My 1988 e30 325ix - Garage'd

[jeenyus]

You need some euroweaves

Dude there is so much need. LoL

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[DrJosh]

You need some euroweaves

[jeenyus]

So. You are not going to do anything about that rust?

[emoji23] of course, just not right now. Spring I'll be tackling a handful of rust spots that need to be POR15'd. It's been in the 20s for at least the whole year.

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[rzerob]

So. You are not going to do anything about that rust?

[jeenyus]

I got some freshy fresh front bumper struts for the front plastic bumper coversion.

My only question is, how does everyone does with settling the bumper lining with the wheel arch? I can't push the bumper cover deep enough against the car to get this to line up.

Thanks.

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[E30Bastard]

My fuel pump kicks only while the engine is cranking. Confirmed. I believe this is correct operation!

Fuel rail to stay pressurized for quick start. If pump primes and engine runs great it must be air leak in fuel system!

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[nando]

M20 fuel pumps don't prime. Only the M42 does that. That's controlled by the DME anyway, not the pump.

[jeenyus]

Just got off the phone with IE and I guess this is good info for all - oem and their adjustable fpr don't have backflow prevention.

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That's good to know. I wanna know someone who's fuel pump actually primes. I've never heard mine do it.

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[E30Bastard]

Just got off the phone with IE and I guess this is good info for all - oem and their adjustable fpr don't have backflow prevention.

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[jeenyus]

How does yours start now?

I would say it was a smoother turn over than with my Walbro (which I know didn't prime). Mine cranks once and fires on no issue.

I will say that although the Bentley claims the pump should prime in first position, a lot of people say theirs don't prime.

Could the FPR be the issue?


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[E30Bastard]

How does yours start now? I've found that after switching from OEM to TRE it takes a few more turns of the motor for me. With oem it would kick on after two revolutions now it is like 7. Not sure if it doesn't like the prime or what.

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[jeenyus]

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures, but I installed a new fuel pump last night.

My Walbro 255-lph was a giant pile of shit. I hated that fuel pump. Loud af in the summer, never could get it to keep a constant flow rate either. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't.

This wasn't the biggest of issues because the car still ran, albeit poorly and so i wasn't going to fix the pump if I didn't have to. Well the other day I started the car, gave it some gas and the car just died. I started to check everything in the car to see if it was spark, or air or what... turns out the pump just didn't want to work.

I gave it some time to recoup and it started and I drove home. seeing this as a foreshadowing of being stranded due to the failing pump I parked the car.

I ordered a TRE Performance fuel pump. I've only read good things about them. Having installed it last night, I would like to add to the good things about the pump.

First, it came way more complete than the Walbro pump. It came with two filters, new wires, clamps, orings, some weird straw thing, a sleeve for the pump, some rubber thing to put on the bottom of the pump, all packaged in a nice tidy little box.

Shipping took like a day or maybe two. Install was super easy, but granted I've been dealing with the shitty Walbro pump for a while and this has made me more than familiar with how to take the whole thing out.

I drove to work today and the difference is fantastic. Honestly, after my half day of experience with the pump I would recommend.

I should have taken pictures of how nice it all showed up, but I didn't have my phone on me while changing everything out...

[rzerob]

That makes me feel better. Didn't even know that was a thing.

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PDR is paintless dent repair and it blew my mind when I saw what some of these guys can do. See if the shop that did the tint have a PDR guy.

[jeenyus]

A good PDR guy will knock that dent right out for you no problem.

That makes me feel better. Didn't even know that was a thing.

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[rzerob]

A good PDR guy will knock that dent right out for you no problem.