e46v12
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oh Nice be good to see some updates on your build too.
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Hey Nathan No that one was parted out straight away, i took the running gear and sold on the rolling body due to the amount of rust. This is my original build from the very start along with the 540i wagon. Hows your wagon coming along?
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So the end of a chapter with my 1st e34 as she has been officially sold tonight. Sad to see it go but glad someone else can appreciate her. Advertised for 1day on trade me and shes been snatch up. Maybe the new buyer is a member of the group too? Sorry for all the photo's its more for memories for me
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Hey Team hope you all had a good weekend. So got into the front end of the e34 sedan, i was only going to swap the adjusties out but at a closer inspection the thrust arms were split so deicded to just change the whole front bushings out. It was abit tricky trying to figure out how to split the ball joints off the bracket piece that held everthing together as there was heaps of movement when i was going to town on it with a hammer. Once all off just eye balled the new steering links to roughly the same length as old one and bolted it all back together. Taking it in for a wheel alignment and WOF tomorrow then if all good to go onto trade me its going. But the best part of the weekend was picking up these Got the 2 x custom flywheel and clutch packages back. Now hopfully will start getting in the x5 4.6is manual swap! Bit of info on the set up. M62 auto ring gear machined steel flywheel to accept nissan pressure plate (still need to weight it) 3000lb nissan pressure plate Custom 5 puk disc with m3 centre spline Custom release bearing carrier to accept nissan release bearing. So the reason behind this was to make an affordable upgrade able to source from NZ. Friction surface is bigger by 10mm at 250mm compared to bmw 240mm clutches used in the m3/m5 and the release bearing is only $40 to replace which gets pressed into the carrier. Greg at MP Auto said with his tourqe calculator he roughly worked out that this setup could handle 800nm which is more than enough for me. So cant wait to starting fitting this up to the X5. Thanks Richard
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@Gaz I know the feeling sometimes you just dont know where to start so you procrastinate, but just allocate yourself a day or even a couple hours over the weekend and chip away at little things. Next thing you know that big job wont seem so big I love wrenching though, I pretty much do it every weekend.
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Hey Team so finally got onto the e34 sedan and changing the bushings and other componets. Once i had the car lifted I had a good look around. The rear bushings were definietly in need of replacing but the fronts are still pretty tight with next to no play so decided to leave the front and attack the rear. You tube is a great thing. watched this Aussie guy demostrate how to do a backyard bushing replacement with out a press and worked a treat. place a tube aproxment size of bushing, place it on top and use the weight of the car plus a blow tourch to drop the busing out. Reuse the weight of the car to reinstall bushing. Also changed the dog bones and swap bar links, as you can see the old dog bones were wasted. Next step I will be refitting the Monroe shocks and H&R springs then putting her on the market with fresh WOF and REGO Time to let her go to fund the other projects.
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I haven't yet but it will be going into my e46 wagon with the other m60b44 swap. just trying to clear some cars to get more funding for the custom intake plenums for it.
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Good choice on the amg and no worries at all, good luck with the search Phil.
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Hi Phil I know your ad says wagon but i am looking at putting up for sale my e34 540i sedan manual if you are interested? alot has been done to it mechanicly wise. Pm me if your keen and i can send you some more info Thanks Richard
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Hey Team Hope everyone had a nice long weekend, I made the most of it and made a start to the x5 4.6is manual swap. Manged to get both autos out of the blue and silver x5's and refitting the silver one with the good trans. Shes up and running now like a dream, while i wait for the flywheel and clutch kit to get back to start the rest of the manual swap for the blue x5. I will be pulling the motor out at some point to replaces the timing chain guides and any other seals that need replacing. Thanks Richard
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Hey Nathan Eddie the old owner made the exhaust from the factory headers back. So when Austin made his headers for me i just said weld some vbands on the ends and connect to existing exhaust, i didnt click to get them taken out. I also didnt realise they were bmw cats till it was too late. i thought they were some type of coby style muffler. But in saying that its a nice rumble but not to crazy loud. so works well for me. id say it would be alot more different if cats were gone.
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@Creaver Hi Ian from headers back it goes into by the looks factory cats then right after that a 2 into 1 collector into a 3inch with a aftermarket muffler. With the cats out in may sound even better/louder but i like it how it is as its not too droning when driving. yours is starting to look like its almost done too.
