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Lightbulb Out posted:Why no V8 anymore? I love your E30s and it makes me want to swap all of mine. Superleggera man! Looks like he's going for light weight over raw power with that aluminum block M52
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Mar 31, 2014 15:05
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M54 is electronic throttle which is a lot harder to swap over to an E30
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Mar 31, 2014 17:40
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Hi I'm stealing that first picture picture for my desktop background at work so I have something to motivate me to give a gently caress, that is basically what I want my car to look like except in alpine white. Here is my crappy but lovable E30: 
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Apr 16, 2014 23:57
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I abuse the poo poo out of my E30 and defer maintenance all the time and the only time it's ever left me stranded is when I've killed the battery and had a pinhole in a radiator hose. Parts are way less than all my coworkers with VAG products and most importantly the car is fun to drive.
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Apr 26, 2014 13:36
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You just have to lose 80 lbs to make up for it (if you are a skinny person don't do this) 
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Oct 9, 2014 12:29
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Yall realize he's already done a m60 swap in this car before right, I don't think finishing it will be the issue, I guess it comes down to how you want the car to drive
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Oct 9, 2014 16:14
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Don't you have an entire spare M20 engine? eta crank/rods + is pistons and heads makes a decent little lump
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Nov 12, 2014 16:19
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If that's optical I'm not 100% sure on the accuracy but the laser Faro scanner we have is accurate out to about .010" @ 15 feet or so IIRC and the precision gets smaller as you move closer, our arms are somewhere like .0001 in an 8 foot cubic space we use verisurf to do our builds and poo poo e: this is my lab 
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Nov 14, 2014 16:46
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Is the kinect driver some kind of home brew that's specific to the metrology software you're using? Wonder if I could do a build with one and test the accuracy, I've got enough standards I could use, not exactly sure how you would align it properly though
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Nov 14, 2014 21:09
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A very good idea if there's records of maintenance, M30s are tanks of engines even more so than M20s since they're timing chain driven
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Nov 15, 2014 17:44
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if i had $2k sitting around i'd drive down there with a buddy and get it myself, besides the hail damage the thing looks to be in excellent shape
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Nov 15, 2014 21:26
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So you can run 5 bolt hubs on the E30 spindles with what you're designing? It'll be nice to be able to swap in bigger brakes without screwing up the suspension geometry
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Nov 17, 2014 19:56
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Who's 87 is that, gently caress that's a pretty car
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Nov 19, 2014 16:56
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SuperDucky posted:I have the usual e36 32mm fan wrench. Same? it's the same wrench iirc, and it's not a difficult job at all. might as well do the water pump too if you're doing the rest of the front of the engine e: Time for some Christmas maintenance on the eta, try and chase down that stupid misfire issue after it rains. Gonna throw all this poo poo at it code:once all that's done i'll have replaced pretty much everything on the outside of the engine except for the rear main seal  then i just need to do the blower motor and the cluster and the ac and the brakes and get new seats and a new windshield and a new exhaust... 
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Dec 28, 2014 02:57
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If you're looking at m10s you might as well get a 5 spd eta, they're cheap as chips (for e30s) and I regularly got 27mpg combined with 75% highway miles and they actually have some torque, they just fall flat on their face after 4k rpm
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Feb 7, 2015 15:13
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I might buy a M52 swapped E30 in the near future but it doesn't currently have the A/C operational. I'm trying to get more details about what AC hardware is present, but generally how hard/how much is it going to cost to get it working? Looks like most people use the E36 compressor and the rest of the hardware from the E30 but I think that requires customs lines.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:39
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The compressor is mounted, just need to put the belt on and get the lines put in and the system charged. Don't have any pics of it on my phone right now but this is what I know about it so far: 1989 BMW 325is zinnoberrot Fully rebuilt m52 motor with m3 cams. Port and polished head Pink top injectors Obd1 converted, all new sensors: crank, cam, temp sensor, intake air temp sensor, o2 sensor Ob2 exhaust manifolds New clutch kit with pressure plate and m20 balanced flywheel Transmission seals replaced front and rear, with new shift bushings and new shift selector seal. Stainless steel brake lines all around and stainless steel clutch line Catuned stage 1 bbk 4 piston HnR Coilover in front with camber kit ebach spring setup in rear with Bilstien shocks absorbers all around 318 radiator with electric fan set up New rubber fuel lines and new fuel filter Esm wheels 5mm spacer in front to clear bbk kit, 15 mm spacer in rear. Crack free dash with dash mat to protect it. Catuned e30 to m50 wireing loom Rebuilt cluster, with cluster rings and red needles Rear pop out windows 318is carpet Is Sport seats Ski pass seat in rear with head rests Hounds tooth door cards Is sport steering wheel Is front lip Is rear spoiler Custom side skirts Catuned front spilter Posi diff (LSD) E36 steering rack with new tie rod ends and new control arms (also had alignment done) Ireland engineering steering bushing Ireland engineering Poly motor mounts New transmission mounts Stromung exhaust and e36 cats M3 Wiring loom covers Renewed finishes powdercoated valve cover Map light mirror They want $8500 for it which I could theoretically afford but is a bit more than I wanted to spend.
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Jun 24, 2015 00:39
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