My eta stroker, pic heavy

[ForcedFirebird]

Thanks. Going real slow, making everything look pretty and neat :D

Got the harness in...



Since I have the old style starter, had to solder the female spade connectors on the wires...



and we have an 885 heads w00t!





Maybe I'm anal, but I soaked the bolts in phosphoric acid both to clean them and give them a controlled oxide finish that will take forever to rust. They look like they are an alloy anyways lol...



Oh, and a new water pump...



Set the valve cover on...

[ForcedFirebird]

New hose to bypass the TB, need that extra .005hp lol...



Look, it's almost an m20!

[ForcedFirebird]

Appropriate injectors...



Most people skip this step, but I have had 1 snapped timing belt and one that stripped in my shop because they torqued the tensioner too tight, ABSOLUTELY MUST BE 16ft/lbs!



Timing cover is on, crank trigger installed (not there before lol)...



and look at the difference between the 200 and 885 castings, this gasket matches the 885 almost perfect, these ports are ridiculously small haha...

[ForcedFirebird]

Well done for the night. Few more hours left. Still have to push the harness through the firewall, install TB, intake tubing, radiator, fan, weld in o2 bung close enough for the harness (or extend the wires), wire the tach to the ECU, tq the crank hub and put the accy belts in, and hopefully that's it to fire 'er up!

[silence]

looking good!

[JTDay]

Amazing progression. Those detailed pics should help me a great deal when swapping my engine over. BTW, my jaw dropped when I saw the cleaned block surface and pistons. F*ckin awesome.

[ForcedFirebird]

Thanks for the compliments!

Well I am missing one part of the TB :( It's the little fitting for the brake booster, don;t know if I lost it when moving into the new shop, during the acid bath etc, or just never had it, but it's almost done. Tomorrow I'll jump the tach wire from the glovebox to the ECU and see how she sounds...

[e30huh]

subscribed on more on the tach wiring for the ecu

[ForcedFirebird]

Well my bud didn't have the fittings I needed, so a trip to the scrap yard today was worth the $2 admission, since they gave them to me free :D -- bad thing is tonight is GRM BMW night and the race is the end of Sept, and there's a lot to do on that car to be ready, so looks like tomorrow night to wrap up :(

Tach wire is the black wire in the glovebox/ECU area, I looked at it when I did my friend's m50 swap, but never hooked his up because the eta tach only reads 5 grand anyways. This wire has to go to the tach input on the ECU.

I will make sure I post details, but I got the info from striclyeta...http://strictlyeta.net/technical/328i_8.html

[ForcedFirebird]

Update:

After taking a weekend off from the shop and a slight mishap on Thursday, need to remember next time to disconnect the batt when working on the car, fried the harness, but got a new one Fri :(

Not starting right away, replaced the main relays and she fired right up once the fuel lines were full!

I must have a vacuum leak somewhere cause when I give it gas, she wants to stall. Either that or I may have the TPS off a little. Took it off the TB to give it an acid bath, but marked it pretty good, we will see. My car sounds so crazy revving so high lol. Still need to connect the tach/econoguage, push the harness through the firewall and put on the fan/hose/shroud, but am so relieved she's running!

More details/pics to come...

[ForcedFirebird]

It was the AFM, put the Motronic 1.3 AFM in it, cleared right up. Took her for a drive and all I can say is WOW what a difference. Need some shorter gears, even with the 2.93 lsd, it screams, but I haven't even been able to top out 3rd, 2nd takes me over 70 haha the speedo just climbs like mad. Feels almost as fast as my friends m50 swapped car (we used the Getrag 260 and same 2.93 diff). I have a 4.10 lsd here and am contemplating installing it, would really like a 3.73 or even a 3.42 out of a 5 series, but I'll probably use whats on hand. Looked funny going down the road in front of my shop, banging gears at ~6800rpm with no hood and the ECU tucked in the corner of the engine bay...

[ForcedFirebird]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHs1FSx_ys

[e30huh]

look great man, i'm right behind you. i still haven't fire mine up yet.
did you leave the purge canister disconnected or adapted the i?

[SoopaGhetto]

so would you say the fraken 2.7i is worth the effort? even with low compression, that thing seems to take off!

[Danny]

Let me move to Florida and work for you.