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Hey Team Long time no post, well Happy new years I cant believe we are already 11 days in. so have had a few things going on that werent really related to this build but still bimmer related. Me and Conrad coverted this to manual and flicked it off to help get some more funds for these other builds. But also got these Hamman custom 3 piece wheels finally finshed, they were meant to be for the other e34 car, Unfortunately the didnt fit due to the offset. Fronts et0 and rears et-5 so now i will be putting them on the m3. Also done some work to the e46 wagon v8. I changed the mags to some Mpars. fixed a few electrical issues with the fan, ordered a oil catch to catch the oil and vapour coming from the drysump oil reservoir. replaced the steering rack with a purple tag due to the old one having quite a bit of play , new front lower control arm bushings. But long story short I said to Conrad last year whos into his drifting with his e36 sedan. I'll get my car up and ready for the next drift event that you enter if you get yours ready. This was to help him get motived to get his car up to scratch as well. So i stick to my word and after speaking to a few drifters they recommend a welded diff. There was no way in hell i was going to weld the m3 diff so managed to score a rolling body 330i sedan from Beemwr. I took the whole rear end which i will be swapping into the wagon at some point and getting the diff welded. Conrad took the front brakes for his car. So thats we are so far, once i get the wagon drivable again ill do a proper sound clip of the exhaust. Thanks Team
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Hey Team Long time no post, well Happy new years I cant believe we are already 11 days in. so have had a few things going on that werent really related to this build but still bimmer related. Me and Conrad coverted this to manual and flicked it off to help get some more funds for these other builds. Also managed to get these wheels all finished up and bolted together. So i measured the offset and the fronts are et0 and the rears are et-5 so i tried them on the e34 sedan and there is no way they will fit under the guards sad to say they will be going onto the m3 instead now. But good news now is i'm starting the next stage of the m62tub46 motor swap into the wagon. I will be taking the motor out of the car and replacing alot of parts, but also reusing the auto trans and placing it into the silver x5 that had a broken trans. I'll be giving that ride to my parents to use. But the exciting part is I will be reusing the 4.6is x5 body and swapping in a 4.4 motor with a 420g box behind it. So hopfully have a rwd 6 speed x5 So with the flywheel i got from brents old red e34 car. Its a single mass JBR lighten flywheel, the game plan is I'm getting MP Auto in Upper Hutt to make 2 more custom flywheels using the 2 auto ring gears as you can see, pretty much copy the JBR one but machining the pressure plate side of the flywheel to accept a Nissan RB pressure plate. Reason behind this is to have a cheaper better alternative clutch kit set up. Better clamp force with the RB pressure plate and bigger 250mm friction surface than the bmw 240mm. Greg at MP auto will also be reusing the 2 x m3 centres out of the friction plates and mate them with a RB outer disc. You may be wondering why 2 flywheels? One is for the x5 manual build and one for the e34 wagon 4.6is manual build. so next few weekends will be pulling part the two auto's form the x5's THanks Team
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Hey Team small update. Nice sunny day for a photo. so finally got these Hamann custom 3 piece wheels ready to piece back together. sent it away to get dustless blasted as i just didnt have time to use my small sand blaster. so spent yesterday and today cleaning, polishing and painting the wheel barrels, also had the centres powder coated. Will assemble next weekend to allow paint to cure.
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Hey Team So finally got the car back last Saturday from auto sparky, I knew this was the issue the day after i dropped it off. I completely forgot to add the postive wire from brake switch to the ews box. I told him to do this and it fired up. But while it was there he wired up the electric water pump and a few other little things. Over the last two weeks ive pretty much got it 98% of being completed. got the front m3 brakes all on now. Spent the most of yesterday making this Air box with Juvy. ( Him making it, me watching) So will need to take the whole car to an engineers to help fab up the intake and route it to the air box. Had to put these wheels on as the 19's tyres were rubbing on the rears. And lastly fitted to this new solid mount shifter i brought from bmspeedshop local company in NZ. So car is driveable and man shes quick, 1st and 2nd are o.k but 3rd is where it hits. also finally managed to get a stationary sound clip. The ticking sound is the dry sump pump which goes away after a few mins and the noise was 10 x lounder than the video. Enjoy team
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Hey Team another productive weekend. Got the machined front disc and carriers back. Alloy rad also modded with filler neck and alloy overflow bottle, Bleed all the brakes and clutch system. Had to get the car going and ready as i dropped it off today down the the auto sparky, he going to attck the start issue and few other little things like wire in electric water pump. But other than that she should be good to go once done. My mate Conrad came over to help me load the car onto the trailer, i didnt know how this was going to go but started the car by bridging the starter lowered it off the hoist and mangered to drive it onto the trailer, i dont know why but cant remember what the car sounded like as i think i was more worried about the car itself. But Conrad has helped me with all the other car builds so knows the v8 rumble quite well. He said this one has a nice particular throatier sound. So cant wait to be able to drive and get a good sound clip so i can hear what it sounds like too. Also didnt help we were rushing as it was pouring down with rain. Ran into a few hiccups as you do, so found that the brake carrier still needs to be machined another 3mm off as it was fowling on the brake so had to blt the factory ones back on to get to drivable. I will get them redone during the week. Also one of my clients works in a panel beater shop for trucks and does alot of fibre glassing. We got talking and hes going to help me make a custom airbox utilizing the factor 6 cylinder ones. Ill also get a custom intake pipe to redirect the intake to go the the passger side. Will get more done with this once i have the car back. Thanks Team
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Thanks @Creaver Ian hows your manifolds coming along? let me know the sequence you get them on the motor too, save me a few hours trying Any how another weekend update, not much visually done but alot in respect to getting the thing driveable. Got the pedal box and clutch line in, (what a bloody mish that was) being upside down for a couple hours. Changed the diff oil . Rolled the guards Mocked up the alloy rad to make sure i knew what i needed to be welded from the Engineers, mainly a filler neck and overflow bottle. Took the brakes off the m3 and also will be going to the same engineers to get the carriers machined down by 5-6mm to fit the wagons hubs and disc to get skimmed too. So car is up and running but unable to start it with the key, once i get this wiring problem sorted ill get the exhust clip up. but untill then i cant move the car off the hoist as ill have no way of starting it on the ground. I have an auto sparky mate that works in another town that will be popping in two weeks time. Hopfully get it sorted by then. Thanks Team
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Hey Nathan Yeah i do have a redline twin core alloy one i was going to use but is a manual car one and doesnt have an expansion tank feed hole. But tried again tonight with some othe plastic bits and different rad but still leaking. So most likely go and get the redline alloy modify to suit instead of trying to get the factory 4 cyclinder one to work. will also have to change the powersteering cooling system to something else too.
