So what have we been up2(e30 wise)while the zone been down?

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:54 pm

As above!!

I have picked a 316i with somewhat major overheating issues... Replaced the head gasket and did a bit of test etc (my frst one..) now just need a crank sensor to get it started. Car is a my sisters in manchester.. Has 81 000 on it though and in nice (if very dirty condition)

Also just won a 98 000 mile 318is for 340 on ebay... can you go wrong with this! Gonna pick it up this weekend...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1

What you all been up to?

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:58 pm

MOT (0 advisories!), new front spoiler that I'd been after for ages... 's about it really!

That iS looks like a barg to me! What is it with you & 4-pots though?? Gotta collect em all?

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:02 pm

Yea I love the badly advertised 4 pots!

Once I put it through an mot and sort it out a bit its gotta be worth Ã‚£1500!

But I might keep it...

I liked the look of the front spoiler by the way... zinnober chromie!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:03 pm

My dads been having respray done. and engine rebuilt. and some new dials

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:03 pm

Sitting at my PC sucking my thumb....also fitted these seats at last!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:06 pm

Damn i love those seats

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:08 pm

Sitting at my PC sucking my thumb..

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9669/dscf26812ko.jpg

Bet they clean up well...

They do look so good...
I'm gonna have to come a see you next time i'm in south wales way...

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:09 pm

Gwynleym10 wrote:
Sitting at my PC sucking my thumb..

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9669/dscf26812ko.jpg

Bet they clean up well...

They do look so good...
I'm gonna have to come a see you next time i'm in south wales way...

More than welcome, a quick diversion through the valleys won't harm!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:11 pm

how long did they take for them to deliver them from germany then si, looking good....any more pics

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:13 pm

I've been playing with my wiring loom!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:15 pm

Simon wrote:Sitting at my PC sucking my thumb....also fitted these seats at last!

#

i do like those seats but im not sure whether in an e30

seeing them in it in real life though would more than likely
change my mind.

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:17 pm

Took 5 days to come from Germany, will get some more pics when I've cleaned the rest of the car!!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:20 pm

Looks like fun playing with all the wiring.. bet you concentrated far more without the zone as a distraction!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:26 pm

Gwynleym10 wrote:Looks like fun playing with all the wiring.. bet you concentrated far more without the zone as a distraction!

it is a bit confusing, I found the old zone that kept me busy! :lol:

All those pics are still work in progress as I've only just started pulling the engine loom to bits - the alternator starter motor cable was rotten. I shall be putting some 4G in there instead

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:31 pm

i've been busy!

bought a new front spoiler for the alpina

fitted the r&d manifold to it

washed it! put it on the rolling road and had it up at Birds to have some pros look at it!

Also been getting the sport ready for the ring on friday! i hope theres some reasonable weather for us............

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:33 pm

ive done nothing e30 wise,although i seriously need to get my finger out and spend some time and money on the car as my mot is due in may.its going back to the garage this weekend to get a smoke issue looked at....fcuking cosworth engines......

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:33 pm

Ring action again, legend!!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:37 pm

Simon13 wrote:i've been busy!

bought a new front spoiler for the alpina

fitted the r&d manifold to it

washed it! put it on the rolling road and had it up at Birds to have some pros look at it!

Also been getting the sport ready for the ring on friday! i hope theres some reasonable weather for us............

well done mate, what she reading on the RR?

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:45 pm

My poor old sport still sitting in the garage waiting for those wankers at BM Town to deliver the new angle eyes, she failed the MOT on headlight alignment, adjusters totally fcuked!!!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:47 pm

i've been welding! finally! (well watching someone else do it shhhhhhh)

got a new inner and outer arch now yay! just needs lead loading and tarting up

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:53 pm

it's going nuts on here!

Oz

190bhp
190lbs

i was pleased. it's running very lean though. Throttle position switch is knackered to the ECU is not using the right maps (idle and WOT). Few other bits and bobs, but i know there is an alpina claimed 210bhp lurking in that lump! only got to find 20 of each!

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:21 pm

I've had a busy last few weeks too, stage 2 installed and running, then a complete strip down and new head gasket and uprated head bolts. Many other new parts along the way and tonight I rekindled my love for the sound of my boosted 6 cylinder M20

Bring on the summer time

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:35 pm

Changed the oil (what a bastard place the filter's in).

Removed the headlining to investigate how easy it is to remove the sun roof (looks like it isn't).

Fixed the dodgy speedo (broken wires so bodged it together with some crimp terminals at the diff).

Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:54 pm

I have had some fun,
At last the E36 seats are in and secure.
Put in a new Radio
New sub and custom box
Chrome Dial Rings
10disc changer

Started getting the bits together for the OBC retrofit (stil after some bits)

Got a new rear lip spoiler, which im putting on this week.

It's mad i bought the car to fix up and sell on and know all i want to do is work on it and have some fun with the roof down.

