E30 M3 S14 delivery bhp ,chassis number specific?

Hi All,

How can I find out what BHP my E30 M3 was supplied with from new .I dont know if my car is 195 or 200 or 215 and if it was supplied with a catalytic conv or not when new .My E30 M is a Euro spec M3 supplied new by bmw Japan and first registered in July 1989 , a search on realoem.com puts the production month as febuary 1988 so I was thinking it would be 200bhp giving that Japan didnt require catalytic converters on cars back then but when I was searching cylinder head part numbers it showed up cylinder head p/n for national version Japan as 11121309891 which i was thinking may be a 215bhp head .Anyways is there anyway I can find out definite info on my engines delivery spec bhp using solely the VIN  without getting part numbers off of the cars components .If anyone has access to the info the last 7 digits of my VIN are 1893765.

Cheers ,

BBSRS.

 

bbsrs wrote: Hi All, How can I find out what BHP my E30 M3 was supplied with from new .I dont know if my car is 195 or 200 or 215 and if it was supplied with a catalytic conv or not when new .My E30 M is a Euro spec M3 supplied new by bmw Japan and first registered in July 1989 , a search on realoem.com puts the production month as febuary 1988 so I was thinking it would be 200bhp giving that Japan didnt require catalytic converters on cars back then but when I was searching cylinder head part numbers it showed up cylinder head p/n for national version Japan as 11121309891 which i was thinking may be a 215bhp head .Anyways is there anyway I can find out definite info on my engines delivery spec bhp using solely the VIN  without getting part numbers off of the cars components .If anyone has access to the info the last 7 digits of my VIN are 1893765. Cheers , BBSRS.

M3 1986 - 1989 195 BHP ( CAT ) .

1891001 -   1894694    3693 MADE .
AE0000   -   AE40899   40899 MADE .

Hope this helps .

Edited by grant w

Any BMW dealer is able to print you the build sheet of your car if you tell them your VIN No. No big deal or secret. Unless they are lazy....

BTW this is FREE OF CHARGE! Maybe a small donation in the coffe machine will help

I'll ask and let you know what the stealers say.

Thats nice...

Now, rid your M3 and M5 of thier AFM's. Stunning things start happening then :D

Lancastrian wrote: SHEPSM3 wrote: Thats nice... Now, rid your M3 and M5 of thier AFM's. Stunning things start happening then :D Not the least of which is that your pockets start emptying of money.

Well, if you stop at removing the AFM and fitting the Unichip, not only will you gain a good chunk of power and torque right across the rev range, you will also get a much nicer driving car with much better throttle response. You will start getting your money back straight away with much better fuel economy too :)

Now, once you are used to that, we find people want more :D and thats where your wallet can start to empty

Edited by SHEPSM3

Using this link your car production date is 1988/04 (not when registered) which puts it in the 195 era

http://www.bmw-z1.com/VIN/VINdecode-e.cgi

regards Andy

SHEPSM3 wrote: Lancastrian wrote: SHEPSM3 wrote: Thats nice... Now, rid your M3 and M5 of thier AFM's. Stunning things start happening then :D Not the least of which is that your pockets start emptying of money.   Well, if you stop at removing the AFM and fitting the Unichip, not only will you gain a good chunk of power and torque right across the rev range, you will also get a much nicer driving car with much better throttle response. You will start getting your money back straight away with much better fuel economy too :) Now, once you are used to that, we find people want more :D and thats where your wallet can start to empty

could be simon...could be even better...whatch this space mate!

UweM3 wrote: thepits wrote: UweM3 wrote: Any BMW dealer is able to print you the build sheet of your car if you tell them your VIN No. No big deal or secret. Unless they are lazy....  I thought that UK dealers could only get this information for UK registered vehicles - at least that was the case when I asked mine for details of my German registered M3. It's a BMW database, shouldn't matter what country the car is now. Has your dealer really looked into it or does he just wanted to get rid of you?

When I first got the M3 I went into the local BMW dealer that I had been using for years, but they were only able to help with UK Registered cars, and as my E30 M3 was built, and registered, in Germany they were -at that time - unable to help.

Perhaps it has changed now and they have access to the global BMW registration database and not just the UK?

They certainly weren't trying to "get rid of me" - considering the amount of money they had - and continue to have - off me ....

or was that meant to be a joke?