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I did it on my last e30. Boot and bonnet badges. Wasn't sure if I liked the bonnet shaved after doing it though..

BUMP finishes tomorrow. Somebody??

i had this happen on my last e30, didn't get to the bottom of it though. It has something to do with the door closing buttoms on the inside of the pillar, Click them and you may hear a relay clicking in the passenger footwell. I think that has something to do with it, because that is what happened with mine. I ended up changing that cars entire body electrical loom due to other things but yeah.

You are the biggest tool in your toolbox

Bump!! Accepting reasonable offers

I got one in red if you want for cheap.. It's tidy but has been outside for a month or two.

Now on trademe.. Needs to be gone in the next 2 weeks. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=684823676

Sweet, Are you going to run 2.5 ECU and have it remapped?

Not specifically e30, but it is universal and you adjust it to clamp the clutch disc and pressure plate. It's quite Sh*t that's why I line it up by eye then use it to clamp it that way so I can attach it to flywheel. Flywheel bolts 77ft-lbs, And loctite them too. The ring is supposed to even out the force of the bolts against the flywheel. Theres alot of theories anyway - Real OEM confirms it is on the bolt side (#10 shim)

It's not a spacer it is used on the bolts side of the flywheel. So you put the flywheel on, Spacer ring then torque the bolts up. I'd get a proper alignment tool too, especially if doing it under the car. It makes getting the gearbox back on so much easier. Supercheap has universal ones, clamps the disc to the pressure plate I normally line it up by eye looking at the clutch centering it on the face of the pressure plate and clamp it then install it to the flywheel.

Yep e30 Master cylinder.

I have an odd issue since changing brake boosters, After driving for about 15-20 minutes the brake pedal will go hard and it feels as if the car is being held back. It has stranded me twice on the motorway this week, Cruising at 100kmh then all of a sudden the car slows down and cannot accelerate. At first i thought it was the gearbox, but today it happened again and I noticed the pedal had gone hard before I reached the motorway - Then about 2km down, the steering wheel started shaking and the car came to a hault again. Sat there for an hour letting them cool and eventually i felt them unstick and avoided using pedal brakes until I got home. Only thing in the brakes I touched was the brake booster to a MK2 golf one which is a straight swap, Could the booster be bad since it seems to stop working after a while? Any ideas as to why it would cause the brakes to stick, or can the booster get stuck? The engine doesn't seem to idle weird or anything and it has the one way valve for vacuum from the intake manifold, and yes its the right way around

Wellington. Clutch looks good will get pics tomorrow. Looks like it has a fair bit of meat on there, still has the grooves or atleast one side does if I recall correctly. Will check and post tomorrow.

Bump b4 trademe

Bump

Looking for a getrag 220 gearbox if anyone has please PM me

BUMP $800 ONO, Goes on trademe later this week Found the pressure plate now so has everything to do the swap minus a guibo and pressure plate bolts.

Thermostat could be stuck open

Sweet cheers, Flexible with price need to move it before I move months end don't want to be lugging these bits around

Have an e30 manual conversion kit, includes the following; m20 Flywheel Clutch + Pressure plate and throw out bearing Getrag 240 gearbox and crossmember with new gearbox mounts, also with shifter linkage, rubber boot and shifter Driveshaft Clutch + Brake pedal Clutch reservoir and line Master and slave cylinders New pilot bearing Only bits it doesn't include is guibo and clutch pressure plate bolts Fit any facelift e30 m20, can fit pre facelift with center bearing change as long as it does not require bellhousing sensors. $800 ONO

Haven't driven this one yet, need to get the exhaust manifolds welded up. But yeah the last one I did with the m50b25 hauled. More power across the rev range unlike m20's which get their kick in above 4000rpm. Got it running yesterday, started first pop. They are pretty straight forward bolt in swaps if you get all the right parts.

Now with an M52B28

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