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      10-02-2017, 03:08 AM   #77
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Originally Posted by stefan View Post
Really? Because M240.
There's more to it than just shoehorning the engine in the bay though. Are the transmission bolt patterns the same / swappable? If so, that helps a lot, but I don't know if that's the case. Remember they'd presumably want to put DCT with it instead of the normal ZF auto.

There's also the issue of the differential... presumably there is some amount of wizardry that is happening in a computer for that thing to work correctly, and I'm guessing that it would need to be re-tuned for a different motor.

Obviously none of these are insurmountable problems, but the fact that nobody has seen any test mules does make it seem less likely that an M2 will get a B58.
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