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Dizzy cap and HT leads, complete with cylinder 6 sensor.
These were last used on an engine running LPG and 7 lbs of boost, so they should be pretty good! £40 posted.

Two pairs of working headlight wiper motors, £100 per pair.
Wiper arms NOW SOLD

One pair of motors NOW SOLD

I may have more HLWW bits, going to have to rummage deeper...

Heater hose connector, the small casting that bolts to the rear of the cylinder head, 3 available, £10 each. http://ahymsa.co.uk/zone/sales/IMG_20210301_173210218.jpg Thermostat housings. Bleed screws are not seized, neither are thermostat cover bolts. One is from an E34 but should be fine with the ...

Built to a design by the legendary UweM3, OE front top mounts modified to be camber-adjustable. Used on my 325i track car for years, only replaced when I fitted pillow ball mounts to get even lower at the front. These give around 3 degrees of negative camber with coilovers, less with standard spring...

Since my E30 is probably the last I'll own, and is getting less and less standard, it's time to stop hoarding bits I'll never use. All prices include p&p except where indicated M20 standard 80A alternator. Good working order, recent new regulator/brush pack. Also comes with that specific shallow-hea...

I very much doubt you'll be able to buy one of these used, but you should be able to order one from your local dealer.
Part number is 07 12 9 908 142 .
Failing that, it's a 70mm M8 stud, just buy some M8 threaded bar and cut it to length.

"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid"

Wot, no lethal tarmac rally course (aka Mid-Wales Activity Centre)?
Was looking forward to doing that this year!

Got the bits for this a few weeks ago, not had time to have a proper look at fitting it. It doesn't help that I'm using a top-mount turbo, so the downpipe (2.5") is a tight squeeze past the steering linkage. Does the Z4 setup occupy the same space as OE or is it offset in some direction? I'll certai...

Here's how she's sitting now; the front can go down another 25mm, the rear another 50mm at least. I'll have to raise the splitter if I do, there's only 40mm under it at the moment. At Pembrey yesterday it was touching down regularly when 30mm high. http://ahymsa.co.uk/whitecar/down/sideview.jpg http...

There's 20mm between the rim and strut, so with a little more offset a 205 or 215 will fit, but 235 is a bit too much.
Most of the time I'll hopefully be using slicks, which in 15" are usually 19/57 and will give even more clearance - as well as lowering the car another few mm.

Getting the front of an e30 properly low isn't too hard, adjustable coilovers will do most of the work and flat top mounts will complete it (and get you some of your suspension travel back). The rear, however, is a different matter. Even with GAZ rear coilovers wound down as far as sensible, mine sa...

Factory eccentric rear trailing arm bushes can sort it, apparently it's a bit of a pain to work out how they should be fitted.

I've got a set somewhere, never got round to using them.

£30 posted to you, sir...

After much faffing and procrastination, and because I'm booked on a MLR day at Castle Combe and will thus be mixing with loads of bloody Evos.... It's Turbo Time! As posted above, I bought an eBay turbo manifold etc. a couple of years back. Didn't fit it because ... well, because it didn't fit. Cutt...

On circuit at Bedford, a good day : http://ahymsa.co.uk/whitecar/bedford1.jpg http://ahymsa.co.uk/whitecar/bedford2.jpg Yes, the wing drew quite a bit of comment - but seemed to work. Brake cooling ducts are very effective - both Llandow and Bedford require lots of seriously hard braking, but I've n...

The boost (along with far too many other things) is on hold for the moment, but the wheels are at last going round again. At Llandow early this month for a shakedown, with some subtle body mods : http://ahymsa.co.uk/whitecar/llandow2.jpg http://ahymsa.co.uk/whitecar/llandow4.jpg It'll be at Bedford ...

Yep, neither realoem nor bmwfans list springs for e38s. Apparently the huge number of available options that affect vehicle weight (protection package adds over 500kg), as well as the different suspension types (EDC, SLS, LAD) mean that apparently similar models (728i, 740i, 750iL) may have differen...

