'88 E30
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thanks! and yes, plenty more surprises im sure. snap & I found out the electric fan is wired with gray as the ground, and another gray wire.
for convenience!
At least its not wired with a lamp cord like my PO (fat bob to be exact) did on my car.
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I was back home for the weekend (Eau Claire area)
and it was cold as hell. my phone takes asshole quality photos, so you're welcome.
so tried to button up some of the small leaks.
changed out the valve cover gasket, spark plug hole gaskets as well.
the hope is to slow down/stop the oil leak that which was dumping oil into the plug well closest to the firewall.
Also, picked up a full exhaust from DrLeadfoot on here.
Myself and my buddy Jake (who was all the awesome tools and sub 35 degree garage) worked on this over the night.
We sort of did everything at once.
Taking off the old exhaust was kind of a pain in the ass.
The short tube raceland headers that were on there came off ok, some of the exhaust studs came out at the same time when we were removing the nuts.
One of the headers was welded to the midsection, so that kinda sucked to get off.
The o2 sensor was kinda nasty, but that can be changed out whenever.
The midsection was also welded to the catback portion of the exhaust as well. so it was one huge section of exhaust with one header welded on.
*Old pic of exhaust from when Cyoung and I had the car at Concours
so after getting the headers off, and the two supports holding it, it fell to the ground and landed on us - so that was nice.
^ Check out that massive heater!! cranking out negative BTU's and popping every breaker known to man.
The new longtube headers needed some massaging and coaxing (hammered it) in order to fit.
We also had to remove the first 6 lower studs on the head in order to get the exhaust to fit (dont worry, those went back in) although one is missing a stud+nut, just running three on it for now.
got the headers on (new exhaust gaskets), held the midsection and catback up with a few jacks and started getting everything hung up.
for now its held up with muffler straps and all that jazz, but it isn't going anywhere. eventually (with access to a welder) ill get some actual mounts made up.
some of the flanges that connect the catback to the mid section were pretty bent (from being tightened before) and the scrap bolts that were laying around were a little large for some of the flanges.
so i got to drill them out under the car and crush every knuckle i own. totally worth it.
finally got the IE strutbar installed that i had from my last e30. had to be drilled out a touch and massaged into place as well - it holds the wiring harness against the firewall too (saving big money)
got it bolted up, no exhaust leaks any more!
took it for a hood-less rip around the neighboorhood and it sounds great!
exhaust sounds as it should, I'll get clips up soon hopefully.
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Probably too late but you should really be replacing exhaust studs and nuts when swapping the headers.
we had thought about this as well.
now that everything is buttoned back up, it wont be too hard to do them one at a time, just a pain in the ass.
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Next step: bushings.
maybe when its not 2 degrees out
You forgot to mention you removed the yellow from the headlights according to the pictures
wat
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I'm glad you like that exhaust! It does sound mean but not mean enough to totally piss off the neighbors! I'd call it a classy, slightly lubed meat grinder sound.
@DrLeadFoot
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I'm glad you like that exhaust! It does sound mean but not mean enough to totally piss off the neighbors! I'd call it a classy, slightly lubed meat grinder sound.
haha! it sounds great around 4500-6k
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filmed this at night, so literally there is nothing to see, but the gopro did alright at getting the sound.
some of it gets washed out due to where/how it was mounted.
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Nice find and sounds great!
Happy Turkey Day!
thanks!
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filmed this at night, so literally there is nothing to see, but the gopro did alright at getting the sound.
some of it gets washed out due to where/how it was mounted.
On my phone I can't see the video! I can't wait to hear the sweet music once I get home.
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@DrLeadFoot
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Love it!
bringing back old memories!!
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bringing back old memories!!
It totally does.
@DrLeadFoot
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