m3 do up?

[MD13 562]

e92

[balancerider 845]

you'd wanna be pretty sure the chassis was straight given it's been deregistered. I think probably a better candidate for engine / drivetrain swap.

[turboray82 48]

That motor would be great in many cars (Cough840iCough)

[Kodachrome 172]

On 7/29/2025 at 12:11 PM, balancerider said:

you'd wanna be pretty sure the chassis was straight given it's been deregistered. I think probably a better candidate for engine / drivetrain swap.

There is no issue in NZ with using an engine from a crashed car right, from a Cert perspective? 

[Vass 1083]

20 minutes ago, Kodachrome said:

There is no issue in NZ with using an engine from a crashed car right, from a Cert perspective? 

Wouldn't think so. I think I might have outright mentioned my donor engine, as well as some of the running gear, coming from a crashed & dereg'd car when going through cert on my 325i to 330i swap, never got any further questions on that point.

[exextatic 173]

38 minutes ago, Kodachrome said:

There is no issue in NZ with using an engine from a crashed car right, from a Cert perspective? 

It should be fine, I've never seen the source of the drivetrain questioned during certification.

[Kodachrome 172]

I bid on this, but at $16.5k got too rich for me.   I might just hold off for an S54 engine at this stage.  

There is another E92 M3 wreck on Facebook, guy wants 15k but its in way worse condition (rolled) and has no service history of any type (including no info on rod bearings) and the seller admits to running it with the oil cooler smashed up and leaking oil, which seems stupid. 

Edited 12 hours ago by Kodachrome