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God this car is addicting. BRB, going to pick and pull to try to find some headlight parts. -
Thats awesome. There's not chance you are doing Leavenworth drive this weekend are you? Would love to check this beast out!Leave a comment:
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Update time again!
I took the car up to Austin's Pro-Max in Tacoma, Wa. to do the exhaust, They did an awesome job, and was able to get it done in one day. After talking with them about the sound I wanted, we went with a Flowmaster series 40, 2.5" x2 in, 2.5" x2 out. Thing sounds amazing, a little loud, but I like it. This thing pulls like a train, and the speed sneaks up on you quick.
I am a little lower than I would like, only about 2" from the oil pan to the ground, so I need to get a skid plate. and I have a clunk in the right front corner I need to track down.
Ghetto Shifter v1.5 works well, and I have a pretty short throw. It's really notchy, and a solid feel, I really like it. This answered my questions about this style shifter, So I will be buying a AKG DTM shifter to replace Ghetto Shifter eventually.
The tach is doing a weird jumpy thing from time to time, it only seems to do it when the RPMs are in one place, I can live with it though. I didn't use the Garagistic chip, Although I do have one, I need a 4 cylinder coding chip to go with it, if I want to use it in the future. I used one of these:
Also, I'm pretty sure I got the cooling system burped. I'm running a little hotter than I would like, But I am not sure what is "normal." It seems to stay between the 1/2 line and the 3/4 line on the E30 gauge. that is with the cooling fan on, Without the cooling fan, it gets closer to the 3/4 mark, and with the heater going, I can get it closer to the half mark.
Debating on putting another temp sensor on it somewhere, and another temp gauge, with actual numbers so I know how hot it actually is.
I'd like to hear from the other M60 swaps out there where your temperature sits, and what would be "Normal."
Today, I did a few minor fixing things. Luke, from GAS, had one of the Front headlining cover to replace the one I had that was all busted up. I also discussed a future stereo plans, I gotta get the credit card paid down before I can do it though. I also temporally fixed the broken seat back.
Regardless, it's running and driving, For now, I'm taking it easy on it, and just kinda cruising it, I don't want to take the chance of breaking it before the Picnic. After then, I may hammer on it a little, and see what breaks. lol
Here is an in cab video, audio on it sucks, but you can get the idea.
(still uploading at the time of writing this)
Picnic in 19 days....Last edited by delamaize; 12-02-2017, 12:00 AM.Leave a comment:
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Maston came down, and we got the brakes bled, clutch bled, double checked everything, filled the diff, put the hood on....
Woo! First drive! Still needs o2 sensors and exhaust, but I got to drive it!
Still waiting for.the M5 slave, then hopefully next week, we will get the exhaust put on it. Pending that the self burping cooling system actually does such, and I don't have cooling issues, it will be at the picnic under its own power!Last edited by delamaize; 12-01-2017, 11:59 PM.Leave a comment:
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Got a metric shit ton of little shit done on the M60 swap today. Mostly wrapped up little stuff.
Got the wiring harness adapter shortened, covered, and cleaned up.
Wired up the fan to a factory button in the cab. (just until I figure out how I'm going to wire it for auto.
Modified the orginal wiring guide from the fan cover, to hold a power wire, and the overflow line.
Made a bracket to hold the MAF.
made a bracket for the Diagnosis connedtor.
then finally got motivated to get most of the body put back together. I left the hood off for now.
Getting so much closer....Last edited by delamaize; 07-09-2017, 09:45 PM. Reason: I have now wasted 3 hours of my life transferring all these pictures off Photobucket. Fuck you photobucket.Leave a comment:
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Ok, now that I have had some time to calm down, and potentially fix the issue, I'll elaborate.Originally posted by delamaize View Post
When Maston and I were bleeding the brakes, we found that almost every flair I made was wrong, and they all were leaking. Long story short, I had to redo all of them, except 2, Destroyed 2 fittings in the process, damn near stripped one of my master cylinders, and learned the hard way that a cheap flair tool makes shitty flares.
In the process of doing all this, I had to reroute the main lines coming off the master cylinders. Good news is, If the splices leak again, the new routing will allow me to do one piece lines, where the old routing wouldn't. Hopefully, here in the next few days, My M5 slave will be here, and that will allow me to get the clutch working right, and Hopefully getting the brakes bled will allow me to drive it a little for the first time. Then off to have the exhaust put on it.
27 days 'till Picnic.....Leave a comment:
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Got the valley pan gasket replaced today, Maston I did some digging and found a few vacuum leaks. Running a lot better now. 29 days to picnic at this rate I'll make it.
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