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Ha I’m pretty sure that driveshaft hoop was my old one! Can’t believe it suffered that badly. Also you’re probably still using my old engine cross member, glad to see parts live on forever 

Yeah shortened linkage sounds like the go. In my experience wit the bmw one I did, it’s not exactly hard. Just need to have a diesel first so you don’t feel so bad about cutting up an expensive gbox. 

My mates 4 door race car with a cage is about 1250 wet, no real weight savings other than removing interior.

Id like to be around the 1300-1350 region wet with the LS but I’m not gonna go for weight savings at the cost of comfort. It’s a street car after all!

330i engine has been a real dick so far. Throwing money at sensors should fix it for a while. Not as fast as I hoped but maybe it needs its Thanos seals replaced. I think the cabrio is probably a whale which won’t help

25 minutes ago, KP_wag said:

Those mounts are lush! Any idea where the shifter will come out? The tr6060 is loooong

Short answer is no I don’t. Engine and box should arrive in about a week. 

I kinda wanted a T56 but for an extra couple of hundy I thought I’d just go the better box. I have my fingers crossed really hard that the shifter is going to just pop straight out of the standard hole in the tunnel. Stranger things have happened! Otherwise I’ll whip out the hole saw and start butchering, or potentially shorten the linkages if that’s a thing. 

TL:DR, I’m going to wing it 

So. This has been going on for years! I call it a bobber but I live in Chch, our roads are shit, so bobbers aren’t a great idea, so it’s not a bobber.

Started like this.

slowly turned into this 

I bought an exploded Honda rebel 450 and then hunted for ages for any engine to go in. Hoped for air cooled, struggled to find anything.

finally a bandit 600 engine and loom showed up on trade me. I took my frame there to see if it would fit. There was NO WAY it would fit. So I bought it anyway. 

Story gets weird here. I had it and the frame sitting and garage doing nothing. Got really drunk one night and kinda had one of those crazy blackouts. Woke up in the morning and the engine is not only in the frame, but the whole thing is up on a desk in my garage.

Couldn’t get the fucker down off the desk by myself and couldn’t get the engine out for aaaages. 

Modified frame to suit, did some other stuff, then put project on hold while I was between permanent houses. Trying to get stuck back in now.

Most of wiring is done, just needs foot controls mounted (forward now). 

Also, my low rider with this new school twin coat powder coat. Sold now 

And my brothers K100

On 11/05/2019 at 13:04, kws said:

It'll be a beast with that LS in it! 

I like the cold air box in your above photo, did you make it or is it off the shelf? 

I made the air box. Spent ages so that it fit really well against bonnet. Looked good in real life, and 16yo me said it added 50hp. I reckon more like 40.

The engine had hardly any induction noise until about 6k and then it just screamed. I loved ringing it’s neck just to hear the dort! I hope the LS makes a good noise or I’ll have to put a bunch of Kazoos in the intake pipe to satisfy my ears.

A libero with a poorly fitted bodykit and wheels wide enough to blow my gbox to pieces. Will only come down if its running ok though, I cant afford for it to shit itself on the way down. Would just have to kill myself if that happened, Im a student.

Did I mention terrible doors shut paint job? 

I think Im just gonna fit bigger turbo first, think about porting manifold later...

Anyone with a libero is surely special! 

You dont have a die grinder too do you? I have a TD05H to go on but my manifold has the TD04 hole which is about the width of my penis. Small. 

Hopefully new turbo stops my blue smoke issues...

Im thinking of going, but from chch, not from dirty south. And not rolling OS

Im in oz at the time KK. Plus Liberos are unacceptable at OS meats. Spesh smokey ones w blown turbo seals and 18s and appliance paint!

Hi unhuman, keen as. I will get hold of you when I'm back from straya if thats cool. Its 3 weeks away so hopefully you havent lost it by then.

Much appreciated

Spanners

With my mouth.

Um actually want to borrow a guard roller / paint wrecker to roll out my shitty guards. 

Can come to some arrangement where I kill your ex wife for you, or buy you a box.

Any help would be mucho appreciado, rubbing is gettin me down.

Spanners

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Yay Matt, a proper forum for you!

//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/41275-e30-bmw-325i-motorsport-s50b32-conversion

I'm surprised nobody has started a disco. Or have they?

Anyway to get the ball rolling you've made my dream car and I'd like to offer my hand in marriage. Keen?

Ive always wanted to do it, I'm just useless.

Ive decided that you're a fucking genius. This car is the tits.

If i manage to finish up the contract I am on, I will so be in for this. Hopefully with another car

Such a shame, this has long been one of my most anticipated projects on here. But, gotta build yourself a future hey!?

Selling the TRD style wing separately?

Maybe. Its not the flashest to be honest, but fits good.

Yeah, like i said it fucking breaks my heart but I cant keep doing this. Earning really good money at the mo and wanna do something clever with it before Im 65!!!

Glad it was entertaining for a bit, I promise there will be another car one day but probably more like an old 911 and a bit less ambitious!

Ok this is possibly the shittest thing ever, but this car is getting parted out. The shit on it is worth fucking megadollars (to me anyway!) so get in quick and buy it all so that I can buy a house.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=31568

They are SSR RS-8s. And they are on trade me now.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =443873366

Selling my diff. Making a wider one. Cant get my wheels widened. Fuck.

Also, I hate cars.

Soz im so fucking late. Um I guess it might be heavier, but I have never driven it. Soo... dunno! I hope its a lot better than a 20v. I would expect so - much better power curve really IMO. And i hope it doesnt understeer - I have put a lot of time into improving the suspension.

And as for cost... I havent kept count but it will be over 20k when im done. Gay. Not all engine conversion though, thats mainly due to me being shit at life. I think you could do engine conversion into a ke70 cheaper as you could fit standard plenum and use std ecu and shit. Make a big difference to cost. The quads and link setup probably adds 4-5 grand to the total cost if you go all out.

Saw me some sparkle ute in palmy today. Lookin swish!

zorst doesnt count tho? everything else does. Thats what my wof guy told me

Also, maybe his issue is the lack of travel before something hits the car/bumpstops?