Alright e30m50 Questions.....

[Mr.SWISS]

Getting closer?

[FredK]

No, thanks to you Mr. Swiss he cranked his engine over, and the thin wire that he has the main power cable hooked up to caught on fire, taking the car and him with it. The heirs to his estate will be filing a lawsuit shortly. AHHAHAHA.

The main power wire, the fat red cable, is hooked up wrong. It needs to be directly connected to the fat power lead coming from the trunk, not the wire that goes to the fusible link. If you crank it over, I bet the fusible link will pop.

[Mr.SWISS]

No, thanks to you Mr. Swiss he cranked his engine over, and the thin wire that he has the main power cable hooked up to caught on fire, taking the car and him with it. The heirs to his estate will be filing a lawsuit shortly. AHHAHAHA.

The main power wire, the fat red cable, is hooked up wrong. It needs to be directly connected to the fat power lead coming from the trunk, not the wire that goes to the fusible link. If you crank it over, I bet the fusible link will pop.

I hooked that up to the big e30 cable.

[FredK]

Ah, so you reversed the positive and negative cables that he circled in the 3rd pic?

[Mr.SWISS]

Ah, so you reversed the positive and negative cables that he circled in the 3rd pic?

No, I hooked tohose up to the mounting bracket nut and spent 2 days trying to figure out why I didn't have power to my DME and DME relay. I even Went on Autotrader and found a 92 325i at a car lot and "test drove it to my house to test the ECU I had. :nice: That was after I bought a new CPS and DME relay.

[skatebline]

wow im gettin confused lol

[Mr.SWISS]

wow im gettin confused lol

Here is some of my saga http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=83598
Edit: My part in the DOHC swap thread started about page 53, all the questions you have were answered there BTW.