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Thought I had better start a project thread for the M30 swap I'm undertaking on my E30. Used to be an m20b20. Then I put in a m20b25. Now moar CCs. Picked up a nice factory manual 535i. Picked up the rear end from the black 325i vert Brent is wrecking (medium case diff). Wire wheeled the rear subframe and repainted. Engine out of the 535i. Rest of the e34 i'm parting out so if you want anything let me know. Drove this around for a while. Was cool. Head is now off. There is some cam wear, so the plan is to get the cam reconditioned and the head rebuilt & skimmed by 1mm to make 10:1 compression. Bore looks good to me - will leave the bottom end intact. Got a bunch of refresh parts already, and am waiting on more. Will likely take me a few months to complete - just taking things slowly and doing things properly. Cheersies.

when you buy a rare hard to find expensive part and it turns out to be the same colour brought left guard for this , thinking it was dark blue , turns out it is carbon black FTW....

Hi guys & gals, I have been into BMWs for years & years, but finally thought I would join Bimmersport, I live I in Wellington, I drive an E36 328 Coupe & also just got an E28 M535i,I also used to work at Shelly BMW here in Wgtn, I look forward to chatting with you & sharing experiences Regards Barry

By making my son's toys out of the boxes the parts came in!!

Awesome haha! Good to see you're not mucking around!

Nice work, Garagistic have some quality parts

No replacement for displacement! Factory hone marks on old engines gives me warm fuzzies - how many km had the donor done?

That was me. Yes. Send me a PM if you like, I'm sure we can sort something out.

That was a good score Brent

I really like this. But. Not only do I have enough already you probably wouldn't want to sell it to me..lol I'd want to lower it 2 inches at the front, put and nice set of mags and wide wheels on it and tint the windows.

Haven't had much time for toy making lately but have just bagged and rat rodded a 2014 Dodge Challenger for my wife. She's always complaining that it's not fair I get to have my dream car and she prefers yank tanks... Let's hope 1/18 is good enough!!

I got my helmet from Chicane in Penrose. Overalls can be any overalls including the ones you would wear in an industrial or mechanical workshop (that's what they give you there). Glasses I'm not sure about. As for the speed groups, it's very relaxed so it's not like you sign your name to a certain group and have to stick to that. When I was there it was just recommended but you could go on and off as you pleased really, just be considerate to others. I'll look at coming to this one.

Gave my first born a bath for it's hopefully, new care giver tomorrow.

The special worked, got a decent amount of attention. She is sold, I will miss her

Clearly you're not the target market Ron, get over it, move on. The horse is dead and getting tired of being flogged.

How'd the waterpump replacement go? I'm doing mine tomorrow. I've done the timing belt along with waterpump before, but never the waterpump on it's own. Pretty straight forawrd though yeah? Just like lego. How'd you get the tensioner spring back on with the pump?

It was awesome meeting people at the ECC meet! Never missing the chance to whore out my car, here are some pics from people with cameras lol And heres one from the E30 meet after the ECC meet. A bit spontaneous but awesome nonetheless!

Replaced my cracked intake boot and cleaned my ICV. What a difference. the idle is now steady for the first time in the e30. Also replaced my non smiley headlight with a smiley one. ( thanks Andy) Now the waterpump is pissing out so thats todays job haha. The joys of the e30 life

Price or GTFO cheers, fellow mod.

It's back in the garden now. If it was still there you could have it for free, just pay for shipping

Forsooth, 'tis verily the truth.

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