couple quick turbo (afm) questions and an introduction (lots of pics)

[proracedriver616]

First off hello to everyone, I have been reading posts on here and r3vlimited for the last year or so and finally decided to really start working on my 318is and now seemed like a good time to join.  I work at the body shop of a bmw dealership out here in colorado and did the same job for the last 3 years back in Michigan at a different bmw dealership, anyways after 3 years of working on bmw's and everyone asking where mine is i finally got one!

Thats how i bought it, i tore it down and the insurance company ended up totalling it, so i was able to buy it for $600 from the owner.  The car needed a hood, fender, headlight, core support pulled, fan shroud/blade/clutch, and a few misc. things

did a few things here and there while fixing it in my spare time

Its nice working in a body shop






Thats the short version of the process, i have tons of pics of everything i did.  Tinted the taillights and added a filler panel, ebay smoked bumper lights, vis carbon fiber hood(that fits terrible), ebay headlights, taurus sideskirts, and a few other little things.  Now i know you guys will hate the headlights but it needed some from the crash and those were cheap and i like the angel eyes.  I would like to get different lights someday though because the black housing doesnt reflect the light out for the high beams and they basically do nothing.  I drove the car for the better part of a year with no right grille around the headlights and no bumpstrip on the bumper but finally got that stuff plus did some other things not too long ago...if its nice tomorrow ill take more recent pics of the car.

[proracedriver616]

i almost forgot the pics of my strut bar i made....





and i the questions i had....
1. i see everyone using 12b's in budget turbo builds, and im interested to know if anyone has tried a 14b as they are plentiful and cheap pretty much everywhere.

2.  i have turbo'd a couple cars(both mitsubishi mirages) and was wondering how the afm can work as a blow through setup like a lot of you guys are doing....or would a draw through setup before the turbo work better?

If you hadnt guessed im planning on going FI this winter and im gathering parts now

[Ramblin MAn]

I'm probably wrong, but it was my understanding that you wanted your afm upstream and as far away from the turbo as practical becase you don't want it measuring the compressed air or being affected by intak pulses. Maybe it doesn't matter with this type of afm.

Do they make a rising rate FPR that will fit the M42's rail?

[vonkamp]

NICE WORK! I love the look of the blacked out steel rims.

[proracedriver616]

I'm probably wrong, but it was my understanding that you wanted your afm upstream and as far away from the turbo as practical becase you don't want it measuring the compressed air or being affected by intak pulses. Maybe it doesn't matter with this type of afm.

Do they make a rising rate FPR that will fit the M42's rail?

Well if you put it anywhere in the piping other than before the turbo it will me measuring boost instead of vacuum which i dont think it can do, but danny and a few others ran theirs that way.  When i messed with mitsubishi's the mas had to be relocated away from the tb to in front of the turbo to read how much air the turbo was sucking in.

and you just can run a universal RRFPR in the return line after the fuel rail.

[Blip Bavarian]

updates?  Hows the turbo project coming?