hybrid

Maybe, will depend totally if they are talking FL or pre-FL .. will look into it. thanks dude nah .. definitely not :/

loop hole FTW

They been have cut and polished back its not a coating but polished bare metal. yeah quite stoked with the colour! it changes its luminance when angled in the light which is cool.

Im hoping so .. the gaurds need to be built around the wheels. So they might not go on straight away

Still working on the wiring at the moment. We now have the starter motor working on the actual 'starter' key position and not ignition. It was to do with the starter circuit pin out differences on the loom adapter for face lift vs pre-face lift. I have a pre-face lift obviously a quickish re-route in the fuse box sorted the start problem out. However we are still not getting 12 volts down pin 15 or pin 16 down the diagnostic port. pins 14,15 and 16 should have 12volts running through them. We again are checking the dfferences in the pre-face lift loom. Confirmed this on Ray's M-Coupe. Anyways so not startup glory today so instead I took a trip down to see how the new wheels are getting on. They have finished the barrels and are just working on the inners., black bolts still to come but ill save that for when they are mounted on the wheels. With out further ado, Arrow wheels work their magic This is the bit they used to drill the PDC and the caps they press into the holes. Welded and in the middle of being milled. new wholes ready for caps to be pressed in A new colour they have made up for me, Ill name it hybrid gunmetal Tested on one of their spare centers to show me what it will look like and give me approval for the go ahead. Note its tastefully darker than the standard silver (in the back ground) Barrel win. Polished lips enjoy..

Cool guys will look into it when everything is placed permantly in the engine bay (bottles etc etc)

yeah f*cken tell me about it :/ I dont think im going to make it unfortunitly.

Seems all 92+ engines need cats This is one issue that effects me. And I dont like the idea of putting $1200 worth of cats on to an already $2700 exhaust system.

BNT stocks it.

More 'parts' so to speak... 245/40zR18 rears And the ever important fluids. They don't seem to stock redline 10w60 in this country *rolls eyes* So Castrol 10w60 edge sport it is. Gear box is a secret blend of 11 herbs and spices .. for gearbox chatter (from the lightened flywheel) nahhhh its just Redline 75W140 ns and MT-90 added to taste. Some coolant Some Castrol Dot4 and the saraficial lamb in yellow (4 liters of $40 engine flush oil before the good stuff goes in)

I missed this, thanks will defanitly be doing it, main mission is to get it done in time for cert laws. Think Ill possible route mine back into the boot ?

haha, to tell you the truth its all just been research. And wading through the differences between american and euro differences. Hell, even difference between pre-face lift and facelift and the the guys in the US always quoting face lift in most cases. As for the simota filters, they are an awesome product. Sounds good.

Will see if I have room .. should do, but brendon might be also painting his desktop (long story) so it might take the boot and back seats up. Also we dont usually finish till 10-10:30 .. its a long night.

Cheers Riley, atleast you got to see it before your off. 3 years later on my part! haha haha thanks .. that was the plan, to keep it looking clean and tastefully modded. Not finished yet it the looks department. In the mean time, some photos of incoming parts. Simota 89mm neck and 130mm air filter .. anything bigger I don’t think will fit. Thing I like about these filters is they withstand engine heat and have a life time guarantee. This one will sit inside a cold air box once its fabricated up. (and anodised black ) and a close up of the new centers for the new wheels They really do look 3d, the red isn’t a bright red its more a ruby colour which is awesome!

these turned up today.. peow peow

still up at rays with the GT1 connected, we hit a snag with the ignition barrel, what we thought was the alarm was infact the e30 ignition barrel fault, so just fixing that now so should be coding in 30 mins or so after we resolder the EWS. and yes, pretty excited .. I have some shopping of minor parts to do for the next three days. Air filter / fluids and some pipes from BNT. not long now.

Throttle cable test with legacy e30 cable, now replaced with e36 one.

Part 2 of today So feeling pretty stoked we got everything done underneath we started on the wiring and I modified the radiator supports to hold the radiator better. I love the hellbm parts bin .. with out it I would of never of found half the solutions I would have to this date for small little annouying problems. Next was the throttle cable, we tried the e30 one but as thought it was just two short.. so went for a nicer e36 one instead and my cheesy first time pressing the throttle video, with the legacy e30 cable Right after that excitment, on with more and more wiring. stunning messy engine bay picutures, however you can see the new covers and how they will give this engine bay a truely factory look when completed. Here are some random images I thought may be mildy interesting of the workshop the car is in.. Tune rocking out on our local rock station, notice the taped down tuner so bad people dont go change it something bad. (Im being PC here all right! ) Whats this ... another M-Coupe which is being decided on its future. Its sitting in our little car bay where the e30 sat for over half a year .. Have you ever played lego as a kid, well this is the adult version and one of 5 or so around the shop. We'd be lost with out it and I can thank it for many a cut finger. I have a love hate relationship with it now. Some other headers I have New parts storage And this is what sits under neath it when the e30 s50 is sleeping Anyways .. another big update tomorrow ...

So another long day but we got a lot done. In fact we got more than a lot done! .. We think by the end of tomorrow we will be powering up and aligning the DME <-> EWS2 .. which means (if the oil lines and fan is completed by monday) we will be firing it up on weds night. Anyways, picked up the new modified steering coloum. Countersunk allen head screw caps .. hot And a machined and shorten linkage connector rods which now mates the DTM shifter and ZF nicely. Which now brings us to drive shaft installation .. I know this is pretty boring for most of you, but again as usual nothing was as it seems and with out modification. e30 m3 grp-a driftshaft thanks to conrod, we spent about 2 hours getting the diff end bolts pressed in *rolls eyes* and pre-loading the hanger bearing. Thanks to ray for all his help and the guibo bolts which turned out to be e39 ones! m12 10.9 @ 115 NM torque thank you very much The cover was then added, after an intense 30min session with industrial grade degreaser and a water blaster. before after Then came the exhaust which I have actually had for weeks, I just took it off before I could photo it .. anyways here is the new pride and joy, light weight stainless 2inch (to retain torque) to the 3 inch collector at the rear to the e60 550i muffler. And a completed shot from underneath rear and front

so tuff! ... nice work.

Ring Ray @ hell bm .. he should have a support beam for you.

Sweet will look into it after I get it all up and running.

Update: Fuel Pump - Walbro 255lph '500hp' external to keep up with the 5bar pressure requirements It took some time as I run a pre-facelift which run an external low volume-high pressure pump and a intank high volume-low pressure pump system. This is different to the facelift single intank pump with baffles in the tank. We removed the fuel dampner (little bell looking think) as I dont think it will be up to the task of as you say 5bar fuel delivery, It will also provide for some nice vaccum backfires . We also removed the rear regulator (pre face lift thing) as the s50 has one up on the engine. I had to run two fuel lines the one from the tank to the fuel pump was larger diameter and the one from the pump to the main fuel line was smaller. The oem pre-face lift configuration about explains why. BMW were very clever with this system as it means that the pre facelift was setup for cornering and nil fuel starvation from the get go. Weight saving, costings and the potential for more parts to go wrong in the fuel delivery systrem saw BMW change this to the single intank system. If the internal high volume low pressure pump can't (it should be able to) keep up with the new pump at sustained high RPM, I will look at installing a swirl pot system instead. But thats for a later date. We worked out pretty quick that there are no published Pre-face lift s50b32 euro builds out there. (im sure they exist just not in our part of the world) here is it finished

Sold.

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