M20B25 conversion lives!!!!!!!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

murran · Post by **murran** » Wed May 12, 2010 10:48 pm

doesnt matter about the emissions evap canister thing does it. the original k-jet engine diddnt have it? doesnt matter that its a later engine. its the year of manufactor of the car that dates the car. ie '82 not the '89 the engine is.

Madhatter · Post by **Madhatter** » Thu May 13, 2010 4:55 am

Original motor did have it actually

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And its not like that in australia. If you put a newer motor into an older car, the newer motor must come with all its emissions equipment, right down to cats and egr stuff (if fitted).

340i · Post by **340i** » Thu May 13, 2010 7:34 am

Madhatter wrote:Original motor did have it actually .

And its not like that in australia. If you put a newer motor into an older car, the newer motor must come with all its emissions equipment, right down to cats and egr stuff (if fitted).

ahh, i love NZ, no worries with any of that crap...

my car doesnt even have reversing lights anymore, and will be fully legal like that (and sans-bonnet...)

Madhatter · Post by **Madhatter** » Thu May 13, 2010 7:56 am

true, but then you live in new zealand, so thats the trade off.

340i · Post by **340i** » Thu May 13, 2010 9:50 am

Madhatter wrote:true, but then you live in new zealand, so thats the trade off.

hmmm, yes, that is a good point. our land is colder and we get paid less, but I'm going to call checkmate due to our lax modification laws, which is better than warm weather and nice beaches any day of the week. almost...

lucky I'm only a flight away. I'm tempted to move back to sydney in a year or two to be honest.

Madhatter · Post by **Madhatter** » Thu May 13, 2010 10:13 am

yeah.. but. you have the dutch..

I liked the place when I was there, but you would have to be earning a good wage to want to move over from aus. Used car market is a bit shit though too, old imports worth more money than they should be.

e21-Mark · Post by **e21-Mark** » Thu May 13, 2010 10:17 am

Over here we tend to think that Oz & NZ are pretty much the same but seems there are far more differences than how you say certain words!

varden · Post by **varden** » Thu May 13, 2010 2:02 pm

340i wrote:ahh, i love NZ, no worries with any of that crap... Laughing
my car doesnt even have reversing lights anymore, and will be fully legal like that (and sans-bonnet...)

Man you must know someone cos when i lived there for 24 years the 6 monthly warrant of fitness on my 30yo shitbox was a biannual ordeal that always cost me money.

Then after breaking two gearboxes i modified my car to the point that it could no longer get a WOF without certification for the celica 5spd i had custom fitted.

THAT was a whole new ordeal that suddenly thrust my 1969 mk1 escort onto the same platform as modern cars with an expectation that it could pull up from 100kph four times in what was it under 2 minutes??

The engineer came back white faced and cursing 3 times before the fourth time it actually passed the infernal brake test for the box mod.

BTW here in Queensland as long as you own it and keep it registered you are subjected to NO wof/rwc inspections while you own the car....and its AWESOME.

The pay and the weather are good too.

340i · Post by **340i** » Fri May 14, 2010 1:04 am

yeah, wof's are a bit of a pain, but if your car isnt rusty its usually safety or maintenance related stuff thats being pulled up, which isnt too bad.

as for the certification, i can see how that would've been annoying. your gearbox cert would've cost you the same was what im going to pay to have the several hundred mods on my car certed. I've got 13" front disks and billet wilwoods btw, so aren't too worried about passing the brake test.

i didnt know brissy was so sweet with modifications, that is certainly not the case for nsw

they should just have one set of rules for the whole country, surely that'd make way more sense?

on the topic of car prices, i think for high performance jap imports, nz has gotta be the cheapest by far. jap imports are pretty much all anyone buys here!

varden · Post by **varden** » Sat May 15, 2010 12:12 am

340i wrote:on the topic of car prices, i think for high performance jap imports, nz has gotta be the cheapest by far. jap imports are pretty much all anyone buys here!

yeah i worked with a guy years ago who moved from nz with two R32 skyline turbo manuals and the profit from the sale of one gave him the other one for free to drive while he was based in brizzy to study.

imports are very exxy here compared to nz.

Madhatter · Post by **Madhatter** » Sat May 15, 2010 5:09 am

340i wrote: on the topic of car prices, i think for high performance jap imports, nz has gotta be the cheapest by far. jap imports are pretty much all anyone buys here!

Mmm, im not talking about anything performance related really. More to the fact that just about everything has been imported, so resale values in NZ are a bit spastic for what I would consider old vehicles.

It seemed like people were considering 7-8 year old vehicles pretty new, compared to the prices here, people were paying more for old imports.

Plenty of old beat up pieces of shit on the road in the south island too, never seen so many cars driving around with panel damage as I did there.

op6 · Post by **op6** » Sat May 15, 2010 1:04 pm

Mmm, im not talking about anything performance related really. More to the fact that just about everything has been imported, so resale values in NZ are a bit spastic for what I would consider old vehicles.

It seemed like people were considering 7-8 year old vehicles pretty new, compared to the prices here, people were paying more for old imports.

Based on several visits to Aussie recently I would have said NZ cars were a lot cheaper than the same in SYD and BNE

Plenty of old beat up pieces of shit on the road in the south island too, never seen so many cars driving around with panel damage as I did there.

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Yeh and they all driven by tourists! Cheaper than hiring a car, and you can just dump it anytime anywhere!

edition · Post by **edition** » Tue May 18, 2010 10:19 pm

i've did also an conversion

but my tachometer doesn't work
i've fixed pin 9 the black one on the motronic engine wires
to the black pin 15 in the fuse box
did you also had this problem, cause it used to work.

varden · Post by **varden** » Wed May 19, 2010 3:11 pm

after picking up the motronic 1.3 plug off my desk i concur that the plug tacho feed is black and I'm pretty sure the e21 fuse box wire was black too.

Are you using motronic 1.3 or an earlier version?

i understand this can be an issue with the earlier motronic setups ie the ETA engine, there is a page on fixing that tacho issue here:

http://www.strictlyeta.net/technical/328i_8.html

edition · Post by **edition** » Thu May 20, 2010 10:30 am

i'm running the 1.3 version
i measured the wire from pin 6 of the ecu to pin 15 of fuse box
and that is alright.

i want to use my original e21 tachometer