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M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:48 pm
by james3320
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:52 pm
by oakey
Beast!
Where abouts are you?
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:59 pm
by aceraf
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:01 pm
by fuzzy
nice. and its a touring

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:04 pm
by james3320
oakey wrote:Beast!
Where abouts are you?
bury st edmunds in suffolk
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:07 pm
by appletree
Looks perposful

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:11 pm
by DanThe
Done much to the internals?
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:16 pm
by james3320
DanThe wrote:Done much to the internals?
yep,
je forged pistons 8.5-1 comp, steel h beam rods, steel headgasket, arp bolts throughout, stress relived bottom end, m20 lightend flywheel wilth helix paddle clutch, head and cams are standard for the time being..
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:03 pm
by motorsport325i
looks mean!! you can tell by looking at it, that its rapid!

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:03 pm
by E30BeemerLad
looks quite a weapon, plenty of trick bits.
Is she a proper handfull then?
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:49 pm
by bmwbreaker
this looks absolutly mental.... LOVE IT

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:06 am
by alloyproducts
the car is very quick, i provided all the alloy products for it, even the inlet manifold which was hand made, and also helped with the emerald ecu. was at the dyno with james and it sounded lovely, hardly any lag with that turbo. enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing.

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:49 pm
by Pal318is
That looks fookin mental

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:57 pm
by e30_Turbo
Hey James!
Looking good buddy!!
How did you get on with MOT?
Mines in tomorrow @ 0800, bloody laptop failed last night so have to get another beforehand.
I'll buzz you before I pop over later in the week, best get some more miles done so we can go hunting
I'll show your buddy the pipes I want to swap and change about too.
Fozz.
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:09 pm
by d6dph

**Wants**
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:09 pm
by Sy_325
this is awesome! bound to be an absolute monster!!
what turbo manifold did you use? was it custom made??
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:51 pm
by james3320
thanks for all the good comments
Sy_325 wrote:this is awesome! bound to be an absolute monster!!
what turbo manifold did you use? was it custom made??
the turbo manifold is a tubonetics bottom mount for a lefthand drive, i turned it upsidedown and had a half inch flange cut to space it from the head and used double gaskets, then just had to make the adaptor between the manifold and turbo, all seems to be workin well

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:17 pm
by aceraf
alloyproducts wrote:enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing. Wink
315bhp and it can go another 150bhp aswell

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:37 pm
by james3320
aceraf wrote:alloyproducts wrote:enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing. Wink
315bhp and it can go another 150bhp aswell

yep back to the dyno on the 3rd july for more tuning and more boost!
Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:09 pm
by JGG1
That looks the nuts mate!! Got any video links of it in action??

Re: M50 turbo touring nearly finished!
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:05 pm
by BMracing
Hi James, just noticed you're in bury too!
Your car looks so nice, and what a powerplant! I'll keep an eye our for it.
alloyproducts wrote:the car is very quick, i provided all the alloy products for it, even the inlet manifold which was hand made, and also helped with the emerald ecu. was at the dyno with james and it sounded lovely, hardly any lag with that turbo. enigine advantages said there was another 150bhp to be had on that turbo before it needs changing.

Nigel, brett says wake up!!!
touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:25 pm
by james3320
Had the car mapped again last week and put the boost up to 1.4 bar now making 451bhp and 400lbft torque!
the air inlet temp is getting to hot so with a bigger intercooler and a bit more boost should see over 500bhp!
went to retro car show at santapod yesterday and got a 12.8 115mph
on 215 crap tyres! should easily be able to nock a second of it with good rubber
Re: touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:29 pm
by GrindCulture
Re: touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:29 pm
by d6dph
This thing sounds awesome!

Re: touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:02 pm
by butcher
awesome as hell

Re: touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:09 pm
by Jhonno
This gives me naughty thoughts..

Re: touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:12 pm
by fuzzy
Jhonno wrote:This gives me naughty thoughts..

dont you need to fit your engine first?
Re: touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:16 pm
by Jhonno
I have a taxed, mot'd (and driving) M50'd e30..
The S50 has been pulled for a rebuild..
Re: touring
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:17 pm
by fuzzy
Jhonno wrote:I have a taxed, mot'd (and driving) M50'd e30..
The S50 has been pulled for a rebuild..
oh yes, i remember now. my mistake

Re: touring
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:00 pm
by BigBavarian
James, i am still grinning from going out in your car on friday night after everyone left, your car is the most awesome thing i have been in, feels faster than a bike for sure! People have been commenting about the rubber at the end of the run way - nothing to do with us officer!
Have a nice retro LHD cab waiting for you to do your turbo magic to - 2.8 sport engine, lsd, box.......
Come on , you know you want to!
Thanks to everyone who came on friday, hope you all had a good time, we would like to see the pics any of you took as mine didn't come out all to well, email them to our website address and we can post them on our gallery page.
James, this car is fantastic, come and work with us!
Re: touring
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:50 pm
by alloyproducts
heres another pic of mine and james cars together at his farm.
looks like i will be busy sorting a bigger intercooler out for this thing. its definatly one of the quickest cars ive been in. and that was before the remap. think we will also be sorting out the full throttle gear change on the ecu.

Re: touring
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:28 pm
by d6dph
BigBavarian wrote:James, i am still grinning from going out in your car on friday night after everyone left, your car is the most awesome thing i have been in, feels faster than a bike for sure!
Whaaat! No fair. I want to go out in it, I'll bring my own nappies & everything

Re: touring
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:22 am
by oze30
hey James.. nice car!! That's given me naughty thoughts too! Hmm..
Big Bavarian.. Welcome to the Zone!!! ;)I'll be in touch with the dimensions. Was it Alloy Products you were talking about?
Re: touring
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:08 pm
by ricey46
Nice!!!

an ///M5 muncher in the making!!!

Awsome!! Video clip please!!!

Re: touring
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:14 pm
by rob0r
http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index ... read=43090
Your car is being discussed

, thought I'd give aheads up.