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you should get out there and cut that rust out, even if it turns to sh*t its good practice and its fun welding things DTA s80 www.dtafast.co.uk I had a few issues a long the way, the rust wasnt expected. A bent rear trailing arm and bent subframe meant I had to pull it all out and do it again. Turns out you cant fit ABS axles in non abs trailing arms without removing the ABS ring first either. The car left me stranded in tauranga a few weeks ago with a squealing front wheel bearing on a sunday night. Didnt want to risk the drive home in case it locked up. So left the car there and shot over on anzac day and replaced the bearing. I got a few issues to sort out before hitting the dyno and giving it a proper tune as I've only road tuned it at the moment and I want to turn the boost up and use boost by rpm to keep torque as flat as possible. I need to sort out some fuel problems, the stock fuel pumps arent keeping up anymore or they are at the end of their life. I have the stupid dual pump setup which seems to be a pain in the ass to upgrade, a single in tank walbro pump would be nice, not having to deal with an external pump and then a lift pump as well. But how the fuel lines currently are dont really make that easy. Or i can go right out with a bosch external 044, redo the lines, new lift pump etc. But that seems like a lot of work and i just wanna drive it at the moment. Does anyone know about upgraded brakepads for E30's? Hawke, pagid? Where to buy them from? What do the e30 series guys run?

Got some new batterys for the gopro cam on their way, old one is stuffed from sitting un-used for so long. Would of been a good vid last weekend, bonnet up with a friend checking the wastegate was working properly while i was doing a burnout Oh yeah... I wasnt aware of the E23 one, I'm not sure how it would survive the heat of the turbo been so close though. A cool thing with the astra pump is it has two pump outlets, switch the polarity of power to the pump and it pumps out the opposite out let. Maybe I could have some squirters out the side as a party trick for pesky pedestrians.... Or maybe an intercooler sprayer. I will admit, it is a pain in the ass to try and fill when its in the boot. I had the lady at the BP service station ask me "I gotta ask, why the hell were you pouring water in your boot?"

Yes that is not even the start of the welders, there is a few hundred sitting in the room across

Changed the headlights over to some smileys and cut up the front valence to fit around the intercooler. Engine bay pretty much complete I made up some seat rails and put some black bucket seats in, didnt really get any pictures of that I dont think. I took it out for a drive to whangamata a couple of weeks ago since I've never been there! Real cool drive out there no shennanigans as it was overboosting 30+psi at the time. A pic from the beach. I've got a mint valence to stick on with fog lights and put on an "is" lip when I get around to cutting it up to fit which will tidy up the front. And some new plates that arent all bent up should tidy up the front.

Yup, E34 V8 one mounted to firewall is what I use. If you use it, you need to get the mounting bracket that goes with it. I lightly slot the holes in the bracket so it moves the booster down and across, then do the same to the firewall. My booster sits pretty much right against the strut tower and about 1 inch clearance between booster and manifold. Slotting it isnt a big deal, only takes 10mins.

Well I've got a ODB1 405 ECU and air flow meter here I'm never gonna use, but that wont run your vanos. Moving it sounds like a bit of work, be interesting to see what you come up with. I've used E32 / E34 vacuum boosters on every setup I've done, but they are becoming a bit hard to find now. The brakes are much better than standard with the larger master cylinder and it pretty much bolts right in, just need to make some new brake lines and I like to run it through a proportioning valve as it can brake a bit hard in the rear at times. Theres a 94 520i at mangere pick a part, could be a good donor for ODB1 parts (loom, ecu etc), just reflash the ECU to 325 eeprom.

Have you decided if you're going odb1 or odb2? Once you have all the parts, it's an easy conversion. What are you doing for brake booster?

Well the cars been running and I've been driving it around for the last couple of weeks. As always rust turned out to be worse than what it appeared to be, so I ended up cutting bits of the floor out and welding in new patches. I put coilovers / adjustables in the front, replaced the control arms / balljoints, new swaybar links and rackends / tierods and a larger swaybar. Engine wise I would of liked to go with an M62, but in the end I would always want more power and getting that from a NA M62 would be expensive. I've done a few m50 swaps in the past, so I put an m50 in it and to make up for the lacking hp added a turbo. Im not very good at taking pictures of projects while im working on them but I've got a few ill upload later. The LSD is also starting to get a bit lazy with the extra power through it, so some extra clutches will be in its future.

you've prob got a different gearbox, 260 vs a 240 or some thing.

Do every one a favor and remove those tail lights from existence.

yeah it is a m badge.

Spotted this... Old E24 sitting on someones lawn?

anyone got a genuine one they're looking to sell?

Not too much wrong with megasquirt... You can have a $10k ECU and it will still play up if the install is poor.

Had a cheap one $20 one from the warehouse, couldnt kill it too easily.... survived the swimming pool test. Burnt it out a few days later, took it back and got a replacement one.

You must be gutted, my condolences.

Relisted on trademe.

From what I read yesterday the dude was already dead, and they werent even sure the shark had killed him or if he was dead before hand.

A shark is killed / shot at because it killed a person who was swimming in its habitat? There are people who kill babies / stick them in clothes dryers and dont even get similar punishment. The world is f**ked.

heh... sucks about the driveshaft loop. I got away with just one

Still for sale. Make an offer if you can pick up ASAP.

Thats why I run 7 instances of zonealarm, highly unlikely they will all fail at the same time. come @ my cookies hackers.

I run nothing. never had any noticable problems / slowdowns / rouge softwares that know of. brb, computer is part of bot net.

8.5k for a 4door 328 ?

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