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Hey Team She is offically alive! what a long weekend from motor on the engine stand to fully in the car up and running. As always never goes as smoothly as you think, so many hurdles while putting the motor back in. started off good resetting the self adjusting pressure plate, bolted PMC flywheel, puck disc and pressure plate on, bolted 390z box on and then dropping it into the car. That was the easy part, I knew the exhaust was going to be tough to put in but man took me roughly 3-4 hours on each bank to fit. im just going to type the order out just for my own info just incase i need to redo it. Passger side: starter off, work from front to back loosely have nuts on to able to fit 2nd section, do up nuts Driver side: Undo steering shaft bolts. Cylinder 4 top nut loosely on. cylinder one in no nut. cylinder 2 fully tight bottom nut, loose top nut. cylinder 3 top nut fully tight, bottom nut loose. fit remainder nuts on loose. slip fit 2nd section and do up remainder nuts. This is why it took so long. Took me 3 goes to figure out this was the order it had to go in or it wasnt going to work. Driverside being the worst. Also fitted some adjustable lower control arms. Mounted the electric water pump in. Also converted the trans cooler to a power steering cooler. So once all done and wired back up. Gave the key a turn but nothing happened. dash lights came on radio worked but nothing starting. Called up Gee ( mechanic mate) to pop around and after a few minutes of looking around. He bridged the starter with a screw driver and it fired up. So will need to find out why the ignition is not telling the starter to kick in. But then there was more, once car was running for a bit it had 3 major water leaks. One from Radiator, one from water pump area and one at the rear watercoolant pipe area. So spent last night and abit of today swapping back to factory cooling system Got everything back in place and fired it up. no leaks other than the radiator. Both water pump and coolant pipe had little pin holes where it had been wielded when modified. Happy to see no oil leaks though. So hopefully find a new radiator setup finish off putting pedal box in and roll the guards this weekend then she should be all done. once i get it running with no leaks ill do a exhaust clip for you guys too. Thanks
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very small update Scored this 750i large case 3.15 lsd diff off a fellow e34 enthusiast over the weekend, will be used in the wagon build. Also sorted some tyres for the Mpars I did a quick test fit on one side of the car to see what they looked like. Filled out the guards abit more than the style 135 tempted to get them powder coated white
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I know right, something about nice shiny things and thanks for the heads up @zero nathan ill pop a box under neath to take a bit of the weight off the mounting points.
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Hey Team So getting nearer to getting this wagon running again. Very productive weekend, drove all the way to Putaruru and scored myself a 750i large case lsd diff 3.15 ratio. This will be going into the e34 wagon. But the cool thing was i tagged along to visit a guy also into e34's his name was Ryan. Had 6 e34's sitting around! such a nice humble guy gave me this puck disc which looks almost brand new. But onto the main stuff managed to get this motor pretty much ready to drop back in. Just waiting on the clutch and we are good to go. Also going to install electric water pump so all i have to do is bolt the supercharger in place once ready. Modified water pump and cooling system to work with the electric water pump. Putting it all back together. also heard a rattle in the intake took the PCV cover off the back and found this loose. cool thing is it the older model intake with the trumpets on it.
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Hey team So managed to get some more work done over the weekend. Got the front timing covers on, valve covers finally cleaned and painted, dropped my flywheel and clutch set up along with a mates to MP auto hopefully Greg and his team can make a custom setup to handle the supercharger and my mates drifting abuse. Also toyed around with the idea of flipping the supercharger upside down. Austin mentioned that the AMG guys have trouble with heat soak due to intercooler sitting in the valley pan area. It actually could work, now top mount intercooler, cut off AMG intakes and fab up a custom intake plenums to connect straight from the intercooler outlets which would solve the adapter plate issue which wasn't going to be cheap to machine up and the R&D to figure dimensions was going to be hard too.
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Hey Team so finally got some time to get on to this wagons dry sump motor. Gave the short block and heads a good final clean and quite chuffed on how it turned out. Also managed to get the heads torqued down with new gasket and head bolts thanks to @francoisv hope to have the rest of it done by next weekend.
