The Official Bring A Trailer (BaT) Thread

[PetrolM3]

fattycharged, I saw the name bidding good luck. The car has an MK20, MK20s have all 6 lines entering the block on one side, MK60 is 4 and 2.

If its an issue you can always swap an MK20 M3 ABS setup onto it vs the MK60 conversion.

If you wanted to MK60 swap it like factory I will have an MK60 touring body harness for sale in a couple months.

Is there a difference between M and non-M MK60 module? Non-M should be much cheaper and easier to find...

[George Hill]

fattycharged, I saw the name bidding good luck. The car has an MK20, MK20s have all 6 lines entering the block on one side, MK60 is 4 and 2.

If its an issue you can always swap an MK20 M3 ABS setup onto it vs the MK60 conversion.

If you wanted to MK60 swap it like factory I will have an MK60 touring body harness for sale in a couple months.

[heinzboehmer]

Wait this is possible? Did he tell you what all is needed to do the swap?

I would personally go for option 3 over option 2, but I'm fairly picky with that stuff. The location of the module supposedly changed cause the longer lines affected the response time of the DSC or something like that, but I know of many non-E46 (and even non-BMW) cars that are running an MK60 with no issues. It's a common swap in the Miata world. Also saw an old Volvo wagon at a lemons race running an MK60 that was still coded as a non-M E46 module and the car was performing great on track.

The harness part is a bit annoying if you don't keep the module in the same location (if you do it's just a matter of getting the new connector and moving pins around), but if you do what I did with the adapter harness, it's not that bad. I still have a few of those MK20 connector breakout PCBs if you want one, just let me know.

[Slideways]

Wait this is possible? Did he tell you what all is needed to do the swap?

https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/main-forum/e46-2001-2006/189096-mk20-mk60-swap

2. Install the MK60 module in place of the MK20 module.

• This requires very little brake line work and can probably be done in an afternoon. However, you will not get any reduction in complexity or weight. Additionally, there's talk about BMW placing the MK60 module closer to the brake master cylinder for reasons (response times?), so having it in the "wrong" place might not make it behave optimally. To do this, you would need to add unions and bend short bits of brake lines for the two lines that plug in on the side of the MK60 valve block.

[SQ13]

I spoke to a person with a MK20 car and he said that he was going to retrofit a MK60 unit in the passenger side bin. That way, he would not have to retrofit all the hard lines.

Wait this is possible? Did he tell you what all is needed to do the swap?