Andrew's 1989 325i Project

[5Toes]

Here is the videos I promised. I have never been able to hold a camera super still



The white smoke you see is not from a blown headgasket. My DME reset and I have m50 injectors, so it was running rich because it forgot the settings. Additionally it was about 34 degrees outside.



My engine is ...

I drove it sort of hard, I would bump shift it every other day, but I believe it is just that it has had a hard life and the gas in the oil didn't help

[5Toes]

Car made it to my buddy's! Now to start preparing it for the swap!

[Pantless Spency]

lol 5toes you sound kinda fabulous!

:D

the loud "COUCHOCOUCHOCHJCOCOCHOCH" noise sounds like pistons interfering with valves to me, but i am not expert and it doesn't seem to have a solid pattern.

[5Toes]

Yeah I dont even know. Ill figure it out when I pull the engine. The timing belt and tensioner arent even a year old, and John Parker put them on for me, so I trust his work wholeheartedly. Hope the head is fine, cause I plan to sell it!

[Pantless Spency]

for some reason i think maybe one of your valve springs could have collapsed and it might be an unsprung valve floating and bouncing off of the piston...... but i have never heard of anything like that happening hahaha.
only one sure way to figure out Andrew, and you know what that is.

[5Toes]

Indeed I do. Ill pull the head once the motor is out and do some investigating

[freeride53]

lol 5toes you sound kinda fabulous!

[5Toes]

Making some progress...

Got car in the air
Deleted the AC (I will weigh it all for reference later)
Drained oil and coolant
Disconnected throttle, heater core, overflow tank, all that kind of stuff
And some more I cant recall

Some pics:





Will post more in a bit, going out to drain the atf right meow

[5Toes]

Got the downpipes unbolted and tranny drained. Called it a night.

Things left to do simply include:

Remove driveshaft
Drain power steering
Undo a few more connectors
Undo engine ground strap

Pics:

[george graves]

Sorry I couldn't help today.

BTW - the first thing to do, is remove the hood. It will make that job much easier. Kinda the first thing you want to do.

Put a blanket on the roof, then the hood on top of that.

[5Toes]

Thanks George. I havn't had a reason to pull the hood off yet, but I will do that when the time comes.

Blanket and roof idea is excellent

[george graves]

I havn't had a reason to pull the hood off yet

Clutch fan, radiator, belts - all that stuff is much easier with the hood off.

[5Toes]

I didn't have any trouble, but yeah

Hahaha I actually pulled the radiator before doing the fan clutch! Just pulled the fan shroud bac over the fan and slid it out. More room for the clutch (mine came off nice and easy too!)

[5Toes]

Oh and my stroker that I was counting my money for tonight EJKnight sold today.

Im not in a good mood

[mdlimy]

Oh and my stroker that I was counting my money for tonight EJKnight sold today.

Im not in a good mood

wtf