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My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:14 pm
by ed325i
After converting the 323 to motronic I took it down the road and bang it dropped a valve, hole in number 2 piston.
Not sure if to re build or sell up.
£95 for one piston plus all the parts to put it together looking at £250 if not more.
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:21 pm
by Jon_Bmw
325 engine for £150 and a days pissing about?
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:26 pm
by cliffybabe
noo
325 time???
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:28 pm
by munky30
2.5 it. you know it makes sense.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:17 pm
by StuBeeDoo
Ed, turn your gaff upside down until you find those missing pistons.
Or I know where there's an engine for £100 if you're interested.
Did you get a chance to evaluate the Motronic conversion?
Re:
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:40 pm
by ed325i
I have been turning the place upside down beleave me.
Didnt get time to run the new chip in, I wasnt going mad in it, its just one of those things.
I now think its time for me to get the body work done and then see what engine turns up, I have found a 525e a 525 m50 and a 735 manual. oh and a 318is
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:46 pm
by Rosc0PColtrane
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:52 pm
by StuBeeDoo
munky30 wrote:2.5 it. you know it makes sense.
Why, when it was probably making 2.5 power and more then 2.5 torque??
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:57 pm
by ed325i
essbee wrote:munky30 wrote:2.5 it. you know it makes sense.
Why, when it was probably making 2.5 power and more then 2.5 torque??
Would have been nice to find out.
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:23 pm
by pacerpete
I am so normal and well adjusted compared to some of you sick cnuts !
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:28 pm
by Speedtouch
Goes to show that going digital isn't all it's cracked up to be...
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:38 pm
by Bob_S
real cars have 2.3's
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:38 pm
by ed325i
pic of the head which is now scrap.
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:38 pm
by tristan325
Ohh that sucks. REBUILD!! And make it even better!
Re: My e30 is dead.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:18 pm
by m-dtech
bah, chewing gum will fix that.
or an m20b27
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:11 am
by C8SDD
Cor i had worse than that when a valve seat dropped on my old 520i
back in 1996.
The valve was fine ... the seat just got mushed to buggery because i
drove it 3 miles home with the whole car shuddering like a dumper truck!!
I bunged in a new piston ... with a complete set of rings on all six, replaced
all the main and big end bearings, cleaned up and skimmed the head, and
ran the old k-jetronic fuelled banger for another 3 years.
(P.S: The valve seat issue started to make itself known a year earlier
by doing the odd tick-tick-tickety-tick every week or so for a few seconds,
where the seat was following the valve up and down ... eventually
metal fatigue cause it to fall to bits.
