CR24v Custom M52B30 FTW. New Exhaust, New gearbox and Fan.

[gooner1]

I am not doing anything apart from dropping it in Rob. I have learnt my limits and am leaving it to yoda.

Dan the bootlid is staying naked

Wise move. On both counts.

[StuBeeDoo]

If I was going down that route it would be 320.

Dez, I've got just the thing for you! I'm coming down for my tyres Monday morning, I'll bring it with me.

[Dezzy]

One of your stickers stu?
That might be the very thing mate.

[Rav335uk]

One of my stickers stu?
That might be the very thing mate.

It'll be this one

[Dezzy]

Skipping right past the King of Spam and on with the progress.





Just ready for the vanos and rocker cover now. Whoop whoop.

Cheers Dan. Cracking effort!

[DanThe]

The heads on mate

[StuBeeDoo]

One of your stickers stu?
That might be the very thing mate.

Yep. 320i decal in mirror vinyl. Thanks to Alyman, it's as near as you're likely to get to the pukka E30 badge font.
In actual fact, I've enough here to do a 330i one if that floats your boat.
I'll look out the dimensions for fitting it.

[E30BeemerLad]

How long until this donk is ready for collection then mate?

Keep the pics coming Dan

[DanThe]

Wont be long now

[town325i]

Looking good this is Dez make sure you test drive it to Cannock and take me out in the coont when its done

[Felix79]

Looking good Dez , also I agree that the 330i badge should be advoided. The 320i one would be funny but I think true sleeper is the way to go.

For added sleeperness why not put on of those AA badges on the front grill and make it look like a pensioner owns it?

[Dezzy]

The 16" Ronals and ride height gives some of the game away. As do the 4 pot brakes and M52 backbox. Black leather Recaro's don't help either. It will never be a true sleeper but who wants comfort seats and a bus spec wheel.

[DanThe]

who wants comfort seats and a bus spec wheel.

Peasants

[Dezzy]

That about covers it.

[gareth]

so will it turn round and round this time

Looking close now Dez...

[town325i]

so will it turn round and round this time

Looking close now Dez...

OI ginger mod leeve him alone

[Ollie_bwoii]

Looking fantastic dez. Spoilerless bootlid is a real nice touch, and a must on a chromie.

who wants comfort seats and a bus spec wheel.

Peasants

That's just made me massively miss my chromie, and realise what i've replaced it with..

[Dezzy]

so will it turn round and round this time

Looking close now Dez...

OI ginger mod leeve him alone

Yeh Gareth!
Ollie I can't believe you went down the plastic wrongness route.

[Ollie_bwoii]

Ollie I can't believe you went down the plastic wrongness route.

I know. It's not too bad a car tbh, but it's just not me.

I will be back in a chromie some day.

[Dezzy]

You still my the SE/Sport leather wheel and smiles etc I have here mate?

[magpie]

so will it turn round and round this time

Looking close now Dez...

that's bit

of you.

[gareth]

[Ollie_bwoii]

You still my the SE/Sport leather wheel and smiles etc I have here mate?

Let me know when you've dug out what you've got. Don't think i'm going to make it to any meets in the near future though.

[Dezzy]

Not much happening atm (Dan is getting his 3.0l M52 ready for a track day grrr ) so i decided to sort out rocker cover.

As i am now using an M52 head i needed an M50 vanos rocker cover to use my S52 motorsport plastic cover

Dan came up trups again and this turned up on tuesday




Its been dipped and blasted ready for a lick of paint


I will post pics of it once its painted

Hurry up Dan i am gagging to get this thing running

[Royalratch]

When are you going to change the the thread title to Vanos instead of Vanous?

Vanous sounds like some dodgy Greek kitchen appliance.

So this 3.0L thing is going in the white chromie or another car?

[Dezzy]

Done just for you Ratch

Its going in the white chromie. The only E30 i have apart from a raped moordoor shell thats just waiting for its final trip.

E36 S50 compact is the next project track and winter car

[town325i]

Dezzy i have a compact you could buy for doing that conversion to

[Dezzy]

Dezzy i have a compact you could buy for doing that conversion to

Ti? what nice is it in?

[Rav335uk]

Careful Dezzy, Mark has a rep of dodgy dealings

[johnt0709]

Just spent 45 mins reading through this to try and find out what caused the problem in the first instance - so it was the shells getting mixed up.

Was following this up until it went bang - must say put me off building my own stroker.

major thread clean up needed.

[Dezzy]

There was no bang mate it was a nip on the shells that stopped it running. Its a totally different lump now though.

2.8 head, management, loom and S52 cams

[johnt0709]

Dezzy - bang in a metaphorical sense.....

Would you tackle an engine build yourself again or is the advice to give it to the 'experts'

[Dezzy]

Dezzy - bang in a metaphorical sense.....

Would you tackle an engine build yourself again or is the advice to give it to the 'experts'

Give it to Dan is my advice mate. i have hung my piston ring compressors up for good now.

[town325i]

Dezzy i have a compact you could buy for doing that conversion to

Ti? what nice is it in?

Its a Ti not to bad really rear arches have just started to go but apart from that its not a bad motor ive got to stick the rear beam on ive get whth the new bushes and stuff before it comes up for sale it calypso red oh it has the 17" 5 spokes of the Z3 on it too.

[Dezzy]

Rocker cover porn.