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    Hahah, You couldve heard and driven it 2 weeks ago :P

    Its only cheap as I cant be assed hording, have no room for it, and there are literally M20's for africa available at the moment (for probably too much money as I dont see them selling very fast!) and I need to get rid of this one ;)

    The way it works for me is, if I sell it now I get beers, If it stays in mates workshop it costs me beers (and verbal abuse) <_<

    Alright, i'll have to have a talk to dad about it, i rang him, he wasn't keen but it was a bit random. I'll talk to the bro, he might be keen to store it and work on it for me haha

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    Depends what you want too do, and what your car already has. Could spend thousands, or a under a hundy if all you want to do is find a starter and flywheel and your gearbox bolts up.

    Ideally you'd want to do the cambelt, waterpump, thermostat, rocker gaskets etc, and the intake elbow is rooted (had been repaired with epoxy sealant, but needs replacing). You could add a set off plugs, new ignition leads, new dizzy and rotor etc etc etc. It has done 145,000miles, and is 26 years old!, but in saying that it was still running fine and dandy, but will need some love in the future :D I have literally only changed the oil (every 5k miles) in 3 years.

    Play with some wiring (it'd be pretty simple Ive just lopped the C101 (rectangle at the fusebox) and C103 (under dash next to DME) , but theyre only useful on early E30's anyway (pre 85)

    Ive re-emailed (3rd one) this guy on tardme, if no reply on wednesday we can talk. If all you need is storage for a couple of weeks (ie less than a month) its OK where it is.

    Edit - Gearstick got biffed sorry, had to draw the line with the massive pile of old/new bits.

    Hmmm alright, i'd have to seriously have to think about it, I wasn't expecting an engine to come up so soon so bit underprepared, put me down as a probably not, if someone else comes up your better off going with them, spoke to dad and he's not keen as he can't hear it running now and its so cheap haha

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    There was someone in a thread a few days ago, I think new member who mentioned he wanted to put a m20b23 in his car eventually as his, what I want to do to my car in the future

    Can't seem to find it but be worth hitting him up.

    Pretty sure it was me, could be keen, would have to find out if i could store it/pick it up. How much more would it cost me before getting it running in my car?

    Also, i'll take the gear knob

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    Hey Glenn, just a general enquiry really, wanted to know how much it'd cost to get you to have a look at my 318 e30, brough it over a year ago, runs rough, boot gets covered in carbon, think it maybe just the timing out a tooth as i did recently do a cambelt change, not asking you to diagnose over the web :) Just wanted to know what sorta cost it would be for you guys to have a look over

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    Hi all,

    Brought a 318 Manual E30 about a year ago now, all pretty standard, was lowered when I brought it but put correct springs in as it tracked horrible. Replaced cambelt about 6 months ago as the bearings shat themselves, have put a timing gun on it and all seems good but car runs rough and under powered, wondering if i knocked a air flow meter or something, recently had to replace all the spark plugs as i fouled them after stalling the engine.

    Looking at putting a m20b23 in when I have the money, fixing up the paint, puting some better looking bmw rims in it and touching it up abit here and there.

    I'l post pictures when I can, but its al pretty standard, just deciding to spend some money on it as I finally started working/ can afford it haha

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