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Oh hell yeah, love this. The difference in steering feel & handling with the E30 M3 style sway-bar tabs is nuts - by far one of the best mods I've done to my under-powered 318.
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nice
you'll want some more beef around those sway bar tabs though probs
edit: shortened too?
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timing and vac leaks are the things that do that. you may also want to check the throttle body - someone may have cracked it way open to fix something else.
also when you time it make sure to distinguish the O|T mark and the advance mark, and follow instructions for disabling vac advance (which IIRC you need to do while timing, but don't quote me on that). It's easy to use the wrong one to time to.
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Originally posted by kronus View Posti love seeing stuff be cleaned up
good looking car, great base to start with.
So on to more idle issues:
I replaced the "green box" thinking it was the cruise control module, but according to Pelican Parts its actually a fuel pump relay. I removed it all together and the car revved up to 3k and stayed there as soon as I turned it on. (I don't want cruise control anyways since I'd like to simplify things- if anyone has tips on removal thatd be great). So I installed one I pulled from a junkyard car a while ago, and it idled properly until I started driving around, and then it idled high again. It comes and goes and I havent been ale to connect it to any other symptoms, hence my hypothesis that it's just a sticky ICV. I've replaced most vacuum lines and the distributor cap and rotor as well. I finally bought a bentley manual and will check timing and other things this weekend and report back my findings.
this is where it usually sits.
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i love seeing stuff be cleaned up
good looking car, great base to start with.
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My (not so) Delphin 318i
First off:
I've had this car since mid decmber, and have been meaning to make a thread about it but haven't felt like I've done enough work to justify posting, but works slow right now so I'm gonna get this started. This is my new (to me) 11/83 318i. Originally Delphin, resprayed halfway and somewhat poorly color matched with a greenish tint that I actually really like.
(Needs chrome kidney grills again)
I'd like to eventually get it repainted in a factory greenish grey color, but that will probably never happen unless I get a tech job or a rich wife, lol
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here's it parked in its new spot.
First, I swapped in the steering wheel from my last car and took it for a drive on christmas with my dad
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Then I messed with the idle to try and get it to go down. It idled perfectly when I bought it, and after the hour long drive home and ever since, it wont idle below 12-1300 rpm. I've since narrowed it down to a sticky ICV, since it'll idle well before I touch the gas pedal. I cleaned it once, quickly, but will def have to take it back out and really try and get it to work right.
Then I gave it a bath:
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Then after looking around I figured I should replace a few things.
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This was what was left of the exhaust manifold/heat shield.
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I was missing a few studs so I went and replaced all of em while I was in there.
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Motor mounts were pretty tired, old versus new
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Took it on another drive....
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Found a car that makes e30s look big. Owner didn't want to talk to me though lol.
Then I took a break and went on a snow wheeling trip with my friend and the Nor Cal Land Rover club
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Current plans are 6 cylinder brakes/struts swap, which I have been cleaning up and will post progress photos of in my next post. Nothing you all haven't seen before, but who doesn't like seeing stuff being cleaned up?Tags: None
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