My 1988 e30 325ix - Garage'd

[kid325e]

Is there any better "cherry on top" then brand new exhaust manifold nuts? The manifolds turned out clean, I really love the color.

[jeenyus]

Thank you, thank you! Not much of an update. I installed the exhaust and fed all the new wiring through the firewall. (feeding things through the firewall is a total pain in the ass) cleaned some things, looked at some things. I am a little unsure how to connect the signal wire to the zeitronix zt-3. My guess is the 4 wires on the old narrowband o2 connect to the 4 signal wires on the zeitronix zt-3. MS gets the information from there and they all play nicely. If anyone has used this setup any advice would be much appreciated. It's MSPNP2 (EMS) and Zeitronix ZT-3 (wideband).

[rzerob]

That looks good. I like the color.

[D.Martijn]

That does look very nice!

[jeenyus]

Got the goods back from the ceramic coater today! They look great! I gotta wait a min to install them because they said they are "still soft". Here are some pictures to give an idea though.

[jeenyus]

I got some items in the mail today! Time to learn some things.

[jeenyus]

Finally got some 10AN lines are n the mail today. Anything from Canada seems to take forever right now. They were much long than I anticipated, but I was able to make it work. If I need to I can always cut them shorter in the future. I routed them under and through the hole where the AC used to fit. Underneath I used a little hose separator to keep them from rubbing on each other and then a rubber seam weld for the hole.

[jeenyus]

Is this some universal clamp to be welded? can you tell me where you bought it ? nice work !

Yea this is a 3" vband flange. Welded them on and then they clamp down. I think I posted a final somewhere.

[jeenyus]

Got everything mounted for the oil filter relocation. Seam sealed the areas I ground down for welding. Basically I just drilled holes and welded in my old exhaust studs manifold studs for the filter location. I am waiting for 10an lines to show, but feeling good it's out from under the manifold.

[Iloveboost]

Everything seems to be lining up well. Just gotta weld it together now. I even checked out how it fits with the vbands to weld together.

Is this some universal clamp to be welded?
can you tell me where you bought it ?

nice work !

[jeenyus]

Oh I forgot to mention the brake lines. I swapped the front for Chase Bays lines and the driver's side was a PITA so I ended up mangling the shit outta the flare nut on the hard line. In the picture you'll see the rust that had accumulated that caused the struggle.

[jeenyus]

Happy Quarantine. I've been getting some things done on the car. On the 14th of April I will get the exhaust parts over to the ceramic coater. They are working on limited capacity with the pandemic, so basically you schedule the drop off and that's my date. I should get them back on the 20th. In the meantime I've had to figure out the location of the oil filter. It just won't do in the stock location with these headers and tbh it's a dumb spot to begin with so I'm happy to have another reason. The lines are 10an, but those haven't arrived yet. Location idea is on the frame rail. Any advice how to properly attach the bracket to the frame without a rivnut?

[jeenyus]

I GOT IT STARTED!! sounds mean! Below is a picture of the final exhaust assembled. A picture of the headers after burning off a little (kind of cool color) and then finally my best weld yet with the Flux welder. LoL! Now I can officially send them off to ceramic coating and get the fenders on this car fixed up.

[jeenyus]

Is that the summit 2 x 2.25" to 3" y-pipe? How do you like it?

Also are you using an expander? I tried one from HF but it was absolute trash.

haha! that's exactly what it is! you know your y-pipes.

I won't be using an expander. the fit is very tight on each connection, so i feel OK without it. The y collector, i bought some exhaust clamps to keep them connected on the long tube headers. I am unsure how successful it's going to be and if it doesn't work i guess i might just do vbands there as well... hoping that's not the case. all the other slip on connections have been welded together.

[dadsbmw]

Is that the summit 2 x 2.25" to 3" y-pipe? How do you like it?

Also are you using an expander? I tried one from HF but it was absolute trash.