I bought the smaller of the two Harbor Freight units and found it barely did anything. The lid eventually got broken off of it and then was thrown in the trash.
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Originally posted by nando View PostAlso, ultrasonic parts cleaners are friggin' awesome. my father in law bought one at HF and let me test it out. I just grabbed some random bolts and the grungiest parts I could find and threw them in with a solution of simple green & water for 5 minutes. Everything I put in there came out looking brand new - I've gotta get me one of these things! I was worried about cleaning some of the build on parts of the head, but now I know I can just toss them in there for a few minutes and they'll come out spotless. That means I only need to replace worn parts, and not spend a week scrubbing everything by hand.Originally posted by ForcedFirebird View PostI am on my 4th or so ultrasonic cleaner from them. The plastic tends to get brittle with degreasers, and make sure your fingers are dry before touching the buttons, or they will zonk out from the water leaking around the edges of the panel. I put a piece of clear packaging tape over the last panel, seems to be helping.Originally posted by 2002tiiguy View Postill agree ultrasonic cleaners are awesome, i have the bigger harbor freight one and im seriously considering buying a countertop industrial unit, works great on caliper brackets that pads wont slide in lol
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Originally posted by nando View Postso I wouldn't be surprised if my compression and leakdown numbers weren't great, plus any number of other things that could be wearing out.AWD > RWD
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potentially, I have an EWS delete. I don't have my fingers crossed because I'm probably wrong - but I'm starting to figure this shit out. Lots of patching/hacks to make it work.
The bad thing is I can't really test it beyond looking whether the bits I want to be 0 change correctly - for some reason MSV70 doesn't like the 60-2 crank sensor output of my bench setup. It picks up RPM for a few seconds, then crashes. That's the only way to see if the injection and ignition channels are active..
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well, I can't believe it - but it worked! I mean, I've only been beating my head against the wall for 2 years, but:
Code:apiJob("MSV70","status_ews_lock","","") Satz : 0 OBJECT = msv70 SAETZE = 1 JOBNAME = status_ews_lock VARIANTE = MSV70 JOBSTATUS = UBATTCURRENT = -1 UBATTHISTORY = -1 IGNITIONCURRENT = -1 IGNITIONHISTORY = -1 Satz : 1 JOB_STATUS = OKAY _TEL_AUFTRAG = 5 Bytes 0000 : 82 12 F1 21 49 ?.ñ!I _TEL_ANTWORT = 3 Bytes 0000 : 61 49 00 aI. [B]STAT_EWS_LOCK_WERT = 0 [/B] 00 00 ..
I should be able to do MSS70 to - if anyone with a Z4M parts car is swapping it into an E30. ;)
as an aside - MSS60 and MSS65 have similar architectures, so I could probably do it there too.
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Congrats on the break through!My Garage
2001 Z3 2.5i Steel Gray/Black (Lexi)
1988 325ix Diamond Schwartz/Black (Izzy)
1989 325i Cirrus Blue/Houndstooth (Stitch)
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Originally posted by nando View PostThe one i have has a SS tank.
Originally posted by nando View Postwell, I can't believe it - but it worked! I mean, I've only been beating my head against the wall for 2 years, but:
I should be able to do MSS70 to - if anyone with a Z4M parts car is swapping it into an E30. ;)
as an aside - MSS60 and MSS65 have similar architectures, so I could probably do it there too.
Now I have to see if an N62 E70 X5 oil pan will fit an S65 ;-)
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Originally posted by nando View Postyeah, it's stainless for sure. maybe it's the bigger one? I dunno, I never go to HF - he just brought it over for me to try.
It might. The oil pickup is way different on the S65 though. you might be able to frankenpan them together though.
what's an S65 weigh?
Dunno... it's probably not much lighter than an S62, if at all. It *is*, however, way easier to get 430+ to the wheels out of an S65.
AWD transmission for it? That's another fun question.
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Originally posted by Kershaw View PostCongrats on your breakthrough, one step closer to being done.
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Originally posted by The Dark Side of Will View PostDunno... it's probably not much lighter than an S62, if at all. It *is*, however, way easier to get 430+ to the wheels out of an S65.
Originally posted by nando View Postwell, I can't believe it - but it worked!
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Just an update for my own sanity - still working on the house/other things, so the garage is a disaster and I can't do much to the engine yet. But I'm still working on "soft" parts of the build.
Made some more progress on software - RSA/EWS delete fine tuning, and also now checksum corrections for the boot sector and program segments (I already had it for the parameter segments).
Actually other than deleting error codes and relatively easy stuff, I don't think I have anything else that absolutely needs to be done to get this thing started. I mean, other than building a motor, wiring it up, and installing it...
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