Da E30 initrkid

[TeamTotalWankel]

its a bit rougher in the flesh............

Aren't we all mate!!

[bulletproofbob]

PMSL!!!

[tommi]

mmmmmmmmm pink roll cage...... ssswweeeeettttttttt makes me wanna lick it

[bulletproofbob]

it is actually red, but it if your going to lick it make it a lick of paint and make it black please!!

i saw a couple of e21's tommi but they were either too mint to mod or rotten as hell so i went back to my yoof and got ANOTHER e30

[tommi]

have you seen how much the guy i sold my green car is now trying to flog it on piston heads..... £3000!!!!

To be honest an e30 is gonna handle a lot better than an e21.

Ben has lots and lots of nice m20 bits so i will enquire into what we have spare and kicking around.

[bulletproofbob]

have you seen how much the guy i sold my green car is now trying to flog it on piston heads..... £3000!!!!

To be honest an e30 is gonna handle a lot better than an e21.

Ben has lots and lots of nice m20 bits so i will enquire into what we have spare and kicking around.

well that'd be appreciated Tommi, though i do think the m50 will end up in there... the 24v seems a good move, and as i have a 2.8 bottom end to use with the bigger 325i inlet side it "should" make 220-230bhp i'd have thought?!? i need to do some scrap yard raids for a few e34 bits sump etc for the conversion, but it should be easily done for the budget!!!!

[tommi]

on the m50. take out the MAF and you will notice it will have either metal gauze or a plastic grid in there. cut it out and it will gain you a couple of little ponies just from improving the airflow. not a lot but every little helps.
We did it at fritz bits as an experiment and you could see a tiny difference

[Smiler]

Ooh, this is sounding interesting. I also just so happen to have a scrap E34 with M50 fitted just ripe for picking parts from. Sadly though it's my challenge entrant so you'll have to wait and then buy the whole bleedin car from me after the event!

[bulletproofbob]

Ooh, this is sounding interesting. I also just so happen to have a scrap E34 with M50 fitted just ripe for picking parts from. Sadly though it's my challenge entrant so you'll have to wait and then buy the whole bleedin car from me after the event!

e34 m50 sump pick up pipe dip stick and tube mr smiler please... yours will run fine without them i'm sure!!!

[Smiler]

Well, it's more weight saving I suppose. And from the front of the car too! I was going to fill the front tyres with helium to try to offset some of the weight of the engine.

[tommi]

lol helium is unstable and will cause all sorts of problems, you wanna be using nitrogen

[Renrut]

How much weight does nitrogen really save per wheel? I can't see it being a huge amount. I'd have thought he'd be better off deskinning the bonnet.

[bulletproofbob]

How much weight does nitrogen really save per wheel? I can't see it being a huge amount. I'd have thought he'd be better off deskinning the bonnet.

part worns with less tread... un-sprung weight and all that...

[Smiler]

Nitrogen doesn't save weight, what it does do is protect the wheel from corrosion. We use it on aircraft, basicaly with normal air you get condensation problems with the natural moisture content of the air. By using a pure gas such as nitrogen you are keeping the gas inside the wheel maoisture free and so no corrosion issues. I've been running my car tyres on the stuff for years.

[tommi]

lol no no.

nitrogen is more stable in relation to heat changes

e.g when you put a pressure in a tyre, when its red hot and caning round a curcuit it will remain at a more predictable and constant pressurer.

air has lots of variables which change.