Project: Spielereien. AKA "The dumpster fire"

[2mAn]

E30s are so good!... glad it went flawless!

[delamaize]

Well, Today is the day I decided to do my short-ish road trip with the Dumpster Fire, and the thing was absoulty flawless the entire time. 500 miles round trip all together. It was in the 90s in eastern Washington, and the Temp stayed rock solid the entire time. The thing did so awesome Im so happy with this thing overall. Oh, Yeah, Milage? I had to fill the tank 2 times altogether, started with half a tank, and refilled it at the beginning the trip, filled in Pasco, Wa, then again in Centralia, Wa. Home is about 30 Min from Centralia. Aaaaanyways. 23 MPG. Yes, you heard that right, 23 MPG, with a M60 swap. This car....

[2mAn]

At 22mpg I think you're getting mpg than I am in my M20!

[delamaize]

Been Dailying the Dumpster Fire sincen I fixed the coolant leak. It gets better milage that my F150, which I normally daily. I'm sure my neighborhood isn't thrilled with me starting it at 6:30 in the morning....

[delamaize]

Dumpster fire update!
I've had it back on the road for about 2 weeks now. And it is awesome still. Has not lost a drop of coolant since fix. The new fuel injectors are great, I had a noticeable power gain, in a little bit better gas mileage. The last tank of gas calculated out to 22 miles a gallon. I'm planning a few short road trips, be the first time I have pushed this car more than 2 hours away from my house. I did have the engine oil level light come on the other day when I was out driving, I worried about that a little bit, but I also put in a actual oil pressure gauge and I was still getting good oil pressure so I knew I wasn't low on oil. But to play it safe I pulled over and checked anyways. Just as I thought oil level is good, but the sensor has taken a shit. I'm on my way to the junkyard today to see if the 540 that I scavenged the fuel injectors, and the coolant crossover is still there. If it is I'm snagging that sensor. Those damn things are expensive brand new.

on the list of dumb things that are just quality of life projects, I managed to find a 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300E that had a good power antenna at pick and pull near me. A little bit of Google foo told me that the antennas are basically the same as the E30. With the thing only costing 9 bucks I decided to take the Gamble. So they are not exactly the same antenna. The mounting is different. And there is no easy way to take the mounting off of the E30 and put it on the MB one. They are similar part numbers, and they are identical size and shape. Of course the electrical plug is different, and they are wired slightly different. What I ended up doing was taking all of the guts out of the MB unit, and putting them in my E30 cases. Luckily everything is modular enough that I did not have to do any soldering to swap the Electoral over, it was merely unplugging the pigtail between the board and the plug, and plugging in the BMW one. So now I have a working power antenna again, I know it's a gee whiz bullshit thing, but to me I like it. I have a modern stereo, a Sony DSX-A415BT, and I was hoping that when you had the stereo on anything but the radio it would put the antenna down. It does not unfortunately, so that being said, I shook the parts box and found a basic stock BMW on/off button that fits into the dash above the stereo, the same area as the hazards. I wired that button up to be a interrupt for the antenna, so if I'm running Bluetooth I can turn that button off and the antenna goes down. I know a trivial little bullshit thing but I like it.

The next big project is putting in a higher volume/high pressure Fuel pump, and getting rid of E30 dual pump setup. What I got is basically a Warbo 300 equivalent. It should be more rhan enough flow and pressure. I have the new pump, and the stuff to do it, except the new High pressure line, that goes from the hanger to the fuel filter. I just need time. In the near future I do need to replace the gas tank though, it has had a big dent in and since I got the car, and it's in a place where I can't push it out from the fuel pump/Gauge hole. The most gas I've ever been able to put in this car at one time is 10 gallons, which means that dent is taking 2 gallons away from me. I might go to the late model tank, I got to do some more research to figure out what I have to do to make that happen. 16 gallons would be nice

I still absolutely love this car, and these days I'm driving it More than my normal daily my 2010 F150. Definitely get better gas mileage. Stay tuned for more

[delamaize]

Parts showed up today, therefore, its go time.

decided to go to Pick N Pull and see what injectors the E39 that I pulled the crossover from had in it. It had 8 of the new style bosch 0280156347 injectors, that looked new. Needless to say, for $100 for the set, I jumped on them.




