Das Be28ter Bimmer
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Well I got her on the road again. Learned a couple lessons on this one and I can now say I'm an expert at '80s BMW driveshafts! When replacing your guibo and csb, only buy febi bilstein! Its oem parts and they do make the difference. The knock off csb's are not offset to keep the driveshaft in a straight line from the tranny to diff. During the replacement of these parts I opted to upgrade to the 1988 model year driveshaft from old car. It has the bigger guibo with no harmonic balancer and its a heavier duty driveshaft. This involved swapping the output flanges off the back of the transmissions, which is where I got hung up on. We weren't using a powerful enough impact, so they seemed to be seized. I learned that even some BMW techs dont have the best tools! I also cleaned up on of the joints on my exhaust and put on a new clamp which made it nice a quiet! Can't wait to show her off this weekend at the meet!
Here is a picture of the upgraded guibo
And the nice, straight upgraded driveshaft!
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Picked up a set of E34 15" style 5's for $100 in chicago over new years. Wheels are in decent shape, one just has some curb rash but he claimed they were all straight. Look pretty decent but will need refinishing as paint is peeling in places.
Also got some Style 2 freebies. No plans for these right now.
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You said you want to do a Dinan tune. Does Dinan do one for the ETA? I know the tunes out there for the ETA seem to make a real nice difference. Any plans to convert it to "i" spec? If so, let me know and I will keep you in mind when I sell my MarkD tune and other goodies.
From what I understand, the Dinan tunes only apply to the WOT maps and not the part throttle maps. MarkD did a great job with the M20 tunes and I am fairly confident that all 3 maps (idle, PT, WOT) were touched.
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Snap Understeer said:
You said you want to do a Dinan tune. Does Dinan do one for the ETA? I know the tunes out there for the ETA seem to make a real nice difference. Any plans to convert it to "i" spec? If so, let me know and I will keep you in mind when I sell my MarkD tune and other goodies.
From what I understand, the Dinan tunes only apply to the WOT maps and not the part throttle maps. MarkD did a great job with the M20 tunes and I am fairly confident that all 3 maps (idle, PT, WOT) were touched.
Yep the Dinan tune is only WOT. I'm not set on a specific tune, I might actually go for better mileage now. Never planned on doing an "i" swap as I'm satisfied with the power it makes for my needs. Car is gonna continue to be a daily driver once I'm finished. I bought the m30 powered euro 528i that was for sale on here which will be my "go-fast" car.
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M20B27eta said:
Yep the Dinan tune is only WOT. I'm not set on a specific tune, I might actually go for better mileage now. Never planned on doing an "i" swap as I'm satisfied with the power it makes for my needs. Car is gonna continue to be a daily driver once I'm finished. I bought the m30 powered euro 528i that was for sale on here which will be my "go-fast" car.
That car was being parted out, correct? Is it missing a lot of pieces? Is that one going to be NA or boosted? I saw pictures of the car pre-damage and it looked amazing. I love those euro front turn signals
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Snap Understeer said:
That car was being parted out, correct? Is it missing a lot of pieces? Is that one going to be NA or boosted? I saw pictures of the car pre-damage and it looked amazing. I love those euro front turn signals
Sorry I missed this a while ago! Yes the car was parted out, all the unique euro pieces are gone, Brian bought the interior, etc. Basically I have a shell with a complete drivetrain. I have enough extra parts from my first e28 that I can at least make something out of it until I can re-euro it.
Looking to stay N/A for now but who knows where it'll go in the future as I hopefully just want . Megasquirt seems like a great option too. I'll start a separate thread for it once I can actually start doing some work!! I'm very eager for spring so I can work on my E28's, I miss driving the be28ter
. Plan for the summer is to get the 528i running so I can drive at meets/etc and then put down the 528e once Zach and I get into a shop. -
Snap Understeer said:
Very cool! I would love to see an NA M30 on megasquirt.
I have a 4.10 188mm ring and pinion that should fit if you find yourself itching for some acceleration
I'm itching for acceleration. And I'm debating on switching to MegaSquirt II, so I can eventually go turbo. But I'm staying N/a for now. Gotta get more low before I get more go fast goodies!
I'm liking this semi-private e28 owner only thread I got going on here.
. Yeah it was a really sweet deal! Now I just need to get the car to a point where it is worthy of wearing them.
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