M52 b30 stroker rebuild back on the road

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750 miles clocked up ............time to air out the santa pod love shack !

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Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:40 pm

Time to stop cleaning your camera lens with butter :P
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Fri Aug 30, 2013 6:42 pm

Well done that man :D
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Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:19 pm

craigieeb wrote:Time to stop cleaning your camera lens with butter :P
It's not butter he was very excited.
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Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:20 pm

craigieeb wrote:Time to stop cleaning your camera lens with butter :P
tescos value marg if you please :roll: honestly .

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Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:12 pm

refurbished injectors fitted along with new rocker cover gasket

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Bonnet off ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .................

for the first time in 5 years of buying fraggers i've got a bonnet worthy of putting on/replacing my one from this F...UCR

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the paint was flat so out with the G3 ,polish,wax and replace the bonnet badge [no room for blue on my car]

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just about ready for pod . :D
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Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:25 pm

visitors ...... the Murphy in his series1 .

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the only mods are a mongoose zaust Koni adjustables and the obligatory dump valve with 85k miles up :D .

no ford comments allowed !
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Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:58 pm

Who's is quicker?
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Sat Oct 12, 2013 11:50 pm

ImysE30 wrote:Who's is quicker?
220 bhp rwd goodness v's 130bhp fwd wrongness ....

who knows :D
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:D

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Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:24 am

ImysE30 wrote::D

Thought you might have had a cheeky race winkeye
that's next weekend,Murph's away with work till then .........................



i've dusted a couple of vxr's ...well they wanted to play and i had to oblige , those are 200bhp and the weight of a coke can :D
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Poxy Vauxhall no match for the mighty M52 :-)
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Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:07 am

it's not about speed with the series one it's how cool and rare they are :D

anyhoo it's a for gone conclusion that i'll whoop it's arse in executive fashion .
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:56 pm

some more goodies for the car and more work for me :mad:

a nice pair of eibach arb's with correct bushes .....

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some front Billie B8's and matching rears ......

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the rears have rose jointed top mounts 8) and i've had some turret plates ready to go on for a while that i'll be using this time lol [keep forgetting to fit them]

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and not forgetting the final part to complete the full B12 kit are the front eibach -35/40 mm springs as i have the saloon rears already fitted .

all told about a grands worth of parts :D
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:06 pm

You can get new dust boots for the front shocks from BMW.

31321128548

Where on earth does Morat live?

The state of those springs! 8O
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:17 pm

Well worth the time and money to have that lot on your chariot Mick :D

I think I would have to get the springs blasted and powder coated though, theyre nearly as bad as an E46 turds springs! :D
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:17 pm

bss325i wrote:You can get new dust boots for the front shocks from BMW.

31321128548

Where on earth does Morat live?

The state of those springs! 8O
cheers Barry i was going to ask about them in BMW chat as i can't find them on the billie stein website .

i'm going to have the springs powder coated along with the rears when the car gets sorned end of next month ,this year gets an extension into the autumn after the shit start to the season i had .

Morat is from out in the sticks of Yorkshire dales way so the springs have been covered in horses shite all there lives,he's now running an lpg powered Jeep as the shite is getting deeper lol
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:23 pm

DanThe wrote:Well worth the time and money to have that lot on your chariot Mick :D

I think I would have to get the springs blasted and powder coated though, theyre nearly as bad as an E46 turds springs! :D
i've got the matching saloon rears inc the the flake lol .

i sold the tourings rears to a chap on here as they would've been cab/touring specific .

the rears i bought of Iain Hamilton when i first got the car many moons ago now .


always room for improvement :D
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:30 pm

Those top mount look identical to the rouge engineering ones i have on my M3 by the way.
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Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:34 pm

bss325i wrote:Those top mount look identical to the rouge engineering ones i have on my M3 by the way.
that's where he got them from [miles] do you recall how much they were ?
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magpie wrote:
bss325i wrote:Those top mount look identical to the rouge engineering ones i have on my M3 by the way.
that's where he got them from [miles] do you recall how much they were ?
£105.

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Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:59 pm

there has been some "strong" money pumped into that F*** UCR ,on the way home through the scenic route twisties in the touring the decision was made that i had to have these parts and sell on the parts that come off my car instead .

my diff isn't diffin like it should,i think the clutch plates are on the way out so it's rebuild or replace with a loong one like a 2.9? and e36 manual box . the set up has to match what i have now [3.64 318is box] so what ratio diff should i look for i think a 3.07 returns same as a 3.91 e30 box ?

more expense :mad:
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Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:12 am

0.81 is the conversion factor.

E.g. 3.91 x 0.81 = 3.17
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Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:54 pm

re.......... 31321128548

Dear Magpie.

Thank you for your enquiry, the price for the part required will be £31.67 .



now say it again with a straight face 8O
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Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:13 am

for the pair???
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Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:18 am

i'll see if ecp do them or gsf and if not i'll have to just go with cotswold.
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Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:50 pm

today i started some crime prevention on it's arse end body work by replacing the light seals .then i removed the bootlid seal and cleaned up the whole area from any grunge/slime that will cause rot .


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rear light seal part number

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gutter beneath the rear window ^^^^^^^

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there's lovely now boyo :D


then fitted the rear bilsteins , replacing the rear arb looks fun!

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Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:01 pm

Nice one Mick, the rear ARB is easier than it looks, those drop links come off with just one nut+bolt then the ARB bush brackets are a single bolt each side.

Looking good mate
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Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:04 pm

magpie wrote: replacing the rear arb looks fun!
Well i'm sure i could fit them to my tourer if you really dont want to do the job :D
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Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:47 pm

Wheres the pics of the numberplate light holes Mick? :D
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Fri Nov 08, 2013 11:11 pm

DanThe wrote:Wheres the pics of the numberplate light holes Mick? :D
these bits

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I've touched up the bare metal now,the screw plugs took a bit off when removing them...as you can see she's a total rotter winkeye

i've had these brand new hella reg lights for a while so may aswll fit them now innit .

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i bought some s/s screws for 30p from my local supplier of all things threaded .

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i gave under here a good t-cut and wax .....

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aaaaaaand all back together .......

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there's lovely now .
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Fri Nov 08, 2013 11:28 pm

:cool: :cool: :cool:

Rav will be crying into his welding mask seeing these pics :D
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DanThe wrote::cool: :cool: :cool:

Rav will be crying into his welding mask seeing these pics :D
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magpie wrote:
DanThe wrote::cool: :cool: :cool:

Rav will be crying into his welding mask seeing these pics :D
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Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:01 pm

the new diff arrived today [3.07 torsen LSD]...

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that's the new drive-train complete for next year ....328i box/prop bought a couple of weeks ago :D

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so without further ado............prepare the patient !
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and out with the old.....

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the old diff is off to get wedged up some coonts back passage in Iver Heath tomorrow :D

the standard ARB was also removed today ready for the Eibach one which I hope to get fitted tomorrow while the cars up on stands .



onwards and upwards :D
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