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...and here's one with all of the Revolutions fitted after a decent arch rolling session this afternoon:

Absolutely! And for only £5 it didn't break the bank either.

Amazing work there. Is that a corsa c steering link? Cheers! Well spotted, yes it is a Corsa C linkage - it only cost a fiver and is just about slim enough to miss the wrapped exhaust with a bit of room left to spare for engine movement. The only ballache with it was the threaded part of the clamp ...

So, a good few months on and I've managed to sort a good few things out but have mostly forgotten what they were so I thought I might as well put up a greatest hits in pictures. By this evening I'm hoping to have refinished the missing grilles, swapped the dash for one without cracks, installed some...

Spot on, thank you James - that'll be why he suggested it in that case as his S50 is a 3.2 but it's good to know that there's no need to swap mine at the moment.

....especially as I broke the one I was intending to put in when removing the fuel line from it this morning!

Cheers,
Russ

Thanks for the replies gents, what I completely neglected to mention is that the car is now fitted with an M52 rather than the original M42. I can't find any specs for the standard E30 pumps other than there seem to be two setups used; a higher pressure in-tank pump on the facelift models and a comb...

I've been searching high and low but haven't found a definitive answer so I thought it best to put it out there - how many bar pressure does the standard in-tank fuel pump operate at in a 1991 318iS? I'm just wondering if it's worth butchering a 3.5bar one from an E36 that I have kicking around or i...

I'm pretty sure that the man you're looking for is DanThe. I live in the Channel Islands so took mine to a local hydraulics fabricator who turned it around in a couple of hours replacing the flexible hose of the line running around the rear of the crossmember with brand new digger hose to delete the...

Small update, managed to get my hands on some E36 M3 Evo kingpins and hubs that have admittedly seen better days but considering they'd have cost £630 from BMW, suddenly £150 wasn't so bad. Thankfully, they've solved all of my steering issues so I'll get some genuine hubs and bearings in time as the...

I totally agree, plus the Z3M shifter is more familiar to me as I've used them before. I'm hoping to get around to having another go over the weekend but reckon I might need a combination of rod adjustment and a few washers under the 'box mount. There are just so many other things to do. I'll report...

Yep, that's more like it engine wise...!

I just turned the rod upside down in my E36 when it fouled and it worked a treat! That could have been because it had been bent to fit a short shift in the past though but I couldn't complain. It definitely didn't work in the E30 though. I was considering adding spacers to the gearbox mount to drop ...

Unfortunately not mate, I spent a lot of time underneath the car out in the rain trying to figure out a few steering angle niggles and got a bit fed up of being cold and wet so I spent the rest of the afternoon inside next to the kettle! Even shorter?! Would I be right in guessing that you mean a sl...

Wow, those bits you had blasted look incredible - the whole engine looks brand new. Just the kind of attention to detail I expected! Hopefully you manage to regain your interest in it soon, it'd be a shame not to get this one finished for sure.

Thoughts echoed there mate theres never enough time...due to that inconvenience we call work!! Yeah it's just a shame that the most inconvenient of inconveniences is the one that facilitates our hobbies! Very nice looking engine swap looks tidy Cheers! I'm aiming to put enough aside to get it respr...

If only there were more hours in the day Russ, then I could move from being organised to being productive!

Thanks Dave, I've replied with a bit of an essay but hopefully it's of some help. Just give me a shout if there's anything I've missed.

Cheers!

This is another level of absurdity, true timewarp condition! Beautiful.

Plus the cricket green stripes on the floor mats is an interesting touch...

Thanks Russ, she's certainly nowhere near as clean as the one you've just picked up but there's plenty to keep me busy over winter. I'm going to get her up in the air to clean and re-underseal the wheelarches this coming week in the hope that my paranoia about getting the car wet abates slightly! Af...

One month on and it's finally on the road. There are still a few things that need tinkering as can be expected but it's nice to be driving again, especially now it's slashing it down with rain. Well, I say that, but the 'Horace Horizon' tyres on the rear are absolutely lethal in the wet. Thankfully,...

I'm massively jealous now Rich! It's definitely one of those 'why the f*** didn't I do that earlier' modifications, isn't it? I fitted one to an E36 and it was the best £45 I spent on that car.

Looks like I might be bumping that one up the list, another job for tomorrow afternoon...

I tried it, spent ages bending the linkage to get the shifter sitting centrally but only to find that it fouled the prop pretty badly so we ended up putting the standard E36 shifter from the donor car back on just for the sake of getting the car back on the road. I'm confident that with a vice, a bi...

Thanks for the responses guys, I'm just using off-the-shelf pads as it stands with both new pads and discs on the rear and I've re-used the pads and discs from my donor car on the front (plenty left in them at the moment whilst I decide whether to fit the E36 Evo ones) Dan. Braking hard from around ...

Hello Jon, if you're talking about the M52 motor the lambda sensor on the front bank / manifold plugs into the one toward the rear of the fuel rail and vice versa (so basically the opposite way to what you'd think would be logical). I kept my PAS reservoir mounted to the bracket attached to the engi...

Well, or anyone for that matter...?! Could it be anything to do with the rear disc, as a solid Z3 one, now being much thinner than the vented ones that caliper is used to compressing on the E36 they came from meaning there's more fluid / pedal effort going to the rear for less actual gain / braking ...

The E36 328i one is 23.8mm as opposed to 25.4mm for the 750i one I believe. I'd have stuck with the standard one from the donor car had it fitted inside the Clio servo but it's a fair bit larger than the opening so I decided to go for the 750i one for a firmer pedal given that I had to buy a new one...

Has anyone else had any issues with the feel of their brakes when using the Clio servo with a 750i master cylinder? They bite well and there's a nice hard pedal with a nice amount of travel (minimal) but when you really stand on them they seem to get to a point where they're not getting any more eff...

It's also worth checking the bootlid latch area for damage and the closing switch - the area around the bootlid latch on my 328i was weak and constantly cracked despite welding so the switch wasn't making full contact. I swapped the switch with a broken one from a mate's M3 and it drained the batter...

I couldn't agree with Steve_k more, your Sport looks great and most importantly it's yours so do what you want to do with it and enjoy it. If you buy some Alpina reps and decide for yourself that it doesn't handle as well as you'd hoped then at least you haven't spent a fortune and shouldn't have mu...

So, as it's been a good couple of months since we moved the E30 out of my garage to try and get on with things it's been noted that I should really pull my finger out. We realised that there was no way it'd be ready for the trackday coming up this week but had to make space for Tris' M3 to be tinker...

Mind blowing fabrication work, absolutely stunning! Hopefully it's all still coming along nicely, I'm sure there are a lot of us gagging to see more progress on this one!

Because I've been so busy at work / spineless and have run out of subtle ways to steer the conversation every time anyone mentions lifting the carpet to check out the floorpan carnage before our eyes when it gets lifted for the first time in 20 odd years Tris went ahead and did it on my behalf witho...

DanThe wrote:Would have been nice to see that renault sticker removed, rather than masked up

Balls, I was hoping that the Bosch part might go some way to outweighing the French wrongness Dan... Ha!

That looks bang on, good work!

Managed to get a few hours of work on the E30 in this evening so the NOS offside bumper bracket was bolted up to allow the front bumper to go back on, the gear linkage and Z3M short shift are fitted (cheers Tris for the massive patience bending the selector rod time after time so that the shifter si...

There is a shorter cable and a longer cable. I can't remember why (possibly for traction control or cruise control equipped cars) but it's the longer one that is needed. I can measure mine for you tomorrow if you want? If you could mate that'd be spot on - just in case I end up ordering a different...

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