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haha yeah I kind of feel a bit nasty cutting just cardboard on it. Its a 1/2 million $$$ cutter to buy new. This table can cut up to 9mm thick (think vaccum packed materials and composites like carbon fiber blah blah ... Dad just finished doing a job for these guys. http://www.skysails.info/ He cut 115 prototype models which are being used in testing to tow ships in europe. At the moment it can tow a full container ship and save around $2500 us an hour in fuel costs. The system is fully automated and in bad weather the sail stalls itself into the wind and can be winched back in and housed on deck. Check the vid on their website. The biggest sails have something like 20tons towing capacity. Amazing stuff really. There are talks of it being tested on pleasure craft in AKL too watch this space. Here is the super strong light weight material for it. Now in yellow for added visual safety.

my internal conversion chart has never been great. Anyways its 89mm I need. Yeah, you should see the mocked up model I have for ollie with all the changes written on it. Hes going to hate me

Looks amazing dude .. well done!

Oh nice! .. im after black if you have it availible .. if not red .. but as most it goes probably will be blue Need 89mm (3inch) Thanks!

Yeah probably will heath. doing the wiring for the fan next week.

I also decided to give mounting the new radiator fan a crack... was plesantly suprised it wasn't the end of the world and I didnt need to fabricate any mounts. I just used old parts kicking around the workshop for brackets .. worked a treat! e36 pusher fan gave it a clean up with some decreaser and an airgun placed it in the location to workout if it would fit .. and it does The bumpers were just getting in the road so off they came Needed to make up some brackets from old parts. The bottom just bolted pretty much to the bottom lip the top just needed some extra metal .. which I found and converted All finished and I tested it up to temprature and connected a battery pack to see it bring the temp down .. it worked Also note the FL smile headlights im gonna chuck on MMMMMMM smilies e30's are the only car I know of that actually look just as tuff with no bumpers as they do with them

Needed to make some room first ... Out comes the PITA bracket VIDEO: Time to cut some sh*t few adjustments to make as you can see .. I also need to buy a silicon 135 bend and alloy 89mm joiner After this I ran around and re measured everything and marked it on the prototype where changes need to be made. We will do this process again and try the card up at the car next time. Once its all matches its off the the laser cutters to cut this out of anodised alloy

UPDATE: Time to step this sh*t up a bit. Cold Airbox time. Big thanks for Ollie's cad skills in sorting this out from his airbox design and to my dad for cutting the mock ups and no thanks to stationary warehouse for charging me $20 per sheet of 1.5mm thick cardboard. Dad runs a cutting business which specailises in cutting materials / foam / plastics / composites etc. Company is called cutlines. Anyways here we go.. Top down view 3d The design at Dads work. measuring the card VIDEO: explaining how to program the design for the different tools (Pen, Knife, pizza wheel, hole punch etc) Setting up the drag knife for depth Tooling up the head Air pressure check. Marking the the 'origin' on the card with laser. This will be the return or known point on the card. VIDEO: card being cut photos this is seriously the best way to prototype Sorting out the fold lines with the perf tool whole system

Sweet ... about time they came around. Finally car manufactures are bringing some excitment back the AWD market. yay

yeah not too much longer .. few small things .. but things that will take a bit of time to fabricate up unfortunitly. EG 10mm higher sway bar bushes and shackles that still work with the 'swing' mount points. to clear the headers. Clutch res isn't connected yet .. will do this when we mount all the brackets. might have to fab some stuff up for this haha .. brendon took off with my sheets of paper with the costings on it ... not too expensive . will dig up the codes for ya and put you onto a guy @ JC who can get you a price.

Wiring pics as promised .. Finished up the covers weds night. Things left to do are sort out permanant earths for the engine etc, Sway bar mounts modified, clutch and expansion tanks mounted on OE brackets to body and sorting out the radiator fan and wiring. So it starts.. Removed the e36 cover to expose the wiring. Lots of un-nessecary coppper in these things bit of a birds nest too for straightning out. Separation of the loom DME plug so with fit through the firewall. I hear all sorts of stories/posts of people enlarging the firewall holes with a hole saw .. I dont get it? just pull the plug apart and feed it through and re-construct back on the other side. Great thing with Siemens and Boshe plugs, they are meant to be pulled apart for pin additions. Taught ourselves that when doing my e46 satnav retrofit. Through the other side. EWS and DME wiring Reader coil wiring and chip placement. Fuse box wiring back to ignition A nice little spread sheet of the e30 pre-fl vs e36 engine loom with colours. Packing the loom together behind the new plastic shrowding for a nice OEM look and finish

+ 1 for not doing any more panel work on it .. it looks AWESOME as it is

Might take you for a run tonight in it I have to 'test' the viscocity of the redline gearbox fluid hes put in it for the mix for my ZF5speed. As dylan says, its a totally different experience to driving your normal BMW. Ray was saying that its a roadster, so your seating position is nearly sitting over the rear axels, it makes for a unique experience. you just fall in love with them once you drive them weather you like them or not. They actually get you hooked on them.