Had to happen sometime - it's broken a front spring. Not a hugely difficult thing to fix, especially as I already own "spring compressors of considerable force", but finding out which spring to buy is a bit of a pain. The answer apparently is in an adjunct to the ETK called the "spring table", which...

According to the OBC, my current average is 15.6. This may have something to do with my drive to work being on an empty motorway in the small hours and my drive home being in stop-start traffic, so I'm either finding out if the speed limiter still works, or creeping along in 1st. Cruise control set ...

It's had a recurrent misfire for the last few months, came and went. I put it down to use patterns; 20 motorway miles to work Monday, 20 back Friday, almost nothing more. Later I read that a worn dizzy cap can cause this, along with loss of power, economy etc. It's the same part as a facelift E30 32...

If it's this style we're talking about : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221016220552 they don't fit anything very well. I just offered mine up today; it would fit on 4-6 OR 1-3 but was too short between 3 & 4 to fit both at the same time. So I cut the flange between them - and the pieces moved together.....

I wonder where I'll put the boost gauge?

I'm thinking front and centre, where the MINI speedo goes, so my passengers can be all OMG BOOST!!!!!

Here's what I have so far : http://ahymsa.co.uk/images/turbo/manifold1.jpg http://ahymsa.co.uk/images/turbo/manifold2.jpg eBay special turbo manifold, £55 a year or so back. http://ahymsa.co.uk/images/turbo/turbo1.jpg http://ahymsa.co.uk/images/turbo/turbo3.jpg eBay special turbo, £120 delivered. T3...

I've been doing a little research into LPG and boost, and have discovered a few interesting things. Firstly, tuning for LPG requires throwing away almost everything I thought I knew about safe operation, particularly with a turbo. UK LPG is almost entirely Propane , with an octane rating of over 110...

Standard centre box, HUGE no-name stainless backbox with DTM-style upswept tips. 88dB tested @ Thruxton a few years ago. A tip - if you're just over, swap the coding plug in your instrument cluster for a 4-pot one; it'll display your revs x 1.5. A 4,000 rpm noise test conducted at 2,666 rpm might be...

The LPG special is going turbo - and the budget is very, very small. Ebay is the source, cheap is the criterion. So far I've got : Manifold (paid £55 last year) Turbo Boost controller and oil feed/drain I need to add a balance pipe to the reducer (DIY welding) and buy a BOV, pipes, and an intercoole...

The standard diff on a 320 is the small case; either this or the medium case (188 as gromgsxr says) will fit without mods or changing other parts. The propshaft will have to be shortened, though.
The one that won't fit is the large case, found on bigger-engined 5- and 7- series.

The M20B20 was restricted as standard (something to do with new car duty); fitting a b25 throttle body releases a few ponies, one of speedtouch's chips will help further. Any more than this and you'll be better off spending your money on a B25 swap.

Yes Dan, I should have gassed it by now, but as always it's the time and hassle rather than the money. As far as I can guess, it's a couple of days at least in a proper workshop (hello maggspower!) or best part of a week outside the house. Still haven't a clue where I'd stick the reducer(s), or the ...

Bookmarked.
Many thanks.

Dunno if it helps, but realoem recognises it :
http://bmwfans.info/vin/decoder?vin=3561329

Just over a year of luxurious wafting, 9,000 miles, a European family holiday, a 'Ring trip and a truly frightening amount of unleaded later - MoT pass, no advisories! http://ahymsa.co.uk/750iL/seven_beach.jpg On the Beach at Narbonne [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/v/9wZVkcke8XA[/youtube] Also on ...

They clear the brakes on my 750iL with about 15-20mm to spare on the caliper (334mm disc). Your disc is 360mm (according to realoem), you should be fine.

I think I may have got a bit of a bargain there :
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351379745591

Now I just need a suitable snail, pipework, BOV, intercooler and some careful welding on the vaporiser (to attach a balance pipe).....

My guess is that a turbo manifold (at least for a high-mounted turbo) would be less likely to interfere with the steering than a tubular N/A manifold. Whether it fouls the oil filter is another matter...

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