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There was never a 323 e46 touring in the UK.

I'm not sure about manual verses automatic economy though. I get about 35-36mpg from my e46 323 saloon, although that's not much use to you!

Check the air hoses and vacuum hoses for leaks, on my e46 323 (similar engione) one under the top engine cover was split and causing all the emissions to fail at MOT time. Found the split using some brake cleaner (engine revs when brake cleaner sprayed onto the split). Part was about £12

M50 are single Vanos (inlet side) and M52 are double vanos too I think?

They look like TSW EVO's although an older version.. see here

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q= ... a=N&tab=wi

Andy325i wrote:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ARCAN-Alloy-Quick ... 3a5e642953

Think I paid about £106 for mine brand new delievered

Andy

These are the ones from Costco - about £76 in there if I recall correctly, including the VAT.

I used to live in an F area and now live in an E.

How long run" did you take the car for, maybe your battery needs a good charge and the alarm is 'warning' you of this?

Oh I also knew once of the someone whom had the plate CRA1G, seem to remember it for sale for about £45K on a a website once.

Seen these (a few years ago now mind) both on Porsches

A911 CAN

WAS IIIS (made to look like WAS HIS, with one screw added!)

If the shell is solid and the engine reasonable, it'll be worth £500 all day long to the pbmwc guys.

Fella I've got a good exhaust of my 320 which is in east london. Not sure if it would fit though?

see here...

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... highlight=

Jackflash, the basic cage was about £800, completelty created / painted / fitted etc. We added a couple of extras such as extra door bars (to make them X) an extra diagonal and harness bar for the passenger side so it came to about £1000 all in. We've had it extended since to the front turrets too.

Not sure where you are, but I can personally recommend these guys in Southampton on the south coast. http://www.rawmotorsport.co.uk/ speak to Robin Welsh, he did the cage in our car when he worked for another company and did a fantastic job. http://www.team156.co.uk/images/previews/083.jpg http://ww...

Don't the scuttles need ordering from bmw - since they have the chassis number stamped on them?

Fuse 23 kept going on my e30. The fault was a dodgy front sidelight bulb.

I suggest you try changing them

I agree with GeoffBob, admire what you are doing, but if you are going to be using a solid race seat and harness, without a cage, a roll in the car would be dangerous. Standard car seats have some "give" should the car roll, allowing your body to move down a bit in the car. The other advantage of a ...

The timing belt is a "5 spanner" ie. most difficult job according to the haynes manual, but I managed it on the race car in about 6 hours start to finish, including draining the coolant, removing the radiator, fan aux belts, covers etc etc, replacing the waterpump and timing belt and then putting it...

I think if the car has ABS it will have disks at the rear too

I'm 30, but I was 28 when I got the e30 after a couple of e46's.

Thinking about chopping in my current e46 (daily driver) for another e30 though, since I only do 10,000 rather than the previous 30,000 miles a year now

Andy325i wrote:Hmmmmm

Interesting date of registration though

I imagine the registration date is the date of import into the UK?

On our race car there's no rubbing on the offside rear arch fuel pipes. I think since the bottom mount for the shock is slightly offset they give enough clearance... See the RPM advert here..

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&t=145382

Does your stereo need a feed for illumination? On a standard ISO connector, orange is for illumination, red for switched (ignition live) and yellow for battery (permenant live) Can you disconnect the stereo and try running without it for a few days? Obviously this can be done by simply disconnecting...

If you have rear coilovers you can get rid of the original springs. Like we did here...

Our Rear Gaz coilovers with non-offset top mounts fit fine, just clearing the fuse pipes. The bottom of shock is offset slightly, maybe 10mm, which maybe gives sufficient clearance?

You can see this in the RPM advert here..

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&t=145382

The evo uses a 6 speed box which I've seen reports that spares for are becoming hard to get, The non evo uses a 5 speed which is shared with some other bmws.

Does the fuse always blow at night ie. when you have your lights on?

Yeah on a standard car the standard clip should be fine.

Although I know of a time when the standard clip broke on a race car and the fan damaged the hose and coolant went everywhere!

I know it sounds like a lot of work, but maybe remove all the bulbs listed as being used by the fuse. If it still blows then it's not a bulb, if it does not blow, start adding the blubs until it blows?

My experience (above) found it to be a faulty bulb.

According to the wiki it runs more than that fella.

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... se_ratings

It definetly looks like it. We have had to replace this part with several strong cable ties on the race car since Samco hoses have a slightly larger overall diameter than bmw ones.

Does this fuse also feed the small sidelights bulbs?

The reason I ask is that I went through about 4 7.5 amp fuses on my e30 until I started investigating. I found that one of the sidelight bulbs was damaged and therefore kept blowing the fuse. May of been fuse 22 or 23 if I recall correctly.

The rears should come with a new rose jointed topmount, they do from RPM or Gaz direct as far as I know. If the car is not being used on track, then the standard top mounts will probably be okay at the front, we ran modified versions of the standard ones for our first 18 months or so racing. We now ...

Has your car got an alarm or immobiliser? Could be that the cigarette lighter feed was easiest to get to to fit / power an alarm and therefore the alarm has a protection feature whereby if power is removed from the alarm module the immobiliser kicks in and stops you starting the car. If this is the ...

Check the right tyres are fitted, should be 225/40r18 on the front and 255/35r18 on the rear since the rear wheels are 8.5" wide and the fronts 8" Personally I'd like to know why the wheels have been sprayed gunmetal, just for cosmetic reasons or have they been refurbed following a crash or lots of ...

I think the difference the rear one makes depends on the car, if you have folding rear seats or a touring then I imagine it makes much more different than a 2 door with a solid rear bulkhead like ours.

We've only got one because it's included as part of the cage...

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