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[Northern]

I still think about this thread from time to time....

[Northern]

I think all of these were aluminum (some were the splined style, some were unsplined but had a key you needed to file a way for), but it's done a good job to turn me off them.
On the (much newer)...

[Northern]

I'll get back to you in 10 more years lol...

[Northern]

A little late to the party, but I absolutely hate rivnuts.
The old Sea Kings had them all over the place to hold trim panels and they would always be stripped.
Easy to remove/install, super...

[Northern]

I would run away from either....

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Wife has been working from home since her job change in march, and I've been doing it since mid march with the exception of may-mid june when I wasn't working.
I'll bring my work laptop downstairs...

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ba114 is doing this with a conversion flywheel from Adamat.
Might be some details in the most recent posts in his build thread...

[Northern]

That cam sensor problem is super common. I think any M52 that hasn't had the sensor replaced is in similar shape. All of mine are the same or very close.
I took the best one and potted the whole...

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I looked up that jumdoo company, and I'm going to try to remember this for my 4door because I sold all my KAmotors flares after I ditched my iX and decided not to cut up my iS...
The longer I look...

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I don't think I've ever seen an M52/S52 without that recall performed.
Hopefully a new cam sensor fixes that issue. Mine had the typical wire rot under the connector boot and threw some vanos codes....

[Northern]

Honestly impossible to tell if this is sarcasm or reality....

[Northern]

Would be nice to know this as well...

[Northern]

man the front end looks so much better in black lol....

[Northern]

Great news on the TPS.
Any reason you want to be 13 AFR at cruise? 15 sounds perfectly reasonable to me....

[Northern]

for the second one, I've had luck mounting the brake caliper mounting ears in the vise to twist the gland nut off with a full size pipe wrench. Might not be feasible if the vise jaws are larger than mine....

[Northern]

Well that's depressing. Would be nice if he keeps you in mind when he gets sick of it....

[Northern]

After having this e30 for almost 10 years now, you'd think I could remember to turn the headlights off when I park it.

... at least it's in my driveway....

[Northern]

What's the part number on the konis?

[Northern]

classic

[Northern]

I saw some pictures of this on social media and I like it. I googled the price and all that showed up was $62k USD so I just closed it.

Honestly 28.5k USD (looks like $40k CAD for a base...