Clapbox 325E

[Swoozley Macklin]

Tried to paint the quarter over the weekend. I had some paint marked 314 bmw so i tried it out. It doesn't match to well. But it's more one color than it is two now lol. Picked up a e90 to flip,
Wired up the E-Fan to a relay + temp probe. Kinda gearing up to pull the motor over the winter. I pretty much have beat the car the death from when i built it till now. It's been the daily, fun car a handful of times and it deff took its toll.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Italian tuneup went well

[zwill23]

Nice work! I had a feeling all those vacuum leaks were killing the engine at idle. Sounds like you're about ready for an Italian tune up after rego.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Fixed a bunch of vac leaks, cleaned up some under the manifold stuff.Car is back to running like a champ. Only took it down the block though cause i need to register it. But was ripping up till third gear.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Well, Car kinda runs. At least off it's own supply of fuel now. Will Just die at idle, slight miss/choke up around 3K that'll clear out. Still have p0340.
This P0340 will be the death of mean, I know i have some vac leaks that are audible.
Was planning to open the Tb a bit and spraying everything to listen to where/what. then visually verify everything.
Going to sort leaks and report back eventually.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Well, not so long winded update.
Car has sat since the last update.
P0340
Car has 2 new crank/cam sensors (oem)
New fuel filter
New fuel pump
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Car still has been doing the same thing. Now won't start unless ya spray down the intake. Will stay running as long as you spray.
So deff something fuel related? No injector pulse? Sticking injectors? Bad harness ( possible with my s212? splice incident ) Bad dme? (car still runs? kinda)
A bunch of people gave me some leads to chase down. it's been 4? months since i've touched it. Life, work, you know. Really want to get the thing good again by my birthday. It'll take some time. We'll get there.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Worked on the car a bit this weekend, got sidelined and impulse bought a truck.... New front clip is on. It is weird to see this to start to be one color again. I am stoked to finally have a oem hood latch setup too. Didn't dive into anything with the motor. Still dreading that.

[Northern]

That jumper harness shouldn't make a difference. I think it's for a crank sensor recall. Hard to find info on it, but I think they changed the sensor and that harness hijacks +12V from somewhere (I think VANOS solenoid power) to feed the new crank sensor, whereas the previous sensor was 5V.




I think prior to this, the vanos solenoid plugged into the end of the injector wiring rail, and the crank had a pigtail with the matching connector to the "crank connector under manifold" labeled one.

Dave sounds like a solid guy haha.

I guess without INPA you could stick a multimeter probe in the back of some connector that gets 5V to see if it's ~5V, but if the sensor is simply bad that won't let you know.

[Swoozley Macklin]

The original cam sensors typically die from the wire insulation rotting away and the wires shorting together, giving messed up signal.
If it shorts the 5V to ground, it can mess up the 5V rail in the ECU. Since it worked for a while, I hope it isn't that issue, but with a new OE cam sensor I don't know why it would throw that code.

Surprising the delphi crank sensor worked, but it's just a hall sensor so it's probably not as picky about it.

If you have an INPA install, you can see live crank/cam position info that should help to rule out one or the other.

Inpa, not yet. something to download and buy the cable for. I'm hoping it didn't kill it. I have the updated jumper harness for the crank and cam sensor. Does that make a difference? I have off tomorrow so plan to look then at everything.

- usually when something happens i assume worst case, my buddy dave always told me to step away for a day and chill out and not worth on something frustrated. Clear minded more less. trying to just slow down and not rush.

[Northern]

The original cam sensors typically die from the wire insulation rotting away and the wires shorting together, giving messed up signal.
If it shorts the 5V to ground, it can mess up the 5V rail in the ECU. Since it worked for a while, I hope it isn't that issue, but with a new OE cam sensor I don't know why it would throw that code.

Surprising the delphi crank sensor worked, but it's just a hall sensor so it's probably not as picky about it.

If you have an INPA install, you can see live crank/cam position info that should help to rule out one or the other.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Not much of a update, car threw a P0340. Will run either like a bag of dicks, or like nothing is even wrong. (down on power, almost like a limp mode?) but its intermittent. I put a new oem CAM senor in it about 3? years ago, but also threw a delphi crank senor in. Hoping it's just the oe crank vs oem. Started to act up on the way to a funeral. Limped car home, and parked it for the week. gonna try to diag when doing the rest of the body stuff this weekend. Anywho some good news, my good friend got a nice e30 finally. I gave him my old caged shell, and an early sedan shell (pictured behind kinda) about a year ago and it gave him the bug. He just picked this thing up, his plans are to just keep it until his first born can drive it, But i was amazing for what he got it for, he really paid for the bbs's and airbag setup on it and got the e30 for free in a sense.. Next update won't be till
1) red of red panels are on
2) i figure this damn P0340.

[Swoozley Macklin]

I am still trying to figure out pictures, but this is a before with the old hood.

[Swoozley Macklin]

Ooo nice!
Parts car projects are one of my favourites.

[Panici]

Ooo nice!
Parts car projects are one of my favourites.

Helps keep costs down and is a ton of fun.
My ex-wife had a MK4 Jetta 1.8T which I kept going after her repeated crashes using a parts car. Had the whole front clip swapped over by the end.
Plus my E36 Canyongrun project!

[Swoozley Macklin]

Uh, not much of a update. Bought a parts car to reshell mine (kinda). No title, so it's getting cut up. Ripping pretty much all the body parts off of it, fenders, hood, doors, trim, trunk yada yada. So it'll be somewhat one color. Updates to come, hopefully the next set of pictures my car is half red lol.