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FAQ / REFERENCE => Member Profiles => Topic started by: Asserti on April 17, 2008, 03:15:44 AM
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Hello Guys, time to present myself and my car :D
I'm Stijn, live in Belgium, almost 22 years old and I'm still a student. I bought my first car almost 2 years ago, in august 2006. It's a diamantschwarz 318is and it had 224 000kms (139 000 miles) on it.
It had some rusty points, the engine wouldn't start, just turned over, the side of the drivers seat was worn, the sunroof broke, the little spoiler on the trunk was torn appart and it was not in such a good shape. But it had no dents :D
I could write a whole story about the car here, perhaps I'll do sometime. It took me a year to get the car welded (can't do that myself). I bought another 318is for a cheap price, swapped engines, because the engine in the first car had bent intake valves due to not looking after the timing chain, I installed drivers seat from my second car, almost fixed the sunroof (it works, for the summer :cool: but it doesn't work very well yet). I installed another dashboard because there were holes drilled in the original one, I cleaned the carpet, actually the whole interior came out of the car. Then I installed electric windows and the little OBC, but I still have to find a temp sensor :p. Another trunk spoiler came on the car, new fuel filter, ... perhaps some things I can't remember anymore.
The original options were:
281 LM-RAD 6 1/2 X 14
300 ZENTRALVERRIEGELUNG ELEKTRISCH
320 MODEL DESIGNATION, DELETION
350 WAERMESCHUTZGLAS GRUEN, RUNDUM
400 SLIDING SUNROOF MANUAL
481 SPORT SEATS F DRIVER/FRONT PASSENGER
520 FOGLIGHTS
680 MANUAL AERIAL
687 RADIO PREPARATION
811 BELGIUM VERSION
I installed
410 FENSTERHEBER, ELEKTRISCH VORN
556 AUSSENTEMPERATURANZEIGE
and since last weekend also 15" BBS
Now time for some pics:
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(http://webs.hogent.be/~056660bv/AW---E-30.be---Meeting/images/IMG_2482_7.jpg)
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(http://webs.hogent.be/~056660bv/AW---E-30.be---Meeting/images/IMG_2505.jpg)
Yep, that's the one from Malaise
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(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4015/pict1569sx3.jpg)
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee95/tverspeelt/E30%20KerstMeet/231207034.jpg)
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This happened after I changed the chain tensioner:
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(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj300/Malaise318is/Panning/IMG_2408Medium.jpg)
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And now, since last weekend :D :D :cool:
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee95/tverspeelt/Gouden%20velgen/IMGP2381.jpg)
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee95/tverspeelt/Gouden%20velgen/IMGP2393.jpg)
(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee95/tverspeelt/Gouden%20velgen/IMGP2379.jpg)
For people who want to read the whole story (and see the pics of my work) this is an original thread, it's in dutch tough:
http://www.9lives.be/forum/showthread.php?t=438964
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hm, apparantly this board hasn't got an automatic picture resizer... I hope the big pictures aren't a problem?
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love the gold wheels. they look SIIIIIIICK!
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Nice I gotta say between all the colors DS seems to be the most uncommon at least around here in Oregon. I've seen like 2 others. Love the car man! Very factory looking. The wheels look a little Vdub :D
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Diamant Schwarz is quite common over here.. But imo one of the best colors for an older BMW. The factory look was someting I was aiming for. Except for the wheels, tinted windows at the back in the future and perhaps i'll drop the car a little, al the rest stays the same. It'll need a respray though.
Anyway, i was having fun last week.. Can't hold this back for you guys :)
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=arr2vSoezhM
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love the shots of a DS 318is in a warehouse with pallet racks all around... brings back the memories!
nice car and welcome!!
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I like the shot with the filthy side,,,
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Awesome looking car Asseti! I need to put up some pics of my DS, but I must say yours will be a tough one to beat!
Cheers
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what happend to the side?
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what happend to the side?
do you mean the red picture?
I went playing on the terrain of a stone bakery, where they make red bricks.
thanks all the rest for the nice comments, I appreciate that :D
Today I bought my thirth M42. Think I like these engines :D
Now I have 2 318is, one daily driver, one withouth engine.
3 engines, one with 139 200miles / 224k km's, snapped chain and sitting in the garage, waiting until i do something with it. One in my daily driver that needs a distribution overhaul asap, having 95 600miles / 150k kms and one I bought today with only 48 500miles / 78k km's on the clock!
