Jacko

3 Steps forward, 2 steps backwards. Bled the brakes, adjusted handbrake, spent 2 hours bleeding clutch due to master cylinder being blocked with crap (hasnt had a bleed in yeaaaaars) ended up blowing it out with compressed air thru the slave. She moved under her own power Went to refill the cooling system after the last time, when I ran some of this http://www.tectaloy.com/page22.html through it. Turns out I didnt flush it enough, one would think that two fill ups and drain outs would be sufficient... obviously not. 4 Days later its burnt focking holes in my new OEM radiator. Totally fuct brand spankers radiator. Un-impressed.

Nah I just read every M50 swap thread on the interwebs, filtered out some of the BS (theres a lot of it!), and got the the right guy to sort out the wiring adapter (cost a box of paypal'd box of beer to the UK) Seriously wiring isnt that hard if you can find the ETM for your car, problem is 90% of the information online is for US cars/engines. Without the ETM your pissing in the wind as the engines and cars change wiring colours/pins/routing massively. Polley on here was a massive help too (Chur!) If your keen to do the swap, I know a guy who has been watching/laughing at me struggling to do this! He could do it in a 1/3rd the time

^ Anyone? I havent hooked up my CEL yet, but Im 70% sure im gonna have a flashing light

Call Tim at TTT on 0212671793, say Chris sent you and he'll do you a deal on a nice exhaust. He gets his materials from woolf, so its all mandrel bent etc, but does all the fabrication himself (and he's good)

So much want.

Sounds good too me, I already have the skirts, but my front/rear bumper are something other than tech 1 (early BBS maybe?) and are focked. Can throw you a deposit later in the week if your keen. Just got back from blowing all my money on sex/drugs/rockNroll/tipping in the states, and am off to aussie on friday till the new year, hence the delay getting em

http://eu.gran-turismo.com/nz/news/d14929.html <- that one.

Sweet car man, good to see it being used too!

Anyone able/keen to run a diagnostic scan on this thing mid next week? All going well I can bring it around, otherwise it might require someone to come looksee.

Would be keen on the kit, with the exception of the skirts if possible. But it'll have to wait till after new years. If its still available then Ill give ya holla

I have these on my car, came with the 17's I got of APT, I actually really like em! They're pretty quiet, and grip really well in the dry (havent really drivin them in the wet so cant say) Most chinese tyres seem to be made of hard black plastic instead of rubber. Aparently Federal tyres has a hand in hero. In all honesty, id drive on em till they crap out and then think about replacing with name brand. I think you'll be surprised about how good they are. China is definetly getting better at making stuff properly. Chinese rubbish bashing a few years ago was justified, but theyre lifting their game with lots of stuff recently.

^ That exactly what I said when it started. Even hooking up the battery for the first time had me a tad worried! Once I had turned all the wipers/indicators/hazards/fan etc off that my a**hole mates had turned on when I wasnt watching and flicked the key all the head scratching/running around was worth it Obviously got the exhaust finished (6-2-1 headers to 2.5", coby in the middle and one of those DTM style mufflers on the tail), driveshaft back in and the wiring finished. Now needs interior, brakes, and a clutch, big coolant bleed and a serious wheel alignment its on the piss so much it feel like the handbrake is on when pushing it around. Have to wait till next week, off to seattle tommorrow.

Turned the key.... Started first pop! Sounded like a 300,000km mitzy engine for about 2 minutes, was slightly worried! But once she got oil flowing again its nice and quiet. Those lifters havent seen oil pressure in a long time! Nothings leaking, no particularly weirdness noted. Stoked as! Sounds F-ing tough too, very happy with the exhaust note Got a few things to sort out engine wise, aint got no temperature gauge, and the oil level doesnt seem to be working. I dumped near 6L into it, and its below the bottom notch of the dipstick, thinking maybe the engine oil of a seriously drained engine is more than the service capacity (5.75L?) and the warning light may actually be working correctly. Meh, Easy sh*t. It works!

Anyone got that super dooper car yet the GT5 ultimate car thing

Cable tension is at the handbrake on the nuts, the star adjustment doofas that actually adjust where the shoes sit is in the hub (stick a long screw stick through a wheel bolt hole and turn the adjuster). The idea is essentially to lock the wheel with the star adjuster, back if off a few turns, then adjust the handbrake cable tension/clicks it takes to lock the wheels. Problem is, how do I adjust them evenly when I cant turn one wheel at a time. Ie I can have the left one dragging and feel the drag in the right wheel. The solution is pulling the halfshaft bolts out of the diff, was hoping there was some cool trick to get em even

Beauty, that'll do it, thanks.

Any one got any tricks for adjusting E30 handbrake with a really tight LSD? Shouldve done it with the halfshafts removed, but really cant be assed removing them now

Cheers man, Legend. Thanks for the help, its the last wire left!

Yeh, a lot more than $200 for bushes I spent $400 on polyurethane for the whole car (that was cheap as!), add lots of time and swearing for install. If your an absolute legend and dont find any nasty rust etc, bank on 1.5 days labour if youve got a press (and mandrels that fit), you could maybe do it it with a big vice and a FBH, but itll add to swearing/time. I priced up a whole set of whiteline bushes, at trade, it was closer to $1k. Car looks nice BTW, diggin the colour.

Is anyone able to tell me which pin & plug (blue/white) on the instrument cluster is road speed? All my kingdom for a 85 323 wiring diagram I tells ya. Oh, and where can I get vacuum line for the booster?, aparently it actually has too be specific brake booster vacuum lines for the cert.

Had the CSL M3, Meh its heavy and a bit of a slug. Carbon wizzbangs cant make up for excessive lardassness Sold it when I got the road going GTR which is way cooler, in black The caterham 7 fireblade is awesome fun when supercharged too. If you wanna swap 2002 turbo for M3 GTR im keen docile. I agree, its f-ing good game, but its not 5 years in the making good. Races are easy, some of the special races stuff is just stupidly hard though. I owned GT2 rallying, Gt5 rally are way too tough, borderline impossible. And the top gear challenges totally suck balls, frustrating & boring. Coming in 2nd after two careful laps of not touching any other car only to get tapped by the muppet AI 400m from the finish, and then spinning out, is no fun.

Docile - Yup still keen but I cant send the chrome line car, come sup with a message - You cannot give this car to friend. Sent ya a msg on GT5, anything else your keen to swap for?

Same deal as above, you can probably swap your B20 loom onto the B23, havent looked into it though. Just assuming Id compare p/n's on realoem and work out whats interchangeable between the two engines, likely a lot. Car is a 12/85 manual UK spec http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partgrp.do?mode...mp;mospid=47260

+ 1, Its looks new!

Hahah, You couldve heard and driven it 2 weeks ago Its only cheap as I cant be assed hording, have no room for it, and there are literally M20's for africa available at the moment (for probably too much money as I dont see them selling very fast!) and I need to get rid of this one The way it works for me is, if I sell it now I get beers, If it stays in mates workshop it costs me beers (and verbal abuse)