Its between westies project and this for me ... really digging it.

haha yeah was driving around in circles doing the art deco drive tour.. very hung over. we hit ta mata point, havelock and hastings + vineyards.

DME + coded EWS = 700euros + loom which I assume he has Link = around 3k + wiring costs Its not that we are trying to make it sound hard, the engine swap part is easy, its getting all the 'small' stuff going that will take time to prep for. Both financially and making sure you have the right parts. Its easy to get mucked up with the small things, then suddenly you own a $300 wrong part that you cant take back (I have done this more than once from experience) RealOEM is an excellent resource, you can also count on their pricing being good rough indicator as to what your going to pay in NZ for parts. (USD to NZD conversion of corse) $$$ wise, this isn't the same doing a m50/m52 conversion. however if you have all the major parts your set! As for aftermarket stuff (of the same qaulity) being cheaper than OEM M stuff. They are about the same. In some cases more expensive.

Im not so sure ab out the engine mounts so I wont comment on those. However from an engine swap point of view you need. * Engine + gearbox with starter motor, altenator, water pump, MAF, headers with o2 sensors, complete engine loom, clutch (complete) and flywheel, DME, EWS 3 (2001 m-coupe), key and a reader coil. throttle cable. Your gearbox will need all its sensors etc. Gearbox linkage, gear stick, pedal box You need an m3/328i manual driveshaft and see if you can get the air cooled LSD diff from the m-coupe. You need OEM m3/z3m or aftermarket direct fit radiator and piping (like I run) + fan pack and wiring. have a look into expansion tanks for the radiator system. Not sure how they differ from the 4 cylinder to the 6. but im sure they are different. Steering rack is really optional but expect around 1200ish for a 2.7 or 3.0 turn 'm' based one. Hmmm HEAPS of misc stuff ... lots of stuff you can order new from BMW which doesnt actually cost much on its own, but before you know it you have a shoe box 1/3 full of bolts and pipes and suddenly its cost you $600. This always amazed me this part. I'm sure i'm sure i've missed something important .. I haven't accounted for any of the other modules like EGS etc etc but I dont think they 100% essential to getting it going. and hey, at least you have stuck around more tha one post and not taken offense to anything people have said on here. Engine transplants are never cheap especially when your talking about M parts, you already have the two most expensive items! so your most of the way there cost wise IMHO.

Badass dude ... I have a feeling their isnt actually going to be much coding to do on this.

great stuff! ... sounding good!

cheers fellas! Brendon and I have been waiting around 2 weeks for this point. Ill post all the wiring photos when I get off easter off easter holiday. We ended up using ProgmanSSS to program it in the DME section. Realoem part numbers where the key. Enter the Base DME partner number first then pick the closest 'programmed' dme part number that suits for the replacement DME .. in this case M3 s50 programmed with cats. supply constant 13+ volts during programming as not to brick the DME. Make sure the chip is able to be read by the reader coil. Chip position is very sensitive. The car will actually fire with no chip however it will die pretty much straight away as the DME doesnt approve. It is a good idea at this point once the car is started to kill it and re-diagnose the modules to make sure everything is squeaky clean. and away it goes

Nice work! glad it had a happy ending.

We had one of these when I was a youngin ... sea green it was .. and I f**ked it by putting sand in the tank from my sand pit. Mum was stoked. It ruined the engine and she had to sell it. I was 2 years old. yours looks awesome! I would try to restore it back to mint if you can. It wouldnt take too much I wouldnt think in that condition! Oh and you _have_ to white wall it!

Nah not yet .. after easter. sweet Tempting .. should be able too ..

Its really is the first SHOE!

chur fellas... A lot of work put in by brendon and ray over this. I will post up all the EWS photos and wiring photos. Kind of wanted to get it right before posting it up. Good thing out of all of this we are now very familar with the e36 m3 engine loom,e30 body loom and how EWS now works. James, I think I know what RaceFX mean't by EWS cutting out. What it actually is, is the position of the chip to the induction coil.. its really sensitive. Because it works on a short wave signal there is such a thing as too close tot he coil. I think what we will do is make a spider in the middle of the web senario .. as the position would be when a normal key was inserted. Interestingly enough you can actually start the car with out the ship but it will die straight away (ECU shuts it all down) So key positioning is (excuse the pun) key