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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)

Depends what you want too do, and what your car already has. Could spend thousands, or a under a hundy if all you want to do is find a starter and flywheel and your gearbox bolts up. Ideally you'd want to do the cambelt, waterpump, thermostat, rocker gaskets etc, and the intake elbow is rooted (had been repaired with epoxy sealant, but needs replacing). You could add a set off plugs, new ignition leads, new dizzy and rotor etc etc etc. It has done 145,000miles, and is 26 years old!, but in saying that it was still running fine and dandy, but will need some love in the future I have literally only changed the oil (every 5k miles) in 3 years. Play with some wiring (it'd be pretty simple Ive just lopped the C101 (rectangle at the fusebox) and C103 (under dash next to DME) , but theyre only useful on early E30's anyway (pre 85) Ive re-emailed (3rd one) this guy on tardme, if no reply on wednesday we can talk. If all you need is storage for a couple of weeks (ie less than a month) its OK where it is. Edit - Gearstick got biffed sorry, had to draw the line with the massive pile of old/new bits.

Sweet, mate has one in his cosworth, was perving at it today wondering if it'd fit in the E30 (he was bragging about how much cooler his car is with its red coupler...egg) Good too know you can get em for E30, ill order one after christmas. Liking these too - https://store.nexternal.com/ireland/images/...ustableendl.jpg

Was just about to ask the same question, autolign it is Judging by how hard it is too push my E30 around, its wellll on the piss.

Had a think about it and... ^ Did this. Can get 5th, but one wouldnt want it any more on the turps! Can live with it. Started fabricating the exhaust, rear set of primaries are done, they look pretty friggin sexy, wrapping around the steering flexjoint. However I dropped the steering universal joint doofa out for ease of fabrication, and found that the rubber plate in the centre is toast. The one bushy thing I forgot to buy. DOH! Itll probably have to wait till later. Finally got an alternator bolt couriered out, pity it didnt fit, too short. Went on a mission to steel master (onehunga) and they hooked me up. M10x150 FTW. M20 heater hose is the one for the back of the head to the lower heater core fitting, it fits perfect. Sure I read E36 on the interwebs, but it dont have a hope of fitting. Got the radiator in, dunno how everyone says you can get a 16" fan in the front. I just got a 14" fan in, but I have the factory forward baffle too. Finish wiring and exhaust tommorrow, turn the key wednesday

Yup gone burgers. Diff/halfshafts are gone burgers. Havent heard a peep from the the dude on trademe who won my engine for $56. He seems to have lots of feedback about placing bids and not making contact So if anyone wants an M20B23 for $50, yell out and if I havent heard from him by wednesday its yours. Ive lopped some plugs off the loom, and it has no flywheel but is otherwise complete. For $60 Ill include the metal airbox

I hate those tugger clear tail lights. Why does every monkey with an E36 have em, they are epically rude.

squeek squeek squeek Sweet Ill send it over later. Its the chrome line one, so has go fast racing stripes

Yup What ya want? I havent come across a 2002 turbo yet Swap ya for a murcielago LP640/300SL/Dome/Lancia Delta etc etc?

Dont worry bought one

Whatya rekon about welding a bracket into the tunnel to attach the console in the perfect spot, so its no longer mounted to the gear box? I assume its mounted to the box to stop the engine moving around popping it out of gear, but I wonder if its really necessary?

E24/28 M5/6 mounts, Yup using renault clio booster, fits shweet and from what ive read actually improves braking on an E30. Also has the one way valve mounted on the booster, so looks cleaner too Theres roughly 15-20mm room between the rack/crossmember. Gearbox mounts are late E21 ones, they are a bit beefier than the stock ones. Bigger stud on them too so had to open up gearbox and cross member holes, but no biggy. Had a go at hooking up the heater hoses this arvo, got the top one on (from the "spider" hose) but the lower one doesnt have a hope of fitting on. I bought an M50 E36 lower hose and its totally wrong. Wondering if the M20 one fits? Whats everyone use? its a tight little space and I keep getting kinks however I work the E36 hose (even when cut down)

Pics - First couple are of the wank angle of the whiteline bars. Its like they copied the factory bars dimensions, but didnt take in the fact that thicker bars makes the distance between the bends smaller. On the rear it shows up as the sway links on an angle (as the ends line up directly with the centre of the U lugs on the arms) Could be fixed by fabricating some L mounts and bolting them to the arms. Engine in pics, Tig'ed on some studs to the lower strap of the radiator (think its a E36 328 one) so it mounts like the factory e30 one. ^ Wanky console angle, needs bashing.

I think mine predates the mounts for the alloy console, not 100% on that though. Can you tell from this ? Uploaded with ImageShack.us I might have to get my grind/weld on

Anyone else swapped an M50/260 into an early E30? Im looking at my pressed steel shifter console and the wacky angle its on, and im not liking it, im also scratching my head working out how to fix it. Its distorting the rear mount something chronic. Google aint helping

M20B23 sold for $50 Diff for $1 Hopefully some of you guys got a good deal Still available - * Metal airbox, could use a paint * 323 Halfshafts (pair) * 4 Spoke E30 steering wheel, good nick * E30 expansion tank, very tidy * M50/52 thermostat housing gasket - New (obviously) * New O rings etc for M50/52 oil filter (Big one, little one, and washer) * E34 M50B25 engine mount arms - Free. * Gasket for the casting around the camgears on a M50 (NV) 11-36-1-740-840 * Pair of E24/28 engine mounts, 2nd hand but good nick. (E30-M50 swap ones) * New genuine crankshaft bolt and spacer 11211720633 & 11231288660 for virtually all M5x engines from E36's too E85's Offers on the lot, needs to go