What is going on here?

[straight6pwr]

yeah its seen on less than a half dozen because its a bad idea and everyone knows it lol. why did they tilt the engine?!

[HipMF]

I like that the company that did the work provided 6 reasons why it was a bad idea.

Looks like it required a lot more fabrication. Fabrication takes time, and time costs money. As long as you can get the customer to pay for it, it's a win for them...

[Earl]

straight6pwr said:

yeah its seen on less than a half dozen because its a bad idea and everyone knows it lol. why did they tilt the engine?!

All of our inline BMW engines are tilted from the factory...

[straight6pwr]

Earl said:

All of our inline BMW engines are tilted from the factory...

earl, come on now.

it says the motor is tilted, i assumed in some degree more than how it comes from the factory, or why would they bother mentioning it?  i guess i should make my assumption based on them being idiots. so, no, their engine is installed exactly level as designed and the thought of a creatively designed exhaust manifold was too much for their brains to comprehend.

[Jdesign]

Better yet, someone tell me whats going on here?....

Is that a volvo swap?

[B C]

Jdesign said:

Better yet, someone tell me whats going on here?....
 


 
Is that a volvo swap?

On first glance it looked like a 3SGE BEAMS but I think you are right about the volvo in the first pic

[HipMF]

BEAMs would have the exhaust on the drivers side. #JDM-MF

[B C]

HipMF said:

BEAMs would have the exhaust on the drivers side. #JDM-MF

Unless they did a reacharound like in the original post ... [emoji848]

[jc43089]

If you swap a Volvo engine into a BMW you are delusional...

[retoropak]

First pic looks more like audi 5 cylinder. Volvo 5 cyliders have two cam gears up front.

I thought about swapping volvo 4 cylinder red block with 16 valve head into my e21. Its a nice motor. It has timing belt, no leaky timing covers to worry about, 16 valves and 2.3 liter with possibility to stroke it to 2.5 with a crank from the boat( volvo penta) motor. And all this with quarter of the money you would spend on 2.5 liter 16 valve bmw setup (read s14).

[HipMF]

retoropak said:

I thought about swapping volvo 4 cylinder red block with 16 valve head into my e21.

Interesting. For some reason a redblock swap never crossed my mind... makes sense though. Keeps it somewhat "period correct" if that's a thing. Not quite as much of a bastardization as putting a japanese engine from the early 2000s.

Not gonna happen, but it's interesting.