We attempted the engine swap today, started at about 10:30ish by time we got there.  Took a little longer than planned to remove, but was out by 1:30.  By time we got it to Brackley, and unloaded, it was about 2:30.

Quickly pulled out my old engine, changed a couple of bits over and removed loom from donor engine, started to put new engine in around 4ish.

Could we get the blank to line up on the gearbox? Could we heck.  After 5 and a half hours, sucess, we got the engine bolts to gearbox.  What an absolute blank 

So, jobs left to do - everything really. Bolt on PAS, Bolt on oil cooler pipes, bolt on compressor, fit electric fans, consdensor, rad, hoses, airbox, turbo pipes, exhaust, a/c pipes, hbv, expansion bottle, loom, and plenty more.  Must removed to fit TC bolts as well!  Lots and lots still to do.

I had hoped to be not far off getting it to run today, but that bloody car is jinxed.  We were all wet and cold, and very tired by 10pm, after being on it all day.  Good job my neighbour is away, as there was plenty of bad language towards the end


Still, decent progress has been made due to the perseverence of my fellow conspirators, to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude:

So a massive thankyou to Omegatoy, Kevin Wood, LFF64, Bo Bo, and Tunnie, for your time, your effort, your skills, and your commradeship today.  Personally, despite the fact the fecking car is possessed by some evil spirit, I had a very enjoyable day.  Bloody knackered now though.

Thank you

fantastic efforts in one day guys 

However,  , whilst what gaping hole was showing in the engine bay did you not think to fit something like a proper engine  I hear Lexus V8`s (supercharged) go well in said engine bay Hmmm supercharged Tractor ...

Right, managed to get that barsteward loom that bolts to block in.  Oil cooler pipes on. PAS on (after retrieving bracket from old engine as the donor one had broken. A/C compressor back on, after swapping mounting brackets over (BMW saw fit to change the compressor design at some stage, bloody typical of them).  Driveplate to torque convertor bolts in, and torqued up. Starter motor in. Turbo to intercooler pipe.

So, lots of sensors to connect up, coolant hoses, gearbox wiring, HBV, vac pipes (these were all wrong before, so if anyone has a TD vac pipe layout, I need one!), electric fans, condensor, rad, exhaust, airbox, and all the intake stuff, and everything else I've forgotten.


Just chucked a couple of those burgers that I bought for bbq yesterday that never happened due to time weather. Bloody lovely.

Back out again in a minute once I've had a cuppa.

Fecking BMW.  I hate them. I really hate them. Why oh why oh why do you change the size of the pulleys you stupid people  .

Right, swapped the crank pulleys over, got belts on, all the inlet, turbo all connected, airbox on, rad and condensor all in, along with leccy fans, a/c all connected up, fuel pipes in, vac pipes possibly wrong.  Tunnie came round, so I let him do the gearbox loom and attach exhaust to turbo.

Ign on, then a quick Tech2.  Only engine code was an old 96 that I was getting (most likely due to the vac all being rubbish), so cleared that out.  So, ye of little faith, Omegatoy, the connectors must all be 'TheBoy proof' (except the one from the injector back to loom had a different connector - typical fecking BMW, changing it for the hell of it  )


So, with everything done, it was time to start.

It starts (just), and runs (poorly), so that is a start.  It is most definately a misfire short of a full engine.  It needs throttle to help it start, it will idle (very lumpy) and won't rev beyonds 1500rpm.  It is noisy, and boy does it smoke - they is a huge soot mark on the drive behind it.

I think it is so close, just needs an expert to help me with the final step.

Once it's run a bit, glow plugs shouldn't make any odds?