1985 325e | M60b40 | Fifty Shades of Bronzit

[ANDRÜ]

You have the square C101 connector (for the body harness), and Motronic 1.3 uses a circle C101. You need to make an adapter, usually using spare plug parts. Use the diagram you already posted to match each pin from one plug to the matching pin on the other.

[Cronopoulos]

What's it tuned with?

[ArtFoodBMW]

Well it's running now, but it's rough. My brother installed a new O2 sensor and I think that's helped it stay a bit more steady whilst driving. It does not like to run at idle when cold, and we can't exactly figure out why. In spite of that we raised the idle up to 1000rpm.

Anybody have ideas of what's wrong?

[ArtFoodBMW]

So the stroker build began on friday night. Its monday now and its still not fully completed. We put it all back together properly as far as we know, but we ran into some wiring difficulties. I'm not exactly sure what the two parts are called, but the new wiring harness has a different connection than that of my fuse box, so I think my brother is going back to nampa's Jalopy jungle while i'm in class to get some wire parts to make it all work.
But here are the pictures I took in the process of swapping on the 325i head, 87 wiring harness, intake manifold, and so on.
The before, everything put together

New head, new intake manifold, injectors, engine bay cleaned in the hard to reach places.

All put back together

It looks great in my opinion, but it doesn't turn over.

Just need to swap over the instrument cluster and clean up the plastic lens.

We have to connect the circle c101 to the square early connector.

[ArtFoodBMW]

Where is the update on build? Sorry I couldn't make it yesterday. I was helping a mate with his jeep and it was a pain in the ass. Spent all day on that dumb hunk of junk.

Don't worry about it, it's still not done yet, but the update is on its way. I'll show it to you when it's all done. We ran into some wiring issues

[ST1G]

Where is the update on build? Sorry I couldn't make it yesterday. I was helping a mate with his jeep and it was a pain in the ass. Spent all day on that dumb hunk of junk.

[ArtFoodBMW]

What kind of paint did you use?

VHT Engine Enamel, Old ford blue

[ST1G]

What kind of paint did you use?

[ArtFoodBMW]

Lines scraped!

Now I'm just waiting on parts so I can put it all together!

[ArtFoodBMW]

BLUE
From this

to this

!!!!!!!!!
The lines will be scraped/sanded off tomorrow

[ArtFoodBMW]

My upper coolant hose decided it wanted to come undone today. Made a mess. Lots of smoke. Turns out the hose clamp wasn't tightened down all the way..
Mess:

The culprit:

[ArtFoodBMW]

Ben, I am not trying to spend your money but these would look pretty good on the bronzit.



http://boise.craigslist.org/pts/4401379707.html

Hey wait a minute. One too many lugs for me... Just saying. And if I five lug, i'll be getting Style 32or 22's

[Farbin Kaiber]

LOL, just wait for the right set, I've found some awesome wheel finds, even over here in EI.

Full set of 215/40ZR17 Goodyear Eagle F1's mounted on 17x7.5 SSR Type C's for $350
3 e30 euroweaves with BBS caps and one steelie with 195/50R15's for $150
Few sets of BBS's for ~$200ea
Some 18" e38 M-Parallels for $125

I can't afford those expensive ones either.

[ST1G]

^Will look stancetastic, might as well cut coils and paint those wheels, two neon pink, and two neon green, with zebra lips and purple lugnuts on a 90mm stud conversion.

I enjoy Porsche wheels. We can't all afford BBS/Alpina/XXR

[Farbin Kaiber]

^Will look stancetastic, might as well cut coils and paint those wheels, two neon pink, and two neon green, with zebra lips and purple lugnuts on a 90mm stud conversion.