Saturday evening, the engine was almost ready for installment. We still had the sunday to work on the car, Monday evening we had to be at our hotel in France.
Sunday:
I also renewed most of the vacum hoses under the intake. I left most of the water hoses apart, I renewed only the hard plastic one and the two heat change thingies. I have no leaks, luckily.
Engine compartment cleaned and front subframe installed. I also renewed the brake lines to the back of the car, a new clutch slave pump, ...
Moved the engine back in, renewed the oil seals of the gearbox, installed 1.9 Z3 short shifter (I just realize that I have no pics of those things. Sorry, we didn't had that much time left
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Putted the body parts back on, installed the exhaust, used new engine mounts, gearbox monts, and a lot of other parts that I'm forgetting at the moment.
After + 14 hours of non stop working, ordered a pizza at 12 o'clock in the evening
, the car was ready for it's first test drive. 6 o'clock in the morning, easter monday.
Putted the contact in 1, the dash came alive and the water temp popped into the red. Damn. We came fast to the conclusion that I switched the connectors from the oil pump and the water temp sensor in the head.
For the people who knows the M42, they know that the water temp sensor is nicely hidden away under the intake. Not wanting to remove the hole intake mess, and with the help of a screwdriver, I managed in less than 20 minutes to remove the connector, switched it on the oil pump and pushed it back on the water temp sensor. Try it yourself without removing the intake
Second time, everything seemed ok, started, wait a few second until there's some fuel in the lines, engine puffed, one more, vroam. M42 was back alive. No rattles, already popped out tensioner did it's work good!
Brakes needed bleeding another time and we did it's first kilometers. At 4 am we had made plans to go to Paris, to break in the car, the suspension and the timing parts. Due to the sensor, the bleeding and the fuel problem we had to set those plans aside.
Mondaymorning, the first trip ended a bit with a downer. Easter Monday, 7 o'clock in the morning and no fuel. After 14 hours of non stop working on the car, pushing is the last thing you want to do.
But after all, the car drove, and like hell! I was impressed. What a great thing to drive.
Pitty that the trackday didn't end so well, but I'm going to write about that another time. Long story short, I need a new right front strut, possible a new shock and some other things.
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