E30 VIdeo I have never seen. "Retro Revival"

[Gruelius]

FTW

stolen from another forum

[ForcedFirebird]

the plug that separates the wiring from the ECU to the motor. if you say that was at least 87 go sell your car and start with another make. i took the motor out of my 86 and put it in my 84. 86 had the wiring harness plug, 84 did not. the 85 i just bought does not either.

I was referring to the injector plug. I just did the Motronic 1.3 upgrade in my car and specifically found a donor harness that had the injector plug so if there was ever a problem, it would be easier for the injectors to come out.

I have never seen any make, or model of any car that didn't have a large plug to separate the engine from the chassis. Do you know how much of a bitch that would be to assemble? Mfgr's make the car as easy as they can to mass-produce ;)

[Fidhle007]

so the direct wiring from the motor to the car was a hack job? sure looked stock to me. I suppose the same person hacked up my 85 too right? I took the motors out of both cars. There is no connector.

Check the n00bitude kid, you're not making any friends.

[JGood]

I don't know where to find the connector.

Fixed.

[dannyyisntt]

that was a pretty cool video, but it needed some sideways action

[dreamchasin]

Jgood, you live in PA, feel free to PM me for my number, i'll be glad to have you come look at the cars and see for yourself there is no plug that separates the motor from the body.

[daniel]

he should review a stock one, not a lowered one.

[Rocla]

Jgood, you live in PA, feel free to PM me for my number, i'll be glad to have you come look at the cars and see for yourself there is no plug that separates the motor from the body.

I've removed and/or refitted over 50 of e30 engines from 1982 carburated 316 to 1994 316i touring and done numerous engine swaps to different type engine and never seen any e30 without harness plug.

I wonder how you had those two unhacked non c101 plug cars.

Maybe you could post a picture of left hand side of your fuse box.

[Rocla]

Some european cars had "M-packet" option, sport seats, sport steeringwheels and M badge on grile(not M3 badge).

I think the badge looks ok and it probaply belongs to car so why should it be removed?

[JGood]

Jgood, you live in PA, feel free to PM me for my number, i'll be glad to have you come look at the cars and see for yourself there is no plug that separates the motor from the body.

In which case someone spliced it directly to the chassis wiring. No matter how professional it looks, it didn't come from the factory like that. As I said, you probably don't know where to look for the plug. It's small and doesn't exactly jump out at you.