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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / last day to get in on megasquirt discount!

« on: August 24, 2011, 06:39:34 PM »

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Engine management / last day to get in on megasquirt discount!

« on: August 24, 2011, 06:38:57 PM »

Like diyautotune on facebook to get the discount. Every 100 new likes over 2000 equals 1% discount. They're at 3588 right now, which is 15% off. 3600 will be 16% off, 4500 will be 25% off! Hurry up!

No affiliation with diyautotune... just posting this for my own benefit, as well as anyone else interested in a megasquirt!

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For Sale / KY: TTE-Prepped '89 325i track/street car

« on: November 02, 2010, 06:25:34 PM »

Bump. Just replaced the front right wheel bearing and almost all of the noise is gone, but with that noise gone I can now hear a small amount of noise from a rear bearing. Also ordered all new front control arms and tie rods and those will be installed by the end of the week, fixing the only major problem the car has.

I've been getting comments about the price being a little high, but this car has been thoroughly gone through in the time I've owned it. The only things that I haven't removed/disassembled are the engine block, the transmission, and the driveshaft, and that's because they're still functioning perfectly. Other than a rear wheel bearing and possibly an ABS sensor in the near future, this car needs absolutely nothing to be ready for the track again.

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For Sale / KY: TTE-Prepped '89 325i track/street car

« on: October 13, 2010, 02:51:52 AM »

Simple. Fast. Reliable.

$6000
1989 BMW 325i 2-door
2.5ltr. 6 cyl. M20
Zinnoberrot (red)
Natural (tan) interior
tilt and slide crank sunroof
pop-out rear windows
Located in Lexington, KY

Not an M42 car, I know, but what the hell. This car has been my daily driver/track car for close to 2 years now. Has had it's share of typical BMW problems, but has overall been a great car. I've put a lot of time and money into it to make it dead nuts reliable on track and while getting me to work, and hate to let it go now that it's pretty much there, but it's time to move on. It's currently setup as a very competitive TTE car for NASA Time Trials, and currently holds the track record at Autobahn South. Still has a lot of things you can do to maximize it for TTE, which I'll discuss with any potential buyers. Can also easily be caged and made into a PTE car, Spec E30, or GTS car.

Modifications:
-Koni yellow adjustable shocks- fronts less than 1 year old, rears were on it when I bought it and still feel fine, though a little underdamped for the 700lb springs
-Ground Control coilovers- 600lb front, 700lb rear
-Ruff front camber plates
-AKG HARD poly rear subframe and diff bushings
-Delrin trailing arm bushings
-Offset M3 front control arm bushings
-Stainless brake lines in 4 of the 6 locations, brand new stock lines from the rear trailing arm to the rear calipers
-Speed bleeders
-325is rear differential
-Momo Race steering wheel- a little worn, but still a great feeling wheel
-Eclipse cd player, stock speakers. Sounds decent.
-Z3 1.9 short shifter- best feeling BMW shifter I've ever felt
-15x7" BBS "euroweaves" euro spec E30 wheels, et24
-Good 205/55 Nitto NT-450's for daily driving- best all seasons I've ever driven on
-All A/C parts removed
-Power steering fully removed- rack taken apart and fully gutted of all power steering seals, then greased (miata style)
-Quicker ratio E36 non-M steering rack
-Kirk rollbar and no rear interior- seats included with sale though
-Recaro Pro Race head-restraint driver seat- fixed mount on Massive side brackets
-Stock E30 Sport seat on passenger side- little rough but fully functional
-Harnesses NOT included
-Mishimoto E36 aluminum radiator
-MarkD 93-octane chip
-19lb Mustang fuel injectors
-The nicer factory headlights- they were on the car when I bought it... not sure exactly what the name for them is. The high-beams are the best headlights I've ever had in a car lol.
-Stock 325i front lip
-OBC was dead- replaced with velcro for mounting lap timer

Maintenance:

In past year:
-New timing belt
-New water pump and thermostat
-New headgasket/head bolts/head resurfaced
-New starter
-Spark plugs/cap/rotor
-Front left wheel bearing
-Coolant temp sensors
-Both rear axles
-Fuel pump

In past 2 years:
-Steering rack
-Tie rods
-Front control arms
-Alternator
-Fuel filter
-O2 sensor
-Front right wheel bearing

Previous owner:
-New "roundels"
-Bosal stock replacement rear exhaust section
-New clutch master
-New clutch slave
-New clutch kit
-New throwout bearing
-New shifter bushings
-New guibo/flexdisc

