E21 project thread
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This car drove.
For a whole 30 feet!
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From last 30 foot drive, I heard a grinding/thumping from the rear which made me stop. This morning I raised the rear and noticed the driveshaft was rubbing on the exhaust. I got 2 new rubber muffler hangers and that fixed the issue. I then noticed a small oil leak. During my investigating I have a hunch it is coming from the thermostat on the oil filter housing. Hard to tell tho from the clean oil and whatnot.
I just drove it around the block for the first time and it was interesting. Lol. Figuring out Megasquirt as I go is probably going to take some time.
I also think there might be an exhaust leak at the turbo. Nows the time to get all the kinks out I guess.
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I had a steady drip from the oil cooler thermostat on my m20, it got to the point of a drip every couple seconds when the engine was running. I replaced the o ring (which comes with a new retaining ring and metal cap??) and all was well. The old o ring crumbled into pieces when I removed it.
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Not sure if mine has/had an oring since its basically just a sandwich plate with a built in thermostat. I know it has a c-clip that holds it all inside the housing tho.
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In due time sir, in due time.
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I don't have an m20 in my e21. I am using a purolater thermostatic sandwich adapter on my m10 filter housing.
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I didn't know if they used a similar setup on the m10. I didn't realize yours was aftermarket, I have considered using an adapter to do a remote mount filter on some cars with poor filter placement to make oil changes easier. Would you recommend the Purolator? I use their synthetic line of spin on filters for my non BMWs.
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Yeah I would recommend Purolator. That is my go to filer for my car, but most the time no one has it in stock so I end up having to get something different.
I have been tuning and tuning with Brian (Snap) and we are kind of stumped. It is running almost as if a spark plug is intermittent or wire is bad, but I just replaced plugs and wires. We are aiming towards the coil not producing a hot enough spark and maybe even the EDIS module not being grounded properly due to it sitting on a painted surface. I will be replacing the coil today and possibly grinding the paint away from under the module. Hope this works.
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The new coil and edis module grounding didn't change it a whole lot. It sputtered a tiny bit less often, but still sputters nonetheless. Next up, bad batch of fuel maybe?
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Now I'm ready for some serious tunage!
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Its a Dell Venue 8 Pro that runs full windows. Its super convenient. I either need a usb-f to micro usb-m adapter cable or to grab the bluetooth adapter for megasquirt before I can use it for tuning. I actually picked it up for super cheap on ebay. It was brand new, in the box, with plastic still on everything and no one else bid on it. I know, weird right?
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Nice, and you were sitting there waiting for the last second snipe. Sounds like a similar device, this is running windows 8.1. I like it because we use it as our only computer and can run everything we would use like MS office etc which you can't do with a limited OS/Ipad device. How much storage does that have? Ours has 128GB SSD and a micro SD up to 64GB.
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