[Entropy] - E30 Hiatus cont - More seeing, less wrenching.

[Jb325is]

Agreed. R3v needs more cars and threads like this

[Northern]

Kind of followed this through fecebook/reddit/etc. Didn't see how bad the deer hit was before, only the windscreen. That's brutal, but you're right about being lucky to have come away as well as you did.

As I said elsewhere, those ITBs sound great though, damn.

[ForcedFirebird]

The bumpers are anodized clear. I polished them on my first e30, that stuff is a pain to sand through.

[decay]

i'd almost talked myself out of another set of fixed-back seats but goddamn those recaros would look good in a Z3 and they'd put my lanky ass right above the floorpan.

i'm glad you're okay after that deer strike, man, i've seen pictures of a fatal accident where one went *through* the windshield of a jeep cherokee and they were just... all kinds of bad.

[moatilliatta]

Your dedication to your blog/build/everything thread needs to be applauded. Even with the setbacks and crazy things (glad you and your lady are alright) as I missed the deer incident till today, and all of the adaptions and updates to every aspect of your car is awesome to read about.

Oh, and on the most basic level, your wheels and current stance looks downright sexy.

Thank you, Its came a long way, and I'm really just half way done.. Glad I can express my vision and share an of the out of the box way or non trending way to do mods based on function. Id say Cup holders, Terrible sounding VDO radios, and LTO bodykits get a lot of votes, Can't stand it.
Anyways, plenty of items still need to be adapted or updated, then rewarded with driving. :)

Agreed. R3v needs more cars and threads like this

Since day one here I dreamed building like an ultimate E30 and contributing the build threads like everyone else. Regardless, R3V is just a proper place to keep documentation of the build. Wish others would join and contribute, instead of fixin for Digital Crack.
I'm sure my ultimate 2003 build E30 wouldn't be like today, And so on if I ever do another.

Kind of followed this through fecebook/reddit/etc. Didn't see how bad the deer hit was before, only the windscreen. That's brutal, but you're right about being lucky to have come away as well as you did.

As I said elsewhere, those ITBs sound great though, damn.

I have full tint on the car including the windshield. I really do think this helped the deer coming into the car, But on the flip side the side window stayed together and whipped around into the side of me.

I really need to do an outside video drive by of the car coming and going before it goes down for another round this winter.

The bumpers are anodized clear. I polished them on my first e30, that stuff is a pain to sand through.

Oh boy they are. That anodizing will fool you. Seems like the Powder Coating Shop striper solution gets laughed at by the anodizing too..

i'd almost talked myself out of another set of fixed-back seats but goddamn those recaros would look good in a Z3 and they'd put my lanky ass right above the floorpan.

i'm glad you're okay after that deer strike, man, i've seen pictures of a fatal accident where one went *through* the windshield of a jeep cherokee and they were just... all kinds of bad.

They are great seats for lanky folks. I almost have 17000 miles in them in the last 2 years. Would do again. Since reupholstered they arn't as comfortable, but they used thicker backed padding behind the leather in a few spots... If that was sorted, they should be just a as good as before..

It has me considering running A pillar forward bars when I do a weld in cage. But id only do it if I can graph them in like that Piper Motorsports V10 E30M. Were rocking tin cans, love em. I have to say, I was pretty silent for hours afterwards as we were rolling pretty quick just a few minutes before the accident.

[moatilliatta]

A follow up from Sept 2022.

I finally have a comparison of the dyno charts back to back of M50 intake vs S54 Intake, Notes on sheet.

And.. I'm not sure if id consider it apples to apples as the same tuner didn't do both. You can see what they both tune the AFR's to. I assume there is more on the Stage Fab tune, and not sure why the Redline isn't higher as we originally spoke. .
Randy at Epic didn't want to fool with the tune on the ITB setup because you had to change the range of the TPS at idle.. and also at WOT. Safe is better than grenade'd I suppose. Just more motivated for the offseason mods. :)

Everything is a compromise.

[ForcedFirebird]

Timing should remain close to the same since your long block is still there.

AFR's don't change delta as much as people think in NA. Appears to me that the second tuner might not be familiar with BMW, but they really don't need 12.5:1 target at WOT. I find they are happier around 13-13.5.

Some funky curves there, both of them. The first pull with the red line shouldn't have that dip from 4700-5200, that arc should carry across the graph. Just looking at the dyno sheet, doesn't appear to be a fuel issue. Then the ITB graph has that same weird dip.

I suggest you maybe play with cam timing, or even eliminate the VANOS in a race car.

Here's what my 24v graphs usually look (before and after dyno session) LINK

[moatilliatta]

The Epic tune was locked, so the next tuner had to start from scratch.

Agree closer to 13 would be good. Not many places my way do ms41 tuning around here..

I haven’t looked into the tune, with peak TQ so late maybe the Vanos is switching at 6300.

[AWDBOB]

gainz from 4600-5900 are noice. Wonder if it'll be balance out what was lost from 3700-4600.

Looks like it would've continued make power to 8k if revved that high.

[ForcedFirebird]

Based on your NA peak power, I would gather you will be closer to 300whp when you get everything sorted. Quality ITB's have shown me 30-ish WHP on almost every build.

Reach out to MarkD. He will tune your car over the internet.

[moatilliatta]

So looking though the run files, it looks the actual last sent run file doesn't have the dip at 6300.

Hopefully this spring well find out if it makes power to 8K.

Alive after five.

I've had Mark-D do some chips. Great guy to work with. Does he fool with MS41?

[ForcedFirebird]

So looking though the run files, it looks the actual last sent run file doesn't have the dip at 6300.

Hopefully this spring well find out if it makes power to 8K.

Alive after five.

I've had Mark-D do some chips. Great guy to work with. Does he fool with MS41?

Dip isn't 6300, your anomalies are around 4300.

It will live to 8500, but your harmonic damper won't survive, and I hope you have the Euro (or NV US) oil pump chain tensioner, or that system will vibrate to death.

Yes, Mark is a great tuner, worth reaching out. Last time we chatted, he was doing much later DME's than millennium baby 6's.

I wold help you, but I barely get by flashing Siemens for my own jobbers, not to the point I feel convertible emailing .bin files.

[ForcedFirebird]

Paging nando

[DEV0 E30]

nando hasn't logged in for nearly 2 months, hope everything is ok.

I've got a DME ready to send to him too.

[ForcedFirebird]

MarkD