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Post Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:01 pm

Don't you have to make a little spacer/collar/thingy to go in between the master cylinder and servo ?

Nice engine but it should have been an M30 really winkeye :lol:
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Post Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:13 pm

Steve,looking good there mate,fair play to you(well the others actually,seems like there doing all the work winkeye ).

RandomDave off this forum has done this conversion.

I went as a passenger in it a few weeks ago,and it felt fooking quick,at least compared to my iS anyway.
Just seemed to pull from nowhere,took it upto about 120 and from a passengers point of view it felt spot on!

Good luck(to the other 2 aswell winkeye )
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Post Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:42 pm

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Post Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:45 pm

Andy335Touring wrote:Don't you have to make a little spacer/collar/thingy to go in between the master cylinder and servo ?
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Post Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:54 pm

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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:55 am

very good steve :D
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:32 pm

Looking good! You've done in a weekend what it took me about six months to do! Pity it's not a vanos engine though - that really does have some low down grunt. You can change it easily enough though in the future, I suppose, if one comes up.
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:13 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:Looking good! You've done in a weekend what it took me about six months to do! Pity it's not a vanos engine though - that really does have some low down grunt. You can change it easily enough though in the future, I suppose, if one comes up.
I thought the M50 had single Vanos, just on one side, cant remmeber wether its the intake or exhaust side.
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:36 pm

stevetigger wrote:
Brianmoooore wrote:Looking good! You've done in a weekend what it took me about six months to do! Pity it's not a vanos engine though - that really does have some low down grunt. You can change it easily enough though in the future, I suppose, if one comes up.
I didnt want the vanos unit, just more to go wrong :mad:

And the engine was very cheap! winkeye
dont blame ya cos there kin expensive?
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:45 pm

you keep on sayin the engine was very cheap!

so how much was that then?
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:25 pm

Ԛ£200

That's very cheap, hope it's OK after all that hard work winkeye
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:14 pm

stevetigger wrote:
ad318i wrote:you keep on sayin the engine was very cheap!

so how much was that then?
Ԛ£200 winkeye
The one I bought a couple of weeks ago was Ԛ£70, and was vanos!
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:17 pm

kam-325i wrote: I thought the M50 had single Vanos, just on one side, cant remmeber wether its the intake or exhaust side.
Early M50s ( up to some time in '92, IIRC), didn't have vanos. The later units are M50 Tu.
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Post Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:25 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:
stevetigger wrote:
ad318i wrote:you keep on sayin the engine was very cheap!

so how much was that then?
Ԛ£200 winkeye
The one I bought a couple of weeks ago was Ԛ£70, and was vanos!
Yeah i remember i was going to post "thats not brainmoore cheap"

But you have to admit, the chances are that you'll never get one that cheap again.
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Post Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:02 pm

Nice one! Looks pretty neat and tidy in there! :cool:
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Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:25 am

well done mate' looks like it grew there' :D
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Post Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:36 am

good progress steve :)
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Post Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:19 pm

Have you tried fitting it yet mate?

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Post Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:28 pm

going well steve,

how long do you think you got left on the project?
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Post Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:24 pm

Looking good Steve :cool: cant wait to see her when shes done
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Post Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:11 pm

Good effort my friend...

You're inspiring me to get stuck in with my stunted project.. S50B32 into a 318is.

Just have to strip out the engine from MRoadster and fit it..

Not much!

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