Anybody know if there's any off roading sites on the Isle Of Wight, i'm going over for a long weekend in Sept and fancy doing something interesting while the wife is feeding her retail addiction, or any good places over there that will keep me and the kids busy for an afternoon, i hear they have...

where's the best place to get a pump with a metal impeller for a reasonable price?:rolleyes:

Hi guys, iv'e finally got the engine out of the range rover and i'm starting to swap all the bits over onto the bmw lump, does anybody know if i need to swap the fourth injector over? or can i leave the bmw one in? i know iv'e got to swap the electrics on top of the injection pump, can anyone...

I'm going to wrap the exhaust manifold and downpipe but leave the turbo uncovered, have already carried out your fan mods Datatek and they work a treat, but i know i will be paranoid about the engine temp as i don't trust the standard gauge and if i ever manage to get this back on the road i...

Hi guys, does anybody know if you can wire a proper temperature gauge up on my p38 diesel? i don't trust the normal one on the dashboard and its costing me loads of money to try and get the thing back on the road, so i need to be confident with the all new cooling system thats being fitted...

how many litres did you put in? and how full up was the tank when you put it in?

did you use any parts from the previous engines exhaust system? i had a similar problem when i did an engine swap and could'nt work out where all the smoke was coming from, it turned out to be oil and water had collected in the exhaust system, i gave it a good run at 60/70 mph down the nearest...

Thanks guys, at those prices i might just live without for a while, nearly £40 for a lump of plastic their having a laugh! i can make my own for about a fiver using some mesh from halfords

I was waiting for a train home from work this morning (night shifts, don't you love em!) when out comes that lovely annoucement " due to train driver being overpaid and under worked with a complete lack of interest in weather you get home or not, he's having a lay in so the train is cancelled...

Hi guys, does anybody know if i can bypass my leaking heater matrix on my lovely 2.5dse, iv'e had a look at the pipework and it seems a nice simple job to reroute the heater pipes, i'm sure iv'e read that it needs to be connected as the coolant circulates through it until the thermostat opens...

good guide very informative, but that colour carpet don't go with the cream leather!:biggrin1:

my missus has made me sign up to a "one in one out deal" don't know why as i only had seven cars and three motorbikes in my pension pot, tried to explain that i had put my money into these assets as you can't trust the banks these days, but she wasn't having any of it! i'm going cold turkey at...

are you a man or a mouse? is that squeaking i can hear ? :crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

don't bother, I've tried the jap stuff shoguns, patrols etc and the only decent one I ever had was a Toyota hilux pickup, and this was before Top Gear tried to destroy one, it never let me down, the only trouble I ever had with it was going under a low bridge with a set of ladders poking out...

having overheated my p38 and killed it in just 3 days, i'm now in the process of starting to fit my new engine from a beemer, but i keep thinking about what i can do to avoid the new one blowing up, i'm going to fit a new water pump,stat,rad cap, radiator, doing the cooling fan mods and any...

thanks guys, will need all the help I can get, got to much money tied up in this for it not to work

project "pile of poo" as it has affectionately become known is about to be started, iv'e finally got the engine out of the bmw i brought, so it can be swapped into my p38, which as you may recall blew up after only three days of ownership! iv'e been given some good advice with regard to the...

Hi Datatek, i would appreciate it if you could give me the mod for the fans, sounds like a step in the right direction, would they then be thermostatically controlled or are they wired via a dash mounted switch? thanks for your help.

thanks, did you use the bmw rad?, and any idea if i would be better off fitting a great big kenlowe instead of the usual viscous jobby? i need this to work as ive sunk to much hard earned cash into this beasty already, thanks for your help

hi guys, as some of you may recall i'm putting a bmw engine in my diesel p38, i'm just about to start the job and have been looking at the two engine bays, as iv'e got both motors side by side. Has anybody used the bmw radiator in the rangey?, looking at the amount of gear in front of the...