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The biggest hurdle is it takes 80-100kw/h of electricity to make the required hydrogen ICE travel 100km. Currently hydrogen gas power is pretty inefficient. Most EVs will do 100km under 20kw/h (not including charging and line losses) Tis a shame, because ICE engines are fun and some make cool noises

Main bearing bolts are not particularly worrisome and aren't under a lot of stress. Using a 10.9 grade fastener is fine. You're taking all the right steps 👌 Be very gentle cleaning the cam caps up, I would remove any high spots and leave it at that. The rod bearings aren't really a worry with that "wear" pattern, thats pretty standard. There however has been some contaminated oil judging by the scoring Doesn't appear to have anything worrying going on, just a lack of general maintenance casting the oil control rings to stick

Unlikely to strip on an m54, often the issue is down to a few factors: Most suppliers send M50 head bolts (quite a lot shorter) And poor prep and installation (unclean, or too much lube) In very rare cases it's a soft or distorted block

Vw stuff, I don't care for their gear In all fairness if you are rebuilding, the oem replacements are fine anyway, they only start consuming oil after 15 years of neglect and low oil temps. If yours was an oil consumer it will have a bunch of varnish combined with carbon around the ring pack

https://spareto.com/products/goetze-engine-piston-ring-kit/08-137400-00 No idea what part number I pasted there before sorry. Its a VAG fitment part ,but just consider you will hopefully remove one VAG product from the road by buying them 😉

GOETZE P208678534 should be the ring pack you're after with the m54 1.2mm top ring and m52tu 3 piece oil control ring VAC do a kit too i think. Probably a few options these days

But...318iS!

Yeah because the sedan don't have split folding seat as standard. It's a non issue once a cage is fitted and tied in to the body and towers IMO.

The four door thing was just a result of the FIA Supertouring rules.

This is absolutely true.

You can use this pointless exercise and remove all emotion? 170km/day for 48 weeks My commute will be around 50k/yr soon I'll keep driving the cheap Camry 'till it explodes The cooling system "plastics" failure are entirely due to temperature, PA66-GF30 nylon has a bit of a massive lifecycle decline over 100°, hence why there are so few failures of plastics in BMW diesels compared to the petrol models. Same goes for previous generation Japanese cars, operating temps are typically lower by design (probably less efficiency and emissions care?) hence the lower rate of failures

For 10k, you will get a 1st gen leaf that will need a charge before each individual trip.

Good point. They do reputedly snap the boss off the arm, I have yet to see it though. Seen towers tear and subrfames remove themselves slowly with full coils though

Seems a little pessimistic when a 10.9 m12 fastener will take 7500kg on the shank before shear

It should be do-able, we have an e46 on full coils, but on an authority card. There is nothing specifically excluding a full coil swap. But, I imagine appropriate tower and strut mount reinforcement will be necessary due to significant more loading of those areas Ring the LVVTA technical team, and then if they say yes, ring another certifier for second opinion. I would recommend Danny McKenna 0272401291 he is a good bloke with a firm grasp on reality 👍

Have used MS Coombes before, very good machine work and very clever guys 033667463

Not going to lie, no way would I read 240 pages on why we shouldn't burn our toys

Funny you mention it,

Use some thin copper behind the butt welds, makes life easier with heat dissipation You can achieve results as good as any with a crappy flux core set up on panel steel. Just takes practice and a huge amount of patience

Only difference I know of is for cars with ASC+T.

I probably have an ignition barrel and key you can have, if that's an easier alternative

Pretty sure you can code it out with an iCarly or using Bimmercode etc. Or code it to remember last setting then when the greenie state kicks in properly you won't fail a wof for disabling an emissions system

Check injection quantity values, chances are one or two are on the piss. If you're very lucky a new set of injector seat washers will help, but typically you will need a new injector. Diesel alltech and turbo sell them for around $400-420 I think They're not too difficult to replace.

That would be the case, except Japan only got the coupe as a 318iS (only really means it had M42/44), so a sedan is reasonably rare. IIRC only 50-something-ish sedans in 318iS spec were done here, and I think they were all SA assembled cars. The rarity doesn't really correspond to desirability I guess 🤔 and they're not exactly an inspiring drive either

That could be problematic, I was thinking of m57 pumps, n57 appears to be in the sump. I would say the only chance of it fixing itself is lots of long drives and clean oils