westy

Indeed it is.

That mullet... Top work bloke.

Lance Walsh still about?

In other news, it left the garage for the first time in a while today. Seems so far to be fine. Still a bit to do before a proper drive but it made it to the letter box and back yay. Bit of a different look too.

So, there was a couple of loose ends with the wiring to tidy up, namely the tach and the coolant gauge. Didn't really know how I was going to tackle them but I thought I'd shove the CAN up it and whattayaknow? Tach now works and looks as though the coolant does too, although I wont really know for sure till I heat her up. Which I can now do with one of the those coolant tanks that fits in front of the left strut tower. So I'm wondering if I should try and pressurise it or let it overflow as an E30 would?? I also did this Been a busy weekend.

It was a 2.8 and they're pretty uninspiring engines. A 3 is much better. And 300hp/420Nm sure beats 190hp/280Nm.

Not a lot of options mate. 5 speed from the 3/3.5 or this, the 6 speed from the 4/4.4lt. Plenty of 6 speeds on ebay in the States if you can find a cost effective way to get them here or I think Hellbm has a couple at the moment. Not cheap at a couple of grand though. The 5 speed from the E36/46 328/330 and the E36 M3 is the same as the V8 box but needs a different front casing which is also about a grand from BMW. Somewhere 'round the interwebs there's a guy who used a Transit box with adaptor too I think. Needs a box with a big mouth on it to clear the big arse flywheel. As for software, I dont know a lot about the programming. I know they use a couple or 3 programmes depending on what you want to do. This one isn't yet programmed, apart from removing some of the factory options, and it may not need it. Will see how it drives first.

So, muckin about with this kinda shit Led to this I know it's fucking shithouse, but you get the idea.

Could work quite well for struts without inserts? Saves welding on the shock itself.

Lol, so stupidly awesome. I need me one.

Pretty cool. Gonna need a long shock leader though ha.

Minty!

Got me a gearbox, which is nice.

Mount inboard with rocker arm?

Dunno, wont find out this time round either. Stock is pretty shithouse but they'll have to do till I get bored.

It's quite tight But it's in the hole

I guess what we can take from that, is that Lance hasn't been charging enough ha. tbh that doesn't surprise me.

That's quite different from this though Cletus. Lance didn't come anywhere near these prices.

Whoa Cert cost part of mine was $500+design application fees, emissions test, chassis measure ect lifted it to about $1000. If it goes up another $500 odd I wont be bothering...

So, while back I picked up another donor for this thing. It's a V8 mate 4.4 ltr M62 in an E39. 273000ks but seems to run sweet as and was cheap as chips. Car is a f%$@ing mess but that's by the by... And then Managed to get out and make a start on this. First thing to do is reconfigure the car from an auto to a manual. Did this while it was still sitting in the car, which was easy enough, at least it seems that way, I've no idea what they actually do ha. Upshot is that the DME no longer looks for the trans comp and wont send any error messages to the cluster. There is apparently also a software update to give us the correct file for the manual (apparently a slightly different tune/idle control) but we couldn't load it as the DME relates to a 840i not the 540i and they didn't have the correct software and so the DME wouldn't accept it. As I understand it anyway :dontknow: . So to start with we'll be wiring it to neutral. Will make very little difference to the way it runs anyway. Geeks at work. Turns out this early girl from 2/96 is an oddball assortment of leftovers from previous models. Still has EWS 2, as mentioned a DME from an E31, analogue signals from the tach and coolant sensor and a distinct lack of CANBUS, of which only the DME and the EGS (trans comp) are connected on. With the later E46 systems the E30 is running on, this means I'm looking at having to incorporate the older style EWS and most likely the older KOMBI cluster too as the current one is entirely digital/run from BUS. A later donor car probably would have, more or less, plugged straight in but oh well... //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/28233-westys-1985-bmw-e30-alice/

Out of curiosity, what defines a 'non frontal impact compliant vehicle'?

Lacquer's easier to spray and if you don't mind working on it, it can last a long time. It'll always be softer than 2 part paints though which means it's far more easily damaged.

Yes, very nice. Keep going.

This is my plan when/if I go ahead with the V8 to I6 box. Cant be too hard right? right?

Who are you selling the bits to? Any special contacts or just outta the ol' Trade Me? Have an E39 to get rid of soon.