Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30... now SUPER powered

[AWDBOB]

Dude, nice! If only you were closer to the midwest- I have everything you need to make your car the coolest (manual swap and full plastic bumper conversion).

Keep up the good work, I like that you always enjoy your cars (I never finish mine).

[2mAn]

Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30

Today was a good day. After owning this car for about 3 months and not officially knowing when the timing belt was last done, we got it done. I asked Ian (E30335i ) to help me, but it was definitely me helping him. Haha



He is balls deep into BMWs haha

I snapped a few pics of the muffler setup. As you can see the "tips" are nothing to get excited about but its definitely OEM-ish





Turns out the old timing belt didn't look bad, and the water pump was fairly new too but I'm glad I have a date and mileage to base future belt changes off of. Odometer read 168,970. Just shy of 169k. So I'm good until at least late 2020 and 210k min.

[2mAn]

Sound clip? [emoji51]

we'll see if I can get one done some day soon... haha

[wworm]

Sound clip? [emoji51]


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[2mAn]

Continuing this busy week of doing stuff, this morning I dropped off the car at the muffler shop to have them install the Borla muffler and I think they did a pretty good job. I don't have any pictures of the finished job yet. Car sounds pretty good though and I think it's going to get a little better as it breaks in.







I told them not to do anything on the tip side but the did weld some piping as "tips" so I'll have that to deal with, but overall I'm happy with the job

[2mAn]

Klaus has a 153 ECU and a Turner/Conforti chip. Jay will certainly confirm, though I'm 99% sure 153s and 173s are different enough that chips are not interchangeable between them.

Was Klaus one of the following when he left the factory?
-1988 model
-Automatic
-Broznit

anyone of these is a problem :p

[agent]

Sadly there is either a major difference between the chips for the 153 and 173 ECU or I got a bad chip but I'm guessing it's the former. Car wouldn't start after I put it all back together , so I had to pull it all apart again and installed the stock chip. Car started right up, my face wasn't thrilled though. Email is already sent to Jay aka sssquid tuning. I'm sure he will fix this issue. It was my fault so I'll deal with it.

Klaus has a 153 ECU and a Turner/Conforti chip. Jay will certainly confirm, though I'm 99% sure 153s and 173s are different enough that chips are not interchangeable between them.

[lukeADE335i]

Wow - never realised there was that much difference in the ECUs?! The 173 (or 172, 179 etc) is simple by comparison.

[2mAn]

Cirrusly Blue - The Daily Driver E30

The video actually helped so after having eaten dinner and sitting down patiently, I split her open in 5 minutes



Butter knife and the right angle was the trick

Chip installed!! I'm excited



Sadly there is either a major difference between the chips for the 153 and 173 ECU or I got a bad chip but I'm guessing it's the former. Car wouldn't start after I put it all back together , so I had to pull it all apart again and installed the stock chip. Car started right up, my face wasn't thrilled though. Email is already sent to Jay aka sssquid tuning. I'm sure he will fix this issue. It was my fault so I'll deal with it.

Tomorrow better be an exciting day because I have some parts that I'm paying someone else to install

I'm sure it will go without a problem ! Haha

[TFJR]

Hmmm I wonder if this is why mine will refuse to r3v past ~5500rpms regardless of how hard Im pushing on the throttle lol

Hopefully the chip will correct this

Edit: did a little more searching on replacing the chip (I really didnt think I would need to, but the 153 is special )

Found this great video by Sssquid himself. You'll see why this is a bitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PkGHajaido

That looks like I'd break absolutely everything with my sloppiness. Yikes.

[2mAn]

I have not, but I can confirm mine is running a 153 DME. I have a known good 173 waiting to go in. I still need to get a SSSquid chip made for it, but that'll all come after a 5 speed swap.

Hmmm I wonder if this is why mine will refuse to r3v past ~5500rpms regardless of how hard Im pushing on the throttle lol

Hopefully the chip will correct this

Edit: did a little more searching on replacing the chip (I really didnt think I would need to, but the 153 is special )

Found this great video by Sssquid himself. You'll see why this is a bitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PkGHajaido

[TFJR]

Have you swapped your chip in yet on yours? (wait yours is a super eta, right?)

I have not, but I can confirm mine is running a 153 DME. I have a known good 173 waiting to go in. I still need to get a SSSquid chip made for it, but that'll all come after a 5 speed swap.

[2mAn]

Ah so she’s playing hard to get. Need to wine and dine her and talk nicely usually does the trick.

Im a winner. I dont listen to words like "stop" "no" and "dont"

Nice progress. Those injectors look nasty - I'm sure mine will look about the same once pulled.

That is odd about having the 153 ECU... I thought all "i" cars have a 173, but clearly I am mistaken!

Have you swapped your chip in yet on yours? (wait yours is a super eta, right?)

[TFJR]

Nice progress. Those injectors look nasty - I'm sure mine will look about the same once pulled.

That is odd about having the 153 ECU... I thought all "i" cars have a 173, but clearly I am mistaken!

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Nope. I know what needs to happen, but she wont split open and let me in.



Sadly I cant force my way in

Ah so she’s playing hard to get. Need to wine and dine her and talk nicely usually does the trick.