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Good to see more people doing it but do most stick with oem components or not?? Minefield or what!

I parked the car up for winter and forgot all about it, time to drag the car out the garage and re-investigate this problem. :-/

Just wondering where people go to get piston rings, main and rod bearings from when doing the 3.0ltr crank rod and piston conversion? I've picked up the main parts, but not sure on if oem or other components would be the best mix and what about arp bolts are these worthwhile? I've heard lots of stor...

Still tapping when hot

Oil pressure test next...i'll report back with my findings.

Lets not get ahead of ourselves just yet, I'll be testing it later today after the dentists orally fingered me! Gulp!

Call me sir Isaac stupid. Well, i rolled my selves up and turned some spanners last night. So turns out the exhaust shop when they modified the manifolds and made the system up didn't tighten the stud nuts up very well. Not had a chance to get it up to temp but here’s hoping that's all it was. I'll ...

To the speedo in the instrument cluster? I'm not sure, I don't have one in my E21 the drive was mechanical from the gearbox so I just had it disabled in the ecu. I would have thought all the trigger wheels are the same but without cracking open an e36 and e30 diff I couldn't say. Maybe the sensors a...

See I thought from day one the manifold but normally you can pinpoint where it coming from but I'm struggling to do so this time around. You can normally feel where it's leaking from as well but these manifolds get so hot so quickly and it's pretty cramped to get your hand in and have a feel around ...

If you're talking about the hall sensor in the diff requirement to the engine ECU to retain full RPM usage then i can help. I've got two M52 Siemens ECUs that are mapped for M50 manifolds, EWS disabled and speed signal requirement disabled as well. These are left over’s from my drift car, and from a...

I'm using 10-40 halfords fully synth (comes in the silver bottles if anyone uses it)

I was going to try 10-60 mobil one do you think that'd be a better grade?

I'm not sure Craig...it only does it once the engine is warm...

Didn't see the three pics.

But yes, yes and yes. ;)

I did a vid...

I'm uploading a vid of the noise; i'm deaf in one ear so pinpointing it isn't easy for it. TBH i think the timing is out, either that or it really does need mapping it's very lumpy...

Shameless copy and paste i'm afraid but i was wondering if you guys could help. Hi guys, i've got a bit of a head scratcher of a problem and would like your advice on what you think it could be. I've installed an M52 engine into my E21, the engine came out of an E36 with around 100k on the clock. No...

Sounds lke speed signal issue to me. DanThe can flash this requirement out of the ECU for you as can I and also map for M50 manifold and remove EWS etc.

DanThe wrote:Try and get granny to do a hill start with this

Complete assembly is approx 3kg, its not designed for slipping

I'd just lauch it from 5K everytime i wanted to set off with this

^ Not true People are lazy and people like cars the drive themselves these days and car manufactures need to make changes and factor this in. A dual mass flywheel or even an E30 M20 flywheel over an E21 M20 flywheel have been designed to make it easier to set off from a standstill, on a hill etc and...

Hi everyone, i can't give a figure as easy as that i need to discuss the full requirement with you in detail and understand what you want from the conversion. We can offer welding and painting (old BMWs do love to rust) cam installation, ecu chips and remaps, custom alloy parts like radiators, catch...

Ohh i see, i just take a fraction off nothing more.

What do you do with the face Dan?

We can either supply all parts or you can supply them and we install them, price would be dependent on this of course.

You probably don't want to ask him how it's going tbh! I think the guy who's working on it is taking the piss! It
May well come up here to be finished off Nas was saying.

Glad to hear it, I think we'll have quite a few decent motors back on the road for next year you know. We need to have a meet up or track day and see how they all compare.

We can do it for you mate... ;)

You still going to put the boat motor in the E21 rav? You need to move
Over to the dark side of conversions and avoid all that understear... (shouldn't start you off
On this I've seen some of threads about the subject.) Haha

Jacko and Nas yes. Me being Jacko and Nas being... Well you get it.

Just to put your flywheel into perspective this is a lightened and re-faced one;

Big difference and well worth doing imo.

Give me a call if youre interested me and my mate have done 4 E21 M52 conversions now for ourselves and E21 owners forum members E30s are just an easier conversion to do with less custom parts. Can provide testimonials and build threads/pics so you can see the level of workmanship etc Call me on 078...

always room for more

Nothing special tbh just M3 exhaust manifolds, de-cat, 257 cams, throttle bodies and remap.

Yes

More to come i hope.

220 maybe, tbh i don't know but it must be something around that figure.

Hum so just the crank, pistons and rods you've got an extra 40bhp. So with my 260bhp and the 40bhp from the B30 goodies i'm knocking on the door of 300bhp....not sure if it will work like that in the real world but still...worth a shot. This i like. :D Already looking at salvage 330s and 530s....hah...

Cheaper for one, plus i've already got cams and throttle bodies so why would i bother going S50? Also the s50 uses a steel block rather than alloy and i don't want a steel block in my e21. :) So Dan is it just a simple swap over procedure then, no messing about at all. I'm game for the swap. :P What...

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