da project

[cahomey]

so sick

[CorvallisBMW]

Wow, I missed this thread up until now! I love all the custom work, it looks like you have one amazing car there. Keep us updated!

[winfred]

nothing really earth shattering since the last update just racking up miles, it's at a little over 5k now and with 4 autocrosses under it's belt without scattering the bottom end all over the track or street i guess the motor works finally dumped it with h&r springs and it rides a little stiffer with around 3/4" drop on the front and 1/2" on the rear over the m-coupe springs i was running, the springs are gray H&Rs from a 91 318is which is handy as that is what mighty whitey started off as and are rated at 1.25/1.25, gotta autocross next weekend so we shall see if this is a good move in the handling department, it has been fairly balanced and tunable with tire pressure but seems to slide a little early and wants close to 40 psi to start hooking up on both ends, go out there with 32 and it's fun and flashy but not real fast as you are pretty much just drifting the coarse. eh enough blah blah blah here is a couple crappy pics

[alpinaclone]

Love the project and all of the neat little details. I'm staying tuned to see how the Paxton works out.

It may just be the pics, but do you have some positive camber in the rear?

[winfred]

it's the pic definitely negative, heres a couple crappy old pics

and this suspension on my old/dead 90

It may just be the pics, but do you have some positive camber in the rear?

[Dragowl]

definitely a nice project!

[dude8383]

how'd you make the 328is emblem?

[winfred]

inserted a 2 between a 3 and 8 ;) if you cut it right you gotta get real close to see it is not factory

how'd you make the 328is emblem?

[winfred]

drove it all day with a load of people in the car (mom/step dad in back and grandma shotgun) and till i rip the lip spoiler off the first few times i like it with the new springs, one more level of stiffness but still not as harsh as a stock e36 m3 or sport package e46 on our shit road, got one rub spot on a rear arch but it takes all that weight and a quick right turn to get it to slightly tap, couple whacks with a BFH will fix that

[winfred]

finally got around to adding decent light to mighty whitey, i ran e code hella conversions on my old e30 for years and love them and decided to kick it up a notch for the new e30, i had always run 100 watt h1s for the high beams but for this round i added 4500k hids in the h4 low beams, i had scared up a pair of free ballasts a few weeks ago and put them to work powering 4500k h3s in the fog lights. after getting that done i didn't have enough time to clean up the paint or add a e36 rack (to replace the leaking stocker) which was a couple of back up plans i had, so i did a small project i have had in the back of my head for a while, i made some filler panels finishing off the lower splash guard and adding support to the pop off-o-matic IS lip, they had the added benefit of keeping crap outta the fog lights and ballasts mounted above the brake ducts

made em outta galvanized steel i had kicking around from the last air filter heat shield i built, no rust problems but a pain in the ass to weld so i pop rivited the couple overlap parts at the back where it follows the wheel well plastic



i shot a little rattle can bed liner on the visible parts in the wheel wells so it wouldn't be bright shiny metal, it's the same stuff i did my rocker panels in and it's pretty cool stuff
couple more shots

[Court M3]

nice project. If I was back down home, my 323i would have already been in your shop!

[winfred]

bring em on :D if nothing else most people get a woody strolling the yard at the shop playing vulture

nice project. If I was back down home, my 323i would have already been in your shop!

[Court M3]

might be if I can't take it overseas with me. Ship it to you one month early and let you get to work!

[winfred]

its been a while so heres a copy/paste from another forum to update this thread

we have blower/belt



looks like it'll be about perfect with my 3.25" pulley and the 5" crank pulley, should put it at 44k at 6500, kinda borderline for the balldrive paxton but i have a 3.5" pulley too that would put it at 41k so that may be the safer choice
best online calculator i have found http://www.928motorsports.com/servic...eed_Calculator sn paxton ratio is 4.44

i need to get some hardware and get the idler welded in, at that point ill explore a possible active tensioner to help with belt life but i have a good 35-40mm of adjustment out of the power steering pump adjustment, i also need to run the math on the pulley sizes and see where this thing will be spinning, it shouldn't be in danger of overspeeding it with these sizes but i definitely want to get all i can out of it

coming together, plumbing mostly done, ABS pump electrically moved to the battery tray but hydraulics not started yet, waiting for 32# design III injectors and heat exchangers to arrive, welded neck on side of new radiator to clear blower pulley (nothing quite like cutting a 1.3" hole in the side of a brand new aluminum radiator that has yet to see a drop of coolant) need to get pan evac tubes and check valves and compact coolant bottle, plumb up the charge cooler and build a oil cooling system for the paxton (not paying $255 for something i can build) they get quite warm, need to build a air filter but not much room to work with, i can put a mushroom directly on the blower but cool air would be nice, there is just enough room to sneak the filter under the charge cooler if i can find something that i can use or fab the piping

stuck together pretty much how its going to be, ill probably add a BOV to the tube between the cooler and throttle body



a link to the first start up with a naked blower screaming away, much more obnoxious in person and it moves a retarded amount of air even at idle, more then you'd expect, at full tilt a stock sn-92 is supposed to move 750cfm, not sure what the upgraded impeller is good for, another 100 i think, i don't think my pistons and rods would handle a VR4 upgrade, $650-700 and bumps things up to 1500 CFM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxSf_Ul3FOA