Well, that's what the seller said, but I found an odometer saying 22K km's / 139 miles lying next to the block, the chain is micro pitted and the cam gears are pretty sharp.
On the other hand, the injectors are really really clean, compared to my other two blocks and also the intake plenum hasn't got that many oil on the walls. The valves look quite clean also.
ps: I luuuv this board :D
ps2: with one of two of these engines I want to reach 200hp, NA.
If i still want to work on M42's after that, another one, with a compressor. Or so :D
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This is how it stood on the net.
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48 500 Miles according to the seller. I'm in doubt. It was laying there for about 5 to 6 years, he asked a very nice price!
Yesterday, I went to take a look. It layed in a dry barn, between a lot of other car pieces, engines, gearboxes, ..
I'm in doubt if the mileage is correct, this is why:
cons: There was a lot of material laying in the barn, but not so much e30 and e36 material. Next to the blok there was a tacho saying 139 000 Miles. I don't know if you can see it was an M42 tacho, but the tank said 55liters. The seller said he only broke one E30, when I asked where the tacho came from, he said it was from another e30. His colleagues said to me he only had one E30.
The chain gears are pretty sharp and the chain is micro pitted.
pro's: This is how the injectors look: (http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/DSC00037.jpg)
on my two other engines, the injectors were much more filtier.
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/DSC00035.jpg)
The inlet valves. Pretty clean also, don't know how they look on a higher mileage engine. The dirt inside came there due to my stupidity.
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/DSC000361.jpg)
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The gasket of the cover does not show any leak! On my two other engines and especcialy the 139k miles engine there is a lot of oil coming trough it.
So what do you guys think about the mileage of this engine?
This is how the engine looked after one hour in my hands :D
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/DSC00038.jpg)
So what I'm gonna do. Clean the injectors of my 95k miles block, put the injectors of this engine in that block. Do some headwork on this engine, new gaskets everywhere.. Then I'm going to look after some major power :D
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Went to Santa Pod raceway this weekend, managed to do a 16.2 on the quarter mile!
My first run was the best one, managed another one with a booth full of camping gear for 3 persons, 16.5.
Gaz tank was almost completely full all the time. My third to last run my throttle cable came stuck so it kept revving to 3000rpm, second to last run it did it again after i 'fixed' it. Last time I thought i really fixed it, but it kept revving at 5k rpm after I heated the tires (tried to). Didn't want to look after it so launched from 5000 rpm. Result, all the way home with a broken diff, I think I broke a tooth of the cog.
I almost won from a e36 320i cab (was catching up on him), a E28 535i was just 1 car length ahead, but I missed my second gear there. I think quite good results for a completely stock 318is! Quite happy with the results.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRLOvEpSPPQ
Me on my first trackday.
Car had some refreshments.
All suspension rubbers are renewed (I mean, all of them). Bilstein B8 with H&R -35 springs, Z3 1.9 SSK (which I like very much!) and Mark D chip. I renewed every single part of the distribution and most of the hoses under the intake. The car's idle is great now!
Damn, I love it!
After some tracktime, one of my brakes came lose, mangled the alloy, bend my new control arm, so that was it.
If there's interest, i can put the pics of all the work done on the car here.
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If there's interest, i can put the pics of all the work done on the car here.
Yeah do it. I like seeing work get done
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Ok, let's write a bit about the history of the car.
2.5 years ago, I bought this car for a small price. It was my first car and I didn't know a thing about mechanics.
The owner gave me a confident feeling. The engine didn't run, but he said it was just a small fault and easy fixable. Body seemed ok, interior was kinda bad.
Later turned out that the chain slipped, intake valves bent, so I bought a second car for almost the same price and used it's engine, which had not so much miles on it. There was some rust on the car, which I got fixed and I used some of the seats of my 2nd car and renewed the engine.
Results: kinda good engine, interior looking quite well, but with suspension parts, still original from factory, worn rubbers, ...
Being a student, I drove the car for about a year (It took me about one year to put it on the road.) Then I went to the Santa Pod (UK) BMW meeting, broke some tooths of my diff and noticed that my front subframe was torn at the engine mounts. Due to a mistake of us when swapping the engines.
This was the point where I decided to renew all of the suspension rubber (every single one!), a new suspension had to be installed, the subframe needed to be fixed and since I had a Mark D chip waiting to be installed, I wanted to do the timing chain job too, because it was noisy between 3 and 4K rpm, only when at operating temperature.
First of all, I started shopping. At the same time, I had some engine parts cleaned. Luckily, I have two spare M42's, so I could still use the car when some parts were being cleaned.
