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It aint over 'till the fat lady sings mate!jimbom30cab wrote:sorry to hear that also, hope you get better real soon as I was enjoying this thread.
Rav mate they barely had a scratch! they were acting VERY shifty so i called the old bill!Rav335uk wrote:What happened to the guy in front of you?
lol 
Not sure what bearing is supposed to be used as it writes "328 manual" on the prop itself.. What prop bearings do you guys use?
so close now i can feel it!!Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place..
hey Lee, yea im pretty certain its standard, its frankenstein remember, nothing is ever strange to me anymore with this project lolleeparkes wrote:With the rad tabs they do need to be out the way, I cut through one part of the weld then bent them down just in case i needed them back at any time.
Strange with the linkage hitting the manifold though, is it a standard rack you are using?
leeparkes wrote:UPDATE.
The £20 E28 rad is in but it wasnt without a fight,it took me nearly 5 hours from start to finish
M20 rad was out in 20 minutes,then i slid the M30 rad down to see how it sat and it didnt, i had to chop the passenger side mount off BUT i couldnt get a grinder in there, then i tried the dremmel and failed, in the end cut the weld with a hacksaw blade then lost my temper and belted it down with a two foot iron bar! job done!
Then i lined up the brackets at the top of the rad and drilled the holes to secure it,all was good until i realised i couldnt get the nuts on the back of the boltsso the grill had to come off with the headlights to get to the back of the bolts,then i had to make holes in the shell to get the bolts on.
These are the nuts and bolts in question vvv
Then once the bolts were lined up i tightened it up only to realise my leccy fan had to be moved over a touch as the rad was squashing it against the slam panel,so rad out again and bash and relocated the fan so the rad would tighten up flush against the shell,another job done!
Next problem!
i forgot i needed a bottom hose from an E28,so top bodging skills came out,id got loads of bits of exhaust pipe knocking about so i cut 5inch off some 45mm pipe smoothed the cuts then cut the E34 bottom hose and joined with the piece of pipe to extend it.
The bodge vvv
The next problem was getting to bottom hose to stretch over the bottom radiator stub,so had to take the rad out again and it made it easier to stretch the hose over the stub while it was out of the car then wrestled the rad back it with the bottom hose attatched then bolted the rad back up (again)
After this it was plain sailing apart from scraping my knuckles various times trying the get the bottom hose on the stat housing,
top hose went on with no trouble then put my car back together filled up with coolant and bled it (for about an hour) then took it for a spin.
It is keeping the engine much cooler and i now hardly have to use the fan,IMO the m20 rad will work with the m30 and it 'wont' overheat but the fan is on quite a lot so its a good idea to invest in the e28 535i rad.
Ive took photos of the clearance ive got with the e28 rad
Im happy with it
Next job to do,get it on the rollers and see what its pushing
Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place..
Just the usual setbacks Ravman nothing new lolRav335uk wrote:U not done yet
lol Rav335uk wrote:I haven't updated on purpose
What about your one Imy Hows that coming along?ImysE30 wrote:Too much rust innit
Look forward to the updates on this
Just finishing off the interior at the moment. Getting the seats retrimmed hopefully, just waiting on the guy to do them.Cypriotgeeza wrote:What about your one Imy Hows that coming along?ImysE30 wrote:Too much rust innit
Look forward to the updates on this
I know the feeling with the slowly part of it!ImysE30 wrote:Just finishing off the interior at the moment. Getting the seats retrimmed hopefully, just waiting on the guy to do them.Cypriotgeeza wrote:What about your one Imy Hows that coming along?ImysE30 wrote:Too much rust innit
Look forward to the updates on this
Mechanically everything done, just needs a bit more tuning/mapping.
It's getting there, albeit slowly
mines been around that long too now!ImysE30 wrote:Hopefully, I've been waiting 4 years
Yeah it's crazy how time fly's when you're having funCypriotgeeza wrote:mines been around that long too now!ImysE30 wrote:Hopefully, I've been waiting 4 years
Prob the most patience Ive shown in my whole life lol
crazy when you think about it init!
definantly!ImysE30 wrote:Yeah it's crazy how time fly's when you're having funCypriotgeeza wrote:mines been around that long too now!ImysE30 wrote:Hopefully, I've been waiting 4 years
Prob the most patience Ive shown in my whole life lol
crazy when you think about it init!
We'll have the finished product soon
You sound like the guy at my work with a mini cooper s on steroids who is itching to give me a race lolRav335uk wrote:Hurry UP!
so its gone forever It did make one hell of a noise though! My mum actually came out to see if i was ok haha 
makes you wonder what these were originally put there for!
Ill hopefully be securing it tomorrow!
(car and rims dirty)
Cypriotgeeza wrote:I done both my mates in my old 318is
felt so proud,even tried it with a E30 325i and got put in my place..
