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From what I understand e30 and e36 diffs have the same 4 bolt input flange

Got a message from the panelbeater tonight that the cad was done. Went and fetched it after work, wasted no time as I was quite excited to have it back. Hired a trailer and jumped in the touareg to collect it. overall very happy with how it looks, yes there are some minor imperfections if you’re being very picky but for the money I paid you absolutely cannot complain. Rust hole is fixed (they chopped a piece of the cowl out to access it, then welded it back in and painted it blending up the a pillar), rust holes in firewall fixed, rust around boot seal lip fixed and painted, as well as entire engine bay/front structure painted. All of that cost half of what another shop had quoted for just the engine bay paintwork. next up I need to waterblast the underside of the car, strip out all the suspension and under seal the whole underside. If anyone has any reccomendations for a good underseal product that can be applied via brush/roller that would be much appreciated, unfortunately don’t have anywhere where I can spray.

Definitely would also prefer an m3 for that money. While it is not to my taste in anyway it appears to be done to a decent standard at least. On a side note, I had a look at kiwiplates the other day and they no longer seem to offer the bmw branded euro plates.

Would you consider selling parts separately? ive got a box already but need a driveshaft, clutch line, to use in my m52 e30. I understand an e36 328 driveshaft is what I require.

The chrome windscreen lockstrip? the manual shift boot for the Center console. have got pedal box sorted. cheers

Looking for some parts to complete my m52b28. Looking for a throttle body (simplest one possible will be going in a manual e30 so don’t need asc, cruise control, or whatever else). Intake boot to match, as well as the hose to connect the ICV to the boot. Maf to suit as well. As well as any other vacuum lines etc that I may need. closer to Aucklands north shore the better. cheers.

Made some more progress, engine is starting to look like an engine lots of bits back on now. Front sump swap done, new lower temp thermostat, waterpump, waterpump pulley, thermostat housing, tensioner, idler, belt. Power steering pump and oil filter housing back on too, as well as knock sensors etc. Will be deleting throttle heater and using the feed port from the head for the e30 dash temp sensor, have one with the correct e30 plug and m52 thread pitch. Just need to find some shorter bolts for the crank pulley now that I’m not using the AC pulley. car is still at the panelbeaters for a week or two but they’ve made some progress which is good. Next up to figure out the whole intake manifold assembly with icv, pcv, Evap etc.

Right Sweet as will try make it work, although I do have an e34 one on the way now.

Do it, I’ll buy the diff off you

Don’t have the space or time unfortunately

Only selling as complete package or willing to split? Interested in the diff. already have m52, zf box, sump etc

Same when I put my 135i up for 65k one day

Keeping busy working on the m52 while the car is at the panelbeaters. Even managed to get some free labour, my girlfriend helped me over the weekend and we got the valve cover back on with a fresh gasket a couple dots of rtv and some freshly zinc coated oem hardware. Pulled the sump off, wire tied the oil pump nut. Realised I’ve got the wrong oil pick up, traded it for the one I’m after which should be here Friday. Chopped the rear sump oil pickup support bracket off the windage tray to make the front sump fit. Picked up the engine with the crane to get access to the rear of it and replaced the rear main seal. Back on the stand now, ready to sort out the sump situation. Just need to figure out what to do about the dipstick tube, the one I’ve got doesn’t look quite right. Also drew up and waterjet cut a little oil lever sensor delete plate out of some 10mm aluminium. Sealed on with some rtv, was too lazy to mill an oring groove. i do have a spare one of these as well if anyone is looking for a solution to the hole in their oil pan, oem version is NLA. Hopefully get some more work on the engine done this weekend. If anyone has the correct dipstick tube + dipstick for a front sump for an m52 let me know.

car looks great!

