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Haven’t actually done anything to the car today, but received a pile of goodies for it. 
6speed manual conversion coming up for the 540i!

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Oops, new addition to the fleet

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Facelift, silverstone, 18's. Absolute win.

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12 minutes ago, Neil McCauley said:

Facelift, silverstone, 18's. Absolute win.

It's even got 3 pedals.

It's actually a prefacelift but converted. Updated Idrive and taillights.

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...Next you'll tell me it's got M-audio with the yellow cones.

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15 hours ago, Neil McCauley said:

...Next you'll tell me it's got M-audio with the yellow cones.

No M audio, honestly I haven't even tried any of that yet. No need with an S65, rev matches are musical.

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Damn thats hot !! Very cool. How will you bring them all to a meet now ? Best get a semi :D

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1 hour ago, Cement said:

Damn thats hot !! Very cool. How will you bring them all to a meet now ? Best get a semi :D

It's a disease. Currently 5 BMWs polluting the driveway and garage...

Fortunately a new deck and lots of new concrete means I'm soon to have plenty of covered parking and work space. Good excuse to get more sh*t boxes.

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Replaced the original E36 325 brakes with E46 330's. Much betterer...

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Compact came back home after a 6-odd week vacation from having seatbelts sorted and going through cert, with only needing a second muffler added to pass. 
 

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The E39 looking a bit like a fish out of water :)

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Not mine. But the wife's.  Just rebuilt the gearbox and got it up to scratch for her.

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Took 87 E30 325i in for its first WOF under my ownership (passed).

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3 hours ago, deedub said:

Took 87 E30 325i in for its first WOF under my ownership (passed).

always a good feeling :D

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5 hours ago, BMTHUG said:

always a good feeling :D

Definitely. Now I can focus on maintenance and improvements.

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bought some ITB's for my e30 Stroker build. Now to get my spare head ported and polished and some oversized valves fitted. Will be running a 292 cam with oversize eccentrics and heavy duty rockers. Not sure whether to spend the money on a roller rocker conversion kit or put that money into some custom pistons for higher compression

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Nice one SJ, dude was practically giving them away at that price! What size are the trumpets? I reckon pistons over roller rockers.

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16 minutes ago, Neil McCauley said:

Nice one SJ, dude was practically giving them away at that price! What size are the trumpets? I reckon pistons over roller rockers.

I could not say no at that price to be honest bud. I have no idea what size the trumpets are but I am not fussed as I will probably change them anyways for some polished brass ones ;). Here's my old man's stroker we built with the same ITB's. 

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I'd go with the roller rockers, but I have a bit of a 'thing' for them. ;)

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To be fair, it is probably simpler to rebuild the top end than it is to replace pistons, rods or crank. And the top end can always be done later.

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On 9/10/2024 at 1:10 PM, BMTHUG said:

I could not say no at that price to be honest bud. I have no idea what size the trumpets are but I am not fussed as I will probably change them anyways for some polished brass ones ;). Here's my old man's stroker we built with the same ITB's. 

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What ECU do you run it on? 

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3 minutes ago, e30ftw said:

What ECU do you run it on? 

Link ECU's for both vehicles bud :D

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19 hours ago, gjm said:

I'd go with the roller rockers, but I have a bit of a 'thing' for them. ;)

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To be fair, it is probably simpler to rebuild the top end than it is to replace pistons, rods or crank. And the top end can always be done later.

Yeah I'm rebuilding another engine so I have it all in bits at the moment. I will probably get some high compression pistons instead of the roller rocker conversion :D

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...You're making me want to snag that Shrick 302 on TM right now. Idle? What idle 😂

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2 hours ago, Neil McCauley said:

...You're making me want to snag that Shrick 302 on TM right now. Idle? What idle 😂

Hahaha go for it 

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