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Sept 7, 2007 20:43:46 GMT
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I could spend my life reading in here, but it takes a while and i never seem to tempt myself back in. I miss some quality builds  thanks for dragging this up from page 134 BC, now i have to update it  basically its all runnin, mot'd and taxed. I wanted it to be a surprise for r-r07 because i didn't want to look a prick when i failed to get it done. anyway, we got to here-  thats the windage tray in position. it takes some of the excess oil away from the crank allowing the engine to be freer revving.  here i am trying to fit the sump and oil pump in one, its the only way to lower the sump without removing the engine. fiddly is not the word. implausable is.  thats the max clearance right there. 10mm headed bolts are to stop the windage tray dropping, the sump bolts hold it in you see. I could fiddle two longer bolts into the sump to hold the sump and gasket into positon and it pegs the windage tray, then i removed the two temporary bolts.  all fitted  bit of a problem at one point. I fitted tii flat top mahle pistone onto my existing rods. i examined the bearing shells and found them to be perfect, so refitted them. i turned the engine over each time i fitted a rod starting with no.4. a peice of debris fell into no.2 as it bound up!  heres the damage it did! thankfully i had some new standard size shells, so i found a bad spot on the crank and polished it out and re-assembled the rod and checked it. it bound up again! basically it had picked up on the chamfer of the oil way in the crank and I hadn't seen it as it was at the top edge of the crank and i was under the car. boll*cks.  thats shell no.2 fcked. finally it was fine and it took not long to wire and plumb it up. heres a quick vid of it running about the 3rd time-  i'll stick some more up when I've had a sort out of build pics. thanks for the positive comments |
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Davenger
Club Retro Rides Member
It's only metal
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Club RR Member Number: 140
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Sept 7, 2007 23:11:52 GMT
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Always had a thing for 02's
Looks brilliant in the flesh
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Sept 28, 2007 6:59:36 GMT
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Three weeks are up, any chance of an update? ;D
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Ruki
Part of things
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Hows it doing |
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xeandy
Part of things
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well done on the PPC feature read it yday and love it
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Jan 24, 2008 20:48:48 GMT
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someone better whoop my ass for not updating this I am a b*stard, son of 1000 fathers with 1000 brothers, all of them b*stards just like me..... anyway, where di we get upto last time? oh yeah.... it was coming up to rr07 on the build front and I stopped posting to get it done. after the problems with the bearing shells, it all started to come together rather frighteningly quick! after all the good work the bleedin' clutch m,aster cylider died on me. a seal kit just didn't do the trick, the bore was rusty and wouldn't really hone. m/c's aren't cheap so I improvised with this LHD e28 cylinder mounted on a fabbed adapter-  works fine! got the interior all emptied of the stuff I was storing in the car, it looked so empty!  nice coat of underseal to stop some of the drummiong you get with no sound deadening-  once that was dry I put the carpet back in-  as I had put loads of curse word at the start of the build on the carpet, I then had a huge water leak and then a brake fluid spill on it, so I'd given it a hose down a while back and stored it away in the shed. done with a soapy solution of lorry wash and scrubbed with a stiff broom, then hosed off it came out quite OK i think. getting the leccy bits to work in harmony was tricky. the n/s/f indicator blinked once then went out. after I traced an earth prob on the relay I then found it wouldn't work. great! of all the things after a 1hour investigation, it was in fact......... THE BULB!  at this juncture we are here-  got some stainless button head allen bolts in m5 thread, some stainless washers and nuts from tek hardware on ebay, under £15 for half a metric tonne of bolts. I felt it was reasonable . and then spent a nerve wracking saturday afternoon fitting the turbo arches to the car-  mot round the corner, woooooo! which of course it passed ;D thanks spacekadett for taking it and his boss for passing it. even tho he did mark it up as "multi-coloured" ;D some insurance from the ever wonderful adrian flux and I was of to get 12 months road rent. planned to usee and abuse it so didn't mind paying the full 12 months. heres the first pics of it road legal-          yeah!  some more playtime pics coming.... |
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Jan 24, 2008 21:32:44 GMT
