95 intake vs 96-99 intake

[hitmachine101]

my father and I are about to get our hands on a 95 m3, was just looking at the pictures and saw the M50 manifold i ve heard a lot of people talking about in the 95 and have seen numerous individuals swapping that to the 96-99 because they claim better flow and more horsepower.
The 95 has like 190K on it so its just going to be a fix it up as it goes, how hard will it be to swap those? will i run into any problems? Thanks

[Jeron]

Thats funny because I hear the opposite, people putting 95 manifold S50 into 96+ M3's S52.

Heres an article:
http://www.eurotuner.com/techarticles/eurp_0712_manifold_swap_project_e36_m3_technical/index.html

I've spoken with a couple of people with M50 manifold mods and they thought it was a waste.

Anyway yours is already M50 but you can put the M52 manifold on there to try to get more lowend torque but I wouldn't bother.

Start by replacing the suspension.

[hitmachine101]

im sorry i wasnt clear i will be putting the 95 m3 intake manifold into my 97 m3, forgot that piece of info

but that article was very helpful so thank you

I dont know if you know the answer to this but can i just swap the two from car to car? will there need to be adaptors for the vacumes

Im going to have both cars in the garage this winter so ill most likely do the swap anyways

Thanks for all the help

[Jeron]

I think you need a different MAF and one adapter for a large-ish vacuum line, but thats from memory while perusing info about the job over a year ago.

All the info you need is available on the web. It is a fairly common swap and I'm sure you can find more than one writeup with great details.