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Brilliant yes mate that would be great give me a pm with your number il drop you a text and il come have a look at your baur looks awesome!

Little update
Seems when my radiator is full to the top the car smokes when I start it,
but when it's not so full it doesn't smoke,
also the temp gauge doesn't seem to go up very high,
sits at average under a quarter,I've looked in the bay and the temp sensor pipe housing? I think that's what it might be called looks rather dirty lots of water marks and such,could this be letting water in? I'm really unsure I'm just wondering before I start buying head gasket bits and go down that route

You need to do a sniff test on your coolant, as an engine with a head gasket problem shows steam, water, or white smoke exiting the exhaust pipe along with other symptoms like coolant in the oil or vice versa. To test you'll want a combustion leak tester. The tester consists of a glass beaker and aspirator bulb that pulls fumes from inside the top of the radiator into the test beaker, passing through a gas-sensitive bromothymol blue chemical. If combustion gas is present in the cooling system, a chemical reaction occurs, turning the fluid from blue to yellow, indicating a combustion leak from a head gasket. You can probably buy one pretty cheap or ask a garage and borrow one.

Ok getting one from a garage gonna try and do that this week there's coolant in the oil it smokes when I first start it and coolant drops

how are you getting on, is it a knackard head gasket?

Haven't done anything really took it for a long run and it cleared up all the oil doesn't really smoke to much since,it's bin running real lean and stalling at lights every now and then haha ,also takes a while to start,which is annoying but I've bin warming it up for 10 mins in the morning which I think it quite likes,trouble is kinda skint at the moment after buying my wheels so getting some hours in at work to get some extra spending/living money haha,how's yours?

Getting parts for 5 speed conversion in two weeks,
the ring gear broke and broke the starter,


new starter was a free gift from parts place,
after being treated like crap by the one near me.
the gearbox is a 5 speed overdrive from 82 316
So next week going to start removing the auto to make way for the manual
Poor cars just sitting looking sorry for its self haven't drove it all week
Ill ad photos of progress soon I hope

Picking up manual parts today need a master cylinder and flywheel pilot bearing,
Also wondering if radiator needs changing out or can I use existing

You can use existing. Just block the ports the fluid flowed through

Cheers just drove the car with the manual 5 speed drives perfect still very nervous lol but so far so good thanks to my dad,garry (baur owner on here) who started work on the e21 from 9 this morning! Topman couldn't have done it without him! And to e21keith for giving us all he could!! Good man! also thanks to e21 mark and brennon for all your advice and patients on pm,but fingers crossed it keeps running well

no problem lee, you need to post the pics up with a proper gear stick in it now.

Yeah I will once I got daylight lol fingers crossed it's all fine :-/ I worry to much lol

Best modification (standardification?) you'll ever do to your car!

Can't wait to see pics! Sounds like you've done a really good job!