Some things I bought:
Good tools make the work easier
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new springs, H&R - 35mm
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And the cleaned parts
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arb bushing holders
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5 Weeks before the deadline, we started working on the car. We decided to remove the rear and front subframe and the engine, leaving almost just the shell and its interior.
Prepartion: street mechanics. Removing the bolts from the rear drive axles
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After one weekend, the car looked like this
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Two subframes removed.
On a lazy wednesday evening and after 3 hours of work, this happened:
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And the car was em-pty
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The checklist: (in dutch)
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I decided to remove the front also. The car has had a collision on it's right handside, and the front bumper sticks about two inches out of the grill. I wanted to take a look at it and try to fix it (which I couldn't)
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/21032009487.jpg)
Some things removed from the car
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/21032009488.jpg)
Location of the rear subframe
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/21032009489.jpg)
No oil dripping allowed!
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/21032009491.jpg
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Front subframe?
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/21032009492.jpg)
Removed pieces
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Look at the mounting points for the engine mounts :D
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After removing the rust, repaint most of the parts
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(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/05042009582.jpg)
Old new subframe, from a '86 316 :D
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suddenly things started moving. We only had 3 days left until the deadline, which was a trackday I was attending. The car needed to be ready.
Due to delivery problems, I still had no rubbers for the rear axle. Luckily I have a friend who has these things in his sleeping room, so I could borrow one for a few days (or weeks :D). That's why there are no pictures of a new and freshly painted rear axle. His rear axle also had new rubbers, so that was sorted out!
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Rear axle with new springs and shocks installed! Looks shiny, doesn't it?
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/11042009599.jpg)
And the front suspension struts
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/11042009601.jpg)
New top mounts
new wheel hub and things
freshly painted front struts:D
On saturday, I did the timing chain job. It took me far more time than expected, but I did it very slow, making sure not making any mistaks
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Old vs new chain guide. Doesn't look bad at all imo?!
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The engine, after the timing chain job
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Saturday evening, the engine was almost ready for installment. We still had the sunday to work on the car, Monday evening we had to be at our hotel in France.
Sunday:
I also renewed most of the vacum hoses under the intake. I left most of the water hoses apart, I renewed only the hard plastic one and the two heat change thingies. I have no leaks, luckily.
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/12042009619.jpg)
Engine compartment cleaned and front subframe installed. I also renewed the brake lines to the back of the car, a new clutch slave pump, ...
Moved the engine back in, renewed the oil seals of the gearbox, installed 1.9 Z3 short shifter (I just realize that I have no pics of those things. Sorry, we didn't had that much time left :D)
Putted the body parts back on, installed the exhaust, used new engine mounts, gearbox monts, and a lot of other parts that I'm forgetting at the moment.
After + 14 hours of non stop working, ordered a pizza at 12 o'clock in the evening :D, the car was ready for it's first test drive. 6 o'clock in the morning, easter monday.
Putted the contact in 1, the dash came alive and the water temp popped into the red. Damn. We came fast to the conclusion that I switched the connectors from the oil pump and the water temp sensor in the head.
For the people who knows the M42, they know that the water temp sensor is nicely hidden away under the intake. Not wanting to remove the hole intake mess, and with the help of a screwdriver, I managed in less than 20 minutes to remove the connector, switched it on the oil pump and pushed it back on the water temp sensor. Try it yourself without removing the intake :D
Second time, everything seemed ok, started, wait a few second until there's some fuel in the lines, engine puffed, one more, vroam. M42 was back alive. No rattles, already popped out tensioner did it's work good!
Brakes needed bleeding another time and we did it's first kilometers. At 4 am we had made plans to go to Paris, to break in the car, the suspension and the timing parts. Due to the sensor, the bleeding and the fuel problem we had to set those plans aside.
Mondaymorning, the first trip ended a bit with a downer. Easter Monday, 7 o'clock in the morning and no fuel. After 14 hours of non stop working on the car, pushing is the last thing you want to do.
(http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj292/Asserti/13042009622.jpg)
But after all, the car drove, and like hell! I was impressed. What a great thing to drive.
Pitty that the trackday didn't end so well, but I'm going to write about that another time. Long story short, I need a new right front strut, possible a new shock and some other things.
If you enjoyed reading this thread, please leave a message :)
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I'm really sorry about the picture size. Most boards I visit have an auto picture resizer and I'm really wanting to do something else at the moment than resizen and reuploading pictures :p
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Dude awesome project!
Thanks for the pics and writeup!