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Vard66
Hi guys.
Have been browsing the forums for a couple of weeks now, just as a guest; figured I might as well sign up and poke my nose in officially.
My name is Chris, but everyone has called me Vard for ten years, so Vard I might's well be here.
23, living near Swindon in Wilts, UK. In automotive terms, my forte is Rovers (yeah yeah, I know, heard it all before), and particularly turbocharged Rovers. I currently own two 820 Vitesse fastbacks, and a 420 GSi Turbo.
However, I've also got a poorly 530i V8 sitting outside my driveway at the moment. Bought as a project, with two intentions in mind - ostensibly it was bought for a banger rally next August - it fit our criteria of big inside, big(ish) engine, RWD and manual, with a kicker that it'll be me beating my friend to the V8, after he beat me to the V6 with his new Reliant Scimitar GTE.
However, in my mind at least, once it's back from the rally, it's purpose will be drifting.
It's still here because when Alex brought it up from Devon last weekend (ostensibly for him to have a weekend up here, realistically for me to day insure it and go have a bit of a thrash about on a big empty bit of tarmac), it was having rough running and stalling issues and was significantly down on power, and was also overpressurising the coolant system.
I was intending to drive it Saturday and get a first hand impression of it, instead of investigating on Alex's descriptions on Sunday; but it became somewhat obvious why when it blew the stat housing into two pieces and pumped some lovely oily coolant everywhere.
Whilst I'm almost entirely a newbie to BMWs (so engine codes are swimming, jumbled around in my head like numbersoup) the threads I've been browsing are M60B30 based, and I'm following Antrieb's thread on Big Red at the moment.
However, long term Alex and I are interested in going M62B44, so I've also been following a couple of threads on that topic.
Overall I probably will be lurking more than posting - I just wanted to make sure I didn't find my account deleted because I wasn't posting.
Oh. Also I can't seem to find a general/off topic/newbies section, so if this is in the wrong section, Mods, please feel free to move it - just point me at where it's gone; I've not really got the figure of the layout of the forums yet.
So hullo to all!
Vard.
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