Build Thread?
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Small update, got spark working on megasquirt after realizing that I never plugged in the motor to body harness connector
Have some pipes with a friend to get bungs and fittings welded into them for my sensors and ICV and BOV.
Got the 3" stainless exhaust, came with a 4.5" exhaust tip! I had planned on running that this year yet but I decided to just turn an elbow out of the turbo and run the exhaust right out of the hood, screw trying to make a full exhaust work for a few days!
Got the e36 M driveshaft in, quite a bit larger than the e30 driveshaft. And the input seal on the diff leaks.... magical. Looks like that will just slowly drip until I feel like taking the damn thing out again.
All is well, things are progressing, slowly but I am still planning on getting it broken in before snow.
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progress!!
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Know whats cool? When you get your oil in, then start pouring in coolant and find that it is flowing out of the front timing cover! F*ck
Everything was ready to go, and then that happened. Tried to crank it to make sure it had rpm signal, didn't have that either so I guess it will be awhile again.
There went the though of getting it out before winter...
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Photo Credit to suspenceful
She will be going under the knife again tomorrow. I hope to not let this set me back too far. We shall see though.
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w00t!
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Coolant
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water pump mounts to the cover.
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Gasket must have been compromised. The diagram makes sense if you see it lol.
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Coolant is leaking right near pin 3, and yes I did check to make sure the pin was seated.
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The cover was never removed as it came out of a running car. When the water pump was pulled (with the help of a slide hammer) it may have comprimised the gasket seal in that area.
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Slow day at work pops?
Yeah, that is what proceeded.
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Alright! Got this bad boy!
The fancy dancy BMW crank holding tool! Remove all of your crank bolts without feeling like you are going to snap the f*ck out of some random part! Beast is beautifully crafted with a 1" shaft for the handle, 1/2" mounting surface and a beautifully penetrating weld. Top stuff right there boys!
Assemble your crazy ass setup,
I opted for the harbor freight jack handle on a craftsman 1/2" ratchet, some may prefer the snap on variety, but whatever you have will work.
Then simply pull on that sucker pretty hard and you will hear a nice loud crack, now if you are young you will know that it was not your back giving out from the pressure, but much rather the 22mm jesus bolt cracking loose (stretch bolt)
Pull that noise out, remove your tool and slide the front timing cover off, realizing that you left a bit of old oil pan gasket hanging around (oops)
Inspect your gaskets, and find things like this.
Note the orange area, there was no gasket there, at all. just gone. some sort of small bmw demon came late at night and ate it all up. This causes leaks, ask me how I know.
New gaskets come in tomorrow, and maybe if there are no other gremlins running around it will be started.
Also, never follow anyones wiring diagrams, I have had to chance many aspects of mine for megasquirt to get it to work which all could have been avoided if I would have made my own diagram. Live and learn, and learn I have!.
October 24th marks the 1 year date from when the motor was pulled out of this, and I hope to have the car started before the one year mark!
More breaking news tomorrow!
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Cranking signal? Check
Coolant leak fixed.
Is it finally time?!
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Damn its cold out!
I never really updated this, as usual lol.
I got the car started a few months ago, and it was running hella rich (MS tuning time!) and it was pushing oil into the turbo (added a restrictor to the feed line)
After I idle'd it up to temp while playing with the idle and tuning it, which was fun , zach walked in to help me get it out and tune and pointed to the rear of the car and it appeared that about half of my gas was on the ground.
I dropped the tank and found the filler hose rusted almost completely out, so I got a new tank put that bad boy up in there.
I started putting some of the front end back together, and need to do some other small things before it will be able to get on the street, but it is way to damn cold to work on it as of late!
More later!
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