The OFFICIAL 24v Engine Bay Thread

[R3Z3N]

[Thing30]

Still got lots of work

[agile30]

Verts have it. Its bracing.

[Leo_328i]

Heres a couple of shots of mine, just finished it up last week. Still need to spice it up and make it look cleaner.

Whats with that piece of metal that seems to join the strut housing to the fender? Never seen that before!

[Acehye559]

Heres a couple of shots of mine, just finished it up last week. Still need to spice it up and make it look cleaner.

[JRKOUPE]

My 2002 tii booster is mounted to the firewall and it fits fine. I'll post up some pics when I take them.



Do you know anything about HIOP? I'd love to know.

Much more popular 5 yrs ago or so......

a lot of e36 track guys played w/them along w/ TMS shorties , long tube types , SS , euros etc etc etc.

Many said they lost torque and hp w/ them...lol.....but I've never seen many dynos pre and post headers. Headers by themselves as you know, are not the smartest choice to install.....

the name HIOP has been kind of quiet for a while now.


they sure look good under the hood.

go to bf.c in the track section, and do a search.

good info here...

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=711588&highlight=hiop+headers&page=2

[MR 325]

Clean, doing it right!

[bacain32]

Here's a quick shot from tonight.

[bubbajan21]

^^ I'd be interested in those pix if you had a chance! I guess it wouldn't fit there with the booster mounted to the firewall tho eh?

My 2002 tii booster is mounted to the firewall and it fits fine. I'll post up some pics when I take them.

ahhh..HIOP...a blast from the past.

Do you know anything about HIOP? I'd love to know.

[White325is]

You dont have to believe me. I just share what I seen/read from dyno charts and tuning. After a little searching. This was on C-Ts car.

[Jszy25]

With the filter on the maf like that its not allowing the maf to read correct there for making the engine run different.
I believe it was "CMT" that had a thread on it when he did a dyno on his engine. Also Jordan "Stuck" ran into this problem when he had his filter right on his maf with his supercharger setup.

I don't really agree with you here, but I definitely could be wrong.

I run a cone filter right off a bimmerworld elbow on my E36 M3 and it runs perfectly.

The issue with a supercharger setup had to do with the maf sensor being too close to the actual supercharger unit which the sensor did not like. I don't think it had anything to do with the filter<maf distance.

[JRKOUPE]

ahhh..HIOP...a blast from the past.

[cormier]

^^ I'd be interested in those pix if you had a chance! I guess it wouldn't fit there with the booster mounted to the firewall tho eh?

[bubbajan21]

Whoops, missed these posts from november

Clean. Which headers are those and where did you buy them from?

I was wondering the same.......great looking tubes.

Hate to quote this picture again, but how is your brake reservoir mounted? Any more detailed pics?

These are HIOP Headers, I bought them used. I'm not 100% sure on the history, but I believe they were around before the turner shorties (if anyone knows more about the HIOP headers, I'd love to know more about my headers).

Cabin, the res. is mounted with a corner bracket to the fuse box. If you are still interested, PM me your email address and I'd be happy to email you a few more close-ups of it.

[5mall5nail5]

I was just looking at that pic above with the red valve cover, and wondering, do you need every one of those plates that goes between the coil packs? I only have the 2 that are running under the lead wires, and the 2 little ground straps.

Sorry I just saw this post - no, I don't need them all but since I powder coated the valve cover with a nice thick coating, and its an insulator, I like to ground the coils best. The factory uses the ground strap and two bridges to help ground the stock valve cover, but its mostly metal on the top side and where the bridges bolt/coils bolt. With mine coated and sitting on rubber grommets and rubber valve cover gasket, the ground plane up there can be weak. I've learned from high horsepower builds that so long as you don't create ground loops, the better the ground, the better.