Finally got things moving with the e30. Fixed the touareg last week, so hired a trailer, rolled the e30 out the garage and down the driveway, loaded it up and took it to the panelbeater. It’ll be there for 2-3 weeks getting the rust hole fixed, the engine bay resprayed and the boot lip area rust will be sorted as well. picked up an engine crane off my mate, and made a start on the m52 refresh. Did the vanos rebuild last night, took a couple attempts to get the bearing preload right but not too bad. Reinstalled that hopefully it all works nicely. so far plan is to replace rear main and it’s housing gasket, sump gasket, valve cover gasket, oil filter housing gasket. Wire tie oil pump nut, delete the oil level sensor from the e34 oil pan, and do fresh oem pcv System. Anything else that’s work doing? Do the front timing covers ever leak? Seems like a bit of a pain to do with it being jammed up under the head gasket.

Sweet as I’ll take a look at your thread

Right ok, yeah car won’t be going near the track, have the 135i for that. Which supplier did you go with? Anyone in particular you’d reccomend.

Sweet as that’s good to hear, would you recommend going with the offset LCA bushings? Also thinking of getting the raised rear subframe bushings as the car will be lowered.

Been a bit slack with this project recently, trying to come up with a plan for rust etc, and needing to figure out what’s going on with the gearbox in my touareg. anyway, decided to let a panelbeater sort out the rust/engine bay paint work, so the car will be getting dropped off for rust repairs to the rust hole under the cowl, rust around the boot shut, and full engine bay respray after Anzac weekend. then I will begin working on the engine refresh in the meantime now that all the parts have arrived from overseas. also picked up a purple tag steering rack and cleaned it up, should sort out the bus like steering feel of these e30s. Thanks for the suggestions regarding the gearbox detents, spoke to Kayne Barrie, and will get him to sort that out for me, get him to give it a good look over at the same time. He’s doing “all stuff” as he calls it for $300 so I’m pretty happy with that, I will trust his judgement on what needs doing and what doesn’t. managed to snag a manual pedal box and some new tailight lenses as well as a dash mat last week for it too. E30 part pricing is so wildly all over the show that it really pays to be patient and keep an eye out for a deal. Had multiple people tell me they wouldn’t sell me a pedal box for less than $800, ended up picking mine up for $120. So much money to be saved if you can find a seller that doesn’t charge e30 tax.

Right makes sense, unfortunately I’ve already got 80A poly engine mounts as they make mounting the m52 much easier/better. Will most likely do 80A poly for control arms, rtab, swaybars, and subframe then and oem rubber for diff and trans.

Looking to order some replacement bushings for my e30 in the near future, want to do the whole lot. Looking online almost everything appears to be poly or delrin. Now I’ve got some solid UHMW bushings in my 135i and it’s noisy and rattly which i don’t mind so much in that car as it’s uncomfortable anyway. however the e30 I am building as a result of this, it’s meant to be a nice comfortable sporty street car, getting an m52b28 and a zf box. Question is has anyone had any experience with the 80a poly suspension bushings? Are they still quite soft and quiet like oem, they are marketed as OEM+, with apparently no increase in NVH, would just like some first hand experience though. cheers! picture of said e30 in its current state.

I believe this to be the owner, genuine bmw enthusiast and builds cars to a high standard. The s65 swap 1m clone he has built speaks for itself. https://www.instagram.com/_restowen_?igsh=MWI4YmV0d2hkYWd2Yw==

That is a beautiful car, mtech 1 by the looks of it. I’m currently in the process of building something very similar, m52b28 swap into a pfl e30 Sedan, but a light blue color.

Right no worries, if they’re the same size then that’s all good, should be big enough car will never see the track. I guess just pull whichever ones are the least corroded/in the best shape particularly as far as handbrake cables etc are concerned. Sweet that sounds good I’m in no particular rush so no stress.

Just after one set, want to ditch the drum brakes on my pfl 320i. So I’d need calipers, arms, handbrake/cables assembly etc everything required for a disc brake swap. I’d imagine the 320i would have bigger brakes so maybe the ones off that? where abouts are you located?