E21 project thread

[Bassboy3313]

Got the welded up charge piping back the other day.

The pieces that were made back in the 80s turned out to be mild steel instead of aluminum, so I had to get a coat of paint or powdercoat on them to prevent rusting. So I opted to paint all the piping in cast iron gray color.

I love the color and it goes with the old school theme of the car. Looks brownish gray in the sun but kind of army green in the shade. I still dig! I got it all mounted up and snugged down. Along with the IAC to intake hose as well.

Just need to hook a few more things up and fill with fluids and I should he able to try starting it. Soon!

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[B C]

im so giddy

[Bassboy3313]

Got my new +0.50mm pistons in the mail today for the 2.0 block rebuild side project.

[andyhundley]

I'm excited to ride in this!

[RamRod E28]

I want that charge pipe color for my engine bay that looks so good!

[B C]

Duplicolor high temp Cast Iron Gray.

Great color

[The Full Banana]

That's the color of my engine bay.

[Bassboy3313]

It's a great color!

[The Full Banana]

Yep! PM me and we can setup a royalty payment schedule. 

All kidding aside, It looks good on those charge pipes. Bring this thing to work so I can sneak a peek in the parking lot!

[Bassboy3313]

Thanks to kyle (kyletime666) for doing the machine work on my side 2.0L project, I got the cleaned and polished crank back today.

Did a few more things to the car today, but hopefully tomorrow I can crank a lot more of the piddly stuff out.

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[Bassboy3313]

Got quite a bit of the piddly stuff done today. Ran fpr vac to fitting on manifold, filled with coolant, changed oil, secured return fuel hose to hard line, got a large vac cap for a spot on throttle body, tightened oil cooler lines and turbo oil feed line and tightened alternator down.

I also figured out a spot to mount my custom catch can, hidden behind the brake booster. I took the spare piece of aluminum strip I had and bent up a bracket for it. Drilled some mounting holes, powdercoated it and boom, done! Just need to run the hoses from valve cover to intake.

[B C]

Making brackets is more gratifying than it should be. I expect to be plenty busy later this week helping you and milwaukeeandy , the thought is quite exciting

[KaiserRolls]

How's the triple?

[Bassboy3313]

KaiserRolls said:

How's the triple?

Lovely as usual! If only it would stop freakin raining. I see you've been getting your supermoto fix lately too, eh?

[Bassboy3313]

Lightened and surfaced flywheel!

[Bassboy3313]

So I got everything connected and done on the car and it is time to get it running and driving. She cranks very nicely, but of course doesnt want to fire. I figure it is something with the Megasquirt wiring either on the car or in the MS ecu itself. Snap and I are currently researching and working on these bugs. Hopefully will have a nice update at some point here.

[KaiserRolls]

Yay for updates.

Edit: is the issue that burnt out capacitor that snap sent me a pic of?

[B C]

no

i have no idea what im doing.

[jc43089]

I wish I lived closer, I would come check it out.

[Bassboy3313]

So I ended up removing the VR conditioner and all wiring the PO did along with all my stepper IAC wiring from the MS controller board. I then followed the MS2extra EDIS wiring schematic from scratch and tested it. With a little temporary rewiring to the EDIS module, I now get an RPM signal on my log. AWESOME!!!

I now just need to finalize the EDIS wiring, shielding/grounding wires that need it and so on. Then check for constant strong spark to check that side of things off the list.

The other thing I have noticed is that Tunerstudio still says NOT SYNCED when I turn the ignition on as well as while I am cranking. Someone said that the car will never fire with it saying NOT SYNCED while cranking and that I need to debug the trigger setup before attempting anything else (3rd post in link below). I have no idea what this means. Any ideas?

http://www.msextra.com/forums/viewto...?f=122&t=51475