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engine get fired up by ben and laurie, i had a little listen the other night and engine is sweet as a nut!!!!

wings and sills and manual conversion are being picked up on friday with a bit of luck and instalation of the whole lot can begin.

main bits to tackle now are welding of the sills, the rear inner sill being the worst off and then refitting new brake lines and fuel lines ready for the MOT

Once the Mot is complete will swap the suspension over from my white car ready for the challenge.

once the car is back on wheels will start rolling her outside for some nice pics

I suppose I had better start removing the gearbox and stuff!

Is this a combined effort then?

Rob we are more than willing to all get stuck in removing the ol gearbox with ya on friday

Me Ben and laurie (none of you have met him yet) are all kind of working on it when we can although im supplying the funding for the vehichle so i will be taking the money when i sell it.

anyone is more than welcome to supply bits to project and they can advertise on the side of the car.

Rob have you had anyluck getting those wings from the other bloke?

Picking them up tomorrow

super duper wonder scooper

let me know how much petrol pennies it costs n i will add it to the bill

isn't it time we had more pics of it in the daylight?

After an early morning at an airfield, I've got the wings.

super duper mega!!!! not sure what vehicle i will be coming to you in, prob be bens e36 now as work have given me an SLK250 for the weekend, drinks fuel and crap for carrying stuff

Pictures of Panzer will come when she has her new shoes on, still havent managed to get round to sanding them down yet, cant afford sandpaper

well have now collected wings n everything i need so when mother has gone home today, and most of tomorrow i will be cracking on with the car.

these arrived today


and a little picture of the car with the BBS bumper on here, the bumper and new wings cover nearly all the holes in the front panel and the fog lights still fit nicely behind the bumper

nitrous solenoids dont work with wizards of Nos kit !!! gggrrrrrrrrrrr

okay, car now hs new wings and all nice n shiny n black (will be green if time permits before challenge)

auto box is off and so is prop

the exhaust has been removed and the best bits chosen for refitting so all going well so far.

when doing a manual conversion i need a little bearing which sits in the crank and supports the gearbox input shaft, does anyone know what this bearing is?

i went into BMW to see what there computer says and the bloke showed me a pick with what looks like loads of different bearings and spacers, the whole lot cam to about £50, i thought it was just one bearing???

has anyone got a pic of what the bearing would look like and what bits i need?

if anyone has a used one that would be fantastic as i can just fit that.

It's a spigot bearing, try the zonr for a used one and did you get the sills yet

Jason

yes got the sills thanks but havent even unwrapped them yet, was to busy digging about with my turbo kit last night and trying to get that to fit n stuff

i really cant be arsed to do the sill work myself so going to drive the car up to a local garage i think and get them to start the work. looking in depth at the work that needs doing i may infact patch the sills for now just to get it through the MOT. I can weld and well up for doing the work myself but with no ramp and no welder it becomes a little tricky

car rear beam is being stripped of on sunday ready for inner welding on the monday, diff welding and hopefully if time permits a little bit of manual gearbox fitting/completeion.
the guy that is doing the welding/lending be the welded will also be doing the MOT. he says it will pass which is good news to say the least!

Still trying to track me down some wizards of nos solenoids but its not the end of the world if i dont i guess

Great looking car, love the colour, E21s had some lovely colours compared to E30s.