Author Topic: I can see the finish line after months of work. (Read 41305 times)

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #60 on:** January 24, 2008, 05:09:48 PM »

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Regarding the 2 Samco 90 degree Samco hoses used in the throttle body heat bypass setup, did you find that the hoses were in the way of anything? Seems like the temp sender right behind it might be in the way. Anything else in the way?

Thanks...in the process of getting mine back together, too.

There was a little issue with the coolant temp sensor but it works fine, the only issue was that you have to pull on the hose a little so you can get the connector on but once it was on there is plenty of room.

bmwpower · « **Reply #61 on:** February 08, 2008, 08:01:53 PM »

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To do it properly you need a regular elbow and a reducer elbow, because the plastic nipple is larger than the metal nipple on the cylinder head. As far as the sizes, I'm not sure of the sizes as it was a while ago that I purchased them, I used a digital caliper to determine the size of the hoses. I will look and see if I can find the receipts and tell you the size of the hoses.

Were you ever able to locate the receipt that had the sizes of the hoses? THx

stereomotional · « **Reply #62 on:** February 19, 2008, 06:40:48 PM »

very very clean build. like alot of other people here, im in the middle of my build as we speak and its threads like this that give really good ideas. well done bro

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #63 on:** February 24, 2008, 06:23:47 PM »

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Were you ever able to locate the receipt that had the sizes of the hoses? THx

I couldn't find them. Just get a cheap digital caliper from auto-zone and measure the low spots on the nipples and get the hose size that is closest or a little smaller than the size of the nipple.

fabe · « **Reply #64 on:** February 25, 2008, 05:28:31 AM »

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The P/N of the lifters I used is 050109309H.

It's not easy to sift thru all the past discussions even if I have read it somewhere in the forum.. Any idea which VW model did they come from?

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #65 on:** February 25, 2008, 09:39:23 AM »

http://www.fourseasontuning.com/ is where I bought them and according to FST they fit 1.8, 2.0 and VR6 engines

318kid · « **Reply #66 on:** March 12, 2008, 11:06:32 PM »

Sorry to bump this but I want to see more pictures, and maybe a vid. What all did you do to the engine. Thanks

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #67 on:** March 14, 2008, 12:37:59 AM »

If you read through the thread everything that i have done to the engine is listed. As for os videos, it may take a little while as I am putting on new fenders, Euro smileys and grills

DRtothE · « **Reply #68 on:** March 16, 2008, 10:21:37 PM »

how much did the entire process cost you?

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #69 on:** March 17, 2008, 11:50:17 AM »

As of now there is about $2000 into it and there is still more to come.

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #70 on:** July 05, 2008, 08:41:27 PM »

I finally spent some more money and purchased an air fuel ratio meter and found out that under heavy load, my stock fuel pressure regulator doesn't enrich at a fast enough rate and takes a second to catch up with fuel consumption so I decided to do something about it. I took one of my spare fuel rails and welded a plate over where the fpr sits and taped it so I could put a gauge in it and now I use an Aeromotive external fpr and the difference is amazing. The car has so much power off idle and under load always runs almost a perfect 14.7 afr.

George77 · « **Reply #71 on:** July 05, 2008, 09:22:12 PM »

what kind of air fuel meter you got?,It's a NB or a WB ?

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #72 on:** July 06, 2008, 10:34:24 AM »

I have an Autometer narowband connected to a heated o2 sensor. A friend of mine has an Innovative Lm1 and thats what I used to get my fuel pressure right and make sure it wasn't going lean.

bmwpower · « **Reply #73 on:** July 08, 2008, 07:58:19 PM »

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I have an Autometer narowband connected to a heated o2 sensor. A friend of mine has an Innovative Lm1 and thats what I used to get my fuel pressure right and make sure it wasn't going lean.

Any info on how to setup something like you have? Would be cool to have an AFR gauge.

1991 E30 M42 · « **Reply #74 on:** July 08, 2008, 11:35:32 PM »

A narrowband afr gauge is very easy to install. They usually have an ignition hot a ground and a sensor wire that you can hook up to the sensor wire on your existing o2 sensor or its own 4 wire o2 sensor. If you choose to use a separate o2 sensor for the gauge the o2 sensor has a power and ground for the heater element, a 12 volt ignition hot supply for the sensor input and another wire for the sensor output that connects to the gauge. another thing to think about is gauge location. I made a custom panel to replace the obc and mounted my gauge in it.