First timer on forum and turbo build
Any advice is greatly appreciated
Purchased a cx turbo kit / g35 top mount.
Total stock motor with 150,000 mile and seams good
Any advice on maf and injectors
Motor has vanos
My tuner was hoping to use existing ecu and download programming
Thanks for any input
Any idea on potential power this build could bring
What's the plan for this car? Daily or are you tracking as well?
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Can we see some pictures ? Of the turbo kit ?
1996 332IS
Built 3.2
CES/Steed TS Precision 6466, spraying a "$π!℅" load of meth.
Technique Tuning 80# tune.
1/4 mile 10.84 @ 136.72
Your 1 and only stop for all your BMW performance needs
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2nd thoughts on the cx kit. Saw some poor reviews
Planing on raising budget
Weekend ride and hope to start tracking in future
Hoping to order parts tomorrow
Any advice is appreciated
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how do you post pics
Maybe consider buying a used kit that's proven to work well? Something like this
https://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/s...2-E36-M3-96-99
If I were OBDI I would have bought that kit
Looks like purchasing rapidspool top mount manifold
Precision 6262 turbo
CX intercooler kit
1000 cc injectors
Mechanic is leaning towards megasquirt on tune
Keeping motor stock on hg and bolts
And feed back on what it may make?
How many pounds to be fairly safe
Thanks for feedback
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1996 332IS
Built 3.2
CES/Steed TS Precision 6466, spraying a "$π!℅" load of meth.
Technique Tuning 80# tune.
1/4 mile 10.84 @ 136.72
Your 1 and only stop for all your BMW performance needs
WWW.CESMOTORSPORT.COM
Stock hg and bolts?
Bad idea..
What fuel? E85? 91? 93? 20 year old stock HG now?
I appreciate it
And feedback on potential power could be made
Not enough to be worth going turbo. Nothing from a 6262 is going to be safe on a stock hg and bolts.
93 on fuel
I believe original hg
Thinking of changing if necessary
Mechanic mentioned waiting for signs of failure, not sure about that route
Step 1: fire said mechanic
Step 2: be glad you fired said mechanic
Step 3: ?!?!?!?!
Step 4: Profit
You are paying a shop to do all this work? You are nuts not having them do the hg and studs now.
Mechanic/ friend, I'm only assisting
I agree on doing it right and taking the advice
First sign of head gasket failure is that it says bmw on the valve cover. At a bare minimum put head studs in it. I wouldn't try to make more than 8-10 lbs of boost at stock compression and 93 gas. Should be good for 300 whp or so on a 2.5. Plan on getting a clutch as well.
Planning on going with the new head gasket and studs in order to pull more power. What clutch did they recommend? The car was originally 318 I, I need to start researching what to use for the reran any recommendations.
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Rear end
1996 332IS
Built 3.2
CES/Steed TS Precision 6466, spraying a "$π!℅" load of meth.
Technique Tuning 80# tune.
1/4 mile 10.84 @ 136.72
Your 1 and only stop for all your BMW performance needs
WWW.CESMOTORSPORT.COM
The 318's came with a smaller rear diff, axles, and driveshaft than the 6 cylinder cars as well. I think the 318i also came with a getrag 250 trans which should work at the power level your talking about but is not the strongest thing in the world either.
What is recommended for thicker hg and clutch.
Regarding the 318 rear end, run till it breaks?
Can it be modified or what replacement will work
Big question, run e85 instead of MLS .140 or Cutring/spacer combo?
Depends if you have E85 available in your area. I have it available to me but about 30-40 minutes away but I'm still choosing to run 93 octane + meth.
Even if you decide to run E85, its still recommended to use ARP studs, so you'll still have to do head work anyway. In which case you might as well do the HG/Spacer while you're at it. If you ever decide to sell the car it will be much more desirable if it can run pump fuel - keep that in mind. If all you have is 91 then I would either considering running a reliable meth setup with fail safe options or running the e85. If your thinking of running e85 to avoid work, think twice because the project itself is a ton of that if done properly.
Make sure you have at least $5,000 (that's for just parts excluding items that will needed later from the increased power output) grand to spend on this car and if not I hope its not your DD.
I'm about $4,500 in and I still needed Tune, MAF, Injectors, gauges, monitoring software, welding work, and other misc items.
With that said a ton of google searches and the awesome people on this forum have taught me all of that^ and have guided me through my project, so search around.
oh, and listen to Butters
Last edited by 328iFun; 05-04-2017 at 11:03 AM.
Yes e85 is no problem
Not concerned with resale
Started out on low budget but now focused on doing it right
If you run e85 you won't have any problem with a stock headgasket and studs, but does require some fuel system mods to support it.
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