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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: dlmrun2002 on March 23, 2007, 05:37:31 PM
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Having a ball putting it all back together after shipping out for a complete rebuild.. Will put the powder coated valve cover on once it's in the engine bay. Top intake was powdered. Came out good I think. Very hard and durable too. All those cooling hoses... WTF ?????
DLM
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Ahh, a clean motor is a beautiful sight. Sadly, mine's not that clean, but it has 192k miles on it. Have fun routing the hoses!
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Nice & clean, oh how I wish mine looked like that! One thing I saw...the pressure valve thingy (off-white)...that goes to the brake booster. Looks like you have it connected elsewhere...might want to check that!
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Yeah thanks on the pressure valve. All the plumbing is just stuck up there for now. Gonna put it together this weekend. Hopefully........Noticed the Magnecor 8.5 wires are tight in the wire holder. Gonna have to trim the wire hoder ends or somethng......
DLM
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Looks very nice and clean.
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Nice job! Post more pics!
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wow, that looks clean...
My engine still has remenants of that cosmoline crap they put on it at the factory....
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Also see the hose diagram (nightmare) taped up there for reference. You can eliminate the siamese sections by doing the following:
1) 1 hose from the valve cover vent to the bottom of the throttle body.
2) Cap the water line coming from the head at hose 11 and the hose at the coolant pipe at hose 18.
3) One hose #13 from the idle control valve (7) to the intake bellows (4).
If you are in a cold climate and need the throttle body heated you can still eliminate the siamese stuff by going from the lower plate (7) directly to the coolant pipe (4) at hose #18.
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Thanks for the spagetti hose( more like ho's!!) help. I actually spent a good 3-4 hours going over it, flipping between oem diagrams, reading hose numbers and just taking my time. I have it all stock now. It feels like BMW could have made a simpler scheme between vacum and cooling including the throttle body. But if it works enough said. Now I just need to clean air flow meter and housing, tighten intake and header bolts, put the belts on and get ready to drope her in. Probable next weekend....
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nice job man!!
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looking good!
i really need to get the ball rolling with my engine project!!
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Looks ace. my engine is nowhere near that clean.
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Also see the hose diagram (nightmare) taped up there for reference. You can eliminate the siamese sections by doing the following:
1) 1 hose from the valve cover vent to the bottom of the throttle body.
2) Cap the water line coming from the head at hose 11 and the hose at the coolant pipe at hose 18.
3) One hose #13 from the idle control valve (7) to the intake bellows (4).
If you are in a cold climate and need the throttle body heated you can still eliminate the siamese stuff by going from the lower plate (7) directly to the coolant pipe (4) at hose #18.
can you really just block off those hoses?
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can you really just block off those hoses?
Only reason that I can see not to is that that the outlet from the head bleeds steam from a hot spot. Chevy small blocks with stock configured heads have a hot spot in the middle where two exhaust ports are together. One solution was to drill and tap for a bleed off line from there to the top of the thermostat housing. I don't see that with the M42. I think it's just a nearby place to tap into hot water for the throttle body de-icer. As small as it is I don't think it's for any other purpose.
What do folks with ITB's do?
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Clay nice rims... What are they? size?
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I was unaware that little hole in between the runners for 3 and 4 was for the brakes. I popped the bind plug out and used that port. I suppose I will correct that or just vacumm plug that port.
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dlmrun2002, what are those engine mounts made from? where did you get them?
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I think Ireland Engineering... Poly's.. Will see if I like them.. Might be to much vibration... Can be found anywhere really... She should go in this weekend. Need to customize spark plug wire harness to hold Magnecor 8.5MM. Little tight on the in and out points.
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I think Ireland Engineering... Poly's.. Will see if I like them.. Might be to much vibration... Can be found anywhere really... She should go in this weekend. Need to customize spark plug wire harness to hold Magnecor 8.5MM. Little tight on the in and out points.
Hey DLM, Can you do a quick measure up of the mounts and let me know what size they are (height and dia). Also are the studs top and bottom in the same plane or is one offset compaired to the other.
I am tryig to find some locally (in Australia) and no one can tell me what the proper size of our engine mounts are. Mine have collapsed big time.
Thanks
Cristian:cool:
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Stock mounts have the little nob on bottom to align. I think top stud is close to center... Maybe a little offset. My polys don't have a bottom nob for alignment and the top stud is definetely offset. MAybe an inch tops. Come to think of it. I think I got my polys on ebay. Here is a link.. ebay USA of course..
Hope that helps..
DLM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BMW-Urethane-Engine-Mount-E30-318-M10-M42_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ50454QQihZ015QQitemZ250036860785