Funkyflynz

Interesting, do you recall which way you installed the clutch disk?  Flat side to the flywheel or gearbox?  

24 minutes ago, B.M.W Ltd said:

It's not the fork. As I've mentioned above it's the release bearing carrier. There are two different heights for these one is 10mm longer

Thanks for the reply, i just don’t understand why The release bearing that was supplied with the kit by NZAD isnt the correct length, so frustrating.  

im having the same problem with my NZAD kit (for my e36 m52b28)  The zf box im using previously had what i beleive was an M20 flywheel and clutch kit. Does anyone know if the m20 in a zf requires a m20 clutch fork? And if tje m20 clutch fork is different to what is used in the 36 zf’s?    Im wondering if perhaps this is the cause of my issue?

5 years later lol

Out of interest did these ever sell?

Hey mate, any chance you could give us a txt, i will give you a call anout the car 0279622621. 

Cheers

31 minutes ago, M3AN said:

I've never seen an e36 coupe with chrome upper window trim, interesting.

Cool project, what's wrong with the 328 if you got it for almost nothing?

 

The 328 had no radiator, my guess is expansion tank blew or the radiator blew.  Trans lines had been cut and all the oil was gone.  Motor seems to run ok, compression test shows all over 200psi, but im swapping the motor out, more on that later.

So after a ride in a mates championship winning drift car and a little taste of driving on the track with the M3 I decided to give drifting a shot, I sold something special from another project which hurt a great deal but I now have a budget which should cover buying, building and repairing a car and 6-7 events.

The goal is cheap and cheerful drifting, but as im not what I would call a good driver this is thinly disguised as "driver training" to my wife ;-)

Phase 1 - Buy a base...

There was only one car to start with in my mind, na E36 coupe.  I have always been a fan of them and they are cheap!  Once the decision was made I had a 328 silver coupe in my quiver, amazed by how cheap it was the search continued for another as a spare, within a week I had a 318 with a blown motor.  Spend - $300 total.   

Next up, Cant be bothered waiting...

Love this thread, good stuff bud.

Quick update, that little bit of track time got me hooked so the M3 has spent a large part of the last 6 months parked up as I work my way towards a drift car, with the odd 6 hours drive here and there :-) , after missing the group trip over the Gentle Annie I was determined to check it out.  I did treat it to a front set of Pilot Super Sports and a Sparco bucket, which made a world of difference!

On ‎6‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 5:54 PM, agent75 said:

4.5kg or 5kg. Real common fire extinguisher size. Got it for $10 at salvage yard

That's a great way to go, I paid $500 for an own your own bottle, the one advantage being its a swap bottle so I never have to cert it.   But its about $140 to swap for a full one from memory. 

I rented one off BOC for years, but cringed every month when I had to pay rental on two bottles.

Guys,

Planning to take the 2.8 and manual ZF trans out of an E36 sedan and drop it into a E36 coupe. The question I have is does the pedal box, clutch master cylinder, clutch lines, shifter etc from the sedan bolt straight into the coupe shell?

FYI I have two coupes I can use, one is a 328 auto, the other is a 318 auto. not sure if it makes a difference when doing a swap like this?

Appreciate any help.

Lee

Nice, looking forward to this build

On 10/25/2017 at 10:38 AM, M3_Power said:

If you are using BMWFlash just remember the dme will take a maximum of roughly 30 flashes before it locks up and stops flashing.

When MSSFlash was still around, till about two weeks ago, the tool used to be able to clear the flash counter again. But now it’s gone and no longer (thank goodness!! Can’t even count the number of times I’ve had to fix a dme because of that software) you are sh*t out of luck so to speak once you hit that flash counter.

I tried stage 1 and 3 of the burble over run, while it sounds cool on lift off and downshifts i would also backfire when upshifting, i found this annoying and almost as if it was slowing the engine, so i removed it.  Just running the shift lights, sports memory mode now.  6 flashes in total, 24 to go :-)

Had a great time at Powercruise Taupo back in Nov, 100's of cars various types and having the opportunity to roll race down the straight was pretty cool.  Spent most of the time hunting GTR's.  Being first time on the track with the M3 meant i was also able to get a good feel for the car and it highlighted an issue with understeer, the 225's on the front aren't a cheap tyre but theres simply not enough grip, im going to have to sort that out.  Had a ride in a series winning drift car too, that was quite the experience, thing was violent!  Interesting event in your interested in cars of all types.

Good luck with Alpine white mate, my favourite but hard to find.  Have you had an E46 M3 before?  theres a few things you want to check for other than km's and colour.

Nice catch mate

1 hour ago, CSET said:

sh*t how deep are the scratches mate??

Just rubber marks, genuine racing strips :-)

Brought a set of 17" 335 M Sport Rims to have a bit of fun with, reducing the rolling circumference will also help with torque   Photos might be a give away as to what happened next 

Nice one, what do you put the additional power and economy down to?

Have been playing around with BMWFlash and Ecuworx software, man its amazing what the community has put together out there.  Ive flashed the DME to enable shift lights like the CSL, disabled cat warmup, cat protection and tried the build journal burble overrun - stage 1 and 3, all this for about $30 worth of software and a $20 cable.  Plus i can put it back to stock anytime.  Worth a look if you have an E46 M3

On 10/10/2017 at 5:56 PM, Matth5 said:

Well I just had my resonators installed, and they pretty much reverse all the bad sound that comes from being catless. Still a bit more aggressive than before, but in a good way. It's that nice classic straight-6 engine sound.

Should work well for your M3 too  Maybe search for some videos online, I'll bet others have done the same and recorded it. 

Sweet, im going to run without for a few weeks, if my ears don't stop bleeding i will throw in a single resonator to see what that does.  Cheers.

Replaced the plugs and coils tonight, apparently if one goes then the others aren't far behind, plugs looked in good condition so happy to see that.  Test drive felt like a little more power and less hesitation, a couple of hills where it would normally start to lumber and change down it keep the same gear which was interesting.  Easy job, 45mins.

Does it feel any different after the freshen up?  

At close to 100k miles thought it a good time for a valve lash inspection, the motor sounds good i.e no noisy tappet sounds so was hoping everything would be within spec and it was, intakes were all .007-.009 and the exhaust .011-.013.  If anyone wants to borrow my tools and shim set let me know.  The biggest issue was removing the fan, man that thing was on tight and the fan removal tool i brought was bending under the pressure and started to strip the nut, so brought a proper 32mm spanner which did the trick along with some good penetrating lube.  Planning on ditching the mechanical fan for an electric unit as they have been know to disintegrate and destroy radiators, dent the hood etc.