Author Topic: Febi Guibo's Excellent Adventure... (Read 48809 times)

sheepdog · « **Reply #135 on:** May 31, 2006, 01:07:33 PM »

Quote from: nickmpower

so the dampner is new? damn, those are like $600 arent they?

also did you get the crank new?

$600?
That is steep for what it is.

Honestly, for that much, I would just give it a good looking over and call it done. Especially after seeing what it is made of and what it looks like.

I really hesitate to call it a balancer, or a dampner. It does not weigh enough. It is more of a timing indicator and pulley more than anything else. Not ebnough mass there to explode.

sheepdog · « **Reply #136 on:** May 31, 2006, 01:10:16 PM »

Couple things regarding Alum. flywheels.

Some race organizations have banned them. While you may not care if you do not race in those sanctions, they banned them for good reason. They have atendency to come apart. Hot flying aluminum does not appeal to me.

Also many aluminum flywheels cannot handle high spring pressure loads. Which may have been what lead to what's above.

Wizard · « **Reply #137 on:** May 31, 2006, 02:55:48 PM »

Quote from: thumper3ld

Aye man, still waiting for you to explain the whole 4 pintle injector thing and why it maybe bad for our cars.

Yea...I was kind of waiting for this answer also....

E36LUVA · « **Reply #138 on:** August 15, 2006, 10:22:30 AM »

Hey Febi Guibo, I just signed up to this forum guz of your whole story. What an adventure man. I was just wondering if the crank your using is an offset ground OEM crank or is it custom job. Also are you going to continue to use your stock AFM or a custom MAF setup oh and one more thing are you using the stock BMW header or a Superprint 4 into 1. I'm sorry if I'm asking too many questions but I'm a detail freak I've been waiting for somone to do this conversion for a long time. I always loved the M42. I think its a well made motor that deserves way more R & D than it gets compared to its big brother the M50. Congrats on the engagement also........

Febi Guibo · « **Reply #139 on:** August 15, 2006, 10:46:34 AM »

Quote from: E36LUVA

Hey Febi Guibo, I just signed up to this forum guz of your whole story. What an adventure man. I was just wondering if the crank your using is an offset ground OEM crank or is it custom job. Also are you going to continue to use your stock AFM or a custom MAF setup oh and one more thing are you using the stock BMW header or a Superprint 4 into 1. I'm sorry if I'm asking too many questions but I'm a detail freak I've been waiting for somone to do this conversion for a long time. I always loved the M42. I think its a well made motor that deserves way more R & D than it gets compared to its big brother the M50. Congrats on the engagement also........

hey man, thanks for signing up...

- the crank is OEM... the end of the crank was shaved about 1mm, and a woodruff was cut for the crank gear

- I have the stock AFM now, and am trying to figure out which way to go in the future

- the exhaust header is stock... it's a very highly quality header, for OEM headers anyway

- thanks for your congrats, Mrs. Guibo is a nice lady for putting up with all this car stuff...

Yeah, truly, when we started this forum, the general consensus was that the M42 had no potential and that our cars were basically econoboxes...

I think the problem is that the M42 looks really small (it is a tiny engine), it's relatively rare for E30s, ergo, very few people trying stuff out or making aftermarket parts, and also american style stoplight-to-stoplight drag racing (I mean, driving) doesn't really put us in the best light.

But, make no mistake, these are real sports cars (in the european sense), and the M42 is a real sports car engine.

E36LUVA · « **Reply #140 on:** August 15, 2006, 11:34:19 AM »

I read about a guy in one of many mags, I think it was Grass Roots, he had an E36M42 with a DASC & a 4 into 1 etc and he used a 3" MAF and tuned it with a piggy back controller like the one sold by BMP and was able to get like 215 WHP. There is always NickG's software tuning. He does all the DASC kits but I'm sure he can do one for your application. Imagine your engine with a DASC with all the goodies. Probably good for 300 WHP. Oh I hope you realise that a bambino is probably next after the fience and that your priorities will change weather you like it or not. Your family will come before the car and the funds for the car get less and less. It'll all be worth it though especially when the little one smiles when ever he or she sees you. Hope I'm not scaring you......

