Wait is that a cherry bomb with a cat and a muffler? why is there a glasspack in there? i know they are not very restrictive but it seems useless
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The cherry bomb acts as a resonator that really lowers the tone.
I decided to change the valve cover gasket. First things first.
The gears still look pretty good, that's a relief as well as the rest of the valvetrain.
I took the opportunity to paint the valve cover with VHT wrinkle black. I'm really pleased with the finish. The intake manifold will get the same treatment when I tackle the mess under the intake. Now I just need to clean up the rest of the bay.
I also relocated the coils to the battery tray area, they look like they were meant to go there.
I also installed the rear shocks a while back. Camaro KYB Gas-A-Just, I really like the ride.
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Any turbo updates?The first car I ever rode in was an e30
Originally posted by Cabriolet
Wish you the best and hope you don't remember anything after 10pm.
1992 Mauritiusblau Vert
2011 Alpinweiss 335is coupe
2002 540i/6 Black/Black
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Preparations update.
Worked on a few things over the weekend. First I dug into the mess under the intake. I've had the hoses and stuff for a while, but couldn't work up the nerve to do it, but I finally did. If you have an M42 car and haven't done this, I can't recommend it enough. the vacuum/coolant bits under there were almost disintegrating as I pulled them off. I decided to cap off the the unused coolant ports because I couldn't work out a hose to connect the two different sizes. This seems to be a popular option for those who track their M42 cars, so it should be fine for me. One of the built engines I saw actually had the port in the head tapped and they put a bolt in it to cap it off. I might do that in the future.
I also painted the upper intake to match the valve cover. I don't think I put it on thick enough, so it didn't wrinkle as well.
I took care of so many small vacuum leaks that my car wouldn't idle until I cleared the ECU memory, it gave me error 1215 AFM Fault. It suddenly had much less air getting in!
I also put on my electronic fan. I used the aux fan wiring, since it has to go to make room for the intercooler. My fan resistor was toast, so i wired the the high and low speed wires together and switched both circuits to a 30A fuse. I'm going to get one of the 80/88 switches and and new resistor to make a true two speed e-fan.
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Also put on an NRG steering wheel a while back. It is really small and it's a pleasure to use.
I got an email yesterday saying that the kit is in the mail! It should arrive tomorrow, but no one's going to be here to sign for it, so i'll get it Friday. I'll post plenty of pics. I need to place a couple more orders for random little stuff like gaskets and the switch and then I'll get down to installing it, probably weekend after next. I snagged one of the econoboost boost gauges that replace the econometer too, loking forward to getting that in.
Should I get new exhaust studs?
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Quick COP Update
Got the COP kit on. Between that and all of the vacuum lines I replaced, the car is running amazingly well. I placed an order for bunch of gaskets and whatnot last night with the hopes of installing the kit this weekend, we'll see if it all get here.
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So I went to work on it tonight and decided to start with the intercooler. Grabbed my torx set and got the driver side bolt off of the bumper, then went over to the passenger side. It was pretty rusted so I had to get the breaker bar. I got is spinning and it spun and spun and spun, but wouldn't drop out. I worked on it for two hours tonight, so frustrating.
I ended up drilling a hole in the top of the bumper to get a look at the nut on top, because I thought it was spinning, but it's not. The bolt is completely out of the nut, it just won't drop out. I stuck a screw driver down on top of the bolt and pounded on it, but no luck. What could it be?It should just drop out like the drivers side, right? Such a stupid thing to get stuck on.Comment
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Really excited about this build. Awesome job man.Comment
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Looks good. Clean up those COP wires!1991 318i SOLD
2003 325i SOLD
Racecars and stuff.Comment
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Take a razor to the top marks on the valve cover, then polish them.Comment
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Mine did something similar but i ended up just pulling on the bumper a little bit and spraying a little PB blaster in there until it wiggled out. If the bolt is out of the nut entirely, then it's just stuck up there due to rust or something. Try spraying it and trying to wiggle it out.Originally posted by Leon T. Trout View Post
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Pb blaster overnight did the trick looks like there was some front end damage at some point. Wrestling with the intercooler now.Comment
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Real life turbo progress!
Here's the little bastard now.
After it was out, the bumper and valence came off really easily and the intercooler went on
The bracket mounts to the bumper shock supports and the intercooler mounts to it with some large nuts as spacers. The center mounting nut on the intercooler was offset a little bit, so I couldn't use it, but it is seriously solid with just the ones on the sides and the one on top.
The passenger side is pretty tight if you have A/C. i had to push the lines around a little bit to get it to fit. You can see some of the damage to the bumper shock mount.
The core support on the driver's side needed a little massaging to clear the intercooler mount. I could have just ground it down, but a few whacks from the BFH gave it some clearance.
I pulled the upper intake mani off to get at the injectors and pulled the airbox to mount the new filter to the AFM. I soaked the exhaust manifold nuts with PB blaster, so hopefully they'll come off easily tomorrow. I also drained the oil so I can drill the hole for the oil return too, really looking forward to that.
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