Author Topic: not an e30...but an m42 none the less (Read 6222 times)

jakeb · « **Reply #15 on:** January 23, 2008, 04:36:13 PM »

Picked it up from the exhaust shop today and drove it to my storage unit where it will sit until it is warm... Exhaust sounds good...it is quiet a bit louder than my e30 m42. I am running 2.25" pipe through two magnaflow mufflers.

Also right now I have a large hole in the firewall that the motronic cable is going through so I am getting a lot of engine noise and wind. I stuffed a shirt in there and it helped a lot.

First reactions are I really like it. I didn't really have a chance to really get on it. As it was the first time driving it, it is 20 degrees outside and there is snow on the roads.

No smoke or odd sounds from the engine, has around 160k on it.

I cannot wait until it warms up and the roads get cleared off to really test it out.

It took a month from the time I started until I was running and driving.

kowalski · « **Reply #16 on:** January 23, 2008, 07:21:48 PM »

how come you got a turbo header for it if its N/A? and where did you get it from?

jakeb · « **Reply #17 on:** January 24, 2008, 06:10:00 AM »

Because there is very little room in the 2002 engine bay to fit the stock header. I got the manifold off ebay, it is for a m5x/s5x. I then cut two runners off and had a cap welded on.

enildeR · « **Reply #18 on:** April 17, 2008, 02:27:36 AM »

them roads clear up yet?

BrandC · « **Reply #19 on:** April 18, 2008, 02:35:51 AM »

Wait hold on a second, so we can use M5x/S5x turbo manifolds (theoretically) to fab our own M42 turbo manifolds?

beegeezy · « **Reply #20 on:** April 18, 2008, 03:29:48 PM »

EN318isPDX · « **Reply #21 on:** April 18, 2008, 05:14:46 PM »

The engine bay is lookin good.. hows the rest of the car coming along? You updating the interior?