MIKe30's 11:1 cammed OBD2 s52 build

[MIKe30]

I felt this way yesterday. Thankfully the OBD-I vacuum hoses are much more straight forward. But if you get under there and start poking around, the vasy majority of the connectors only have one connection.

Hoping to fire mine up in the next 4-6 days.

I marked most of the connectors, think i'll be ok now that I looked at it a second time. Real confusing there is going to be the harness adaption to e30 body :( For the obd2 hosing I think my buddy just picked up a 328 so I'll check under his hood hopefully tomorrow since real oem wasnt much help. Still going to be difficult since i'll have the obd1 mani.

Update???

Hey L, sure. As of earlier today it looked like this...



but some of that is fluff. The manifold isn't bolted down and later I put the harness in, started connecting some connectors. Intake manifold needs the 7 nuts I can't find and the hosing work underneath. Wiring is going to need a harness done - gregslow318i (sp?) believes he can do an obd2 wiring harness adapter properly for me - but I haven't pulled the trigger yet.

Clutch/fw/pp is all ready and torqued down. Need to grab one of those tranny dust shields tomorrow so I can mount the trans/starter/driveshaft. I may need a csb as I believe I used the only good one I had.

Then I need to get the axles off the old trailing arms, and onto the replacement e30 M3 trailing arms. Finally have a thin walled 30mm socket. Gonna try the air gun tomorrow I hope.

Can't find the water pump pulley in the messy garage. So looks like I'll need one of those, the 7 manifold nuts, a dust shield, and a csb. The list never stops growing as you go. Now that I think of it, I'll need to measure for and buy a new belt too, as the OEM one I purchased will be too long for an application with no power steering or a/c.

L, let me know if you have a good winshield wiper motor. Need one of those too as this car's wipers have never worked under my ownership.

Feel like I'm so close, yet so far. I'll get it sorted though - just a matter of time.

BTW, i know it shouldn't be a priority but I'm working on getting a new set of wheels. Hope it works out ;)

[ZM Blue Devil]

Update???

[z31maniac]

nearing my wit's end with this car. no joke.

other than a simple dust shield that goes between the block/tranny that is keeping me from mounting tranny/starter/driveshaft - should be fairly simple.

ABSOLUTELY clueless when it comes to hosing for intake mani/throttle bottle/boot/brake booster. Add in the wiring mess and my face goes :crazy:


seriously ready to pay somebody to finish this. or sell it. FML.


bout to get some obd2 reading in. don't see why I shouldn't be able to find enough info on here if other's have already....



side note: if anybody in the area knows what the hell their doing when it comes to obd2 wiring and hosing and wants to lend a helping hand, i've got cases of beer and food is always just a phone call away. seriously.

I felt this way yesterday. Thankfully the OBD-I vacuum hoses are much more straight forward. But if you get under there and start poking around, the vasy majority of the connectors only have one connection.

Hoping to fire mine up in the next 4-6 days.

[MIKe30]

Enough with the bday bs. Get that car done already!!!

nearing my wit's end with this car. no joke.

other than a simple dust shield that goes between the block/tranny that is keeping me from mounting tranny/starter/driveshaft - should be fairly simple.

ABSOLUTELY clueless when it comes to hosing for intake mani/throttle bottle/boot/brake booster. Add in the wiring mess and my face goes :crazy:


seriously ready to pay somebody to finish this. or sell it. FML.


bout to get some obd2 reading in. don't see why I shouldn't be able to find enough info on here if other's have already....



side note: if anybody in the area knows what the hell their doing when it comes to obd2 wiring and hosing and wants to lend a helping hand, i've got cases of beer and food is always just a phone call away. seriously.

[ZM Blue Devil]

Enough with the bday bs. Get that car done already!!!

[Uber E30]

pretty pumped to see this thing on the dyno

[dude8383]

happy birthday and congrats! lets see some bloody pics!

[MIKe30]

I think thats the same midsection Vlad has on his DTM car and it is low, but Im sure you will be careful with it.

ah, hopefully it's not too low. the cats are huge and bulbous! but it's not just the cats, the entire piping is huge. we'll see how well it can be tucked. Going to try and bring the car home today to fit the motor with the headers.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! :drink:

[ZM Blue Devil]

I think thats the same midsection Vlad has on his DTM car and it is low, but Im sure you will be careful with it.

[MIKe30]

This may be a retarded question/solution, but: did you tighten the allen screw before trying to position the caliper? If so, try screwing it on after...

Ended up taking the one noise/vibration damper pad thing off the back of one of the pads and they slid on just fine. I also check the pistons they are now ok. The pass side leaked a little bit, upon disassembmy I noticed a notch missing in the new gasket that lines the inside of the caliper. Looked like a manufacturing defect, so I replaced it with one of the old gaskets and seems like it's good to go now.


Euro s50 midsection came in yesterday, ITS HUGE!!! Hopefully I can fit it and tuck it under the car nicely. My buddy brandon thinks its going to be too low. We'll see. Should sound and flow great :)

[markseven]

slight dilemma: Hoping to bring the car from the garage to the house today to get some motor droppage done. Only issue is moving the car around. When installing the brand new rotors and brakes, the front were an ABSOLUTE BEAR to get on. Just seemed like no matter how much we compressed the piston back into the caliper, there was just not enough space between the pads to accomidate the massive brand new zimmerman rotor and THICK juird pads. Anyone else ever have an issue with this combo of pad/rotor?

My dad thinks my buddy and I did something wrong or that something isn't right, esp after I told him we had to hammer the back of the caliper to get it on, and that it's so tight we can't rotate either front wheel. I'm beginning to think I may have messed up the front caliper rebuilds, but I dont see how I could have possibly gotten it wrong. There's nothing to it.

It just seemed like if we had just one more mm of space it would have slid on snuggly...

Again, anyone ever have this issue?

This may be a retarded question/solution, but: did you tighten the allen screw before trying to position the caliper? If so, try screwing it on after...

[MIKe30]

slight dilemma: Hoping to bring the car from the garage to the house today to get some motor droppage done. Only issue is moving the car around. When installing the brand new rotors and brakes, the front were an ABSOLUTE BEAR to get on. Just seemed like no matter how much we compressed the piston back into the caliper, there was just not enough space between the pads to accomidate the massive brand new zimmerman rotor and THICK juird pads. Anyone else ever have an issue with this combo of pad/rotor?

My dad thinks my buddy and I did something wrong or that something isn't right, esp after I told him we had to hammer the back of the caliper to get it on, and that it's so tight we can't rotate either front wheel. I'm beginning to think I may have messed up the front caliper rebuilds, but I dont see how I could have possibly gotten it wrong. There's nothing to it.

It just seemed like if we had just one more mm of space it would have slid on snuggly...

Again, anyone ever have this issue?

[MIKe30]

no problem man! shoot me some feedback in that link i pm'ed you.

Thanks, will do.

Glad to help, if you need any other parts let us know. Get her done!!!

Thanks L, will also do. Looking to start on the wiring today until some more parts get here.


btw, I ordered an s50b32 midsection earlier this week. No rasp on this 24v swap :)

[ZM Blue Devil]

Glad to help, if you need any other parts let us know. Get her done!!!

[dude8383]

LOL! holy blue brake lines! thanks bro.

no problem man! shoot me some feedback in that link i pm'ed you.