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For Sale / FS: 1991 BMW 318is White
« on: June 08, 2011, 01:00:26 PM »
Time has come for me to sell my baby...

Straight to the point:
Asking price: $3,300

The good:
1. Clean Title. Always a Florida car. No rust! Except for a small amount underneath battery tray.
2. Chasis and engine only has about 120k miles. I rebuilt the top end about 7 months ago.
3. Detailed list of maintenance since I've owned it. Email me for a copy of it.
4. Gutted entire interior and covered with sound proof mat
5. $1,000+ dollar sound system. Will leave if buyer pays full asking price. If not only stereo and speakers stay. Both amps and sub go with me.
6. Paint and body are in good shap.
7. I have about $6,000 invested including price of my purchase. This car has been my daily driver and baby for the past year. Only selling because I bought a business and I need a truck.

The bad:
1. Needs minor body work on front hood and bumper (see pics). I hit another car eating shit on my cell phone going about 15mph. No damage to radiator, radiator supports, fenders, lights, or any other items.
2. Needs new front brakes
3. Rear valance has some cracks (see pics)
4. Needs new idle valve. RPM's stall a bit @ first start. After that it idles with no problems. Might be a vacuum leak. Good first project for new owner:-)

Pictures:

















Pics of small body work needed:





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For Sale / MarkD EAT 93 Octane Chip -- NEW, never used
« on: December 21, 2010, 06:24:08 PM »
Dam....I would love to buy it!
Too bad I'm broke from all of the Christmas shopping! :-)

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General Topics / HELP! problem with timing chain install
« on: December 12, 2010, 08:28:00 PM »
I just finished my rebuild. Didn't run into anything like that though. Could be the chain got out of position on one of the lower sprockets.

Before you take everything apart, lock your cams again, take off the two cam sprockets and see if you can turn the engine over now. Give the chain a little pull from both sides to make sure the the lower sprockets teeth are correctly positioned inside the chain.

What did you use to lock the flywheel? Maybe a little piece broke off and its still in there?

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For Sale / M42 Dowel Pins
« on: December 10, 2010, 11:04:22 AM »
I have 5 Dowel Pins left over from my rebuild. They go for $4.50 each. I can do $2.00 each. Let me know if anyone is interested:-)

You will need them for a rebuild. Some of my dowels were still good, so I didn't need to use them. These go on the bottom of the cam bearing ledges. Also they go on the intake manifolds.

Part number is 11121713264

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Put a multimeter to the CPS on the connector tip. I think it's on pin 1 and 2. It should read between 1150 and 1410 ohms. Also make sure you didn't inverse the Cam PS and the Crank Sensor. The Cam PS goes on top. The Crank PS goes on the bottom.

Did you do a stomp test?

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Engine + Driveline / Exhaust Manifold Stud replacement
« on: December 07, 2010, 08:05:11 PM »
If I'm not mistaken it was 12. I can count them for you later tonight.

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Engine + Driveline / Exhaust Manifold Stud replacement
« on: December 07, 2010, 02:57:24 PM »
Hi Jester,
I just did a head rebuild on my M42 and got new studs from getbmwparts.com
I'm pretty sure they do International shipping, since they use UPS as their carrier.

Studs Part # 7129908199
I got all of them for less than $10 USD

I reused my old hex nuts as they seemed in decent shape, but here is the part # if you want to order new ones: 11721437202

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Engine + Driveline / Block coolant drain plug
« on: December 02, 2010, 09:16:17 PM »
Got it!! Yeap that was it. Took quite a bit of pressure, but finally my screwdriver got through...lol

It's amazing how hard that accumulated crap gets after 19 years of never been properly drained. It literally felt like a solid metal wall...
Sprayed some PB Blaster in there to try and get rid of the rust build up inside the block. Will finish flushing it really good tomorrow.

Tks guys...