Got everything Slammed back together, and gave it a crank. Took a second to reprime the fuel system, but we got life again, and no coolant leaks that I can see!

https://youtube.com/shorts/brnKvMFSTko?si=IPL4WNNl4FZP_5s1

Im so happy, and ready to Rip it again! Id take it now, but I have a banquet for my step daughters track team to get to.

[delamaize]

Progress has been made. Crossover with new O rings and gaskets has been mounted. Hoses aquired and fitted. It not perfect, but it will work, and is better what was there before. No more household plumbing parts mixed in. Filled the system with new pentefrost, with no leaks. Just waiting on the Intake O rings/Gaskets now, then the Dumpster Fire will be ready to Terrorize the roads again. I cant wait! I miss throwing around the shitbox!

[delamaize]

Well, some things got done today.
the new crossover I yanked from a junkyard 2001 540i didn't have bungs for the temp sensors.But it did have the bosses.
well, now it has Bungs.

I ended up buying a entire tap and dye set from harbor freight just to get the M14x1.5 tap to thread the holes. Oh well, im sure I will need the set again someday.

[delamaize]

UPDATE TIME! WOO!
After a mess of staring, and head scratching, i came to the conclusion that I could get to the coolant crossover if I pulled the Intake. Needless to say, thats what happened.

I was able to get to all the bolts and got the bastard off.

and found the smoking gun.

So I was off a little, not the cap, but a break in the line that looped around to the reservoir.

Now that I got it out, gotta track down the T shaped hose that connects the coolant cross over to the reservoir and heater core, a hose for the other heater core connection, and a tap for the temp sensors. The replacement crossover I picked up has the bosses, but no homes drilled.

Might throw some new injectors at it, since I got it this far apart. The old ones are OEM, and could use an upgrade.

[delamaize]

Well, While I wait for parts to fix the leak, I figured I'd figure out why my drivers window stopped working about 3 months ago. Yep, Motor is toast, and track is Fuct. Found one on E-bay, It's on the way. Man, Some of the prices on some of the regulators were insane. Saw one dude that wanted $600 for one that looked like he pulled it out of a mud pit, With no Make an offer option. Are these really that sod-after.

Oh well, Only paid $200 for the one I ordered, after shipping.

[delamaize]

Did a little looking at the location of the leak today, I *Think* there is a small chance that I could drop the driveshaft, Tranny crossmember, Disconnect the exhaust, Move some heater/reservoir hoses, Loosen the motor mounts, and lower the tranny, angling the entire thing down in the rear, the I *Might* be able to reach around the bellhousing and *Maybe* get to the offending plug and replace it. The permanent fix is still going to require pulling the motor.

Geesh, reading that after typing it, the effort it will take to do that, I'm thinking I will probably just skip the band-aid fix, and just pull the damn thing when the parts get here....

[BadDays]

Coolant related issues are my worst enemy, Let's hope you can get it done with the motor still in the car, BTW V8 swapped E30's are just infinitely more cooler than M50/S52 swaps 🙂↕️

[delamaize]

Parts ordered to address the coolant leak. Now to just find the time to drain the coolant, and slide the motor/tranny forward, or pull the whole damn thing.

[2mAn]

Kinda clunky, but the 2 have become ONE!...

Now get it done!

[delamaize]

So I haven't updated This Thread in an extremely long time, but I figured I would come in here to say two things.

One: The Saga of Project: Spielereien took some while twists and turns since the last time I updated this thread, Including a name change, it's now called the dumpster fire. The car ended up sitting idle in storage in a barn for 5 years, and a bunch of other bullshit happened. If you want the full update click the link in my signature, that is the most updated thread, and.....

Two: I will not be updating this thread anymore. I've been doing all the updates on the thread that's Linked In My signature. And that will be the only thread from here on out. Project: Spielereien, aka the dumpster fire, is alive and well, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

for the 1.5 of you that actually are reading this thread, I hope to see you over on the other thread. Lol