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    cant beat M52 for bang for buck, reliability, good power upgrade, light weight, easy swap, a million people done it so plenty of data on the internet what works and what doesnt. i can bang a conversion out in a weekend now once you have all the bits.

    Really comes down to budget, and i defiantley run with the school of thought while the motor (regardless of waht you put in) is out, change all the gaskets, seals, o rings, spark plugs, etc. If not everything then at the very least especially the stuff on the bottom like sump gaskets and rear main seal, timing cover that are hard to get to once the motor is in (again, regardless of the engine you choose. makes it a lot more enjoyable once finished if everything works as it should, doesnt leave a mess on your freinds driveways, etc.

    $5k will get you a fully certified M52/ZF swap including all the other stuff to think about

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    On 11/19/2017 at 4:51 PM, Timythenerd said:

    For what its worth my comments below. Very dissapointing to see its got to this state, but subsequent owners never look after a car the way the enthusiest does. Much of what you have said has happened after my ownership, was tidy but not mint when i sold it. 

    Exterior has some serious wear and tear. yeah just starting to peel on roof as i sold it Front quarter panels are both damaged. Paint is beyond saving in some areas. The front AC Schnitzer bumper clearly has a close relationship with the road, while the rear one has been poorly modified to make the exhaust and towbar fit.
    Body shop did that when i had the kit painted
    Left front rim is badly curbed..Wait till you see the insides of the front wheels, take it off the hub.... 

    Rear window panel has been replaced at some point, so it doesn't open indepently like it should. See KWS post of the message i sent him. All original as far as i know, and worked perfectly when the car was a 520i. One of the headlight lens are missing. send me your address i will send you a light for it. The rear spoiler annoys me: as the car is a UK import it doesn't have a high stop light in it. A shoddy aftermarket one has been installed on the inside of the window instead, probably for compliance when the car entered NZ in 1996.I put that one in, and yes because it is a UK car. when i brought it it had a massive rectangle thing, the LED one is much tidier. Interested to see how you think you could do a better job.

     Pretty sure the double chassis looms under the rear seat is unnecessary, so that'll have to be rebuilt. It's probably also a fire hazard given that it's right next to the battery. Yep the reason for that is that it is all the sundry wriing for the back seat being a 750iL, foot well lights, electric heated seats, fridge etc that it no longer has (it is all E32 wiring loom, there is no E34 wiring in it anywhere). The wires are not live, all the fuses for those circuits have been removed. Lance took care of all the wiring stuff because i am colour blind, and i wasnt going to argue with the way he did it. All the modules GM RM LKM etc were reflowed to ensure no dry joints etc as well. Coolant temp isn't wired up correctly, but surely that can't be hard to do right especially given there's a correctly working aftermarket coolant temp gauge right next to it. I swapped in the spare E32 M70 instrument cluster to see it resolved anything, but alas.After market one is on totally different curcuit. there is a reason why the factory one doesnt go but i cant remember it now Edit: now i have had a few beers and sat thinking in the sun about it, i think it was because of the dual body plugs at the fire wall, whereas the E34 only has one is expecting to recieve half a signal, as the gauge is not linear, it only gets movement when it is hot. If you ground the temp sender plug you will see it shoots to exactly half way, whereas any other BMW of this age it would go to red hot. Basically double whatever it is showing. i didnt like that and thats why i fitted the more accurate temp gauge also because i took it on track a few times. Also this is why the fuel tank when full only shows half. you double whatever the fuel gauge is showing.. The electric radiator fan and the associated wiring just seems silly. Extra wiring installed and spliced onto factory plugs for fog lights that don't even exist. Random sets of factory wiring coiled in the engine bay, not sure what for yet. Not that i remember, but maybe aircon stuff? High pressure headlight washers?

