'88 E30
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Just ordered some hawk pads, stainless front lines, Motorsport hardware stud conversion & new diff plugs (mines weeping a bit of fluid) I think I had put royal purple in it last year...any recommendations for diff fluid? Weight?
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I had redline 75w90 in mine, no issues to report for the >5,000 miles I put on the car since I did it. I will be putting the same thing in the M next weekend. How did the Red46 skid plate fit? I have the m42 one sitting in a box since it hasn't really been a priority on the e30 job list lately
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I had redline 75w90 in mine, no issues to report for the >5,000 miles I put on the car since I did it. I will be putting the same thing in the M next weekend. How did the Red46 skid plate fit? I have the m42 one sitting in a box since it hasn't really been a priority on the e30 job list lately
red46 plate fit well. depending on the shape your core support is in, it goes on with 7 bolts. 2 longer ones in the rack & 5 thru the core support
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Not sure if you guys are changing transmission fluid as well, but I have found that red line fluid works infinitely better in bmw transmissions over royal purple.
IIRC i may have put RP ATF (syncromax?) in it because that's all i could get on somewhat short notice before i put the trans in last year. Either way, trans shifts fine as far as I can tell, no obvious signs of crappy shifting/
For the diff im probably gonna go Redline 75w90, I believe I have RP 75w90 in there now (place I went to sold RP, can you tell)
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Not sure if you guys are changing transmission fluid as well, but I have found that red line fluid works infinitely better in bmw transmissions over royal purple.
Royal purple has not helped my zf trans at all. Feels like the synchros aren't there sometimes. (From what I remember)
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@DrLeadFoot
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pads I went with HT-10 and Street Race
78mm motorsport hardware
stainless front lines
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Royal purple has not helped my zf trans at all. Feels like the synchros aren't there sometimes. (From what I remember)
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That's what I'm saying, Royal Purple pretty much didn't let my zf go into gear when it was below 40 degrees outside. Redline completely fixed that.
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That's what I'm saying, Royal Purple pretty much didn't let my zf go into gear when it was below 40 degrees outside. Redline completely fixed that.
i'll swap it out, i dont think ive ever driven my car when its been that cold with the current fluid.
im excited to now have butter smooth shifts & get all the bitties
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Did some reading. Lightbulb clicked. Went outside. Realized the CSB is on incorrectly. Hated myself for a bit. Ordered new CSB. Now I get to drop the driveshaft again.
Totally not happy about that. Guess I was in a rush to put it back on and wasn't thinking, I blame spotted cow & the Internet
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Got the driveshaft out in about .3 seconds (kind of surprised) and ripped the CSB off of it and made notes with sharpie so i dont forget the orientation for when the new one shows up (nothing was "wrong" with it, but $40 is cheap insurance)
Also just ordered adjustable front end links not from ireland engineering
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I Have also yet to find a place locally that sells Red Line fluids --off to the internet for those as well.
Called a bunch of shops to see who can weld my coils. I just got a bunch of confused responses on the phone
"You want to do what with your who, who is this? What are you suspensions doing with a welder?"
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Pegasus... dangerous candy store to have so close by.
We have zero shops like that up here
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Stud conversion and adjustable front endlinks are here. Brake pads, stainless lines, center support bearing, diff drain plugs, redline fluids are on their way.
Just ordered coils as well 10K/12K
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Only thing left to show up are the coils
Pads/lines/CSB/diff plugs showed up today
As well as this gem front Blunttech
Also I lied, I have ate brake fluid&redline MTL showing up soon too. I was trolling craigslist in my area for shits and giggles and came across an ad for 2qts of redline 75w-90 and 2 gallons of BMW coolant. Guy wanted $50 for everything so I bought those as well-extra coolant isn't a bad thing to have on hand
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