Garett

You can't do much without a dyno

Just now, polley said:

Was that you going some lil test drives down horotiu the other day?

Yeah just setting up the fuel with the laptop, sh*t it's goes well once I got the afr within the correct range

4 hours ago, thorburn said:

when is dyno day?

ethanol?

I have some wilwood 6 pots and 4 pots if you need more brake options

 

I'd be keen as if they would fit, I think m3 may be different spacing on the front hubs. If ya like bring em out and I'll try one on

dyno day is wedensday but may have to delay it, with all this time spent on my car there is still a half finished hallway at my house and Hayleys getting a bit impatient lol

ethanol now that's a thought... I thought I'd start with 98 and see what it can make off that, hey it might just be enough... then e85 with an upgrade of pump and injectors

Wheel alignment time  

Funny my last engine when it was hot the oil pressure would be around 4psi this one is at 25psi 

11 hours ago, crunchy said:

No pipe inside at all, dead center is the best place or build a dual plenum 

Yeah will make a nice duel plenum one day when I have more time ?

Didnt end up putting pipe inside

It's all mostly together now, massive thanks to the guys at RML engineering and wakfield alloy for ya off cuts and making me awesome engine parts at short notice ?

Sorta like this..

44 minutes ago, crunchy said:

Cut 45 on the edge of the manifold and come from under it for turbo feed

I was thinking about doing that, but ended up going here as I had space to fill, where it enters there is going to be a smaller 70deg tube bend to direct half the air flow to the front of the intake. Hopefully that will make it a bit more even across the cylinders

So today been getting a grind on and tuning my welding skills.. 

it aint pretty but will do the job

1 hour ago, M3AN said:

Maybe ghetto but does the BMW cap (which has a valve) fit on the Audi tank? You'll need good thread engagement.

Alternatively maybe a suitable Audi cap?

looks like the same bottle in the audi R8, I reckon I must just have a dodgy cap or the incorrect one as I got it off a golf. There are black coloured caps as well maybe it's one of those.. 

25 minutes ago, M3AN said:

Where are you getting pressure release from with that reservoir? Doesn't look like that cap blows does it? Fits well though.

Thats a very good question.... just checked and my hoses are a little bit sucked in.... hmm what can be done?

On 8/18/2017 at 11:47 PM, M3AN said:

Had intercooler sprayers in my Evos. Good for when you're sitting at the lights and your charge heat is increasing rapidly, useless everywhere else.

FWIW.

Yeah don't think you can use them on the track either, so that may be another job for when I run out of things to do.

I struggled with putting the ECU in the hole due to the coolant resivor being in the way and found that with the intake on I'd have no room for charge pipe to enter the manifold, so I found one on an Audi A5 that was perfect to my needs tall and skinny and gave me the extra space to put ECU in with ease and space for pipe.

Mounted the bumper and lowered the car on the ground, removed the tinted windows seen as I had done a lot of detail on the inside and hiding it with tints makes it look like every other e36 from the outside.

Spent a couple of hours today installing the intercooler and pipe work, picked up some spray nozzles from Bunnings for the Ic sprayer, not sure if I'm going to run one yet though.

also booked some time off next week so should be some more updates as I get it ready to dyno 

Ah might work with the 355mm disc

So done a bit of digging around work today an found some stoptech 4pot fronts with 355x32 discs and adapters for E70 x5, only issue is I can't have disc bigger than 328mm because of running 17"wheels.  Adapters for them is the easy part

https://www.zeckhausen.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24_365&products_id=3471

Little update, used my new rivnut gun at 100psi pulled the trigger and pow... tore the thread right out of it lol, so turns out a m6 threaded alloy rivnut takes 30psi to not pull a thread and to crush just right..

Had the hose guy come and make me a sweet hose for the accusump, just got a wire in to the ign and toggle switch.

I can't wait till everything is done so I can clean the sh*t out of it and bring it back to the look I started with.

9 hours ago, M3AN said:

I don't have a BBK but am thinking of getting a set of MRP NZ Wilwood fronts, if others were interested I believe a discount might be available.

http://www.mrpltd.co.nz/product/bmw-e30-280mm-4-piston/

this kit? 

Do they do them for e36 m3?

Hey if anyone has some big brake upgrade kit that would fit my car I'd be interested, just send me a message.

Update: Rivnut gun arrived, but rivnuts did not so that's a just for another day

After work today we finished off the wiring on the engine, I then proceeded to install the ecu in the holder and refit everything surrounding it, stood back and thought it looks good and glad that part is now done as it was very tricky to install, proceeded to tidy up and there it was... the fricken ECU plug seal... OMG, FML that's a job for another day lol

Also cut the rocker cover cover to fit around the down pipe, it was either that or make another pipe and that wasn't going to happen, fits good

With the vanos delete and triggers I got made they are an exact replica of the s50b32, they have the TDC trigger on the exhaust side and intake is variable, I had the intake sensor set to the ecu and it would jump up 2000rpm and back down, so ran it off the crank sensor first and the starting every time was terrible with backfires and a few flames out the intake then would run nice, I got hold of Adam at link ECU on their forums to find out if they had a pattern for the engines camshaft triggers and he was very helpful, told me to run the exhaust sensor and select S52 in the ecu and it will run nice, so I did and it's perfect! So now I'm running my old map with new trigger set up, an adjustment of the idle control valve and I'm pretty happy

And seems as the exhaust sensor is going to be pretty important I went for a wonder and found some soft heat shielding from a turbo golf and modified it to fit around the side of the engine protecting it from direct heat, it turned out nice.. passed the flame test

Then put on one of the slick wheels just for shits and the 265s look wide

That's a lot of wires....

Little update, mounted my oil accumulater and removed my floor trim to run the hose underneath to feed it, while there I'm going to change all the plastic mounting clips to riv nuts and bolts to stop debris coming through around where the plastic wouldn't seal correctly

So today I deloomed all the not needed items with help from my mate jake, couldn't have done it so tidy without his help, still a bit of pin swapping then it's all going back together for the next step which is making the intake manifold fit nice..

Like this pic... lol

On 7/31/2017 at 2:36 PM, richard said:

my bad, I should have said  "connect" not mount, to the engine. As I can't fine a suitable spot.

I'm running an aftermarket oil pressure sensor in the place of the factory and using it for the gauge and the ECU

Thread size is 12x1.5mm same as your wheel bolts