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hey guys. finally decided it was about time to get my m50 done, its only been like 5 months since i started the conversion. i work full time and over christmas i was quite busy doing overtime so the project got put on hold for a while. abit short notice but i'm hoping to have it running in 10 days from now, i've set myself a goal so lets see what happens. i brought the car off jimmy in june last year. i flew down to chistchurch and drove home. this is the car just out of kaikoura. 1990 320i e30 on 14" weaves with semi slick tires on the rear, koni's and eibach springs. the drive home was absolutly amazing, the car handled so well. and no i didn't do skids in the gravel...as i didn't know how. now the m50. i brought that from brent in papakura. drove up on saturday morning and drove back saturday evening with it on my trailor. 16hours, 4 V's (big), 2 footlong subways and 1 stripclub later i had it back in my garage in wellington. next step. pull out the old m20b20. took her for one last thrash around the neighbourhood with no bonnet and did a skid in my driveway. a month later m50 goes in along progress stopped from then till basically now. so the last week or so i've been hunting through any m50 project forum for any usefull informantion i realize i didn't get my m20 flywheel shimmed before i put the motor and gearbox in as it hits the back of the oil pan. so about 2 hours ago i pulled the motor and removed the gearbox and took a photo. i need your opinion. does this look like a lightned flywheel? i'm definatly no expert, but it looks like it has. and there is a good 25mm clearance between the flywheel and the sump. i've started on the wiring so fingers crossed it'll fire this weekend and maybe exhaust. now all i need is front seats! i am in desperate need of e30 black leather recaro/msport front seats, only. as i have the rest of the matching interior. honestly who take the front seats and leaves the rest? this was at pickapart like 6hours after the car was put onto the yard. the fronts were taken within the hour of it being out. anyway all greets/grats/info/flaming/flame/heineken/sella/or advice cause i've done something wrong, is welcome. thanks now i'm off to the hospital to get the stitches on my hand redone, gearbox crossmembers are sharp. points chart so far e30:10 points - anthony:2 points

just after the front seats for an e30. i have the rest of the interior just not matching fronts. black leather recaro/motorsport bucket style seats. fronts only, name a price cheers

do you have big feet/wear bulky shoes? this has happened to me quite a few times in my e30 when wearing my work boots

picture 8. that was some good weight training lifting the motor out. got there in the end though. dont forget to double check all the bolts i did up just incase

radiator hoses for m50 from an e34?

i'll never understand why people don't just park their car at the pump on the same side as the fuel cap. every time i go to fill up there's always some hero trying to do this. very lawl

hi brent if you're going to part out i'll buy the front black recaro's. i have the black leather rear seat and door cards but am missing the fronts. name your price. cheers

marks rusty FL diamanteschwarzmetallic M50 E30. meet your twin...in four door opinions on the side skirts? top piece is a hartge style and the bottom is marley classic spouting. i'm a plumbing apprentice you see, i can get you a good deal on it your car's looking good man. i'll try bring mine up to the hamilton meet, if i every get her finished

ok so what i presumed was a LSD was infact a locker. first clue was the subframe and diff mount nuts and bolts were hand tight. subframe and axles were dirty as hell yet the diff was spotless which made me think it had been out of the car, cleaned and welded. my plan now is to run with the open diff for a while and wait till a cheap LSD pops up. i dont want to have to pay $700-$1000 for one so i'll join the cue of e30 owners who are hoping to get lucky and pick one up from the wreckers who dont know sh*t about what they're worth. this guy who was a friend of a friend of a friends friend also had a "limited slip differential" out of an e32 735i with the early style hydrolic brake booster. surley im not blind but this one had 8 bolts on the diff output to alxe flange. would this be a 'large' case diff? ie: small case - 4, mid case - 6. does anyone know much about these larger case diffs?

thanks guys, i'll give it a go tomorrow and let you know how i get on. otherwise it'll be out with the mig cheers

anything to look for with the LSDs eg: wear and tear, missing teeth, spider gears welded? the diff outputs both spin the same way so i presumed it was a slippery, i'll just have to take it apart to double check it hasn't been locked

stupid question. is it possible to swap the center of a mid case LSD into the small case of an e30 diff? probably not but thought i would ask. and if not, can you swap to the whole mid case diff into an e30, odviously this would involve altering the subframe. but surely there's a way around that cause didn't some e30s come with mid case diffs? thanks

jimmy jimmy. no kidding dude congratulations thats a huge step. are you still up in wellington?

dude i've got some road markers if you want? stickers stripped and everything we'll make them this weekend

hahaha thanks for the support guys. definatly want to have it done for the hamilton meet or even any up coming wellington meets. i felt motivated today and made up the gearbox cross member, next step is to hook up all the coolant and vacuum lines, fill it up with fluids, plug and play with the loom and then it'll be skids on! jimmy. at some stage i want to take the car for a tour around the south island, it'll be good to catch up. cheers guys

wow thanks for the reminder, i totally forgot my birthday is on the 14th

use empty beer crates as the bases maybe if you have any hanging about

breather? mine isn't connected to anything. should it be?

pretty sure its a 10mm allen key (hex) head. should be able to get it from repco or supercheap. what sort of diff oil are you putting in? where abouts in wellington are you?

spotted an e30 323i hartge http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=wf2150 driving through karori tunnel in wellington just after work. an older professional sort of looking guy driving it. full kit and badges on it, carjam says its a 2.7 engine so no doubt it would be authentic

when i put mine in i had the hoist on the factory lifting point and an endless chain hooked onto a tab on the block at the back. that way i didn't have to jack the car up and i could get the right angle and pivot the engine and gearbox in piece of p*ss. roll the car back and forth as you need to to get it in. i took off the power steering pulley as i couldn't get it to clear. took me an hour 20minutes-ish by myself. it'll be much quicker and easier if you have some mates helping out. good luck

thanks guys, guess i'll be bypassing the valve then

started piecing the engine back together last night, hoses wires etc. and notice two hoses didn't go anywhere as if something was missing. posted a picture, looks like number 11 is missing on my engine. what is this part called? any help thanks

thanks glenn, my tool must be a 21mm then

thanks, i'll go see the dealer. next problem how do i get the old ones out? like i sed, my spark plug socket from my socket set won't fit into the spark plug barrel. kerry how'd you get on with yours? do i need the factory socket extension?