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Asked Ian Haynes about my purge valve conundrum, and your on the money polley. Sounds like the bentley manual isnt quite right. A 1k resistor is enough to make the DME happy, apparently BMW actually made a clip with the resistor in it to plug into the loom for this reason. Easy fix

Nice man, looks cool. Battery too boot - Weight distribution and engine bay looks better. APT - I have a spare cable etc if your interested, factory bits. They use a cool little + block that bolts to firewall with a cover.

The bentley manual rekons that the valve gives a pulsed ground Doesnt sound so simply to trick...

Week 2. Bit patchy but she'll pull through on the day

Just stumbled across p/n for M50/52's serpentine belt, with no powersteering pump, but with the idler. 56.25" is the length. p/n - K060557 6PK1415

Double post.

Just cleaned the car Its turtle wax wheel cleaner in the orange bottle. Works good.

Makes you wonder why the E30 M3 was left out, particularly with the 2.5 190E's in the game. Maybe it was a move by BMW... Was it Gt2 that didnt allow you to change wheels on the bimmers? Still, probably the best list of cars in any car game ever ie Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione '08 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA 1600 '65 Alpine A110 1600S '73 Audi quattro '82 Caterham Seven Fire Blade '02 Cizeta V16T '94 Dodge Charger 440 R/T '70 DOME-ZERO Concept '78 Ginetta G4 '64 Jensen Interceptor MkIII '74 Lamborghini Countach LP400 '74 Lamborghini Miura Volkswagen Golf I GTI '76 Lancia DELTA S4 Rally Car '85 Lancia STRATOS '73 Lotus Carlton '90 Marcos Mini Marcos GT '70 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Coupe '54 Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5 - 16 Evolution II '91 Mitsubishi STARION 　4WD Rally Car '84 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupe (Type-1) '68 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Evolution 2 Rally Car '86 Renault 5 Maxi Turbo Rally Car '85 Triumph Spitfire 1500 '74

^ +1 It dont do miracles, but she works well. Stuff in the clear orange bottle?

Bump. Can possibly install the M20 in your E30 for a good rate, but itll depend on what bits you have already. If your interested we can discuss.

Yeh its nuts, lots of 70-80's sports cars, even euopean ones, but no E30 M3....

http://eu.gran-turismo.com/nz/news/d15025.html November 24th Car list is up too The Bimmers - BMW 120d '04 BMW 120i '04 BMW 135i Coupe '07 BMW 320i Touring Car '03 BMW 330i '05 BMW 2002 Turbo '73 BMW Concept 1 Series tii '07 BMW M3 '04 BMW M3 Coupe '07 BMW M3 CSL '03 BMW M3 GTR '03 BMW M3 GTR Race Car '01 BMW M5 '05 BMW M5 '08 BMW McLaren F1 GTR Race Car '97 BMW M Coupe '98 BMW V12 LMR Race Car '99 BMW Z4 '03 BMW Z4 M Coupe '08 Ordered YAY!

Dont like insurance either?, if coil overs arent legal in your state, why bother. Spend your money on some good adjustable shocks and some lowering springs. If you want to drift, look at meaty sway bars (whiteline do good ones) and stiffen up the ass end of your E30 along with a reshimmed LSD. I used to live in Aus, you guys dont have any mountains, you have hills and call them mountains

The welding isnt hard, but to get a cert, at least in NZ, will require mag particle inspection to make sure the welds arent cracked. The rear is standard for cheap E30 coilovers. You can put real coilovers into one, but the rear strut towers etc will need to be reinforced. Not Cheap. I strongly suggest you do a lot more research on everything. Check with whatever Aussie authority about coil overs too, as It may totally different rules too NZ.

Less than a can of VHT

Hmm maybe. Mines black, just an M badge on the back. Its not massively low and doesnt have tints though. I had a mufti cop behind me for a couple of K's down the motorway. Pretty sure he ran my plates etc, I was waiting too be pulled over so was driving very sensibly. He musta decided I was kosha in the end though

Might be a repost but this is gold.

