Wow.
It's been a long road since the last update but drove the car Saturday and just couldn't keep it to myself ...
Car was once a DASC supercharged 98 318ti, since converted to an S52 powered frankenhatch. Will need to put together a full build thread once we figure out the last few issues (mushy brake pedal, too low clutch engagement, etc etc) but for now it is a good day to have the Ti back ... and with more torque than ever ...
Special thanks to J!m Leach, BimmerBum, and any other forum users (BlueBimma, BMW_Hatchback, Wolferj) that I've hunted down for random bits of swap related info ... It takes a village to build an M3 Compact!