Author Topic: Removing spot-welded things? (Read 7268 times)

nickmpower · « **Reply #15 on:** July 15, 2006, 01:12:00 AM »

does that mean you'll offer the conversion for those maf's? I'll be heppy to buy one and send it to you if you want to compare the values with one you buy to make sure its working right. if you send it back of course. and do you have a ballpark price yet?

bmwman91 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 15, 2006, 11:01:21 PM »

Alrighty I painted the area. The paint needs a little more orange to it though, it is not the greatest match. I am gonne wetsand and use some polishign compount to try to blend it. Luckily, it is under the hood.

The converter will be somewhere in the $150-$200 range. I really want to try another MAF...I think the other one being so large may have had a little to do with the quirkiness at ~4kRPM. I also need to try it with the COP conversion on there. That seems to have made the car run soooo much smoother.

nickmpower · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2006, 12:21:08 PM »

there is a website somewhere that sells paint matched to cars in everything from touch up bottles to spray cans so maybe you should give that a try?

whats that sensor sticking out of your intake manifild? If its the temp sensor for the maf i think you shoud have it where the maf is since thats how it is with the AFM. also i doubt its becaue the maf is too big, maybe the one you have has problems, and I think its kind of weird how there is a reducer built into the maf?

bmwman91 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 16, 2006, 04:18:13 PM »

The thingy in the manifold was for tubing to the MAP sensor when I was running Megasquirt. There is no temp sensor anymore, with the MAF conversion anyway.

The sensor was fine, we readits outputs and there were no anomalies. I will just have to try different sensors & see what happens.

M42boy · « **Reply #19 on:** July 17, 2006, 08:21:24 AM »

Quote from: bmwman91

Well I just went out & did it this evening. Was all of like 15 minutes with aircraft snippers, pliers, hackwaw & screwdriver. I'll make a writeup about this at some point. It is half as much a lesson in what not to do...don't pull hard on the bracket when its welded to thin metal!

Probably the best way to do it... It's not gonna be perfect, but I think your approach was right. If you need paint, I bought some little cans of Alpine White at the Pep Boys. The paint isn't great, so buy a can of the clear and cover it with that for sure.

The disappointing thing is that this paint has no hardener. So, I managed to paint my entire engine bay with the stuff and so I've got to be careful with it now as if you look at it funny it will chip.

For a small area like that it should work fine. If I were to do do it over again, I'd have painted the whole damn thing with Rhino Liner and been done with it. At this point I don't care enough to do anything about it.