E36LUVA · « **Reply #141 on:** August 15, 2006, 12:23:17 PM »

I just looked at the video of your car on the Metric Mechanic site. WOW very impressive. I've never seen or heard an M42 like that before. Awesome, simply awesome.

sheepdog · « **Reply #142 on:** August 15, 2006, 07:41:18 PM »

Quote from: E36LUVA

I read about a guy in one of many mags, I think it was Grass Roots, he had an E36M42 with a DASC & a 4 into 1 etc and he used a 3" MAF and tuned it with a piggy back controller like the one sold by BMP and was able to get like 215 WHP. There is always NickG's software tuning. He does all the DASC kits but I'm sure he can do one for your application. Imagine your engine with a DASC with all the goodies. Probably good for 300 WHP. Oh I hope you realise that a bambino is probably next after the fience and that your priorities will change weather you like it or not. Your family will come before the car and the funds for the car get less and less. It'll all be worth it though especially when the little one smiles when ever he or she sees you. Hope I'm not scaring you......

Sam's motor would need new pistons to go witha supercharger at this point. He could possibly push 6 pounds of boost, 9 at the very most, but that would be all. His compresion ratio is pretty high.

I also think that 300 wuld completely destroy the cars charecter. Where Sam is, is awesome and still retains the feel of the car. Putting too much powerin a momentum car, ruins it. His car is what a modded 318is should be. Which is a momentum car that is capable of pulling hard out of corners. On a track, that is a wicked combination.

StreetSpec_iS · « **Reply #143 on:** August 16, 2006, 02:09:52 AM »

Quote from: E36LUVA

I was just wondering if the crank your using is an offset ground OEM crank or is it custom job.

This isn't a topic that really gets brought up in Euro circles, well, BMW at least.

I know some VW guys have done it, and i know of V8 guys that do it. People were doing it to Ford Escorts too.

I have never really looked into it myself, other than researching what it actually is. So Im unsure of what the limits are, and wether many places still practise it.

It would be interesting to see what could be done with the OE crank. wondering if you could take say an m44 crank from 83.5 out to 85-86mm.

E36LUVA · « **Reply #144 on:** August 16, 2006, 06:51:24 AM »

Sam's motor is probably pushing close to what a regular M42 with a DASC is putting out. I'm just saying even with his high compression a DASC with even 6 pounds of boost installed on his motor would be awesome and it wouldn't change the character of the car just magnify it. He'll probably start braking stuff though. Oh and offset grinding a crank is the cheaper way of making a stroker crank cuz a custom made crank cost big money. That stroker 2.1 that Hartge or Alpina made years ago costed a fortune to make as they not only made custom forged crank, rods and pistons they also glued a plate to the top of the block to make it taller, then installed liners just to not upset the precious rod length to crank stroke ratio. This also included installing a longer timing chain. $$$$$$$$$$$.

Febi Guibo · « **Reply #145 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:40:46 AM »

the DASC has a much fatter torque curve than my engine... but yeah, who wouldn't love more powaaaah...! maybe supercharge in a couple of years...

E36LUVA · « **Reply #146 on:** August 16, 2006, 09:37:43 AM »

Hey Febi how do you drive your car in Manhattan or better yet where the heck do you park it. I used to live on Long Island, having recentley moved to Florida and I used to drive to the city on weekends sometimes and it just sucked trying to find a park and my driving style progressively changed the closer I got to the city for the worst. Sorry off topic.......

Febi Guibo · « **Reply #147 on:** August 17, 2006, 02:50:40 PM »

yeah, NYC sux for cars... I used to park up under the MTA tracks in harlem, there's a parking lot there with a 24 hour attendent, but I'm moving to brooklyn next week and got a spot behind my bldg.

this town is really murder on cars, no joke... the roads here are really terrible, and the traffic neutralizes mods etc. I wanna get out of the 5 boroughs in the worst way, get a real house ...and a tall garage... with a lift!

anyway...

Wizard · « **Reply #148 on:** August 17, 2006, 07:12:07 PM »

Has the question ever been answered why 19LB injectors are bad for our motors?

Febi Guibo · « **Reply #149 on:** August 17, 2006, 07:31:11 PM »

hi... sorry for the delay... I just read back through my (largely incoherent) posts and the deal was like this (I am not an expert on this, but this is how it was explained to me)

- I upgraded to 24# injectors and 3.5 bar fuel regulator

- There's two different types of injectors... our motronic system wants high impedance, saturation type injectors... the 4 pintle low impedence ones I guess aren't compatible (as was explained to me).

(eg, the issue wasn't the capacity of the injectors, but the impedence)

I may move this to a new thread if someone more knowledgeable can chime in.