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hi, i want to go from a 325 to a 335, whats involved?
is it a straight change over or do i have to change the wiring loom? i guess the ECI will need changing and engine mounts. also does anyone know who can do the job?

http://img183.echo.cx/img183/3743/touringsilver6ni.jpg

dude - remove the pic from your Avatar - its about 50times to big!!

summin weird goin on here

oh my fucking god jesus, now that's an avatar!

i want those rims though, fav colour too, with kit, in odd ball touring. Nice car

2.5 Turbo!

Moofles wrote:oh my fudge god jesus, now that's an avatar!

Phill...

Best way is probably to buy a donor car. An e34 535i.

You will need in addition an

E30 M3 Propshaft
Custom Mounts (see Group buy - Karan is having some made)
E28 Radiator
Electric Fan

Few other bits - Can't remember!

I'm doing this conversion too.

We will have twins!

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its gonna take time to locate all parts but i am in no rush. do your first dave and i will see. may take my car to Germany and let the boys up there do it for me. you know the Germans dont mess around.

I cant really help phill, (did I just sell you an mtech2 kit? ) But hot damn thats one sweet looking tourer! It looks the nuts!!

No fcuking about there then Phill.

I'll be the guinea pig!

If you taking it to Germany, get an E39 M5 engine put in!

Phil & Dave......I hate you I hate you I hate you!!! Your Tourings look like mine should, unfortunately mine has no M-Tech kit, poor paint, shagged bushes, no LSD (got one but not yet fitted), and to top it all I can't even get in mine!

One day I'll buy a house with a drive/garage, get myself a cheap run about and drop a beefier engine in whilst sorting out all the niggly problems. Then I'll re-mortgage the house and get a bare metal respray done.

Well I can dream...

rare sorry dont know your name. yeh you sold me a m-tec kit. lovely kit waiting to go on a e30 cab and on top of that i have a glass hardtop for it. Geniune. dont hate me dunstable

dave, M5 engine then..Mmm you got me thinking m8. thats a big mod

Anouther 335 Touring !

andy, who done your 3.5 mod?

if he gets it built in germany maybe his will last longer than ours did Andy

is your head ready yet? i take it the 'new' short engine is all ready to build up when the head is ready!

not bothered to get the sump off mine yet. enjoying my mr2 too much

phill wrote:andy, who done your 3.5 mod?

A garage by me did the engine swap then i sorted the electrics,cooling,gear linkage,etc.

Toby,the head is comming tomorrow !

This week end i'm stripping the short engine and changing ALL the gaskets and oil seals,bloody garage can't fit me in till a week on Tuesday

Oh and i'm rebuilding the head this week end as well.

still welcome to that hoist if you they mess you about andy!

although i would have to strap it to the top of the mr2 to get it to notts!

must do all gaskets and seals, my first engine and box pissed oil from everywhere! much easier when it's out of the car!

BTW did you get my email Re crank nut and vibration damper ?

I think i'm going to have to buy a hub puller to get the vibration damper hub off,did you take yours off on your old E28 M30 that you stripped ?

yep got the mail

mine bloody fell off, that was the whole problem! it had got loose somehow and chewed up the woodruff key that locks it to the crank, i was lucky not do have damaged the end of the crank...

can you maybe lever between the front crankcase and the pulley? as it shouldn't be jammed on all that much.

On my old engine i've tried levering it off with two big screw drivers and giving it a hit with a hamer,but i don't want to be brutal with my new bottom end.

Which engine did your damper fall off ? The currant one ?

nah the first one. everything on that engine was buggered!

shouldn't be too worried about using a bit of force, crankshafts are very very strong! maybe use a blowtorch to heat the hub up a bit? if you're doing the seals anyway.

Phill, Karan is dropping an M5 lump into an E30 at the moment - any thing you need to know he'll be able to tell you.Does mean some modding with a ball pin hammer on the transmisson tunnell and the removal of the sound proffing in the tunnel as well, a different thermo housing is also required as well as uprated front suspention(can't remember what Karan is using?).Don't be put of by it all as it would be cool as fook when done, There was a link to a German 335i sight but for the life of me i can't remember it!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.e30.de/335i/00.htm

Also if you can read German: http://www.e30.de/m335i.htm

http://tobyunna.hollosite.com/main_bmw.htm

Couple for ya

Toby has done, Andy has done, I am doing M30, Dave is doing M30, Karan is doing the s38, Glenn is doing a V8 M5 mod(nutter...)

Plenty of knowledge kicking about here too

Jos wrote:Toby has done, Andy has done, I am doing M30, Dave is doing M30,

Toby and Andy have slipped back to the 'doing' bit at the moment

probably the only 2 m30b35 failures in the whole world ever!

hey phill is this your car awesome mate trully a piece of art

yep my car. dont drive it really. thanks Phill