New Daily: 1992 E34 525i 5spd
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I didn't make it out to the shop this weekend like I wanted to, but I did pick up my new daily....
It's not quite a Honda Insight
Bens (GunMetalGrey) 1992 525i, 5 speed, tan interior with black heated seats and black door cards swapped in, ellipsoids, and all rear (poly) and front suspension refreshed (minus strut assemblies).
Thank you again Ben for selling me this thing=)
It is such a comfortable highway cruiser and is actually sipping less fuel than I thought it would, which is a plus=D
I will be out at the shop this weekend at the latest, but might stop in a few times during the week to look at a few things.
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I will post e34 updates in here too if that is okay. If someone wants me to make a separate thread for it and go into detail I can do that too=)
The car has been awesome so far. It just glides on the highway and the m50 sounds quite nice.
I was getting a slight misfire at idle once the car was warm. I thought it would be hard to source a vacuum leak and was going to borrow Snaps smoke tester. I opened the hood and to my astonishment, the vacuum leak was easily spotted. The intake boot has three cracks roughly 1.5" long. I was surprised it runs as good as it does=)
I ordered a new one this morning and cannot wait to get it installed.
I will post more updates later in the day. Off to a meeting at work...
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That was the one thing I forgot to tell you
that was on my bench to put in the carSent from my XT907 using Tapatalk 2
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Shoulda just saved big money and used some electrical tape
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^ Not this...
We were on xbox live last night making terrible jokes.
In no way am I being serious haha
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Looking fresh Earl!!!
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I replaced my intake boot yesterday.
There was pretty much a tear between every bellow. The throttle response didn't feel like it was lacking before but it is much more responsive now. I did notice that someone had split the end of the hose coming from the PCV valve and used electrical tape to fix it. I will most likely be replacing that next.
I was driving to work this morning with the blower motor on high to defrost my windshield and it suddenly kicked down a speed or two. I have heard horror stories of blower motor relays going bad and causing dash fires/full harness shorts in e34's and do not want to even turn the blower on now...
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Just another reason why this damn weather needs to cooperate!!
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This thing has been awesome=)
Tomorrow I am getting it detailed and I might shadowline the trim.
I noticed a slight exhaust leak this morning that sounds like it is coming from around the downpipe. Are these cast exhaust manifolds known to crack? I remember on my Conquest those manifolds were prone to cracking, but that was a turbo application.
I ran across these and am getting tempted. http://www.racelandus.com/exhaust-headers/bmw-exhaust-headers/bmw-e34-exhaust-headers.html
Someone talk me out of it=)
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