1989 325ix Dinan Turbo stablemate for my 1988 E24 M6

[Max325ix]

To replace that front Flex Disc again.... Steve had to remove for the second time the front diff, axels, controll arms and tie rods...

The new original size BMW front Flex Disc along with misc items such as some new bolts and a fresh hood emblem arrived today. Hopefully we can get it all back in by end off the week to get caught up where we were at before learning the thicker disc required additional modifications. Things should move quickly from this point on, at least I am hoping that to be the case.

More pictures will be uploaded soon.

Max

[Max325ix]

Picture of the engine progress - before and after

Hi


This is the before picture. Next post is the after picture

What are your thoughts?

Max

[Max325ix]

Engine progress - after picture

The only non stock or Dinan style change I chose to have done was making the valve cover and intake manifold black from what used to be the original silver.

Many of the Dinan turbo pipes which still need to be put back in were already mat black. I figured this would complete the look by matching well with the turbo components while not deterring from the cars period correct restoration. Still a ways to go. More pictures soon.

Post above shows the before picture.

This is the after picture. What do you think? Should I have left it in factory silver?

Max

[Max325ix]

Slow but moving forward....

The car is back from the exhaust shop. Had to have a section of the Dinan system replicated to repair a small section that had some tiny pin holes.

Its now back in Steves capable hands (old school BMW specialist mechanic) for final bits. I hope I can post a video of it running real soon.

Best regards,

Max

[flyboyx]

looking good max. I paint the intake and valve cover on all of my projects. an improvement over stock I would say...

[Max325ix]

Picture from this weekend, almost ready to start her up....

Steve is almost ready to start her up for the first time since we began this endeavor.
Here’s a picture from this weekend. I am starting to get excited about this car all over again.

Max

[Max325ix]

The IX Runs!

Got great news this weekend from my mechanic.

Steve: “The IX Runs! Just have to check it all out and tweak a little”.

Stay tuned, it won’t be long now.

Max

[ndfspd67]

Got great news this weekend from my mechanic.

Steve: “The IX Runs! Just have to check it all out and tweak a little”.

Stay tuned, it won’t be long now.

Max

Looks like I came back to this thread at the right time congrats!

[Max325ix]

I have a short video and sound (not the best quality image but the sound is good) of the engine running that I need to figure out how to share...


Max

[Kershaw]

There's this site that's pretty popular for uploading videos that's called YouTube.

You can also use Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/upload

[Max325ix]

There's this site that's pretty popular for uploading videos that's called YouTube.

You can also use Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/upload

LOL! I am familair with YouTube and Vimeo. I was hoping that R3V had some way of uploading/embedding small mpeg files directly from within the forum like photos rather than needing to provide a link to an external site/service. I don’t have a YouTube or Vimeo account (at least with YouTube I have not logged in to it since its initial creation some years ago). Never posted a video on line before. Its not the greatest of quality recorded from SteveÂ’s mobile but I did get to see and hear it running.
In the meantime I hope to get some more pictures from Steve, which I will post :).
Time is getting tight with the holidays and all. I donÂ’t want to rush it at the end after all this effort so I’d venture to say that I will only be makiing the father and son road trip to pick it up sometime in January.

Max

[ndfspd67]

LOL! I am familair with YouTube and Vimeo. I was hoping that R3V had some way of uploading/embedding small mpeg files directly from within the forum like photos rather than needing to provide a link to an external site/service. I donÂ’t have a YouTube or Vimeo account (at least with YouTube I have not logged in to it since its initial creation some years ago). Never posted a video on line before. Its not the greatest of quality recorded from SteveÂ’s mobile but I did get to see and hear it running.

In the meantime I hope to get some more pictures from Steve, which I will post :).

Time is getting tight with the holidays and all. I donÂ’t want to rush it at the end after all this effort so IÂ’d venture to say that I will only be makiing the father and son road trip to pick it up sometime in January.



Max

So it’s January.... [emoji6][emoji6]


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[Max325ix]

Here we are... video link

Here’s a video link.

Happy New Year to all.

Well its Jan 2019... almost done. Its dusty and still in need of some minor finishing up but, you can see it and hear it idle.
Some testing, fine tuning still left to do plus finish up with the new fuse box to make sure its perfect.
Reinstall the wheel centers plus new hood roundel, antena, and hood insulation waiting to be installed. New Coco mats will be ordered this week.

I need to decide if I want to out back the stcok wheels or leave these on. Originally I thought stock but now leining towards keeping these on for now.

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Best regards

Max

[TimeMachinE30]

Any gauges?

[Max325ix]

Any gauges?

By gauges do you mean these shown below that had been installed by Dinan in addition to what was factory? I did not add any new gauges as my goal is to restore and refurbish this car to the way Dinan had done in 1990. No additional modification have been done with the exception of making the valve cover and intake black vs the stock silver plus new Bilstein shocks which Dinan used back in the day anyways. I kept the shocks that came on the car in case they were revalved differently than the sports that I had Steve install.



Max