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At work today. Finished a clients e30 off so did an impromptu photo shoot with my old man's baur and my client/friends completed, bagged tech 1 build. Enjoy

I hadn't heard of map-cooling, so I had a read here: https://www.meeknet.co.uk/e38/E38_Map_Thermostat.pdf Voltage is applied to the thermostat itself if the DME detects a temp overrun (113° in his example). A thermostat with a lower opening temp should still open long before this point. The dilemma is warmup fuel economy vs. cooling system lifespan. On the N62 there's a really horrible-looking job involving the coolant transfer pipe that I'd like to avoid at all costs..

... it soon will be???

I am glad they bought Rolls Royce instead.

Doing toe\camber adjusters? Looks like it could use them

Bro they're very hard to find ay. Surprisingly sold fast

These things are like cash haha

Older video I somehow missed.

It's the only other NZ new black tech 1 I know of. It's had some extensive restoration done too.

You were lucky with the spare throttle body in the boot. They are expensive to buy. The attached PDF gives you the rear ride heights. You are correct with the F0 airbag module internal fault, call Pramod to see if he can reset the module. Hope the repairs go smoothly and your daughter likes the car. BMW Z3 rear ride heght measurements.pdf

Car is behaving as it should now. Have done about 100km round town driving and it's good. I have an annoying noise mostly coming from the drivers window/door. The recommended (thanks bimmersport) gummi pflege looks like it has to come from overseas so might be a while before that arrives. I let the tyres down tonight to 36 PSI (I had pumped them up for storage) and that has made a bit of a difference to the comfort but not to the noise. Will get into some maintenance soon but in the mean time it's back to daily duties. Maintenance items on the cards. - New soft brake lines all round - Expansion tank (pretty sure it's still the original) - Trailing arm bushings - Transmission mounts - Diff bushings - Tensioner spring - 02 pilot mod - RTV thermostat housing to see if it stops the small drip, otherwise replace that.

Love me a ute. As long is it is on fire.

One for the ute files 😂 Literally every car in the car park bar maybe 3...

The hotter the engine runs, the more power it makes (to a point!) for the amount of fuel going in. The hotter the engine is, the less heat energy it can absorb from the combustion... so it helps economy by a tiny amount, and reduces emissions by a tiny amount. I changed our E39 525i (M54) to a fixed temp stat and did away with the Map-cooling. E39's didn't bring up a check engine light for no map-cooling, but did have a fault code (Which was dumb, because when the thermostat heater burnt out, they just ran really hot ALL the time!). The 6's didn't run *that* hot on the mechanical only anyway (98?), like the V8's did (108?). I didn't notice anything dramatic change as far as economy, but you want to make sure the new stat stays 100% closed until the engine is at operating temps, or it'll take longer to heat up and use way more fuel during the cold start enrichment phase. My first kit had a bleed hole drilled in the thermostat and it was stupid and unnecessary. I replaced it with a solid one and it was way better. Later cars may be a bit more complicated, but that unit looks like it still has a map-cooling heater anyway?