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Doh! If they scrap your bumper let me know, would love one for wifeys wagon. Right colour too!

Keen as hell, been meaning to get back in touch with you. Gimme 5 min & I'll rip downstairs & grab the p/n to confirm

Oh God, please don't tell me someone else has done this but propelled the wrong wheels? Certainly different from the usual SR/RB swaps that seem to go on, how much of a hassle was it adapting the E30 trans tunnel etc to accept the mitsi box? I bet the engine mounts would've been a proper headache too!

Got what you need in the shed. PM if interested

Care to step in, crunchy?

are we taking bets on whether the rough idle is due to the 276 camshafts or the blown head gasket? odd that a canada spec car made it here though, I wonder how that came about?

Reckon I'd be a contender for the biggest POS award Still sounds like fun though!

Hmm, dogleg box would be rather cool. Do any of the above mentioned transmissions have bolt-on bellhousings a la the G250? While they're impossibly rare here it would make for some bragging rights Am I on the wrong track thinking the dog boxes have stronger internals?

Radiator is new, hoses are secondhand from my parts car but appear to have been replaced with new OEM parts sometime in the recent past. So used o-rings but all seemed to be nice and pliant, though without a set of calipers at hand I cannot confirm size. Just seemed a bit odd that the hose connection was nice and snug on the lower neck but quite loose at the top neck. Tried three or four different hoses to make sure I wasn't going crazy but all attempts had the same result. Is there any difference between the E46 & E39 M54 radiators? Only explanation I can come up with so far is E46 upper neck could be a slightly smaller diameter than E39 (though I can come up with no plausible reason why) or the radiator I've bought isn't within OEM spec I agree entirely that it's a pretty sketchy way to design a coupling system for engine cooling. Certainly doesn't fill me with confidence anyway!!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the 420G the only manual box BMW offered with the M6x?

I suspect your best bet will be to go through eBay. Far more common in the US & UK, can be landed in NZ for comparable or cheaper than sourcing one locally. What are you planning to use it for? Generally folk don't go looking for a 420G unless they have something special in the works

Ignore the browning of the hose elbow, I've taken a photo of the old parts as it's now too dark out. I think the problem might be the radiator inlet neck is a tiny bit smaller in diameter than the old OEM one. I've used a little bit of loctite rtv sealant in the interim to stop it piddling out overnight, can new o-rings be sourced locally? Edit: rtv ain't stopping the dribble either. Poo!!

Hmmm...... in the process of refilling the radiator I have noticed there is quite a dribble coming from the upper inlet neck. Have tried swapping o-rings around but to no joy. Any ideas? Will gasket cement (the black goo made by Holts in the little red bottle) help? Have used it on other cars with great results in the past, but I assume it merely seals any gaps as opposed to 'bulking out' an o-ring?? Help!

Speaking of the high OBC, the one in my car is so dim as to be virtually invisible....... is this likely a dead LED screen or is it merely the backlight bulbs that have pooped? As I mentioned in an earlier post I was fortunate enough to have turned the engine off as it started climbing, so I'm as confident as I can possibly be that it hasn't baked itself to a gooey, leaking mess. The 530i I bought as a parts car had its cooling system overhauled in the recent past, so gleaned the water pump etc from that. The metal impeller might not be essential, but given my experience with M5x cooling systems it's worth the peace of mind. As for wifey I don't think it's Norovirus, thank Christ. Possibly a poorer cousin as her temp has been fluctuating quite a bit, but she's still well enough to be moving about under her own steam (complaining loudly wherever she goes) so I reckon it's not too serious. I'd survive if I get it too, it's the wee man getting sick that worries me. New radiator in place, now to swot up on your instructions and refill the bugger. Wish me luck!!

Fark me, that's warm!

Bought one in the shape of a 530i estate a couple weeks ago. However 1395kg worth of E36 vs. 1826kg (sedan) of the E39 would lead to a very different real world experience. Hence my hope to find unmodified rolling road dyno charts of both engines. The theory behind all this faffing about is to compare the M54 - M50 - modified M54 dyno plots to make a semi-educated decision on which direction to take with the B30 I have on the stand downstairs. i.e will the documented torque loss in the 3k rpm range be counteracted by the theoretical 3.46 final drive ratio or am I better off to find a way to get the unmodified dual vanos M54 to run in my car. Apologies if my thought patterns make little sense to observers, 95% of the time they make little sense to me too!

Oh marvellous, 115 deg eh? Have to admit that a little poo came out when I removed the header tank cap to discover that the bottle was dead empty. Will be pulling the water pump to see if it's the impeller thats sh*t itself. Will an M50 pump fit? Have a new metal impeller pump downstairs but have no idea if old bits will fit the newer motors. How prone are the alloy engines to blowing HGs once they've gotten a little hot under the collar? Rhetorical question, but why do these things happen when you can least afford them / the mrs has been vomiting for the past 38 hours / you were meant to be seeing Ray tomorrow to collect your new diff & ask questions about having the MS43 DME rewritten to allow a viable M54 -> e36 transplant? FML. Cheers for the info mate, wish I'd paid attention to your OBC thread earlier!

NZ new? Nice!

Yeah, but at least you'd go out in style!

So the 530i decided to blow its radiator about 75m from my gate this evening. Shut the car down as soon as I saw the needle start to nudge the red zone, 99.999% confident it hasn't overheated. Will be picking up a new radiator from Brent tomorrow morning, can anyone give me some pointers in how to correctly bleed the E39? I'm not going to have enough time to get to McMillans before the parts dept closes, can anyone recommend a coolant from Ripco etc that won't rot out the plastics in the cooling system? Thanks

Wow, this is proving to be far more difficult than I thought. Even the E30 fanboy sites don't seem to have any Thanks Alan, that at least gives me a little to go on. The only trouble with factory data is they tend to supply the ideal results on their own equipment, what I'm hoping to find is rear wheel figures as opposed to crank. I am surprised that the peak torque from the B30 is only available between 3500 - 4750rpm. I had the idea in my head that it was available at a lower rev range. Mind you, 270nM @ 1500rpm isn't too bad really. Must. Find. M50B25. Graph!!!!!!!

Oh man, that is brilliant! The world can never have too much E-Type goodness

Lol, almost looks like you forgot to put the springs back on the struts before reinstallation

Anyone know where to find a dyno chart for a non-modified M50B25 & M54B30? Wouldn't mind making a few comparisons over the weekend. Have found some overseas charts but the US ones all use hub dynos. interested to see stock torque curves on standard B25 vs. B30. ta

Moving on from the 328i so soon??