A non exciting engine swap......

[Sanchez]

Great work guys - loving how it's all so clean! Hope to see this one on the road soon ;)
Pepperoni pizza rocks!

It's smoked sausage chief:) must say its given me a taste for makin stuff look pretty-even if its just a 4 banger..

Quite suprised that its getting all tidied as you go. Must be JP's idea!!!!

[320Touring]

Great work guys - loving how it's all so clean! Hope to see this one on the road soon ;)
Pepperoni pizza rocks!

It's smoked sausage chief:) must say its given me a taste for makin stuff look pretty-even if its just a 4 banger..

Quite suprised that its getting all tidied as you go. Must be JP's idea!!!!

I've lost 60 hrs painting this lot...

Think it may be the way forward as it looks so damn good!

James- Double and triple check as its maiden run will be 100 miles along the m8- better safe than sorry!

[Jonas]

Good work guys - I'll be over tomorrow night to inspect this.

Cheers Grant, I await your comments. , hope you managed to get that exhaust sorted out too!!!

Quite suprised that its getting all tidied as you go. Must be JP's idea!!!!

Cheers Peter. Aye it was mainly my idea , think the big man's coming round to the right way of thinking now

Cheers,

Jp x

[grantfk10]

Good work guys - I'll be over tomorrow night to inspect this.

Cheers Grant, I await your comments. , hope you managed to get that exhaust sorted out too!!!
Cheers,
Jp x

That engine & bay are fantastic looking! Loving the paint colour too You can tell just by looking at this, that there has been a LOT of time & effort put into this swap, not just a case of haul one engine out and drop another in it's place.

Didn't have much luck with the 'zaust, but that's another story.

[Nay]

Looking good mate!

[320Touring]

Good work guys - I'll be over tomorrow night to inspect this.

Cheers Grant, I await your comments. , hope you managed to get that exhaust sorted out too!!!
Cheers,
Jp x

That engine & bay are fantastic looking! Loving the paint colour too You can tell just by looking at this, that there has been a LOT of time & effort put into this swap, not just a case of haul one engine out and drop another in it's place.

Didn't have much luck with the 'zaust, but that's another story.

Cheers Grant...

Yeah damn 4 pots- fecking exhaust

[Jonas]

Looking good mate!

thanks Nay hope to be on the road this weekend, then it's just the bodywork to sort out .

Jp x

[Jonas]

Hey guys! Just to let you know... It's back on the road

I'd just like to extend a thank you to Neil and my Dad, Paul, Ronan and Grant for their help with this project. It was the first time I've done anything like this so it was a learning curve.

She's running sweet at the moment, however there is one annoying niggle which is the exhaust needs a bit of realignment, but hey that can wait...











Let me know what you think Now we just need to get the Touring back on the road !!!!!!

Jp X

[daimlerman]

Good work,seem to remember that the shell is basicly very sound,just a bit faded in places and tatty round the edges,what are your plans?

[320Touring]

Bingo bango..

Bagsy not doin the exhaust:)

[grantfk10]

Hey guys! Just to let you know... It's back on the road

I'd just like to extend a thank you to Neil and my Dad, Paul, Ronan and Grant for their help with this project. It was the first time I've done anything like this so it was a learning curve.

She's running sweet at the moment, however there is one annoying niggle which is the exhaust needs a bit of realignment, but hey that can wait...




Jp X

Great news!
That engine looks great in there. Glad you've got it back on the road


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Now get the touring sorted out!

[Baz666]

love it fella all that hard work pays off

[Jonas]

Good work,seem to remember that the shell is basicly very sound,just a bit faded in places and tatty round the edges,what are your plans?

You've pretty much nailed it there , think I'll run about in it for a wee while, let the old finances recover!! Then, possibly bodywork, then more power, bigger brakes, beefier suspension, I may even depending on money track it, due to it's non sunroof status.

Bingo bango..

Bagsy not doin the exhaust:)

Cheers for the support ;P

Hey guys! Just to let you know... It's back on the road

I'd just like to extend a thank you to Neil and my Dad, Paul, Ronan and Grant for their help with this project. It was the first time I've done anything like this so it was a learning curve.

She's running sweet at the moment, however there is one annoying niggle which is the exhaust needs a bit of realignment, but hey that can wait...




Jp X

Great news!
That engine looks great in there. Glad you've got it back on the road


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Now get the touring sorted out!

Aye aye Grant, it doesn't look too shabby, Touring's the next project

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love it fella all that hard work pays off

Thanks Baz, it certainly does pay off !!!

Jp x

[paddywack]

Looks great Jp as i sais to you before i wish id taken time to clean etc when i was fitting my engine.
But ive got it all to do again as i wrote off my 2dr so took the engine back out and going to stick into a touring ive just picked up

[Jonas]

Looks great Jp as i sais to you before i wish id taken time to clean etc when i was fitting my engine.
But ive got it all to do again as i wrote off my 2dr so took the engine back out and going to stick into a touring ive just picked up

Cheers again man, awww that's not so good what happened to the 2door? How badly damaged was it?

I'm intrigued by the touring project, you gonna clean the engine up before you put it in this time?

Where abouts in sunny Glasgow are you?

Jp x

[paddywack]

It wasnt good Jonas mate was doing bout 60+ when i crashed it drivers side inner wing behind headlight is pretty rippled raidiator was touching the block etc and the inner wing was rubbing off the tyre
so took the engine out it as its a 1.8 and the touring i got is a 1.6 so it makes sense to fit it so ill give it a wee clean before i fit it and if im honest i prefered the 2 door but at the end of the day at least ive stil got an E30 which is what counts
Im in the southside of glasgow a place called Clarkston if you know where that is and as i said it would be nice to meet up with you or neil or some of the others some time
Id like to take neil up on his offer of an engine refurb but as im only on bennafits due to not being able to work through health problems and ive a renault 5 gt turbo to try and keep on the road also funds are very tight indeed so i do what i can
anyway if you let me know where in glasgow you are then ill defo come and meet you if you are up for that instead of coming through to the garage in drem as were in glasgow it kinda makes more sense if you would be up for that
once again i think your car is looking fantastic its realy a job well done take care speak soon buddy

[Jonas]

Aww man that sounds sore!!!

I'm a southsider myself man, I stay in Pollokshields sould catch up some time. I'm pretty sketchy for the next couple of weeks as I'm moving flat etc etc...

Take care,

Jp x

[paddywack]

Yeah definitly catch up mate, hope the move goes ok and give me a call when things settle down
ill pm you my number

take care speak soon