The official turbo build thread.

[KangamangusDriver]

Glad to hear you have improved the running issue with re-gapping and filter.

Hope the pump takes care of the problem!!

Looking forward to the results!!

[So Live]

Any ideas why i might be missfiring at 5500rpms?

Got the fuel pump installed and now i easily see 95-100 psi. Still fuckin misfiring!!!!!!!!

[iNetForce]

i think misfire is what it means.

spark, not fuel.

What spark plugs and coil are you running

[So Live]

Well its a m50 so stock coil on plug. I bought a set of bkr7e's which are aparently 1 step colder tan stock. I have a set of 4091's at another shop should i get those?????

[So Live]

So tonight i decided to take the long way home :) I ran into a 350Z on the highway. Some guido kid haha. He starts acting like he wants to race. So i put it in 3rd and slow down (50mph) he does the 1-2-3 thing. And we take off... Shifting at 5500 rpms and only making 5psi boost, we were dead balls even. Im pretty confident i could spank one if i could rev it out. With the m50 a chip and "exhaust" i wasnt even close racing a G35. With the g35, i kept up barely in 3rd gear n by the time i was in 4th he would be 4 cars away and then 5th he was gone. So im happy. My cars faster than it was.

Im thinking its the coil packs. Im sure theyre the original coils from 1992. Im gonna try to steal the coils off my dads car (e36 M3) anybody know if obd2 coils will work????

[Jbpka06]

saw this car today at dust-off, crazy sleeper. sick car man

[So Live]

:) Thanks bro!!! Its really cool and super gratifying when your one of probably 5 bmw's at a VW/audi show and there was a constant group of people around your car!!!!! Its great that other people enjoy all the work ive been doing too.

So today i drove it in the rain... what an experience. You honestly cant romp on it in 1 2 or 3rd gears with out going sideways :) its pretty cool. I can drift anywhere with just a little more throttle :) Before i actually had to try lol.

Also did a bunch of reading and i very well could be maxing out the MAF sensor.
One other dude was having this problem on the same motor but a s/c set up. Seeing like 6.5-7 psi boost, breaking up at 5500 rpms, flashing the CEL and afr's going lean.... Hmmmmmmm Sounds very familiar.

So im gonna get my voltmeter tomoro afternoon and see if its maxing out. If so im gonna try my best to finish MS this week and get it installed!!!!!!! I have my car on campus this week so its totally doable. FCUK CP!!!!! hahaha

[E30SPDFRK]

Yeah, I saw it too. I was meaning to talk to you about it but I never got the chance. Will you be coming to Primer?

I told one of my friends that it was turbo when you had your hood shut and he says "no its not, where's the intercooler"?

[So Live]

Hehehehe thats totally what i was going for hahaha

Sry we didnt get to chat. Idk, depending on when and where Primer is i might go.

[RedHoodRidah]

Hehehehe thats totally what i was going for hahaha

Sry we didnt get to chat. Idk, depending on when and where Primer is i might go.

I also was hunting you down lol Im the one with the red e30 that had spotted you earlier before the meet. When I had the chance to get a chat that fucking douche with the yellow shirt took over the convo and let no one speak so I left lol. Ill have to PM you about some info since I will be getting started with mine soon.

[So Live]

hahahahahahaha yeah that dude was funny. My buddy was tryin to get me to go walk around n that dude wouldnt let me go!

Sry bout that...

Fire away wit the pm's ill answer what i can :)

[So Live]

Well i had a great fucking day today. I decided to come home and pick up my MS stuff and my volt meter to see if i was actually maxing out the MAF.

So i start the car up, its hesitating a little bit but it went away. No worries. Then i get about a mile from my house and the car has NO balls at all totally not right, wont accelerate whole 9 yards. Then the car starts smoking I turned onto my road and the whole cabin was engulfed in smoke. i coulnt breathe or see out the windsheild. The locks were on the fritz so i had to hold the lock up to open the door. i coasted in my driveway with the car off and the door open so i wouldnt hit anything!

I hop out the car see flames about two feet high rolling off the rear quarter pannel (rear of the c pillar) and the paint on the trunk is bubbling. i grabbed my wallet, my cell phone, my backpack and my buddies innovate LM-1 out the car and ran to grab the hose. I had no idea where a extinguisher was!! So the hose came out and i hosed the car off till the fire was out. i popped the trunk and sprayed the shit out of that to remember my MS and my tuning lap top are in there!!!! No damage to the MS board it wasnt even wet but my computer got a little wet. Oh well it was a $50 laptop!

I honestly almost shit myself and i thank god i was in my driveway and not on the side of the road somewhere and the gas tank didnt catch on fire. That would have sucked even worse.

So the paint got melted off the rear quarter pannel and off the trunk. All the plastic in the driverside trunk was melted. I found parts of the cat converter on the ground. The muffler was BLUE from heat, the exhaust hangar was melted. All the underbody rubbed around the muffler is charred off the car. The driverside brake caliper is shot. all the rubber is melted and my stainless steel flexline popped too.

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[SY33]

NO FUCKING WAY.

maaan i feel so bad for you. that fucking sucks...good to hear that you're alright though

[MasukBMW]

holy shit dude this is only what, a year old paint job too?
like you said truely a miracle you were in your driveway, just imagine...
but as we all know, set backs happen. Best of luck with the fix

[So Live]

Yeah... thanks guys. Im still bummed out and kinda pissed off but shit happens. Yea it got painted like last August. The paint kinda sucked in my opinion. Im going to learn how to paint a car now. The only way to have things come out the way YOU want is to do it yourself. I think 6 of 12 or 13 panels were fucked up paint wise. Oh wellllll