Fancy Stancy 325is

Jdesign

Wow. Looks like you are in for a rats nest of fun!!!

jc43089

I was working on the awesomely fun task of installing exhaust manifolds on a 24v engine, all 24 of them. I was able to see the VIN sticker on the back of the head. It appears to be the original. Bummer I was hoping it had been swapped long ago when a more caring PO had it. Oh well. I also pulled the plugs and they all looked nice. No cylinders steam cleaned...

GunMetalGrey

jc43089 said:

I was working on the awesomely fun task of installing exhaust manifolds on a 24v engine, all 24 of them.

My favorite part about e36 24v motors.

Oh, wait... nope. Got confused. They suck.

jc43089

I've just been cleaning stuff up and making sure everything is ok-ish. The ICV hoses were shot so I ordered new ones and PCV hoses. Also ordered new orange intake gaskets for the intake manifold to head and to throttle body. I am putting my stock exhaust from my sedan on so I ordered new downpipe gaskets and donuts for the muffler section. Also ordered new NGK plugs because it had funky Champion ones.

Rockauto has coil boots for 4.37$ ea. The listed brand is "Prenco" but the photo shows Bremi so I will let you know what I get. It said wholesaler closeout

Total spent so far, 460$ for the car, 142.47 from FCP, 30.90 from rockauto. 633.37

jc43089

They were not Bremi. oh well. It hopefully will be on the road this week.

jc43089

Got some work done last night. Cleaned up the nast created by lots of oil leakage and burnouts on gravel roads. Put in a new fuel filter.

New ICV hoses and PCV hoses and the plastic connectors for them and put the manifold back on.

Rekpoint

At the auction was the bmw advertised? Or was it an extra surprise? I'm alil jealous on the deal you got.

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jc43089

It just said "93 M3, needs work". The auction was mostly farm machinery and was in rural MN. It wasn't that great of a deal, its trashed on the bottom from being so low, the door card fell off when I shut the door...etc. The rockers are rusted some from drilling and putting on the late model side skirts. Running and driving well it's probably worth 1500 max.

Earl

How's it running now?

jc43089

Not running yet, still need to put on the TB and exhaust and zip tie the coolant lines so they don't get sucked into the fan. Should be later this week or early next week.

jc43089

Front half of exhaust installed, TB installed. Looked at the differential tag, it's a 3.15 LSD. Might be fried from vape filled drifting for almost 300k miles though, I took Thursday off work so I should get a good amount done then.

I need to:

Plug the turbo drain into the oil pan.

Install intake

Install back half of exhaust

Fill with oil

Secure expansion tank

See if it starts

Get it on the ground without the springs falling out

Attempt burnout

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KaiserRolls

Did the vin start "WBA" and make you sad about the ///M power vanity covers?

jc43089

It's alive! It was a bit of a fight, after getting everything put together It cranked but no power to the main ecu relay, fusible link on the small power wire was blown in the trunk. Then the fuel pump wouldn't run. I jumped the relay and kept unplugging/plugging the fuel pump connector until it took off. Then she fired right up. That confirms my thought that it hasn't run in 5 years. Thankfully it had no gas in it so I didn't have to drain anything. More pics later. I cut the muffler off. I am going to put in dual small glasspaks trying to replicate the Rouge DMS exhaust.

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B C

Nice detective work getting the mystery machine going!

Think you will attempt driving it once it has exhaust?

There must be some more surprises around the corner once you start driving.

Earl

Congrats Almost ready for your video debut of burnouts

jc43089

Yes, as soon as I weld on mufflers I will try driving it. I ordered a pair of small glass packs from Heartthrob exhaust. 55 bucks shipped, They are only a 12" long body so probably won't quiet much but should reduce noise to a level so as not to get pulled over frequently.

jc43089

I got the mufflers welded on last night, I still need to attach hangers and weld the top half of the last connections. The pipe is EMT conduit from the scrap bin at work, free stuff is good stuff. Photobucket is off licking a window right now so I can't get pictures to upload. I will try again later. I couldn't get the fuel pump spinning again so I put the one from my other car in and ran it for a while, it warmed up properly and seems to run nice. It idles high around 1200. Not sure if the throttle stop is messed up in the throttle body from the PO trying to run it with no ICV or maybe it just needs to be driven so the adaptations can get set. It does seem to hang a little before dropping back to idle, maybe I am just used to the light flywheel on my other m50.

B C

"photobucket is off licking a window right now"

That site was decent up until around 2009 and then it pooped the bed.

I'm not a fan of ICV deletes. They are wonderful contraptions.

jc43089

I have the ICV all hooked up properly now with new hoses, I do know that the throttle body does not seal perfectly because cleaning spray leaks through slowly when I was cleaning it. I am not sure how perfect it needs to be though. I might try my stock throttle body from my other car.

Only snap chat besties got to hear sound clips.

jc43089

Here are a couple pictures of sealing up the oil pan from the turbo drain. I don't turbo much but don't you need to drain above the level of the oil in the pan? When I took the hose off several quarts of oil came out. Also who uses self tapping screws for something like this... Oh wait, they are leftovers of the same ones that attach the side skirts...

Old oil drain contraption

Holes in the oil pan

Remounted and plugged

matching screws on the side skirts...

WIBIMMERS

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