Haven't posted here in a while but I took her for one last back road run before selling it this Saturday. I've owned it for 5 years, months, and 21 days & have driven 53K miles in that time. I have faith that the E92 328i I'm purchasing will be a worthy replacement/successor after a few suspension mods+3.73 diff swap, but I'm gonna miss my 36...
E36 328iS- Sold :(
E92 328i 6MT- Work In Progress
"If you have to fight the urge to look back at your car as you walk away, you bought the right car."
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E36 328iS- Sold :(
E92 328i 6MT- Work In Progress
"If you have to fight the urge to look back at your car as you walk away, you bought the right car."
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Newly purchased heart transplant, m50 with s50 cams, mpd ltw flywheel clutch conversion and turner chip. Replacing manifold gaskets, oil housing gasket, iat sensor, knock sensors, pulleys and belts. Paid $200 for rebuilt motor with $1400 in performance goodies. Best purchase ever.
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Finished my shorty headers install while the motor was still in the car. And to make it even more difficult, I installed the rare Turner OBD2 version with even more stuff in the way! Challenge: accomplished.
She feels torquey on the butt Dyno. Magnaflow cats next and then a tune.
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nice!!! N5x studs help you out a bit? I found removing the old headers was the biggest PITA. Putting the new locknuts on sucked, but was more fun than removing the old stuff.
For me it was the opposite, probably because they're shorties with a million twists and pipes in the way (thank God for flex head ratcheting wrenches).
All but one stud came out with the nuts. N5x studs made the install a breeze with copper anti-seize.
Had a check engine light about a minute after starting and a rough idling coming and going. Cleared it, went away and thought maybe it needs to adapt. Went for a drive and came back, damn.
Read the codes again, bank 1 and bank 2 sensor 1 codes and misfiring on all cylinders......I plugged the O2 sensors in backwards
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NIce! Are you currently running an M50 or M52 manifold? I have the M50 mani and id like to run shorty's to help with some of the low end torque loss.
Got my car aligned and rebuilt the Vanos w/ Beisan rebiuld. After I put in my S52 Cams I had a CEL for code 212 "VANOS MECHANISCHES KLEMMEN" which is essentially a mechanically jammed vanos. Figured at 170k Vanos needed a rebuild anyways. Feels slightly better now, was a bit down on power prior to the rebuild, but most importantly no CEL!
Now that, that is settled, time to get my ish tuned!
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Stock M52/S52 manifold because of autocross classing.
Of course, every job spawns three more. Replacing door handle, and am going to swap dove for black, so I have to rework the black door panel, the back side plastic piece needs glued, lucky last time I needed a door panel I bought 30 new plastic clips, so I'm replacing those. Using JB Weld plastic bonder, hope it works out well. I'm keeping it clamped up overnight, no hurry.
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Couple of things today. Mkah door cards and converted to wheel studs. Solid Saturday
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Made the engine cover look like new! See link
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Took photos of the 36 with it's successor.
E36 328iS- Sold :(
E92 328i 6MT- Work In Progress
"If you have to fight the urge to look back at your car as you walk away, you bought the right car."
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Think I have that damn door latch/handle/friken collection of rods that must all remain seated while cramming the whole damn committee into the door in the right place after a few tries. I think, I broke off and I'm not looking til tommorow in case I dropped one of those damn rods to keep working on passenger door panel. Vinyl loose around the door pocket edges, about three places around the edges of the panel, both end plastic pieces and both door pockets not attached. Lots of clamping, had to buy a four pack of chip clips to do the edges of the door pocket. The final bit was the pockets, took some fiddling to find a way to apply pressure to those. All done for the night.
Tonight was getting the door handle finalized. Had the latch in and the handle 90% of the way there, just couldnt get the damn rear side by the lock cylinder to sit flush, stayed back. I went in, up, down, out, nothing helping. Remeber the one video where the guy mentions that you have to be aware that you are coming up behind a lip. Still nada, no matter how I tried. 15 minutes later, break out the ol' wifi borescope, $25 from amazon. That flap looking thing is the lip, and that cylinder is the piece that sticks out from the end of the handle
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Its the skanky looking bit in this pic pointing left. This needs to be bewteen the door and this metal plate. You can make this happen after seating and tightening the latch, but it takes some fiddling.
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Posted about this awhile ago but figured I'd follow up with an update cuz maybe one or two of you were curious.. This was the e36 I picked up out of the woods. The first pic is exactly how she sat before I picked it up, for 8 years, in that spot with 155k Miles on it
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Interior so clean you could eat off it. I wore a serious respirator while opening the doors and cleaning this shit, it was nasty.
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How it sits today! Nice and clean.
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And last but not least, the interior which cleaned up surprisingly well. Elbow grease goes a looong way.
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There you have it. Definitely a shit ton of fun to drive, for a 4cyl. But I'm already looking to pass it along and get something new..
That's awesome. Well done
No kidding, very good work. What did you use on the mildew?
Well, I wanted to start replacing the CV boots, but they mistakenly put non-M boots in the box. Doh!
Got my oil pan back from the machine shop at least. Baffled and ready to go in.
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I drove my M3 to work in -8 deg F temps. Every day it impresses me how fast it starts considering the weather.
Discovered that it's much easier to get full luve coverage on a window door track when it's out of the door....
Reassembled trunk. New plastic rivets, nuts, etc.
Cut holes in carpet for shock adjusters.
Installed E30 seatbelt receptacle onto planted mount.
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