SoCal General Chat

[JeLani]

welcome back jelani, where in socal do you reside?

I'm in sd , and thanks. things have been shaky past couple years.

[IRON-E]

I heard someone passed his swap's smog with flying colors and should be on the road soon 24V powered!

[Chilezen]

You're lying! Nobody's swap passes smog!

[IRON-E]

You're lying! Nobody's swap passes smog!

[2mAn]

[prisonerofdoom83]

Anywhere you guys can recommend to rebalance my driveshaft on my s50 swap e30 Santa Clarita San Fernando van nuys area

[Chilezen]

I don't have any recs for your area, but I can share my experience with driveshafts. You're looking at a minimum of $400 to have it done, because every place I've been to either can't do it or claims they must replace the irreplaceable U-joints before balancing... which ends up with that final cost. Having said that, I have ordered my rebuilt driveshaft from http://www.driveshaftspecialist.com/...0html/BMW.html and sent in mine as a core.

[Chilezen]

So, update on my swap...

I did all I could to put it together in my backyard. One of the last things I had to do was bleed the brakes and clutch line. The brakes seem okay but I'm having an issue with the clutch, [seen here...]

The last thing to do (besides drop the freakin trans again) is to build the exhaust. Here's how that's going:


I bought stainless pre-bent tubing (from Amazon!) and used a sketching program at work to give me degrees for where to cut. It was a lot of what you'd expect; test fitting, shaving, testing, tacking, measure out the next one. The progress you see took nearly a whole day.

To merge the two pipe, instead of buying a Y pipe or just cutting them diagonally into one, I took it a step further.







This design mimics the factory Y merge on the Z3. Work in progress!

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& since I don't have the time or resources to figure out what's wrong with the clutch, I have to tow it to a shop :( which will probably be JMP.

[glnr13]

nicely done kev

[prisonerofdoom83]

So, update on my swap...

I did all I could to put it together in my backyard. One of the last things I had to do was bleed the brakes and clutch line. The brakes seem okay but I'm having an issue with the clutch, [seen here...]

The last thing to do (besides drop the freakin trans again) is to build the exhaust. Here's how that's going:


I bought stainless pre-bent tubing (from Amazon!) and used a sketching program at work to give me degrees for where to cut. It was a lot of what you'd expect; test fitting, shaving, testing, tacking, measure out the next one. The progress you see took nearly a whole day.

To merge the two pipe, instead of buying a Y pipe or just cutting them diagonally into one, I took it a step further.







This design mimics the factory Y merge on the Z3. Work in progress!

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& since I don't have the time or resources to figure out what's wrong with the clutch, I have to tow it to a shop :( which will probably be JMP.

Are you doing resonators? I didn’t do any and I have the stromung muffler and I get a drone at 60-70 mph on the freeway when I let off the gas and I’m coasting it’s a bit annoying . I have the stock e36 dual resonators I can add or some new ones . I have my BAR referee test Monday so see how that goes

[IRON-E]

Happy new year, you old fockers!

[mkcman17]

Does anyone have a connect to get a code for a factory radio?

[2mAn]

Does anyone have a connect to get a code for a factory radio?

I was able to get one from the dealer, over the phone.

[mkcman17]

I was able to get one from the dealer, over the phone.

I called Long Beach and they said I need to bring in the registration. I'll give it a try, thanks!

[IRON-E]

Hi guys