Would say that was me, but "nice" isnt how Id describe my E30. More like "rooted"

Changed the diff bush today, A bit of a headsup if someone wants to do similar. #1 -Pull the rear diff cover off!. Dont naff around, remove it #2 -Youll need a sharp knife/scalpel to tweak some of the lip of the bushing. It interferes with the casting on the fwd side, and the bolt/washer on the rear. #3 -Use a press to get the old bushing out, a BFH aint gonna budge it #4 -Grease the bush up, its a serious interference fit. Pop the large half in first, then flip it over and tap the second peice in with a soft faced hammer. #5 -Throw the cover in the vice and pop the steel centre peice in. This is also fecking tight. Throw one of the big washers on the back to hold the bush in. #6 -Stick both washers in ,and work the bush home using the vice while rotating the cover around to push it all down square. It sits nicely once its all in, but is a bit of mission to get in as It trys to pop back out until its all together.

Figured half of this out by perving at M50 E36 and E34's at european car parts this morning - I have an E34 M50, and discovered I have an E36 elbow. Turns out E34 elbow is a different beasty to an E36 one (E34's ABS block is right below the elbow), E34 vacuum lines will not fit on a E36 elbow E34 runs the crank breather, too the dipstick connection, too the intake elbow thru a right angles peice on the fwd side. E36 runs the crank breather under the manifold straight too the connection next too the ICV plumbing. It all ends up in the same place, just different plumbing and routing. New vacuum and breather lines. Solved The vacuum connection at the bottom of the throttle body sounds like it runs to the evap system. Blanked it off. E34 dip stick wont fit with E36 mounts, due to the castings being different heights and the E36 mounts sitting further aft on the block. You could fix it with some spacers and long ass bolts. I cut one leg off, welded a 25mm extension too the other leg. Fits mint ________________________________________________________________________________ Now in hindsight Im wondering if removing the evap wiring from the loom was that clever an Idea, since the DME will now think the purge valve is dead and will flash the CEL. If I get the DME scanned, can this error be turned off for good, or will it constantly flash the check engine light?

^ This or - If you have directional tyres, make sure they are turning the right direction Ask me how I know, they do some weird sh*t going backwards.

Another 8 hours of playing with the M50 today. Yeah I work slow Hiding all the sensors/wiring etc under the intake manifold may work for a nice clean looking engine bay, but it was testing my patience today Got everything plugged in and hooked up, intake manifold is back together for good and I cleaned a whole bunch of black goo out of the ICV. Went nuts on schmeidman again this morning, credit card is bursting at seams, Ive nearly orderde everything on realoem.com Lots of new shiny things turning up though... Shot down to BNT and picked up some redline fluids and a pod filter and some silicon tube. Why do they only sell rice blue coloured silicon. fecken rude looking. Got a few headscratchers though - Is Item 8 on this only used on the plastic thermostat housings? I have one but fuct if I can figure out how it fits in the metal housing. Thermostat housing was already removed when I picked the engine up, and I have a new paper/rubber gasket doofa on (7) and a new thermostat O ring. How the hell does the dipstick on an E34 M50 sit, I know I pulled it off but damned if I can work out how it goes back on. It seems simple as hell, but it just dont go nowhere! On the throttle body, there are three hose coming off the bottom, the two forward ones are for the intake heat, but the most aft one looks like a vacuum line, and I cant figure out where it went too. Anddddd On the elbow intake pipe between the throttle and the AFM are two hoses going down, One is for the ICV, wheres the other one go? Im pouring over pictures of M50's at the moment trying to figure these out, so I feel less dense, havent found a good shot yet

$2600 is a friggin good price for a full M50 swap kit. Ive spent much more already. Why didnt you sell this 2 months ago

Its only gonna suck as much air as it can suck. Putting a "bigger hole/larger throttle body" in one end isnt gonna make it suck any more air, its the equivalent of bolting a 4" exhaust to a stock M20, itll be worse, not better. Your going about it ass about face sorry man. Make your engine thirstier, then stick stuff on it too feed the thirst

Got a gasket for the casting around the camgears on a M50 (NV) too if anyone wants one p/n 11-36-1-740-840 - $10.