Reap3rs E30 Bought back, Now M52B28

[CorvallisBMW]

Way to go! I am excited to see this beast run :)

[Reap3r]

So I've been screwing around every night this week and its starting to get further along :) With any luck tomorrow afternoon it'll get started & then it'll just be a case of the finishing touches and a clean & I'll be taking it for a drive on Sunday
fingers crossed :D

[Reap3r]

And with many anoying problems out of the way, I took it for its first spin around the block tonight without the hood. Looks like it needs all new sensors though because the high temps in the parts washer probly killed them.

[e30guydownunder]

if you dont want to buy all new sensors I can hook you up. Comes with free engine and trans. $500

p.s. good shit

[Reap3r]

if you dont want to buy all new sensors I can hook you up. Comes with free engine and trans. $500

p.s. good shit

Haha, well I most likely already have my hands on some off the m20 or s38 in the corner at my brothers house. All the part numbers line up between all engines. Hows your turbo manifold though :P

[e30guydownunder]

that will be forsale too, and the inlet if your quick, i'll grab it out of the bin (modded e36) but I cut up my dump pipe sorry.

anything else you need? Baby turbo? 600x300 intercooler? DTA ecu?

yes i have completly changed direction, pics and vids once it runs

[Reap3r]

that will be forsale too, and the inlet if your quick, i'll grab it out of the bin (modded e36) but I cut up my dump pipe sorry.

anything else you need? Baby turbo? 600x300 intercooler? DTA ecu?

yes i have completly changed direction, pics and vids once it runs

Probably not at the moment, Looking at just getting it running now. Degreased it all this morning to check where it was leaking oil from, Filter housing, thought sweet easy fix.

Drove it into the shed & parked it up, look under. Steady stream of oil coming from the bellhousing now, so i'm guessing it blew the rear engine seal or the sump. :(

[e30guydownunder]

bummer man. I'm just going out to work on fitting up my new fuel lines and surge tank setup :)

Atleast the lil M42's are easy to get in and out

[Reap3r]

bummer man. I'm just going out to work on fitting up my new fuel lines and surge tank setup :)

Atleast the lil M42's are easy to get in and out

Yeah hopefully it doesn't have to come out, my brother seems to think that the acid bath may of eaten up one of the oil gallery plugs on the back of the block & could of blown it out. He had a similar problem with his m20 block when he first rebuilt it. So sometime this week I'll drop the gearbox most likely and see if we can find what the problem is.

At least after driving it for about 1km im fully motivated because it was all worth it :P

[Jand3rson]

LOVE THE RED VALVE COVER! :up:

[Dj Buttchug]

i have a crank sensor. among other things. hit me up. oh yea. dope shit. way to stick wit m42.

[Reap3r]

Got all the sensors I need now, MSG'd you on FB Chris. Hit me up if your interested in selling your remote oil filters/ oil cooler ect.. I'm keen as mustard!

[Reap3r]

Okay so I haven't really updated this lately. We sorted out sensors & a few oil leaks & such, Got the car all back on the road running. So far it's done about 500km's on the new engine with No problems :) Still has 2 small oil leaks that are getting fixed when we drain it to do its first service at 1000km's.

Heres a pic of it out at a meet I went to a couple of weeks back.


First thing I can say though is, driving a Decompressed M42 to run it in before turbo'ing it is a real big let down :P It has power down low still but nothing at all at about 90kmph+. Its getting turbo stuff done very quickly over the last couple of weeks though & should be back off the road & getting turbo & dyno done by the time I'm at about 1500-2000Km.

So a couple afternoons this week after work I've just been messing around with a few things on how to mount up intercooler & radiators ect. I ended up going for a box that can house the cooler, radiator & thermo fan all in one for easy fitment & removal.

Here's a pic of it half finished before welding ect. I also did all the polishing of it myself at work.




I didn't take too many pics of it, but here is a pic of it with just the cooler in it sitting in the car with a clamp holding it in place after I got it all welded up :) The pic definently tricks the eyes & makes it look like the cooler is the thickness of the whole box.





I'll fit the radiator tomorrow & also mount it up properly. Then It'll be back out & polish it some more & run standard setup till its completely run in.

[DTM190]

Ive just been doing twin thermos/radiator set up this afternoon on the M50tu car and FUCK ME is there some room in there with the M42. Shroud looks great, nice job

[Reap3r]

Ive just been doing twin thermos/radiator set up this afternoon on the M50tu car and FUCK ME is there some room in there with the M42. Shroud looks great, nice job

Still need to get the rad in there tomorrow & then look at mounting a thermo fan & get a custom fan shroud made most likely. Sadly I don't think my 16 inch davies craig fan will fit in there :( Most likely have to go a skinnier one.

The advantage of this setup is there's no cutting of the car or bodywork at all to make intercooler fit ect. Which is something I definitely didn't want to do!