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manual swap and cylinder head swap on m50 e36 vert, last piece is knocking vanos sound. Posted vid on the vanos play on e36 fb group.

Any help would be much appreciated Cheers!

Does anyone have some lying around? cant seem to get them, lost few washer due to moving place.

New head stud doesn't come with washer.

and timing guide bought one for m52 instead ??

ordered through quill (a friend works there) Thanks all!

Hi can anyone help with stockist for gaskets? needing the timing cover gaskets, rear main seal gasket

Timing cover gasket

pn : 11141720638 + 11141720639

Rear crank seal: 11141432240

Vanos gasket: 11361740840

Exhaust Mani: 11621728984

All good, not too much hands on exp. But i studied automotive to level 7 grad. Not a mechanic but know my ways around tools too. 3 years mechanic shop experience in general service and parts replacements. 

TBH,  Never did a full engine rebuild, this gonna be my first. did a 2000 mondeo wagon last year pickapart engine was alright. 

Started to think the s52 swap would be worth it. Since rebuilding gaskets gonna be exp anyway. 3-5k budget and time frame could be long as its not my main car. Just wanting to make this car a summer car. 

Was that you with the s52 engine? 

On 5/7/2020 at 12:57 PM, BM WORLD said:

no plug and play then just remap the ecu ,

use all your electrics and manifolds from your 325i vanos engine 

Nah not for now i think, just needed cylinder head and Manual conversion for now. also find out that the locknut aren't there in the car. dang.

any suggestion? wanting to change tie rod and because it moves and will probably fail wof. rear shock found leaking on one side too.

Thanks for the help!!

Yeah so found this on Fb before the lockdown. running, sounding, and drives all good, drove it to my friend place and on the way there it started overheating. found theres a crack on top rad hose mounting plastic on the radiator (bubble soap water method). So i bleed the system and use jb weld stick (obviously doesnt really work, half assed this one my bad). when i tried to bleed them but only steam through bleed screw, seems like the water didnt get to the engine. so i jack up front and fill coolant on to top hose so the coolant goes straight to engine (thermostat removed by prev owner), start the engine and it started lumping and engine sounds funny and started to have heaps of white smoke and pools of water on exhaust. did comp test and find cylinder reading not consistent, and low.

opened the head and cleaned the head and saw all that crack and deteriorated head gasket. so now finding another head and gasket. i know that alu head probably the cause of these crack because of their heat capability. I will check the roundness of the cylinder (vernier caliper on 6 or 8 points on each cyl) and if thyere flat, but its a small chance of them being cooked too right knowing they're cast block? 

4 hours ago, BM WORLD said:

single vanos ? have a mate with 3.2L s52b32 from a us spec m3  , would bolt straight in $3000 for the engine 

gonna be a big job wiring wise?

Im doing it myself

Hi all, New member here. 

Just got myself an e36 150ks 325i Convertible.

Overheated and opened with cracked head on cyl 2,3,4. Leaking trans (Manual swap if anyone have one for sale)

Anyone selling? checking on TM atm.

Any other stuff i need to worry about? 

Auckland

Thanks!