    Mechanically the engine is pretty close to operational. It's an early M70B50, recognisable by the oil filler cap location and the Motronic 1.2 DMEs. The mounting of the engine is actually top notch and the fitment of the ancillaries also shows great workmanship. The exhaust doesn't seem to sit on it's hanger properly though. i have another exhaust here for it if you want it. I have no idea why someone painted the intake manifolds bright red, it looks absurd. I did that, because it was my car and i wanted to do it, i didnt do the car for anyone else lol. the intakes where off when manifolds gaskets were replaced, so you should be happy i painted them, and replaced the $300 a piece gaskets in the process (4 of) The engine should be capable of 220kW and 450Nm, assuming it's factory. factory as far as i know except running later DME software However it should not have been driven in it's current state, but clearly has been. I must admit even I'm guilty of this as I had to limp it home from work. It has a moving misfire and a knock. The right bank (1-6 cyl) distributor is arcing internally at random intervals. It requires new distributors and rotors, which are en route already. new ones fitted when i had it so that seems odd they have failed already. Probably a faulty coil or some other issue.. Gearbox works okay. Diff clearly works, pretty sure it's an LSD but I'm yet to confirm that. yes LSD tho it will be tired. i didnt rebuilt it and i doubt any subsequent owner did. It'll get all fluids replaced and I'll carry out the Inspection I and Inspection II service items as well as check the operation and condition of every component I can get to. I won't be happy driving this car until I know it works perfectly from a mechanical standpoint.

    Just gotta say how disappointed I am by this: the air-con has been removed. What is the point of a big grand touring wagon if you can't be comfortable? The condenser has clearly been removed to make way for the electric fan, and the hoses to make space for some of the ancillaries. The AC compressor hasn't been sealed so it has seized and appears to also have a seized pulley despite still having a belt spinning around it. wa wa wa, i take exception to this comment, and i look forward to you making up custom hoses for it. Neither the E34 or E32 ones are close to working, and because of the heater box swap that wouldnt work nicely with it either. Because my intention was always to fit a super charger there, no point wasting money to make the air con work.

    Suspension is a mess. It has full XYZ coilovers but nothing is setup correctly. None of the shocks are set to the same rebound. Preload on the front springs set randomly apparently; the right has some jounce while the left has none at all (as in it's stupidly stiff). Still need to check the rears. Will have to get it up in the air and remedy this nonsense. yeah thats what happens when idiots play with it. Had a full proper alignment before certification and i never touched it after that so was all setup for a while! Right front wheel bearing is shot, despite the hub being replace a mere 2 years ago with a Repco unit. Quality parts en route to solve that. Tires are in good knick though, won't have to replace them anytime soon. Falken UHP 255 section tires on the rear and some Chinese Habilead 235s up front. definately been skidded then, had brand new Potenza R002s all round when i had it, and done bugger all kms since then (i sold at 98 miles).

    hey on the topic of suspension all the Front end was replaced all new arms and bushes through out, the HD 750i/M5 stuff. Is all Lemforder/Meyle stuff. i know the guy after me broke one of the arms at one point god knows how so one of the control arms (not the diagonals) may not be a quality part

    Interior is "the second worst I've ever seen in an E34" says Autobahn. Headlining sagging. Door cards are an absolute mess. Front seats are filthy, "like someone has sh*t themselves and smeared it in," one of my co-workers said. Driver's interior door handle straight up just doesn't work. Glove box doesn't sit even close to straight. Everything behind the dash looks in a right mess. Boot space has look like it's never been cleaned despite heavy use. Original spare wheel and tire in there. The lower trunk lid trim is completely missing, though there is a spare piece in the wrong colour hanging around. Trims over the rear strut towers are misaligned and stop the rear seats securing the way they should. All the interior sill trims are missing. The one positive is that (surprisingly) someone hasn't run off with the Nardi steering wheel. Everything inside the car was also dirty. Very dirty. It's cleaner now though. I've removed all the older stickers, steam cleaned the carpet in the boot, cleaned the glass properly, and wiped down most of the interior surfaces.

    awesome, interior is from a 525iX not the original interior for the car. i think the back lower door piece was different colour because the iX didnt have it. i think i still have the cream seat belt trims for the back seat here. Headliner ALWAYS fails on tourings, so was only a matter of time before that happened.

