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You could take the seats out, and sill trim that retains the carpet and try lift it up bit to get some airflow under it. Chuck a dehumidifier in the car and see how it goes. Unfortunately the carpet has some pretty thick foam under neath it that holds water really well.

Reselling it to make profit because he saw an opportunity is being a dick is it?

Good on him.

I dunno i found the difference to be quite noticeable. Given all the weights in the front. Even sticking a passenger in the back seat was noticeable. This isn't just toodling around town, but on the track.

Can confirm its noticeably different to drive, thats between a heavy m50 and lighter m52 alloy block. What ever the weight difference of that is.

I have a few sets of wheels I need to do the same to so will be following with interest.

Yeah have seen a couple 3 liters sh*t the bed from it. You can kinda feel it when you rev them high it doesn't feel right, they don't like it.

Revved my m50nv to 7200 for years, no problems. But it was the model that had oil pump chain tensioner standard.

They are pretty snappy and like to flick you the other way in stock trim 😂

Utes and everything else are the same. People are waiting 6 months for new hiluxes and then selling them for 15 to 20k more than they paid for them

Easy to use and cheap. Wouldn't hesitate to use again

I have a m50nv head and cams.. as well as extra intake cam kicking around somewhere. Ill have to check its condition as it wasn't stored very well and may have gone rusty 😪

A friend and me did the cage, actually he did most the work and I assisted. He has done a few cages before, and has a lot more patience than me with such fiddly things.

Plastic flares are temporary until I decide to either build or buy some m3 style flares.. Dont really like the tablet style dash anymore, so will revert back to standard E30 style, and try find some interior parts to put back in.. Kind of regret stripping it out so much and cutting it up so much.

Long time, no update. A lot has changed on the car how ever. I see tinypic has conveniently disposed of most the photos. Pulled the M50 out as it dropped compression in cyl 6, down to about 90 psi due to corrosion of the bore, must of been sitting with coolant in it after been parked up for a long time. I suspect it might of got a bit hot during a drunken hamilton style burnout then parked up and the cylinder filled up with coolant potentially, that was the last time it was driven for maybe a year so would of been sitting like that for awhile. Replaced it with an M52B28, tidied it up with new gaskets and ARP head studs. 6 point roll cage, tig welded, and rear strut towers reinforced. Left it NA for a bit and drifted it like that... Reinstalled the old turbo setup the from the M50 on to the M52. New intake manifold. Made a new wiring loom, quick disconnect firewall connector, DR25 etc etc. New fuel setup, removed the stock fuel tank to make room for side exit exhaust. Fuel cell and surge tank in the boot, had terrible fuel starvation problems when approaching half tank with the standard setup. Still running the DTA S80 ECU. Have been running it on E85. But have also installed a water meth kit for when E85 is unavailable so can run regular pump gas or ethanol, mix it with castor oil for extra smell factor. Extended control arms in the front and SLR lock kit. In the rear have converted to true coil over setup, trailing arm bushings removed and changed to monoball bearings along with camber and toe adjusters. Trailing arms reinforced. Front and rear converted to 5 stud. Exhaust is 3", basically straight through with the longest resonator I could fit. 17x8 and 17x9 BBS wheels. Still a lot to do. Photos in no particular order, including some older ones that have gone missing from tiny pic. Will get some proper updated pics once I get back out to the car.

Not much more info, sitting in a garage at the bottom of the south island for the last 5 years. Might go down and make a road trip of bringing it back up these ways in a month or two and will assess what to do with it then.

I've had debt collection letters before from nzta for leaving a car with no rego for too long. Guess they are scared you're gonna let it lapse and not back pay it. They've been getting worse and worse theiving barstards.

Yeah fair enough, would have to dig out my old dynapack chart

Interesting. I wasn't sure of the link between the the HMW logo and cuckold symbology so Googled cuckold symbol, but only found images of black bulls and micro penises. Can you please elaborate, sounds like it could be good for a laugh. We are overdue for a good bimmersport drama.

Hardly worth comparing those two dyno sheets. Look at the torque correction factors, they are both wildly different. Look at the torque on the dynapack, its got more humps in it than a cardi b music video. If I remember correctly this was because of belt slip, its hard to get enough belt wrap with the smaller pulleys. We got it sorted in the end. Probably still a can of belt grip lying around in the boot of the car. The brackets were made as per your design so should be exactly the same. As I said, he didn't have any problems with them. I just didn't like the pick up points it used and how wobbly it seemed. Pretty sure its always had the same motor in it. Also note that the car is running e85 to get those numbers. Hey the car went well, and was pretty reliable.. other than the sc14 failing often. As you said, they are an old unit and unless you buy a brand new one they are expected to fail, especially when spinning them above rated speed. But they aren't worth spending anymore than $300 on whether its new or second hand because at the 300whp mark or so they are tapped out and running well out of their rated design. Interesting to know what they are coated in if you happen to know? I haven't had one apart to inspect. By the looks of it your kits have come along way from some of the first iterations.

I think Glenn might be on to it with spigot bearing being the wrong size.. Unless of course you checked it beforehand..

Oil coming out of the sump on fire is a good one ! Had a few interesting ones, all paddock bashers. Honda civic hatch back, carby model. Revved its tits off while we threw stones and dirt down the carb. Flywheel exploded and took the bellhousing and starter with it. Another honda, rev limiter until engine caught fire. Ran it over and crushed it with a digger the next day. Old VK commodore with Bluetop 202 motor, drained all the oil out and put a couple liters or petrol in the sump hoping for it to spin a bearing, never did. Had the valve cover off and standing on top of the rockers holding valves open while its at full rev hoping for a valve to kiss a piston but never did. 3SFE Toyota corona, back yard hack job we put a turbo on. Went really well till it melted a piston and shot the dipstick out and coated the windscreen in oil. Down to pick a part, brought a replacement piston, swapped it in, re used the old head gasket. Started first pop and lived to see a few more thrashings.

Haha yeah that was awesome. I'm not sure if it was them but I think someone tryed wooden pistons as well?

I tryed really hard to blow up a few engines in my time, hoping for them to throw a leg out of bed but they never did.

Has anyone managed to repair the teflon on the coated rotors of any of these super chargers? I have a TX20 (SC20) that needs attention.