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Finnished converting the grey trim to black parts, built a fake floor in the boot to hide my amp and also to make the floor flat, In my conversion i have used boot carpets from a VR and i think the floor is higher in the late model as there was a 2" gap between my G60's floor and where the carpets wanted to sit. Gave the inside a good clean, also sold my mk3 vr6 today so all in all its been a productive day. :salute:

I am considering swapping my 2 litre converted G60 for a 1.8turbo. I would love to be able to do it myself but i dont have the space to do the work :( What is the current cost of getting this sort of conversion done, from what i have been reading it seems to be about £2000-3000 in labour plus parts is that about right or have all of you guys done the conversions yourself? Also as i have over 220bhp in the g60 i am looking for a fair bit from the new engine, Is the BAM engine code the only one that was 225bhp from an original car?

No probs, thought i would post up my finding in case anyone else is hunting for it, do you know how i go about getting this info added to the knowledge base?

Right i managed to get hold of a replacment bolt to messure, and the answer is its M10 1mm pitch.

I know i read that bit about the Nano not working but i have a 2nd gen ipod nano and it worked fine with the demo headunit i was playing with in hallfords. I am still really tempted, I have a std input jack at the moment and its a pain in the butt to change tracks on the ipod all the time.

Damn, ive being pondering about the possiblity of doing somthing like your mesh number plate. Nice to see it is possible but its been done now :(

Had the same thing happen on my g60 about 3 days after i bought it, just pressed the peddle down and there it stayed... :( Picked up a new alloy part and about 2 hours later we where back in business, did it all in place on my drive.

Removed all the seats, fitted a full set of carpets and reasembled my raddo on friday afternoon. Still need to do some of the other trim but the weather is holding me up.

Thinking about getting a new headunit for my raddo, I allready have an ipod nano stacked up with songs etc so i wanted to make sure that what ever i got had a way to play them, then i saw the alpine iDA-X001. http://www.trustedreviews.com/multimedi ... ad-Unit/p1 Has anyone got one or used one, i trust alpine for there sound and build quality only that i am not so sure about is dropping the cd drive in the car, i suppose it does mean i can do away with random cd's laying about the car. Has anyone got any ideas on how to make the ipod connection secure and hidden other than just connecting it to the cable and sticking it in the cubby hole in the middle.

thankyou for looking, looks like i am going to have to take mine out and measure it...

bump, still leaking want to get this fixed over the weekend but need to get the kit asap

Bump, someone must know this :(

Hi, i am in urgent need some of help. Can anyone tell me what size and thread pitch the oil return line bolt is for a g60 supercharger. I need to order a helicoil kit and i need to make sure i get the right one. I think its one of these but i dont know which one: M9 x 1.25mm M10 x 1.00mm M10 x 1.25mm M10 x 1.50mm I dont want to take the bolt out to mesure it as it will prob pull the last bit of thread i have out, i need to get this sorted asap as its dripping with the engine running at the moment and i keep getting into trouble for it leaking oil on things :( Thanks in advance

if it stops raining tomorrow i will try and get some pics of the bits i still need, I am going to pickup the carpets tomorrow so nearly got all the bits for stage 1 sorted out. i need to get the carpets fitted and the black trim finnished for the main parts of the car and then i will do the dash as a second stage. Main bits left that i need are the boot trims both the ones round the window and the bits that cover the wiper and soiler mech's, and the lower section under the door on the drivers side.

I have a 91 g60 so i presume its an early style i need, shame as it would be nice to do the dash while doing the rest of the trim. I know they are but what is different on the later dash?