‘91 E30
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Probably have around 5hrs of drive time on this thing -have been letting VE analyze do it’s thing after adjusting the afr targets/idleVE/rescaling the tables.
I had the valve cover off just to double check the cam stuff, good to go there, but I have developed the smallest oil leak from the valve cover on the passenger side rear of the cover, true to bmw form
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First autox event of the year (ignoring ice racing) & the car did great.
probably needs an alignment after having everything out of the car for the swap but it was close enough
Took fastest raw time of the day.
Unfortunately was only able to run the 4 morning runs as the fan??(tbd) died.
GF was supposed to co drive it but I couldn’t get the fan going which is necessary for the conga-line style this club had for grid. Tried everything short of directly powering the fan but gave up attempting to fix it. Quick ran the car home (local event) and grabbed the e36 so the GF could at least get her full 8 runs in. She did great and took second overall raw timeive been messing with some cheap wireless mics for the GoPro, had this one too close to the exhaust though I think
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Forgot to add the e36 part
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Nice driving!! You car sounds fantastic, did the solid lifter conversion eliminate any post-run ticking?
E36 video isn't working for me unfortunately.
Solid lifters sounded the same at the start and end of every run, happy with that.
I reloaded the e36 vid, hopefully it works
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I reloaded the e36 vid, hopefully it works
Worked for me before. Both cars sound amazing.
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Solid lifters sounded the same at the start and end of every run, happy with that.
I reloaded the e36 vid, hopefully it works
Worked for me before. Both cars sound amazing.
Its possible my work network was blocking it, sorry for the fake news
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New CSF rad is in, re-did the foam in between the rad and the core support to seal up air gaps, replaced the tstat, replaced the ecu temp sender in the head, re routed the catch can line, got a new fan harness/relay that is wired as a ground switched setup - future MS3 triggering perhaps
earlier I mentioned I thought the fan was bad, but I think the mounts shifted and caused some binding between the shroud/fan. I tested the fan out of the car and all seems well (it’s a 2 year old SPAL pusher) just remounted a few brackets and gave it a touch more stand off from the radiator (1/4-3/8” standoff in case stuff moves around).
currently have the glovebox and center console stuff out of the car to get some of the wiring cleaned up. Once it’s back together it will be more dialing in The tune/car
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Used the install of the new fan wiring as an excuse to Clean up a bunch of wiring for the MS3, gauge wiring, and other stuff I had been putting off as I hate removing all the interior stuff. Got it all buttoned back up last night. Tonight going to rebleed the coolant after putting in the new radiator.
eventually I should probably have it aligned, but next up is making a mount for the MS3 as it’s just hanging out in the glovebox & making some type of heat shield to go in between the filter/engine Bay Area along the frame rail
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Is that the EPAuto coolant kit on the reservoir? Always wondered about those.
Yes sir
EPAuto Spill Proof Radiator Coolant Filling Funnel Kit https://a.co/d/cM6Vx8S
I use a combo of the red neck, yellow cap & I steal the stock gasket from the stock expansion tank cap
it looks like they may have updated it since 2020, so YMMV on the colors.
it works great, makes bleeding super easy
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This last weekend was the first fvscc event at USAIR. For this event they ran the layout backwards which was a first for me. They also usually cap the event at 100 cars, this one had 137. Ended up placing 1st in XSB and 3rd overall raw time.
http://fvscc.com/results/2023_Summer/event2_raw.htm
here’s my fastest run of the day
gf brought out the e36 and ended up placing 19th overall
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Looks like this thing shreds.
Car gets light in the front coming over that bend into the hairpin? (@ 0:21)
Yea the track kind of dips down away & to the left, I just screwed the entry
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I didn't see if you posted it, where did you get the solid lifter conversion from? Alien engineering?
Yes sir alien engineering.
Not totally sure if he keeps his eBay store up anymore, but he is super active on the boostede36world Facebook page.
mid post edit - looks like he has his own site now
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Car has been pretty solid since the last update, I did end up making a (crude) mount for the MS3 to get it out of the way in the glovebox
Finally got the car out to an HPDE at USAIR. So glad the new management is cool with these events. There was a morning and afternoon session, we only signed up for the morning. It was a total of 4, 15 minute sessions for $125 (afternoon would’ve been an additional $125) - autox out there is usually $55 for 8 runs- Ended up being about 36 miles of laps.
Car exceeded expectations as it didn’t break lol. Temps stayed in check the entire day. Coolant temps maybe peaked around 210/215 and came down very quickly on a cool down lap. Oil temps were maybe around 230 or so at their peak
The chase bays power steering reservoir with their “spill proof baffled design” did just the opposite, had to wipe that up between sessions.
Had one weird issue with the expansion tank cap, seemed like the orings/gasket had the worlds smallest leak and it would mist the intake pipe during the session. New cap will be here soon & expansion tank just in case. This was the quick fix trackside
car used maybe 1/4 tank of fuel, GFs evo x went through like 15 gallons of e85 lol
Nankang CR-1 were also a casualty, this event finished them off after 2 years of service, no complaints there—might try their updated 200tw compound “CR-S”
i only ran the racebox gps on 2/4 sessions, borrowed it out to a few cars on the other sessions-still need to get those laps overlayed but here’s some footage from the day
this was one of the last sessions so tires were pretty smoked
Next lapping day is in September. This one actually still had open spots, definitely recommend.
next on the list is to order up some tires and change all the fluids
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