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Engine + Driveline / Block coolant drain plug
« on: December 02, 2010, 02:01:03 PM »
I'm trying to drain the coolant from my block. According to the Bentley manual there is plug behind cylinder 4. In the picture below I pointed to the plug that I think should be the coolant drain. I took it off, but it's completely sealed. What I mean by that is that I took the plug off and theres just a 'metal wall' behind it. There's no drain there.

Could the coolant drain have been eliminated on late m42's? Or maybe I'm just unpluggin the wrong one?


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Member Profiles / My 1st post on m42club
« on: December 02, 2010, 01:38:08 PM »
Did some work last night. Drained and took off the oil pan. Look how brown the oil got from the coolant leak...




Also changed my transmission mounts.
Jacked up transmission with mounts about to come out:


New mounts installed:

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Member Profiles / My 1st post on m42club
« on: December 02, 2010, 01:15:20 PM »
Lol @ hospital white.
No, it looks cleaner in the pics. Def got its blemishes.

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Member Profiles / My 1st post on m42club
« on: December 01, 2010, 04:14:36 PM »
More interior pics:
The black mat you see if from home depot. I was about $100 bucks. I like it because it comes in a large roll about 4' x 100'. Good for larger areas of the car. The one from Lowes is the metalic looking one. Sameone Monty23psk used on his car. The black one sticks less than the silver one. I will not know how good they are until I can drive my car again:-)













I cleanen my engine bay too:




Picked up my freshly rebuilt head yesterday:-)





Can't wait to drive my E30 again!
I'm also going to be updating my car audio with new JL Audio component speakers and some new amps. More on that later:-)

I'll document as much as I can when I put everything back together.

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Member Profiles / My 1st post on m42club
« on: December 01, 2010, 04:14:00 PM »
Since I was waiting for the head to get rebuilt I decided to do some interior work:




Painted Rear Deck:


Carpet before pics:


Carpet After pics (used duplicolor carpet paint flat black:






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Member Profiles / My 1st post on m42club
« on: December 01, 2010, 04:12:33 PM »
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any updates on my profile, but much has happened since. I will try to summarize and not bore anyone

So early last month in November I decided to change my shot motor mounts with E28 mounts has some have done here. Obviously the engine needs to get jacked up a few inches to swap the mounts out. Apparently when I did so, because I didn’t disconnect any of the radiator hoses for being lazy I cracked the radiator. I was doing the work at a buddies house and on the way home I over heated. Apparently that was one over heat too much for my gaskets to handle. To make a long story short I started leaking coolant into my engine. The oild turned like chocolate milk! I removed the head only to fine 3 cracks, 1 already repaired crack, and a shave job done to the head that almost none of the groves were visible any longer.

Bottom line I needed a new head. I contacted a few guys on the forums selling M42 heads. The lowest price I found was $170 shipped. The day I was going to make the purchase I decided to go to my local Junk Yard and see if they had brought in any new E30’s. To my surprise they had just brought in a 1991 M42 a few days ago! I pulled the head out and took it in to the machine shop for inspection. The head was in mint condition! It had never had any work done to it and the previous owner mush have taken good car of that engine. I got the head rebuilt anyways. I figured since I had already gone through all this work I might as well do it right.

I just got the head back yesterday. I’m planning on starting to put everything back together this weekend. Since I’ve had my car in the garage for the past few weeks I went ahead and did some other work to it. I gutted the entire car out and installed the dynomat imitation material from homedepot and lowes. I’ll go into more details in the pictures.

My mechanic experience is very limited, but I can do it anyone can...
Lucky for me my friend ‘Monty23psk’ lives near me and his E30 knowledge is excellent! He has helped a lot…

I have kept a detailed list of parts and prices I have bought so far:



Valve Cover and Intake manifolds taken off:


Close up of Cams


Upper Timing cover off






Look how sharp the teeth were...ouch



Cams:


Top Chain Rail


Chain sprockets:






Chipped tooth:-)

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Engine + Driveline / Oil in Spark plug holes? Valve head gasket?
« on: November 28, 2010, 09:01:47 PM »
Bentley service manual has tightening torque of 10 Nm (89 in-lb).

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