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Cheers Spadge,
That would lead me to believe the one I have for sale is a 4.45:1 in that case!!!

Absolute pleasure to deal with, fast payment a credit to the zone
Cheers Ian

Iain

Have you knocked the 2 long bolts up into the car?
When I dropped mine it was very stiff, ended up wiggling it with a BIG screwdriver (up the 2 bolt holes) and it eventually came free.

I would say that it would be won or lost on the start line, a good start (reading the lights, leaving just before you see the green) will give you the advantage

Thanks - that answers that one then!!

Cheers

Just been checking over my 320i lump im hopefully selling, and noticed as well as the 1 277 731 there is also another number towards the front of the head marked as 07 02. When I originally purchased the donor car for my ill-fated touring transplant, the previous owner mentioned a head change, but d...

aceraf wrote:a complete set like that could easily be fetching over Ã‚£50!!!

I might be interested in this myself

Ã‚£50!!!!....ooh really

(you might notice the username matches my personal site

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If its anything like my 2 then when you remove the cassette box it will leave a hole. To access (if I rember correctly!) there is a screw under the rear ashtray and its got 2 clips at the front.

Or if anyone has any tips on how to remove the steering wheel without the key maybe they could let me know Pop the centre badge out, loosen the main nut (dont take it all the way off yet) pull wheels towards you (this is why you dont take the nut all the way off - a wheel in the face hurts!) then n...

As above, but, as I found on mine, you also need all the brackets to hold the AFM/Airbox and radiator header tank, otherwise its easy

Mine is a 318 Touring so the suspension (apart from the springs) were OK

Absolutely top bloke, very patient over a sale that I had to pull out of now im scrapping the Tourer and wouldn't take any payment for the inconvenience I caused him.

Cheers Guys

Learn something new everyday

Now have to decide on the sell 'as is' or break for spares

Not knowing my E30's that well, Im considering either selling this or breaking it for spares (and after all the hassle of going from 1.8 auto to 2.0 manual and all the associated servicing I carried out!). Could someone let me know what the front bumper is please (if indeed anything!) excuse the gre...

Didnt PPC feature a SBC in an E30 a good few months back?
Let me have a dig around as I think he used to be a member of another forum I mod on

close - was an LS1 http://www.v-8.org.uk/snitzforum/topic. ... IC_ID=3148 Sep/Oct 2005 PPC mag

Good Forum over here http://www.noswizard.com
Im going to be throwing about 400bhp down the throat of mine when Ive finished the build....but then again the engine is 8.2 litres

Ive used Gunk and Jizer for most of my engine bay cleaning, just wondered if anyone had any experience of this product yet - Marine Clean?
http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=8680

Further update I'm getting close to selling this now, haven't driven my own car in 6 weeks now and I feel bad borrowing cars to get to work. Something that I have recently remembered is that when I first attempted to start the car I made 2 major mistakes, 1 I forgot to re-attatch the earth lead afte...

Did you change the afm with the engine conversion? Did you change the coil pack? Did you take anything apart from the engine and replaced before doing the conversion or was it just one out, one in? Everything that was needed from the donor came across, engine, box, exhaust, loom, ECU, AFM, coil etc...

Quick update on this, spent today going through the car again, the blue temp sensor lead is OK to the join, didnt get the chance to check from join to ECU (though a search has thrown up pin 40). The car decided it no longer wanted to start anymore, thankfully I had a spare battery after killing the ...

But think of the satisfaction when you finally sort it, and how much you'll learn about cars on the way! True, by the end of this I am going to know this car inside out, still prefer a big V8 and a carb though 8) There's not really many reasons I can think of that would make a M20 run very rich. Ob...

Following on from this thread http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=46087 Everything is in and hooked up (finally), starting to question why I did this now, would have been easier to get another car!! Anyway, the donor engine ran lovely when I picked the car up from near Ca...

Sounds like you've been kept busy with your car there bud, the zimmer that is.. The Dragster sounds wicked...some pic's of both your cars please good sir Its taken me longer than expected I must admit (the donor car has receipts for about 4.5k over the last 9 years, but was rotten (and rusty!) as h...

Been here for a few weeks, but never posted a 'newbie' post, just dived straight into technical, anyway :mad:, long term lover of the more 'retro' cars, always had a soft spot for the E30 shape (hankered after an M3 for ages a few years back), and when my old faithful Mondeo lapsed its MOT and Tax.....

Im 3/4's of the way through an engine / box conversion (1.8 to 2.0 and auto to manual). I purchased a complete donor 320SE 4 door, which has given up (and not without a struggle!) its engine, box, prop, peddle box etc. I have yet to remove the OBC - but just wondered what else usually sells and whic...

mine is a 325 man touring se (rusty)in white into a g plate bright red 318lux auto with no rust and shiny red paint alas no sunroof ......iainb im just of m1 at j8 we will have to share stories Sounds good to me, though I can only work on mine at weekends now, dont get in from work until its starte...

Im doing this too, not only am I going from 318 to 320 (should have gone 325 tbh!!) but also getting rid of the auto and going manual..... im now wishing I hadnt started :mad: so much for a weekends work!!!! Saying that, I do have a donor vehicle, so its just time at the minute, and rebuild kits, an...

Dammit - just came in to edit my post, but too late now

All sorted, I had followed an incorrect lead to the fuesebox....shouldnt have admitted that should I!!
Loom, ECU all out now - at least im making the mistakes on the wrong engine

Thanks for your help guys, appreciated
Iain

Cheers Guys, Havent stripped either loom out the car yet, but from what I can see it all looks interjoined with the normal loom? Am I missing something :cry: (I hate electrics, give me a BBC on carbs with MSD anyday!! :D ) Will swap the springs over also - Thanks (well until I can afford new struts ...

Started this today after picking up a complete donor car (320SE with all the goodies), managed to strip the engine bay and gearbox, though only after forgetting 1 of the manifold bolts, lifting the engine half out... realising, going back underneath (you know whats coming now, dont you) undid it the...

orangecurry wrote:ahh good old Pistonheads - they say use Fabsil or Thompsons

All came down to cost for me

Ãƒ”šÃ‚£10 for 5 litres V's something like Ãƒ”šÃ‚£45/50 for 5 litres of the other - did the same job, but did smell for a day or so...

This is going to sound really bizarre, but Ive heard going things about thompsons water seal. Ive recently used it on a canvas tent with no issues (and at around Ãƒ”šÃ‚£10 for 5 litres its much cheaper than the genuine tent sealer!!) and Ive heard of it being used with a lot of success with the TVR ...

Not knocking the rover V8, but it seems to cost a lot of $$$ once you pass the 250bhp mark doesn't it? I found that tuning parts availablity had started to decrease as well, though Real Steel have recently (after about 4 years of waiting) launched a set of new heads, otherwise it would have been Wi...

Thanks,
Had done a bit more searching and it doesnt look as easy as first thought (well relatively speaking anyway!), thanks for confirming it though, appreciated

V8 all the way.Freind of mine is running a 383 stroker in a Monte Carlo.Running 10's (0-60 like 2 seconds) I was quoted 2 k by John sleath,whos an engine builder known world wide,to have my 350 convereted into a 383 with around 350+bhp.soo...? Was that just the conversion price? What did it include...

Bit of background on this one, recently purchased a 318 Touring as a stop gap car (previous car ran out of MOT and TAX, and rather then get an MOT....bought this one :mad: ) anyway - it had an idle issue which gave a brilliant kangaro effect when sitting at lights / junctions etc etc (its an auto bt...

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