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[diegom6]

Well,

she is finished pretty much. Kinda difficult to take good pictures with this color and the background is no nice whatsoever.













Shiny clouds










Engine bay pics to come later..

-Diego

[Jean]

Very nice job man! If there is one thing I don't like is the ride height and the factory m5 kit that isn't body colored, I know it's an m5 thing but I still don't like it lol.

Good save man!

[CorvallisBMW]

Fantastically beautiful. Great job!

[dude8383]

Wow. Ballin HARD.

Pretty sure you're going to enjoy the shit outta that.

[diegom6]

Did some small changes/maintence.

The rear SLS and steering box high pressure OEM hoses were leaking, so I decided that a local hidraulic hose shopp take care of them and only costed me arround US$ 35 both hoses te replace with new hoses/fittings, etc vs over US$ 230 plus 3 weeks of import from BMW. It's working perfect and it's dry now





New high pressure hose...






Took down the trans to change my slippery OEM clutch. Notice how the old pressure plate, the diaphram is worn out and has lost it's tensile and you can see how is flatter than the new one. Found locally the kit from a friend's clutch shop and gave me a super deal. He also had to machine slightly the twin mass flywheel (although, I know it's not recomended, he insisted as he has done that before) and now the car you can feel when it start to engage (with the old one you never felt when it engaged) and it's just bit faster.

Input shaft seal changed as well. Cleaned the box and what not.











-Diego

PS: Took the car in the highway and did a long pull, hit about 260/270Km/h (with help of s tright in down hill, so not much effort was made from the engine) and kinda racing a Suby STi, then I slowed down an checked through my rear mirro, my car was smoking quite a bit, it was white/skyblue, aka, oil burning. Slowed down more and start to cruis about 100 km/h and after 1-2 mins running like this, the smoke went away and never smoked again, although, never ran hard the car way back home. Compression was about 195-200 psi per cyl and leak down test made (both was made early when got the car) showed average of 15%, and weakest awas 19%. Valve seals perhaps?

[diegom6]

Latest pics...engina bay done.

Valve cover (those white nicks is some dirt) and air box painted. ECU side plastic cover with sticker repaired and brand new heater valve cover & + terminal cover.

Some comparison

BEFORE/ AFTER
















And brand new driver carpet...:pimp:

[Hick]

very nice!

[Wh33lhop]

Sweet Jesus.

[dude8383]

Hey Diego, you a cca member? You get the roundel?

[diegom6]

Hey Diego, you a cca member? You get the roundel?

Uh. Oh! O_o What's that may I ask...

[M-technik-3]

Diego what size are those Toyo's on the front in this photo?

[diegom6]

Oh, those are 225/45/16 :p used them in the past in my e30 turbo and in my beloved (sold) e30 m3 US

[M-technik-3]

R888's are available in that size? Odd I never see them listed here in that size.

[Julien]

I used the same trick (local hydraulic store) on my SLS hose!

Awesome work

[dude8383]

Uh. Oh! O_o What's that may I ask...

http://www.bmwcca.org/index

Maybe they have something for you guys? I was going to offer to send you an issue (mag) with the E28 M5, E34 M5, E39 M5... E60 M5 and finally... the new F10 M5.

Its a short article, but figure it would be cool to have. Lemme know.

http://db.tt/F8csJLdx - (Page 52) PDF version for ya... if you want the actual mag, I'd be more than happy to mail it!