\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMW-E30-With-A-M52B28-Motor-02.jpg?w=811&amp;ssl=1 811w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMW-E30-With-A-M52B28-Motor-02.jpg?resize=600%2C444&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMW-E30-With-A-M52B28-Motor-02.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/BMW-E30-With-A-M52B28-Motor-02.jpg?resize=624%2C462&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bavarian Motor Works company would be proud of this build. Although I am sure there have been E30 projects as detailed as this one, I have never come across one. A gentleman from Finland took a 1984 E30 and put a 1987 E30 body around it. He did this to avoid Finland&#8217;s laws involving emissions on bigger engines and ABS brakes. The engine was swapped for a M52B28 and Holset HX35 turbo. When I say this build is immaculate, I mean it. Every single piece was taken off the car and repaired or replaced. 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Although I am sure there have been E30 projects as detailed as this one, I have never come across one. A gentleman from Finland took a 1984 E30 and put a 1987 E30 body around it. He did this to avoid Finland&#8217;s laws involving&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=4092\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BMW E30 With A M52B28 Motor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","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,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e30"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153037,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=153037","url_meta":{"origin":4092,"position":0},"title":"BMW E30 with a Turbo 4G63","author":"swaptastic","date":"September 14, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Mach1 Motorsport built this special BMW E30 at their company in Beresfield, NSW, Australia. 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