m52 install advise needed!!!!!

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pritts
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:39 pm

hi , hope some 1 can help....

i have just stepped in from trying to install my m52 .... the rear monifold has been chopped and been fitted to pass steering column... the problem is the front monifold , where the down pipe flang is it hits the crossmember/steering rack.... does it need to be cut and modified to pass this... or am i doing somthing wrong

any feedback will be appriciated.


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Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:47 pm

Flange needs cutting off and the pipe needs bending/chopping a bit, I did away with the flange and made a sliding joint, some pics of mine here -
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... e&start=50
pritts
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:46 pm

nice 1 dan... ill get on that 2moro.
pritts
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Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:21 pm

just to add engine is sitting in so sweetly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! choped and modified the front manifold 8)
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