Realized earlier that I haven’t posted any pictures of this anywhere, but by the time Id finished pottering around in the garage it was getting dark, so below is the best of a bad bunch!!
Originally purchased when ye olde faithful Mondeo aka 'Super Shed' passed its MOT and Tax date, so onto the Bay of E and found this locally. Originally a 318i 4 pot Auto with Tax and MOT, I bought it without really test driving it much and needed something quickly to get me out a tight spot.
The first oil change showed up that someone had stuck treacle in the engine and with fresh oil, it smoked like a kipper....instead of a) cutting my losses or b) putting fresh treacle in I c) onto E-Bay again and purchased another E30 320i manual mmm 6 pot goodness
Then the fun begins, the old engine, auto box, loom, ECU & propshaft out and the new engine, manual box, loom, ECU, propshaft and manual pedal box in. This leads to loads of interesting hours spent over and under the car, dropping an engine/box on myself (thankfully with one end supported by the hoist!), smashing myself in the teeth with a big breaker bar and hours of merry, jolly fun......at least its ready for an easy 2.5 conversion now!!
Car starts but runs, well differently to before I removed it from the donor vehicle, much head scratching follows, leads checked, AFM's replaced, inlets on and off, filters changed, dizzy cap changed and lots of money spent.
After 5 weeks off work ill, the wife finally persuaded me to MOT the Mondeo, which predictably failed, but has since passed so I still have 2 E30's sitting out the back (need to remove the window loom, and rear electric windows to put in the tourer, the OBC then scrap it), then finish the Tourer and move it on, should be interesting in the wet as its running 4.10:1 rear gears still - so good acceleration but low top end.
Anyway - this is still showing all the dirty marks (and a bit of rust) and Ive put the bottle tops alloys back on, as the BBS are now on E-Bay!!
Originally purchased when ye olde faithful Mondeo aka 'Super Shed' passed its MOT and Tax date, so onto the Bay of E and found this locally. Originally a 318i 4 pot Auto with Tax and MOT, I bought it without really test driving it much and needed something quickly to get me out a tight spot.
The first oil change showed up that someone had stuck treacle in the engine and with fresh oil, it smoked like a kipper....instead of a) cutting my losses or b) putting fresh treacle in I c) onto E-Bay again and purchased another E30 320i manual mmm 6 pot goodness
Then the fun begins, the old engine, auto box, loom, ECU & propshaft out and the new engine, manual box, loom, ECU, propshaft and manual pedal box in. This leads to loads of interesting hours spent over and under the car, dropping an engine/box on myself (thankfully with one end supported by the hoist!), smashing myself in the teeth with a big breaker bar and hours of merry, jolly fun......at least its ready for an easy 2.5 conversion now!!
Car starts but runs, well differently to before I removed it from the donor vehicle, much head scratching follows, leads checked, AFM's replaced, inlets on and off, filters changed, dizzy cap changed and lots of money spent.
After 5 weeks off work ill, the wife finally persuaded me to MOT the Mondeo, which predictably failed, but has since passed
so I still have 2 E30's sitting out the back (need to remove the window loom, and rear electric windows to put in the tourer, the OBC then scrap it), then finish the Tourer and move it on, should be interesting in the wet as its running 4.10:1 rear gears still - so good acceleration but low top end.Anyway - this is still showing all the dirty marks (and a bit of rust) and Ive put the bottle tops alloys back on, as the BBS are now on E-Bay!!
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but raising cash to get the dragster moved along a bit atm 