Thank you all for such a great words of wisdom. Jim gave me the greatest advise of all, which were all the details of his project. He put it mildly that its gonna cost but the results will be unbelievable! Can you guys believe that the D with 300hp engine will go from 0-60 under 5 seconds ?! Anyways, for all you other folks that care, this is my project car and not my daily transportation veh. I drive around in 2002 525i. So again, thnx Jim and please sent me more info about your swaps, misshaps and ideas. I know this all has been done or tried before, believe me I read allllll of the letters posted...TWICE, but I havnt found any of the info that Jim had sent me. Some of you guys dont care about this stuff, some of us do, if you want to put your 2 cents in please e-mail me privately at VegasCop1@xxxxx thnx again for all your help, I never knew..well, probably no one knows that D owners are such a tight group of people, thats awesome! Ski PS. ohh guess what, its 115 deg's F out here in vegas and my D is giving me hard time starting, geezz I guess its the cold start valve or...the hot valve? hmmmm...I guess that engine swap will have to come sooner than I expected. I really dont know how you guys do it, its a full time job with constantly replacing parts that break or dont work just by sitting there in the garage. ( that was on the lighter side, no disrespect intended for anyone, but the problem is real) Take care guys and keep those D's on the road!