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Online Tools
- RPM Calculator – Changing your gearbox or diff? Work out your RPM and speed with this helpful calculator
Marlin Sportster and Cabrio Builder Sites
Marlin Sites
Parts
Supplies
- Frost (Paint Supplies) – Paint and rust treatment supplies
- Namrick – Get all the replacement nuts, washer and bolts you’ll ever need here. Online order and very quick
BMW Sites
- M20 Engine – Technical Stuff for the M20 engine used in E30’s
- E30.de – German site on the E30 – very useful for tuning
- E30 Zone Forum – Excellent forum to source information on your donor BMW. Always someone to help with technical questions! Also new E30Zone shop with lots of E30 related bits
- E46 Fanatics – E46 3 Series forum based in the USA
- Evotechik.net – Modding forum with several BMW people
- Planet E30 – BMW E30 3 Series Forum
- BMW Forum – more BMW
- e30tech.com – US based technical forum
Tuning
- A – Tech BMW – Ant the E30 Tuning Guru and source of chips for the M20B28 conversion
Manufacturers
- BTB BMW Exhausts – BTB 6 Branch manifolds, availalbe through www.e30zone.co.uk – have a chat with Sal (M5Pilot)
- Gaz Shocks – For E30 rear coil over conversion. Standard front shocks from Marlin are made by Gaz
- Magnecor – HT Leads, can cost less that OEM parts
- Mocal – ThinkAuto – ThinkAuto – the home of Mocal products
- Magnaflow – Stainless exhaust components
- Jetex – Build stainless or mild steel exhaust systems from individual components (online ordering)
- BMC – CDA (Carbon Dynamic Airbox) available from www.e30zone.co.uk with fitting adapter for the M20 AFM.
Misc
hi i would like to see a video of the stroker sportster
its a very impressive build and the first ive seen ever, great stuff .
im also in the process of doing the exact same conversion on my m20
hi there, I have a video of the M20 stroker running here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Ms8E3rrlY
Car hadn’t yet been painted at the time 🙂
There’s a more recent one here recorded in HD with a proper mic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAPE3CCodvs
Patrick