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now I'd done rr07 and a norfolk meet or 2, she was going ok. underfuelling was a problem, got over by cheating basically I clamped the fuel pressure regulator in a vice and gave it a nip. I used a pair of sockets to get a firm clamp on the reg body and done very tiny squeezes. it took three attempts to get it right but it was OK i thought. in doing this, it increases the spring tension over the diaphram incurring a higher regulated pressure. don't know what it is but its higher than 3 bar so i tried it out by thrashing the  off it round RAF marham last september    it highlight the need for ares of improvement. one is it overheats after a caning. about 10 mins tracktime on the max, 20 if treated gentler. I will be doing this soon, I haven't yet as its ok on the road. I'm upgrading the radiator core size as they marginal when new let alone played with. I'm also making use of my oil cooler and got this oilstat/ sandwich plate yesterday  of course I also went along to the ppc rat look feature- I'm still so proud of my 15 minutes of fame- thanks andy warhol ;D  I won't bore you with too many details, but boy what a day! wan't to know how they did the cover shot? a bit like this-  with the camera set to a longish exposure, the car is pushed and the shutter tripped, resulting in this-  ;D  ;D ;D ;D and then i did some work to it- basically the factory rear springs are softer than a melted mr whippy '99'. originally I fitted some helper coilovers and caravan spring assisters to stop the back bottoming out. but I soon succumbed to the lower is better school ;D I found some soils in my special pile from an e12 528i. front coils at that. if they can put up with a heavier car and a 2.8 engine, they might be OK i thought. the diameter was the same, but they needed some shortening   say hello to mr grinder! I wasn't toally happy so chopped a bit more, then a bit more, but never too much at a time. as there's no "dead" coils, they try to ride out at full extension, so I made some little keepers to hold them in place before I lock wired them in for extra measure-  took the shocks off to help them settle quicker and then started on the fronts. I cut one whole coil off. I could do it on the car , but the legs come off easy so done it on the floor. took the weight off with some clamps and then sliced the offending coil right off!  I drilled three holes around the strut and lock wired the spring in place like so-  more in a mo.... |
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Jan 24, 2008 21:42:26 GMT
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of course the thing with lower is the wheels are closer to the body. my wheels extend past the original arches so now they touched, badly. solution was to pull the arch out, didn't have to look flash as you can't see them,so-  one bottle jack and piece of wood later and it was great! whilst playing I cut the bumper up. its not what you call good by a long chalk, its as bent as a £27 pound note! being all inspired I fitted an mgb oil cooler into it. I hole sawed the top and then let the front in with a slitting disc. crude but then I had just done a rat look feature  not yet plumbed but coming soon....  and its riding like that. took it to oxford edition and poeple seemed to like it. rocking some bad anti-stance tho, it seemed to settle a load more. so I took a half a coil off to correct it a bit-  now stting like that. its a little deceptive as the rear arch is lower down the body than the front  meh, I'm gonna make some coilovers I think. and I'll leave you with the video in my sig uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aocQLbzGvQU |
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rob0r
East of England
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Jan 25, 2008 10:58:02 GMT
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Looks great, stance is awesome.
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E30 320i 3.5 - E23 730 - E3 3.0si - E21 316 M42 - E32 750i
ETC
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DutyFreeSaviour
Europe
Back For More heartbreak and disappointment.....
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Jan 25, 2008 12:14:28 GMT
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Was mightily impressed at Ace night fella. Some great work and a really well put together motor! Sounded fantastic peeling off out of the car park ( shame on you! ) I'd be too busy enjoying caning it to get it back in the workshop for the bits you have planned! ;D ;D |
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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tigran
Club Retro Rides Member
In rust we trust. Amen.
Posts: 6,444
Club RR Member Number: 142
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Jan 25, 2008 17:55:00 GMT
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Nice write up ed. That idea for spring cutting is mighty good it's gotta be said.
kool kar
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1964 Rover P5 i6
1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak
1992 Micra K10
2001 BMW E46 316i
2002 BMW E46 330Ci
2013 BMW F31 320d
2018 BMW G31 530d
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Jan 25, 2008 21:49:59 GMT
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thanks guys! |
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v8chevette
Posted a lot
PROUD TO BE BEIGE!!
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Jan 25, 2008 21:56:50 GMT
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Jan 26, 2008 10:02:50 GMT
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I <3 this car looking great Fella  ;D |
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Ruki
Part of things
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Jan 26, 2008 11:23:16 GMT
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paint it matt black...
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Jan 26, 2008 12:54:58 GMT
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Matt black can never replace real Patina ;D That would be sacrelige  |
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rob0r
East of England
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Jan 26, 2008 14:05:36 GMT
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I am curious to see what it looked like with consistent paint, I can't imagine!
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E30 320i 3.5 - E23 730 - E3 3.0si - E21 316 M42 - E32 750i
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mrzee
Part of things
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2002.s are the daddy!!!!
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;D
