yet another build thread

[briansjacobs]

last year I went to the track and had an engine failure, I will post some of the pics of what I found and what we did as long as some problems along the way


I call this xmas morning, look at the presents in my oil pan.



no idea where there rest of it is



looks like I killed the terminator

[briansjacobs]

ross 10.5:1

IE Billet rockers going in

look at the size of that oil pan

getting close

[briansjacobs]

6 puck

jbrflywheel

break in oil

VAC ACG

going in

[briansjacobs]

awesome, everything is going great. Car is running, the miller MAF and WAR chip are finally working after a part failure, but are working great now.

Went to the track with the motor mostly broken in on the dyno but still keeping a modest RPM limit of 5000 on Saturday and 6000 on Sunday. car ran great till the end of the last session when I lost a cylinder.

pulled the rockers to find this

excessive wear on the exhaust side only rocker pads.

comparison

comparison at TDC1

comparsion at TDC2

[briansjacobs]

after extensive comparison we noticed the IE rockers had a design flaw in the pad. You can see the difference between comparison at TDC1 and 2 how much additional pad material there is on the stock pad.

the guys at IE were great and refunded my investment in the parts for their reground cam and billet rockers, but I was out 20 quarts of Brad penn break in oil my mechanics time to R&R twice. So it was very expensive for me.

the solution was VAC billet rockers and a schrick 288


went to the track and worked so well that now we have a new failure.

flushing the rear diff as the etra power and torque was frothing the redline

[briansjacobs]

just some random photos
plywood splitter

bbk

police will never guess that I had anything to do with that

start them young

new fiberglass doors yet to be installed (VERY LIGHT)

[Kershaw]

lookin good man.

[trackjunkie21]

I was I wasn't 16 :( So then I can have my own e30 track car.

[briansjacobs]

I wish I had a BMW when I was 16. So you see we are both envious of each other. keep it up

[trackjunkie21]

I wish I had a BMW when I was 16. So you see we are both envious of each other. keep it up

Thanks, and kudos to you aswell.

[dkbmxer002]

nice!

[Wh33lhop]

bbk

Whoa, do I spy some MASSIVE BRAKES!?

[briansjacobs]

I wish I would have known of massive when I bought these, The pistons are to big and I have been chasing lockup issues for a while. Im about to bias out the front, if that does not work then either back to stock or massive or UUC, not sure, not a big deal now as im a trying to get another business going and the car is more than likely going to sit for another year.

[Ray Smoodiver]

Keep us posted, looks great!