Greg111

Did my first PDI on a E90 last week, saw on the sheet about the blocks and lifted the stop boot and removed them, five second job really. Driving it from the groomers to the workshop, you could definitely tell the difference.

A guy came into work this morn asking about your car, saying he's seen it parked outside etc, also knew it had an LSD in it too????

I want one of these sooo bad, wanna swap Ah so that's what an air cooled diff looks like.

Definitely!

Haha leg opener sounds like an easy win.

^^ Had our XK out for a drive through the Nap hills yesterday, no girls around though

Don't think 300BHP would get boring too fast, i don't see the point in having a road car with more than 300BHP unless you use it to the full potential on a track as well.As Josh mentioned, you will need to source a M diff also which aren't easy to find and when found could easily break the bank. Edit: Josh, air cooled diff....aren't they all to a certain degree? Mind the pun

Saw Josh's Uber badass 330 in Napier this arvo, wasn't 100% sure it was you until Doug confirmed you were in Naps. Hence the look without the wave

Who cares about fuel economy when it comes to weekend/second cars.

Oh yup, thought so, was just confused about the "Made in USA".

To the untrained eye.

I thought they were chain? Never had a close look at the engine bay in our one. Only done 50,000km though.

With the hose going into the airbox i assumed it was some sort of air pump. Cheers guys.

When removing the drive belt and the AC belt yesterday on the E36 i noticed a pump looking thing that sat beside the AC compressor, was on the Ac belt circuit, had a clutch just like the compressor but had a large pipe coming out the back of it and ran into the back of the airbox on the other side of the engine bay. If that makes sense, hard to explain with out pictures, i assume Glenn would know what i'm babbling on about? Sneaky forced induction Will put up a pic when i'm with the car next.

Congrats Josh, must be stoked, does it move?

Yeah the front seats do look a bit "off" but comfy though.

Cheers for the advise, the head unit is Fusion, last night i removed the alternator belt and started the car, pretty much no noise after that, I fitted it back up and had another little play around with the all the leads and wires etc, removed the RCAs away from the speaker wires running to the amp, put them in a different location, spaced out the three RCAs that go into the headunit and just like that the noise is now gone, not even a little hum so pretty stoked with that! Only took around four hours I'm getting quite good at removing E36 interior, good practice for the new job haha. Cheers for all the help, i'm sure others will benefit from this advise too. Just out of interest, what is this little unit? I'm guessing heater control module? Always wondered every time i see it, which has been a lot lately.

Insane price it went for, would haul arse though. Edit: Just watched the vid, does haul arse haha.

Huge success so far, well done, won't be long before it's moving.

You could try pulling the front brake lines off the caliper and see how much fluid comes out then when slowly applying the brakes, i had this problem once where a little bit of something got stuck in front of the bleed nipple, more pressure on the pedal resolved it, not recommended though.

You drink the green do ya?

Had a chat with someone at Big Noise Car Audio and they suggested that too, i've changed every earth on the bloody sound system last night/this morning and no change so might rip the drive belt off and see if this changes anything?The faint red circle under the amp shows where it was earthed, have no problem with this as I later put it straight to the battery earth with no change. These are the components being used. The amp isn't touching this earth block or the body as it's so light i've just Velcrod (sp) it in place. As you can see i've pulled it all out and started from scratch, removed the earth from the stereo, removed the speakers so no accidental earthing from them, i removed the RCAs as you mentioned Graham and the noise then disappeared which is understandable as they deliver the information to the speakers, changed all other earths that work with the stereo, looks like it might be the alternator, what happens if it is? Simple as putting another earth strap on it? Cheers for all the help guys, unfortunately trial and era is all you can do.

Seriously cool! Those V8s on their own go very well, with the supercharger it must be epic.

Slightly different wheels.

Alrighty, will try that, cheers Graham.