Don't get started on "normal" bolt sizes, Japanese cars always use 10,12,14,17,19mm bolts, normal euros run 10, 13, 16, 18mm and then you have the American sizing which is usually in-between metric and imperial because they can't make up there minds. Now it's not any easier as they go betw...

Looks like a common fuel injector connector.
Bosch US car type
https://msel.co.nz/uscar-2-way-fuel-injector-connector/

What about a model 3 front motor in the back, that should hang behind the axle line I belive. Probably a bit less power though.

I do a bit of factory vag coding work and I wouldn't think it'd be possible using rosstech or odis software sorry, however maybe with vcp if you were good at using it otherwise do what they do with the engine ecus, by reading the eeprom data and modifying it, not what I do and I know in the later mo...

There is a honda accelerator pedal sensor that works nicely with most older style cable setups, have used these in boats and cars with a e throttle conversion before, out of lots of different Hondas so cheap at the wreckers yards. https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Honda-37971-RDJ-A01-Accelerator-Assemb...

VCDS is also a good VAG scan tool but both ODIS and VCDS only talk to VAG cars, if your running BMW modules you could also use the BMW scan tool or one of the many specialized aftermarket ones or could look into a general aftermarket scan tool but you'll probably loose out on some of the information...

Hey it probably depends how you want to control the motor and what you want to do with it. If you want to go racing or lots of quick driving may be best imo to go with the model 3 motor, as its better cooling and efficiency will allow more performance over a longer period of time. I have gone this w...

Would it be ok to use un fused milspec wire? Something like 24 ga cable? The milspec wire should melt and not hurt the insulation so no fire risk

So far I have only worked with a couple of aftermarket pdu's and generally you make it up as you go along. Usually your trying to pick up data from engine ecu's on their factory can outputs.

What sort of spec vehicle? I have a 2007 passat manual diesel 4wd or a 2009 A4 fwd cvt I can get logs from this weekend if you give me a good description of how to lol I have a working savvycan as well.
Both cars do have engine fault codes but abs and traction control works fine in both

It doesn't quite work like that, you have to have a battery in the alternator circuit, it's there to smooth out the current output and help stop any surges in current from the alternator. If you end up running a vehicle with no battery the alternator doesn't get a good reference of system voltage an...

For anything VW I go onto https://erwin.volkswagen.de/erwin/showHome.do
Then enter the chassis number and download all the wiring diagrams, not sure about signal info but it has all the right diagrams, €7 per hour but I've managed to download full vehicle diagrams in that time

Looks right to me, not sure the Z or A would mean anything but their definitely in the picture

Yup was exactly my thinking when I saw one for quite a cheap price, not sure I'd it's good or not but about as cheap as I'd seen them and perfect to get my project started

What about buying a brand new one that is capable then just get it coded into the vehicle by someone who specializes in retrofitting or modified coding of bmw's? The same sort of way when people upgrade their radios or other modules, it usually here in New Zealand requires someone a bit more willing...

Yea fair enough on keeping the rear seats that's what I'm loosing when I mount my motor one day. If your better with drawings and numbers than me you could probably draw the rear hub and work out what the rear toe will do with the shorter arms when at your new height and with the travel it'll have t...

It's a lot of work redoing the suspension mounting points like that it will mess with how the wheels act with suspiension travel and may even fight other mounting points.
What about a front SDU that sits the other way and will hang into the old fuel tank area?

Most bms units have some sort of canbus depending on type, even if it was a leaf bms you could program either the ecu or dash canbus to read all the individual voltages and display min - max type things. I'm still in the buying phase and waiting for my engineer to have some time to mount the engine ...

Very keen on this idea, I am in a similar situation and was thinking of running some sort of pdm to do lighting, water pumps, fans and power supplies etc then a link ecu to do safety functions, throttle, factory dash gauges, etc and finally a dash either a cd7 or a ecumaster adu7 for all my info to ...

Not much help for the coding side but maybe try a resistor between 1.8 - 2.2 ohm, all airbags in vehicles are that resistance that I have come across.

Yea that's another good thought as well, maybe possible to find out with a parts manual somehow, bit beyond my area anyway

Would it be a normal TX valve with a position sensor attached? So the HVAC knows when it's gett8ng close to full open or shut to control AC pump speed for power saving?

As a auto sparky who works on normal cars and builds race looms as well, please don't use these heat solder joiners, there rubbish, either crimp join it with the dual wall heatshrink or solder it with a soldering iron and heatshrink, these things will fail in the future making your life not very fun...

Not sure if it's helpful or needed but I have a M3 drive unit, damiens usb adaptor and a 4 channel picoscope 4425a if it would help for any waveforms of things, not any good at the coding stuff but could get clear images of what's going on if it would help things out at all.

I would be pretty sure that a vcds tool could disable the oil level sensor in either coding, adaptions or basic setting menus, I have done this on all sorts of VAG stuff over the years. Sometimes some Google searching helps with a answer in that department as vcds doesn't always have help sections o...