The bad...
-Odometer stopped at 198k, actual mileage unknown. My best guess is around 250k, but the car still runs great!
-Glove box handle broken- still opens and closes, but doesn't look pretty
-Knee bar/bolster missing, (under steering column)
-Far left headlight cracked, as well as both fog lights. Unpainted fog lights block-off plates included.
-No carpet in trunk
-Head unit reboots whenever you hit a hard bump. Not sure if it's a wiring problem or if the head unit's bad.
-Oil level sensor not functioning
-Check panel still functions, but since the oil level sensor is dead and that light stays on constantly, I removed the "CHECK" light from the main dash cluster since it would come on every time the car was started
-Few light rust spots NOT ON THE UNIBODY- bottom rear of the passenger door, around the tow hook on the lower rear valence
-Paint looks good from anything farther than 5ft... has had a few areas repainted before I bought the car, and is a little faded like every other old red BMW on the planet
-Front right control arm and tie rod are bent. Car still drives fine, but the control arm is off enough to throw the caster off a little and cause a little steering pull. General consensus seems to be that control arms need replaced every 2 years on a tracked car, so it's about that time anyway. Just found that they were bent while at the track this weekend, or they would have already been replaced.
-Has a wheel bearing on the way out. It sounds like the front right or maaaaybe the right rear... I've never successfully diagnosed a bad wheel bearing by listening to it while driving so I haven't replaced any yet. None of the bearings have any play. A spare front bearing is included, just in case.
-When installing the stainless brake lines, the stock front right fitting refused to come apart. Since that hard line is a bitch to replace without the engine removed, I ended up having to cut it off and reflare it on up the line inside the engine bay. I had a local race shop make me a longer stainless flex line as a replacement, and it's routed through the fender into the engine bay with a rubber hose keeping it from rubbing any metal. It's perfectly functional and safe, but it's one of my least favorite things I've done to the car. If you end up pulling the motor, I would definitely replace that hard line and put a factory length hose back in.
-ABS light just started randomly coming on. Not sure what the problem is. Shutting the car off and restarting always makes it go away.

Spares/Extras:
-15x8 +20 TR Motorsports wheels with no tires
-New front wheel bearing
-New front swaybar endlink
-Various used-but-still-good rotors that I carry to the track as spares
-Carbotech XP10 front pads- 1/2 to a full day of use left
-Carbotech XP12 front pads- same as the 10s
-Carbotech XP8 rear pads- 1-2 days of use left
-Used front control arms that came on the car, if you want them (had no play, but they were in the first string of maintenance I did before tracking the car)
-Rear seats and trim panels- can be SQUEEZED in around the rollbar, but I didn't want to mess them up
-E30 non-sport seat in good shape. I had to steal the sliders from it so it currently can't be installed, but if you want it, it's yours. If you buy another set of stock sliders, the Recaro can be removed, the sport seat can be moved to the driver's side, and the non-sport seat can be put on the passenger side for a great daily driver setup. I did this for a long time and it was a great setup.
-Large front lip shown in some of the pictures. Was on the car when I bought it. I think it's from a Volvo... the E30 community has a huge list of lips from different cars that can be easily made to fit.
-Larger adjustable front sway bar. Was on the car when I bought it... not sure of brand. I didn't have the spare points to use it in TTE and replaced it with a stock bar.

I THINK that's everything, but I'm probably leaving some stuff out. Will continue to update.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtzC6aMor-I

Pics:

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Transaction Feedback / Matt-B

« on: June 05, 2010, 11:37:03 AM »

So, by my deduction the m42 has 2 intake manifolds, I said manifold meaning one. And Im right....so boo ya!! And you ask if we have ever owned any other cars, why the FUCK would i want to own anything besides an e30. I cant find a reason

ANYWAYS, Im going to delete this shaz after you get lower intake, that you did pay for and I thank you.

i <3 man, and nothing can change the way i feela bout you lol

Good plan dude... abuse that moderator power to keep your name clean. :rolleyes:

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Transaction Feedback / Matt-B

« on: June 05, 2010, 01:08:36 AM »

Legal advice over an intake manifold?  What has this world come to....  

Not literal legal advice... simply asking the opinion of a friend that went to law school, since this is the type of stuff law school is meant to teach. I'm amazed that anyone could think I was looking to take legal action against him based on my comments...

But When I here Intake manifold along with just about everyone here we think that upper body.

Then "everyone here" is wrong. Have you all never owned a car other than an M42-powered BMW? The definition of an intake manifold should be pretty obvious to anyone that knows anything about cars, and an upper half is not a complete intake manifold. Realoem even lists the upper half and lower half as "parts." Definition of the word "part"- "an essential portion or integral element." What if I posted a for sale add for a multipiece BBS wheel and only sent someone 1 piece of the wheel, would I not be in the wrong? It's the same thing... an intake manifold is not a complete intake manifold without all of the "parts" that it needs to function as one, nor is a multipiece BBS wheel. It's really pretty simple guys.