    Came with many spares. Someone has clearly been down the wreckers to grab as much as they can. EMLs and DMEs and DKs and 5 wiper stalks for some reason. Couple spare sets of HT leads, which I will use. Should all prove useful, not least for troubleshooting. I gave all of my V12 parts i had accumulated to the new owner (i wrecked about 4x 750iLs in the end) there should be two engines worth of spares in two fish bins in the boot when it left my place. However I'll need to set up a donor car to replace the entire interior forward of the C-pillar, wiring, front quarter panels, air-con. Lol i bet you wont. It'll need a respray and some general body repairs at some point. Yeah pulled the windscreen out and found rust, so sent that to panel beaters to be repaired which was not my usual but the one the glass shop said to go to (couple doors down). back right hand corner and the roof was resprayed at the time, and got them to repaint and repair the body kit (first thing i did to it). They actually took $1k off the bill because i was dissapointed they didnt take the roof rack rails out so you can see where they painted up to, and also for cutting the body kit instead of taking tow ball off and putting the kit over the tounge.  I plan on retrofitting the pre-facelift E34 wing mirrors as I rather dislike the later E36 style ones the car has. (Fun fact: as the E34 was only available as a Touring following the facelift in 1992, so no Touring could have the old style wing mirrors or any other pre-facelift trim.)

    This car has some pretty amazing potential, but it's currently far less than the sum of it's parts. I feel like I've bought a $4k cert plate. Can't wait to have it running properly and get it truly nice and tidy. I'll keep you guys up to date as the situation develops. Gee $4k, the amount of work it has done for you i would still be very grateful for what it is. a tired old base spec 525i wagon is half of that, let alone the coilovers etc. I was in for about $20ish, sold for $7500 

     

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    17 hours ago, explodingbudgie said:

    the M73 is a different beast to the m70the m73 has the same bellhopusing bolt pattern as the M50,2,4 etc there is not a manual gearbox specificly for the m73 but i'm picking as long as the crankshaft bolt pattern is the same the 6 cylinder flywheel and the 6 speeder will fit

    rubbish.

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    These kinds of problems are always hard to diagnose on the internet.

    i have found M50s not running right or at all is usually crank position sensor either failed or just grubby usually from oil leaking from every orifice on the engine. and if not that next best bet is the air flow meter. There are two pin configurations for them, and other engine sizes don't work.

    Did you replace the O ring where the ICV tube connects to the manifold, and is that fitting clipped in correctly? they often break off when disturbed, so it isn't sealing right. Also check the intake boot thoroughly for cracks. check oil cap is on nice and snug and dipstick is in the tube correctly. Have you tried scanning the car?

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    Hi Guys, Looking for a lower Shifter arm for an E30 with G260 gearbox. one end (gearbox end) is longer than the other.

    I ordered one that new *should* be correct for the car but as it not factory manual not totally sure whats been used in the kit.

    Photos with measurements, i know the tape looks like it doesnt line up in photos but it does!

    Otherwise will repair this one but rather not.

    oh twentyseven 30793 double too

    Cheers

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    On 12/4/2017 at 8:06 PM, M3AN said:

    So plates actually cost less than $23.15.

    And the plate monopoly in NZ charges hundreds and hundreds, up to a thousand dollars. I wonder how much tax and margin we're actually paying on these things?

    while those here that know me off bimmersport whille know i hate monopolies, always caused by government intervention, there are actually times when monopolies are for the best. There is a lot more to it that what you say. the admin costs would be infinately higher if there were 3 or four companies all doing it. There is stilla bricks and morter office, and graphic designers dont come cheap. Its very easy to identify the costs we know, but there are doubtless ones we dont.

    And unlike selling apples or televisions, every sale you make is dimminishing supply, they cant sell the same plate twice.

    While i do think they charge a lot, they amount of plates on the road (and indeed my driveway) will say that for many people they are worth the price.

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    On 11/28/2017 at 8:12 PM, qube said:

    u can just pay $369 for any "euro" plate and go to a sign shop and get a custom sticker printed and apply it on top. Heaps of people have done it and there is nothing wrong with that.

    technically that is illegal

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