Recent content by Tommy Bates

I did torque them mate but it warped so bad it has pulled out the threads on the front of the head for the manifold so il have to Helicoil them Can't moan to much though it was kind of a untested setup and this is the only issue I've had and it not going to be to hard to sort Better get the...

Got it back from skimming The guy who did it found a heat patch where the downpipe has been heating it up , and it's twisted from that patch so I need to remake the downpipe and engine mount so I can go under it Kinda like this but my turbo is at the front as it's RHD

Seem to have a habit of warping manifolds , anyone have any idea what caused this to happen ??? I'm no expert when it comes to metal properties This was blowing before I removed the engine and it's easy to see why now

Wow that's awsome thanks guys !!!! Spent yesterday chilling then back on with cleaning up the engine today feeling the old age kicking in now I'm 25

Made a little progress today , striped cleaned and painted the inlet side of the engine and also made a little engine stand because it's such a pain working on a slanted engine on the ground it just wants to fall over

Got the brakes arb and wheels back on yesterday and got her back on the floor , now time to start on cleaning this engine up (what a mess I can't believe I let it get this bad More pictures of the engine strip down to come I ran out of battery

Some of you may not like where I'm going with this Theirs afew ideas if the style I'm going for Here's where I'm at so far, personally I've never liked the standard skirts on z3s and the aero skirts are like rocking horse poo so I thought I'd steal some off a 200sx , These are dmax skirts...

Wow it's been a while again guys!!! Right so I decided afew months back I wanted to stick the old girl on the road and come on some cruises and shows with you lot, however it wasn't realy show standard and it was getting abit tatty in places so what better excuse to strip it down and refurb it...

BMW z3 turbo and ex driftworks s14

Passenger rides at the rockingham charity car show

BMW z3 turbo at 3 sisters drift day

Drifting at 3sisters race course

Berry nice car now bud , makes me wish I did mine white lol

https://www.facebook.com/tommy.bates.9/posts/1037342036391760:1 Here's a video of me chasing