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:41 am

WELL..... ive been busy finishing the trim blackout on the cab i got my seat covers a few weeks back not reupholstered just covered but an old fart like me isnt full of money and i think it looks good installed rear shocks and shock mounts still waiting to install my springs and freont strut inserts getting new emblems for my bottle-cap rims but all in all my baby is looking good i took her on a trip to ELIZABETHTOWN , NORTH CAROLINA about 4 hours from here the car did great she turned 177777 miles on the INTERSTATE while i was cruising @100 mph got around 26-27 miles to the gallon petrol here is up to $2.55 for mid grade weathers getting nice here in the 70's but since i got my new top ive rarely dropped the top so all in all things have been busy here

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:50 am

since the zone has been down i got my lovely 190e though its MOT with just two patches of welding. Gave it a full new interior, new radiator fan wired up to a factory illuminated switch, wired up a full set of factory speakers and cleaned her up... i forgot how good my merc looks clean...

anyhow, BMW wise my M535i hasn't done much, because i have been saving. just bought a sainless steel exhaust for it, a full set of polly bushes, new disks and pads all round, new braided brake hoses... and hopefully when i can afford it, a respray.. then bring on the ring on the 25th of July!

I have sold my e30

but to the university motor club... so me and my mates now own it as a group

... and we have stripped the hell out of it, lowered it, replaced the steering rack with a manual one, got a KnN filter (after welding the HUGE hole in the floor up), soon to be running on a custom ECU with the help of my mates at m-tech automotive (http://www.mtechautomotive.co.uk/) and we've already given it one outting at donnington park.. that prooved rather sidways....

while some yuppy in an m3 went around passing us a few times... then turned the traction control off cos he thought he was the king of donnington park... pillock!

we avoided trashing the e30 but my mate nerly killed his mr2...

Looking sideways but under control

evidently not the case...

breath in and hope that the alfa driver is watching where your going...!

then finally I CONVERTED A VAG MAN! my good mate James is a BIG Golf nut and has a mad mk2 gti (which i have to admit is something else) but he wanted a fast motorway car... so he bought a 325i touring with a bit of gentle persuasion.. and its awesome. metallic dark grey/black, 17" alpinas, full leather interior, sports switchable automatic, ait conditioning, new engine 20-30,000 miles ago.. runs like a dream.. awsome, only a few hundred ford mad friend to convert!

James 325i Touring as you may have seen on ebay!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1990-BMW-325I-TOU ... dZViewItem

Finally got my Audi Coupe through an MOT and picking up a full set of leather seats for her this week i hope. (see red coupe)

p.s. every car there belongs to our house hold (apart from the VAN)... my red coupe, my housemate Ant's quattro, housemate Lukes merc, my merc (behind the van gf's KA and other housemates coupe 16v) and opposite.. the beloved M535i... our neighbours fu*king hate us!

then my housemate sold his audi quattro..

after getting it in PPC (see next months Audi Coupe buyers guide) and bough himself an e39 for Ã‚£4500... he only went and got a 4.4v8 in black with leather seats...

and its got a MANUAL box.... Son of a B1TCH!

My other housemate decided after his quattro series 2 failed its MOT he would buy another quattro T&T with 197k on the clock and its pretty much... MINT! hehe

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1986-AUDI-QUATTRO ... dZViewItem

Its been a German car fest here over the last few weeks!! hehe

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:48 pm

ive been busy running in my new engine and its finally done. Its loosend up nicely and theres some grunt going on even though ive not started tunning it yet. Hopefully get it back to the rolling road next week and have the fueling set up properly now shes done and get all the important figures.

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:59 pm

been spending money like its going out of fashion

not enough of this place is a bad influence i tells ya

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:29 pm

Been doing a bit of work on the Touring - getting it ready to sell.

Replaced the steering wheel and gearknob for original items. Put a replacement radiator in it this week. (blew a hole in the old one last week while playing in the snow).

Just to give it a good clean inside and out and it'll be ready to go.

Taylor.

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:32 pm

i installed a m30 3.5 engine and an e36 power steering rack on my drive with no help as most of the info was on here and i couldnt get to it

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:32 pm

well I fitted a new diff and rear anti roll bar off an IS...
then I sold her. fear not! I have in IS in the pipeline!

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:08 pm

New pads/discs all round

Pagid fast road pads
ATE power disc front, std ATE rear

Not too sure about the pads, I mean they're better than std, but the brakes still start fade after 5 or 6 heavy stops
Think this might be the combo of Castrol super fluid and normal brake lines though.
Will wait till I've put braided hoses on and SRF in before I make judgement on the pads, as then they have an equal playing field as when I had the DS2500 with ATE powerdiscs/SRF fluid/braided hoses on the 325i - that combo was pretty indestructible

Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:59 pm

new front wings and front vallance arrived today, given them all a good coat of black hammerite on the inside ready for fitting and spraying

this set will NOT rust through

Post Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:46 pm

i was away on holiday while the zone was being fixed, but had the car in for an MOT. Failed initally on 2 things, side indicator bulbs weren't orange and rear wheel bearing was shot. All replaced and passed with flying colours.