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A friends project ive been helping with the last few days.

Currently:

M52 2.8 alloy block

M50b25 NV head

Compression ratio is somewhere around 11:1 (cant remember exact)

ODB1

ZF gearbox

2 door 318

Largest radiator we can fit in there (from e36)

Adjustable rear bias valve for rear brakes

New engine seems to be similar weight to the old m40, possilby lighter, car seems to sit a bit higher with new engine in it.

Engine is sitting in there, gearbox crossmember has been made, almost completely wired up.

Old engine out, engine bay cleaned:

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Trying to get a pic of the positive camber without the engine, didnt show up too well:

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Mmmm, shiny:

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Yeah... doing somthing.

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Just chilling:

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Westside up in here:

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Getting ready to chuck da b!tch in:

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Up up and:

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In:

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My mate shortened the drive shaft today, and the shifter linkages have been shortened and rotated by another mate. I will go around and finish the wiring sometime. A few little things to do like sorting the brakes, welding the diff, turning the rear bias right down and dropping a skud.

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Nice one mate, will be a a very nice conversion when its done

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Nice will be keeping a close eye on this one!

Im attracting the m5x bug myself.

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Nice conversion, will be watching this project

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What did you use to clean that block up so nicely?

It was pretty much like that in the first place, bit of degreaser tho.

Alex finally got around to doing this aye.. about time.

Yep

Should be time to start it today, which should be interesting.

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It was pretty much like that in the first place, bit of degreaser tho.

Yep

Should be time to start it today, which should be interesting.

you should post a vid.

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Got it going last night. Didnt get around to getting a video, it was late and dark etc.

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Lengthened the driveshaft, the ZF box is really short:

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Made a new bush up for the driveshaft since the old one fell apart when we took it out to lengthen it:

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The gearbox crossmember made up, just test fitting it, painted it later:

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Lets make the exhaust. Muffler was specially made. 2.5":

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Went for a drive last night, probally did around 100km and nothing fell off or broke so all seems to be good.

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Awesome, bet it's a tad faster than the old M40. Just need a video of it hooking O's now.

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Tell Alex to try not to crash this one into a bank this time k

318 solid brake discs arent very good. Stopping from 100kph* in a hurry kills them very quickly.

*may or may not actually be 100kph.

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where do you get those cool green Halloween masks from?? :lol:

They come free with every copy of microsoft windows.

blew a radiator hose and over heated.

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