running but not quite drivable yet, still need to plumb the heat exchangers for the charge cooler and the oil cooler for the blower (i fabbed a dipstick cooler like the paxton one, if anyone wants one let me know, thinking about making up a few and selling them as they can only be had as part of a $250-$350 kit, the rest of the stuff can be had in any parts store)
plumb the pan evac from the exhaust to the engine, was going to do that today but the hose i had on hand wasn't big enough
swap the 19# for 32# injectors
install new LC1 in place of crapped out LC1, been plugged and disabled for the last few months, new sensor didn't make it happy so.....
tweak the belt a little bit, need to rethread one hole in the blower case and file the idler pulley's seat to perfect the angle of the pulley, need to tweak on the power steering pump bracket a little to straighten it up, the bracket wasn't designed to have the belt pull the direction it is now so a adjustment is needed, maybe some welding too
make simple relay circuit for charge cooler pump and blower cooler pump
mount power steering reservoir and main/FP/o2 heater relays

was running for maybe 30 minutes while i was checking on things and taking pics and the blower gets warmer then i would of thought at idle, temp gunned it at 125*F reports see them getting into the mid 200s without coolers which ain't good for them, it'll be interesting to see how effective my cooler will be
first time everything has been clamped

needs the fan and shroud installed too, you can see the cool little coolant bottle i got, seems to work fine with the hose run under the engine to the right side, i could of gotten a E water pump and gone straight in and that may happen at cam belt time


abs pump move wasn't all that hard, if you open up the harness you can separate the pump wires all of the way back to the fuse box, that'll stretch a little over half way across the firewall, i opened and chopped a parts car's abs harness for the rest of the way over

need to splash a little paint on the welded brackets

i reused the right front brake pipe for the rear brakes with a little bending and flare tool work, the other 4 pipes are new bulk pipe that i bent and flared

tried to catch a blurred impeller but the imager in the cam was too fast and froze it, engine was at about 2k with a 4.4 step up in the blower and a 5" crank driving a 3.5 blower pulley it was moving :D


started fitting the heat exchangers, these are the two for the blower lube

and the two for the charge cooler

i would of gotten them totally in and hooked up with the valence reinstalled but i had to go work on a ford :(

like the man said that got his dick caught in the meat grinder "it won't be long now"
quick crappy vid with pop off valve and flutter burping back through the blower loud and proud, it's almost shrill when you rap it hard :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KypF_3W5iBY

most of the bullshit is bolted down now, you can see the pwst bottle by the booster and the cruise servo is just behind the air filter

ran it a good long time this evening and got to check out the function of the lube cooler and just idling its running around 30* cooler on the return line, ill need to be on the road to see what it can really do, the blower will be working harder but it will also have air flow

need to run the hoses and water pump for the the charge cooler, install 32# injectors, run piping for pan evac system the nipples and valves welded in post cat look like they are working, getting a little vacuum at idle and just above idle, wasn't expecting that so cool install new LC1, that and some laptop time and it'll be road test time

bwahahahahah its mobile, barely tuned and dry charge cooler (it was about 45* and i figured it would be fine without water, air temps didn't get over 110*) but moving out nice and smooth, no O2 sensor and only pulled timing to keep ping at bay, got to about 6# at 5200 in 3rd when it started to ping and i got out of it, roads were wet and i wasn't really planning on flogging it but the belt system handled slapping the 6500 rev limiter a couple times when i was screwing with it in 2nd and it blew the tires away. my buddy that has a TCD stage 3 turbo'd e28 was running the laptop was amazed at how smooth even with the shit tune it is, i can't wait to get the cooler and LC1 up and running then get a solid tune and see what it can do

put some louisiana windage on the top end of the fuel map and it's flogable all of the way to the redline, still need to hook up the water, LC1 and evac system but the front end is all together and it all fits, gave the valence a little love with the plasma cutter for airflow and i may open up the bottom of the bumper so air can actually get in there, the real tuning will begin soon but so far i like it, the power delivery is so smooth it doesn't feel as fast as it is, almost weird compared to how it pulled NA

now ya see it

now ya don't, stealth :D ;)


installed the new LC1 and took it for a spin and the afr's are great, so i decided to drive it home and the fucking LC1 promptly took a shit, briefly came back when i restarted after getting fuel but shit out in the robowash while cleaning away a month + worth of shop funk for $3, i saw 7# of boost at one point but still don't have water in the cooler so that may go up with cooler air, i am not flooging it for too long at a time as the intake temps go up quickly and its not hard to get above 150* in 65* ambient with a quick 2 or 3 gear hard pull

[winfred]

stupid forum only allowing 10000 characters per post :D

i have pretty much everything functioning and after i finally got it burped the charge cooler works awesome, its funny how little extra coolant it needed to stop cavitation in the pump (bosch cobra) maybe 2 shot glasses worth, fucker sat there idling for 10 minutes with the electric fan running and intake air temps never made it below 156* after a couple runs down the street when i drained the water i tested with and replaced with AF and water wetter mix, once i got all air out i could i took a run and it stayed in the 80s so i flogged the shit out of it (shifting at 5k as my top end tune aint done and it has a nasty flat spot at 5500) up to 120 1st through 5th and temps never got over 96*f in upper 60s ambient, running temps on the interstate ran 7* above ambient at 65mph which is better then the warm air intake i was sporting before the blower which ran 11* above ambient (it was 16* above before i added a mobile one oil jug as a heat shield) not bad for having the air filter hanging off the back of the blower with no heat protection

can only report IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII like it its in the mid 40s out and it has been really frisky all day with no sign of the 5500 rpm flat spot, so i assed up on it this evening from a stop light short shifted 1st as its useless past 1/2 throttle then squirmed and fishtaled all the way through 2nd and finally hooked up in 3rd. my buddy was with me that has a stage 3 TCD kit on his 535 is pissed at his car, hes annoyed how smooth mine is after so little tuning