My S50 swap into 318i

[DanThe]

Looks good, should miss the bonnet, mine is close enough to touch the sound deadening but not the bonnet itself, looks like you could tilt it over to the engine a bit more, might give that little bit of extra clearance you need

[RoadHazard]

Ok the air box clears the bonnet no problem. But the rear plastic headlight cover interfered with the air filter when installed. (The filter was not installed yet in the above picture so I didn't know that before.) So I notched the rear cover a little bit to clear the air filter.

And after I thought I was almost finished with everything in the engine bay, something unfortunate happened. The upper radiator hose neck broke off on the road while driving home from the body shop! I'm using the E36 M3 radiator. Not sure how that happened. Right now I'm sending the radiator off for a repair. I'm swapping all the plastic parts for aluminium. Should be somewhat stronger after this.

[RoadHazard]

I got the radiator repaired. All plastic parts have been replaced with aluminum. Here's how it looks




I got an M3 cluster. I fitted a 6-pot code plug and wired in the oil temp signal. The fuel gauge is off though. I actually had around half a tank when I took the pic.



I probably should revert back to the original cluster until I can fix the fuel gauge issue. Any idea what could be the problem?

[beardymat]

A lot of M3's have long range tanks which shows on the gauge as it has a solid block on the top quarter of the gauge as the one you have does, this section refers to the extra tank in the boot. Also it probably had the smaller fifty odd liter tank where yours may have the later sixty litre one. Both these issues will mean the gauge doesn't understand what the sender is saying. You should be able to swap your old gauge into the new clocks to cure the problem.