I don't even know why I'm trying to argue any of this since the intelligent people that understand the situation see that I'm right, and the people that think I'm being a prick are just going to keep on thinking I'm a dick or a prick or whatever other names you all want to call me... I don't think my reputation has been harmed any at all.

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Transaction Feedback / Matt-B

« on: June 03, 2010, 11:10:36 PM »

I asked for the advice of a legal friend on this situation, just to make sure I wasn't being pissed off and therefore delusional. His response to me:

Putting the fact that I know you aside...

I would expect the for sale ad to be labeled "upper" or "lower" manifold and not just "manifold" if it was anything less than a complete IM.  He did not sell you an intake manifold - he sold you a part of an intake manifold.  Specifically, the upper half.  

Legally speaking, it is the seller's responsibility to accurately depict the product they are selling. I would say this product was misrepresented by a lazy seller.  He is in the wrong; both legally and logically.

Paypal sent...

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Transaction Feedback / Matt-B

« on: June 02, 2010, 10:44:17 AM »

lol... Not sure how I'm being a dick about it. This section is for transaction feedback... I had a bad transaction with him so I'm posting feedback for others. I didn't do any name-calling or anything immature like that... that would have been being a dick. I just explained what happened so that future buyers know what to expect and know to make exactly sure of what they're buying from him.

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Transaction Feedback / Matt-B

« on: June 02, 2010, 01:53:41 AM »

I purchased an intake manifold from Matt-B a few weeks ago and was pretty disappointed with the transaction. Went to the forum admin and paypal before posting this, but unfortunately couldn't get anything done to fix things for me.

Not counting the fact that I waited over 2 weeks to get my part and he never gave me any kind of confirmation that it shipped, he only sent me the upper half of an intake manifold when the for sale ad listed "intake mani for sale."

His response when I received the package with only half of the manifold:

did you expect the lower intake to?  sold you the intake mini only 1. i didn't make much as it was i think 16$ to send it. I have a lower Ill also sell. but both for that price is nuts. I never said both. check the pms.

intake manifold and VC is what i advertised. sorry for confusion

My response to that:

Yes, I fully expected to get both. It only makes sense that if a complete "intake manifold" includes an upper and lower section and you say that you have an "intake manifold" for sale, you're not just selling me half of it. If you were only selling the upper half it would have made sense to list is as "upper intake manifold for sale." It doesn't matter to me what it cost you to ship it... I made you an offer (and I believe I told you that I didn't have a clue what it was worth at the time) and you accepted the offer.

He fails to understand that an intake manifold should include everything between the head and the throttle body. I admit that I never asked him if both the upper and lower manifold were included, but I'm still completely new to the M42 and until disassembling my E36 M42 a few days ago had never even seen a 2-piece intake manifold, and therefore had no clue it was a question that needed to be asked.

If he is correct and this is how the m42club members denote a "manifold" or "manifolds," then the system is quite flawed. An upper half is not a complete manifold, nor is a lower half, therefore you can't argue that an upper and lower half combined equals more than one manifold... aka "manifolds" as he tried to argue with me. A listing for an "intake manifold" should include both pieces, or specify which piece it is.

Pretty disappointed that of all the people to have a problem like this with, it happened with a forum moderator...

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Engine + Driveline / Dyno chart of stock E36 M42

« on: May 05, 2010, 12:55:50 PM »

:p

I already know these cars aren't that quick... I'm just building one as a racecar and would like to see what the torque curve actually looks like and know exactly what kind of power a stock motor usually puts to the wheels.

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Engine + Driveline / Dyno chart of stock E36 M42

« on: May 04, 2010, 10:53:41 PM »

Anyone have one? I've looked around quite a bit but can't find anything.

Thanks

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General Topics / Steering Linkage Flex Joint Problem

« on: May 03, 2010, 02:15:54 PM »

Mine took a hell of a beating too before it came off. I ended up having to take part of a jack handle (any steel tube that's long enough would work) and use it as an extension to hammer on so that I could really wail on it. Beat the hell out of it before it finally came loose. The joint got mangled up a little in the process, but nothing more than cosmetic damage.

Also, I laid a shitload of antiseize to all of the splines when I was reassembling.

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Member Profiles / jpreston's E36 318is GTS1 build

« on: May 03, 2010, 12:50:54 PM »

Lexington, KY.

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Engine + Driveline / What is this?

« on: May 03, 2010, 12:39:35 PM »

Should've specified... this is going into an E36 that I bought without a motor.

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Engine + Driveline / What is this?

« on: May 03, 2010, 03:00:58 AM »

Thanks! I searched "air shroud injectors" on here to see what the general consensus is, but this forums search engine apparently just searches word by word so I just got a shitload of results about injectors and radiator fan shrouds.

So, what's the general consensus on these? Any way (or reason?) to remove them?