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Thanks for all the input to date team, sorry - been down the line visiting family over the weekend so please excuse my slack response time. Yep it's an e60, will try take some pics in the morning or after work of what's going under the hood hope everyone had a weekend!

well, yes! And then there's us.

Hi, A few people have asked my how I did my swap so I thought I should clear some myths and put it in a permanent place. The reason I chose this swap its cheap, easy and the drive train is already capable. The e30 is my Girlfriends daily so I wanted it off the road as little as possible. The e30 had a very ticky m40 and was on its last legs, the donor car was a 1995 318ti but any m42 car will be fine but a non ews model would be ideal. Below is the list of parts from each car used. e36 318ti m42 e30 m40 e30 m42 Engine Engine arms Exhaust Manifold DME Engine mounts Engine loom (x20) Upper and lower Oil pans 1994 DME (no ews) Gearbox/clutch/driveshaft etc. Power steering pump Fan and fan clutch Alternator Throttle cable with part No. 13541288013 dip stick (needs bending) Brown Temp sensor (swap with black temp sensor on m42) Starter motor As you can see all the parts except the exhaust manifold are from the E30 or the donor 318ti. I sourced the exhaust manifold from e30zone in the UK and was $250 delivered. The only custom parts were the coil bracket (soon to be COP), the exhaust manifold to existing exhaust and the c101-x20 adapter. I treated the c101 to x20 adapter just like an m50 swap, below is my adapter table Pin No. C101 Colour Pin No. X20 Colour 1 Charge light Blue 25 Blue 2 Static oil level Green/Yellow 1 Blue/White 3 4 Temp Guage Brown/Purple 12 Brown/Yellow 5 Oil Pressure Light Brown/Green 23 Brown/Grey 6 Oxygen Sensor relay Green/White 22 Green/White 7 Switched power Green 21 Green/White 8 Fuel rate input White/Black 24 White/Black 9 Engine Speed imput Black 20 Black 10 Dynamic Oil Level Blue 2 Blue/Yellow 11 Reset Service Lights White/Green 19 White/Green 12 Check engine light Grey(brown) 8 Grey 13 Fuel pump relay Green/Purple 13 Green/Purple 14 Speed signal for ecu Black/White 14 Black/White 15 Unloader relay Black/Green 15 Black/Green 16 Diagnostic White/Black 17 White/Purple 17 18 Start Black/Yellow 18 Black Yellow 19 20 Overall it was a very easy swap, this was my first time pulling an engine and was completed by me and a friend in a long weekend. Hope this helps others in the future. Cheers

DAMN that's classy.

pretty sure they do 3 hard Stops from 100kph and as long as there is no fade your good to go.

only buy a diesel if you are going to give it good runs....20 k minimum with open road running.Dont buy a diesel if you do 5 k each way in traffic.I was told this many moons ago by a diesel mechanic.It has paid dividends so far with a 120d and now a mitsi pajero.I make sure that i use full throttle on occasion.It may all be superstition buti think the good runs ensure the dpf is at full temp and the full throttle contributes to that and "blow" the intake manifold out.Dont forget to figure in the higher rego and ruc( just over 6 c a kilometre).The torque the turbo diesels have make them a nice open road car. In an e60 you are barely aware you are driving a diesel until you stop at a traffic light with a window down,and for a moment slightly less urge from a standstill

Hopefully this is the turning point, John!

Price is up there for sure... Amuses me when people claim they "...arguably have the best XX in NZ.." How TF can they qualify that? For what I paid for mine late December, I have a very healthy price differential to work with...

couple of small update videos with some pics at the end of them z4 rear muffler is fitted. manual coding done (thanks to joe ) swapped out the suspension , brakes , diff ,axles , driveshaft etc to 330i , msport stuff so has a 3.38 330i automatic diff ratio , 330i manual driveshaft 330ci msport front struts ,msport sway bars mpsort rear springs(off something ??) and msport rear shocks 330i rear trailing arms ,axles etc fitted some msport 17" by 8.5" alloys with 245/40-17" semi slicks (sort of) booked in for a wheel alignment next week gotta recode the asc module as original unit had a intermittent fault so was swapped out for another.

Bit of paint stripping with a wire disk on the drill, coat of primer and a few coats of aluminium colour to match the body colour.

small update today bleed the clutch , plumbed up all the coolant system and p/s system etc fitted 75% of the 330i exhaust system probably going to a E89 3L Z4 rear muffler will need to change the rear bumper for the Msport type , has a wider cut out for the twin tips drives now. video here .

have plans to change the front of the Ti , to get rid of the ugly duckling look something like this but with a msport bumper