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Yeah, dangerous ideas keep popping up on here but the money's not there at the moment

Cheers for the info, bits of it are still floating around then.

Yep, dead cheap, no rust either for a 12yo car and 35mpg

Not bad matey, it's been a while

Glad to see your 335 still going well

I'm driving some French wrong wheel drive motor for now(clio 172), but some day i'll get back into some thing nice and RWD touch wood.

Any one know if mine's still going ?

Been some years now though !

Still think I should have S/C'd it rather than pissing about N/A tuning it.

leeparkes wrote:
What happened to your old one? still on the zone?

Sold ages ago just before i got made redundant, no idea where it's at now ?

BTW, hi chaps

Just noticed, that thread is five years old, time fly's !

I miss my old 335

leeparkes wrote:It is a twin 60mm TB from a US Ford V8.

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

If you do it don't bother going as large as i did, just go 10-20% bigger.

ITB's will be better but a lot more work and £££ !

They both look like later gen' b35(e34/2) units(block/head) to me as the squish area on the pistons and head chambers match up ? Is the gasket ment for b35 or b34 ? Don't be overly worried about the holes matching up as it's only the oil drain off chanels from the head, the oil reterns back to the s...

Rav335uk wrote: Andy335touring, you don't happen to have the drawings for the adaptor plate??
I can have it cnc'd from my mate.
Cheers.

Sorry, no

Cool, that'll save you a bit of work

Not bad mate, how's things with you ?

Still got the old 335 ?

Is my old money pit still on the zone ?

I got an old post notification and thought i'd have a nosey around the old place

The adapter plate was home made partly by me, then finished off by toby who had the tb's off me.

Have you got the 'stat housing to go with the tb's ?

gareth wrote:
out of interest, do you know what modifications were done to reach 254bhp? IIRC, andy335touring had an alpina bottom end with different piston crowns that wouldn't clear the standard head...?

My ears were burning !

Good luck at the pod, like said before, getting off the line is going to be tricky !

Might be worth playing with tire pressures ?

Yes, but which way up ? 6 o'clock bad/worse case(water collects at the bottom of the pipe), 9 or 3 o'clock good and 12 o'clock best Where in the pipe is your sensor mounted ? I don't know if it's the same for yours but on my old WB02 sensor it said in the instructions not to mount it at the bottom o...

Where in the pipe is your sensor mounted ? I don't know if it's the same for yours but on my old WB02 sensor it said in the instructions not to mount it at the bottom of the pipe due to condensation/water damaging the sensor ? I could do with LPG on my E34 525 touring, it's a bit juicy compaired to ...

Is your ECU software WB capable ?

Cool !

Yep, wide band, better for tuning, used it with my Emerald ECU on my old car.

What sort of readings do you get out of yours at the mo ?

Fancy buying my Innovate WB02 so you can play with your fuelng ?

Do a dummy build to check your *squish* clearences, not too sure what they are supposed to be but after a lot of googling when i did mine 1mm seems the norm.

*piston to head*

So did you just crack the throttle on the stop and then use the Ignition advance stableisation to control it? looked throught the paperwork for not using an ICV and this was one of the ways to do it. yes, only trouble is it wouldn't tick over on it's own for the first 1/2 mile but was fine after th...

I never got around to fitting one

Yeah, just the back box, drop Toby a PM about it ?

Drop Dave an Email as he might have a base ICV map that should be a decent starting point for you ?

E28 535's were around 9.8-10.0:1 so you shouldn't have pinking issues, not sure if you're going to get much gains with a .8 increase though TBH ?

I increased the C/R 1.5apx on mine and the gains wasn't that noticable. I also tried getting it mapped on E85 fuel but only gained about 6-7bhp/lbft.

Yep OEM M3 exhaust is supposed to be good, if you can weld, buy your self an E36 328 back box, this sounded really nice and wasn't too loud on Toby's car back when it was still N/A. My old Scorpion M3 exhaust sound nice but was too loud, the X-pipe made it a bit less noisey. If i'd have kept the car...

Rav335uk wrote:somrthing to do with the rear waterpipe on the back of the head iirc, the new ones did away with this.

also the sump and oil pump need changing to the later ones

I believe it is 8.8:1 as standard. Leaves room for a bit of booost! winkeye Close ! :) M30b35 9.0:1 If you want lower then try a 745 bottom end, 8.0:1 and has piston oil squirters for less det' and better durability. With this cam i didn't lose hardly any torque, the small loss was from tickover to...

charlE30 wrote: Bent my 3 foot breaker bar trying to undo the crank nut

3/4" drive breaker bar and scafold tube is what you need, i've got one with the right sized socket if you need one ?

BTW, if any of you M30 boys wants a spare sump drop me a PM, as you know the sumps are a bit low and prone to being hit in these conversions so i used to have a spare one ready just incase.

What do the bores look like ? I'd be suprised if the piston rings havn't rusted/ceased up having water on them for so long ? The manifold is off a b34, the rest of your engine is b35(E34+E32). It is rare but check for cracks in the block going from the cylinder head bolt holes to the coolant ways. A...

G*** WOO ?? It was sold sept/oct last year. I was in fear of being made redundant so the car had to be sold. The Spax were never briliant handling but were OK, a bit too hard for the road. I fitted the brakes and the wheels at the same time, this increase in unsprung weight didn't help the handling....

I wish I could. Doing the head on this m30 is killing me as it is. Ordered the thicker gasket from the dealers but it won't be in till next week, so still off the road.. :( (i'm rubbing a lamp but F A is happining) Have you had it skimmed ? You can also get the thicker gasket from ECP, probobly too...

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