E34 550iT....The Gristle Hammer

[BoxDriver86]

Looking forward to seeing it again at Vintage. When you weren't looking last year, I touched it. I instantly felt cooler. I tell everyone about it.

[Sea Aych]

So rad. Amazing swap!

[slammin.e28]

Fantastic work!

Selling it? :p

Haha, thanks!

Methinks this one will be a family heirloom.

Is this gonna be at the vintage? Probably the push needed to convince me to go.

Absolutely. Vintage is why this car exists, lol.

[Civilian]

Is this gonna be at the vintage? Probably the push needed to convince me to go.

[EyExR]

Fantastic work!

Selling it? :p

[slammin.e28]

Whelp.

I drove it home last night and back to work this morning, probably around 100 miles round trip, including to the store and my parents last night. Aside from a belt chirp and the temp gauge dropping to the blue while driving (maybe I got a bum T-stat? I did replace it with a new one) the thing is great. OMG it's quick now, smooth, loud. It's genuinely fun to drive now.

[sam_]

jeez this car is so sick

[slammin.e28]

^ Glad it was an easy fix

Believe me, so am I. Still going to swap out the bank 1 wires as several are in pretty poor shape, but this was a HUGE relief. I was gearing up to start leakdown testing, etc....

[MR E30 325is]

^ Glad it was an easy fix

[slammin.e28]

Dumbass me. Had #4 and #6 wires swapped on bank two.

She's all better now.

^_^

[slammin.e28]

It's all together. It's got one big issue I'm trying to smooth out...exhaust is incredibly rich.

Fuel pressure is perfect, 42-45 when running. Coolant temp sensor for the DMEs is good, good signals, etc. Good signals FROM the ECUs to the sensor. The pressure regulator is a 3.5BAR one with the e46 fuel filter....OE, I was mistaken, is 3.0BAR, but 7psi shouldn't make THAT big of a difference...especially when the rail pressure is still perfect in spec.

SO....I decided to look more into if it's BURNING the fuel it's getting instead of over fueling. The entire ignition system is new, well....a year old with barely any use over that year...except the plug wires. So I began ohming them out. Not good. #2 was totally open circuit. Of the others only two more were in spec. So I'm going to go through and replace the faulty ones and see what happens. These wires are in pretty bad shape, someone has been all into them, electrical tape, etc. I read one thread where someone had the same problem and it turned out to be the wires, after swapping everything else out, etc, etc.

[slammin.e28]

E34 550iT....The Gristle Hammer

New Windshield !!!!!! to be able to see clearly is huge.

Lol....seriously. I put a huge star in it with a kayak back in September. Forgot my roof rack when picking it up.



Today I'm wrapping up the cooling system and getting the exhaust on. Then the last thing will be the power steering pump. I somehow broke the one on the car, so I took my spare and modded it....removed the SLS pump guts so it won't blow out when I plug the SLS outlet. Waiting on the reseal kit to get here, probably Tuesday, then I'll have my brakes back (hydroboost) so I can actually drive the thing on the street.

[M-technik-3]

New Windshield !!!!!! to be able to see clearly is huge.

[mtekjosh]

That touring....amazing.

[Swanny]