rld14
Part of things
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Mar 28, 2011 14:13:18 GMT
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Well if you get a front section you'd have to have the silly thing balanced...  Still, nice to see it's working! And Manual E32s are probably much rarer over here, they only sold them from 1988-1990 |
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88 BMW E28 M5
62 Vauxhall Velox
60 Vauxhall Velox
60 Lincoln Premiere Coupe
60 Lincoln Continental Mark V Convertible
54 Ford Customline Fordor
32 Ford Roadster
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Boogieman
Part of things
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ -- five star failure
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Mar 28, 2011 23:28:29 GMT
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Best thing is to find a good used E32 manual driveshaft in a scrap yard. ahhhhhhhhh, wellllllllllllll, ummmmmmm....... I have only ever seen 2 manual 7s in real life and both of them are on my driveway! I think its referred to as hens teeth? poor quality wobbly children's play pony poo poo? not sure about GB . . but they're quite common here . . . not that hard to find . . |
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rob0r
East of England
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Mar 29, 2011 12:24:18 GMT
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I'm surprised the coilovers are seized! I copper slipped them, and they were adjusted not much before Xmas. Great work by the way, really putting me to shame  |
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E30 320i 3.5 - E23 730 - E3 3.0si - E21 316 M42 - E32 750i
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Mar 29, 2011 14:28:25 GMT
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ahhhhhhhhh, wellllllllllllll, ummmmmmm....... I have only ever seen 2 manual 7s in real life and both of them are on my driveway! I think its referred to as hens teeth? poor quality wobbly children's play pony poo poo? not sure about GB . . but they're quite common here . . . not that hard to find . . fancy sending me a propshaft over? ;D |
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Mar 29, 2011 14:40:25 GMT
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I'm surprised the coilovers are seized! I copper slipped them, and they were adjusted not much before Xmas. Great work by the way, really putting me to shame i was really suprised too!! i'm not sure weather a blowtorch on them would be a good idea? what is inside the shocks? i was thinking of making the spare units into coilovers as i have had an idea about shock travel but i don't want to weld the casing for the inners to explode!! did you do a write up on how you did it? cheers, its not going as quick as i would have liked, i think its going to sit on a set of wheels and wait for a prop for a couple of weeks now  and having the sale of the 328 fall through this morning means i'm not as flush as i had expected. |
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Mar 29, 2011 20:05:33 GMT
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well a pathetic update for the evening........ moved the old autobox wearing my work trousers.....  then 'gently' 'placed' the lead light on the ground -  i don't seem to have much luck with that light! at least this time it wasnt broken from my arm pressing against it in an engine bay!!!!! so it seems the only thing i can do is get the prop modded I finished everything else off and whipped the incorrect prop off. I gave it a wash and stuck it on my 'project wheels"!  and then it was just a case of pushing it to the bottom of the driveway untill the prop is ready i am hoping to get it to the prop place on saturday so i am hoping to be able to have the white one going within 2 weeks  until then its just going to sit out of the way |
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time for an update on the black one! thought i would attack the speedo not working yesterday, i knew it had some joints put in the wiring on the sensor on the diff but i wasn't 100% convinced that its where the problem lay. i cut out all the questionable connectors and replaced them with one proper jobbie and to my suprise it actually worked!!! i double checked it against the GPS speedo on my phone and it reads about 7% inaccuracy (which is what would be expected from a manufacturers unit) no onto the not so good news............ with fixing my 328 this morning in about 5 hours less than expected i thought i would give the black one a good look over. took the cap of the expansion tank and found this.........  its definatly oil. and a s*&^load of it! so next step - oil cap off. no sign of water. no sign of it being down on power either. so where do i go from here? i am going to go and compression test it now to see what i am playing with but any suggestions anyone? |
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Put a plaster on your thumb?  Compression check is definitely a good idea, then maybe use some K-Seal or similar, unless you'd rather dive in and replace the head gasket. I had an E34 535iSE once with the M30B35 and its water pump failed and overheated, but after cooling down and replacing the pump and coolant, all was well again, so they're tough engines. |
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LOL! i hadn't even noticed till you mentioned!! i have started wearing these blue nitrile free gloves recently as my hands are literally covered in cuts and scrapes!
compression test results are in!
its.................... not great.
cylinders (in order tested)
6 - 11 bar / 160PSI
5 - 11.5 bar / 167 PSI
4 - 12 bar / 174 PSI
3 - 11.5 bar / 167PSI
2 - 11.75 bar / 170 PSI
1 - 9 bar / 130PSI
was all going so well! trust it to be the last one that i check to be down on compression!!
so where do i go from here?
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that said.... autodata claims the 735 to have a compression rato of 9.2:1 which comes out at 135 psi.
but should i be right in thinking that i shouldn't have a discrepancy in the figures like i do?
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and it took a fair few turns to get to that compression, would that point towards rings/bore wear? needing the oil to move to get a seal?
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right, i have made a plan of action! first on the list is see what i am dealing with so i drained the cooling system. the colour was insane! no matter what approach i take i don't want oil/curse word in the system so weather i choose to do the head gasket or get a new engine i wanted to be sure the heater matix was not going to be clogged full of oil. so i have re-filled with some flush product. i will probably drain and refill again within the next couple of days. for me the sensible option is most likely getting a donor car and swapping the engine out. i could do with a car for parts anyway as i need a fair few so cost wise i think it could be the sensible move (especially when they can be picked up for £500 and the bare shell will probably get me £100 back at the scrappy!!) and having the room to be able to do it is a definate bonus! while i was under the bonnet i had a look at the aircon system. the belt drive for it was missing and it had no gas in it. i had intended to strip it out for a little while (mainly weight saving, really i didn't want it taking power from the engine) so i thought while i had the rad out and a little spare time i would crack on!!  left a bleeding huge gap!!! didn't appriciate how heavy a rad and fan combo would be as well!!  most of it out, weighed an absolute ton!!! i have left in the piping going behind the dash for the moment, that was definatly not a job for today!!! huge electric fan is a mega bonus, it will be used at some point to replace a viscous unit on one of my cars at some point soon!! |
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and it took a fair few turns to get to that compression, would that point towards rings/bore wear? needing the oil to move to get a seal? Not unless a fair few is 20 or more! It usually takes 5 turns to get a proper reading on anything I test. It doesn't seem that bad either - the discrepancy is odd, but I've seen that kind of variance on cars running fine before - and on cars not running fine! I think my M50 touring had something similar going on and it was absolutely 100%. Also if you aren't keeping the air-con stuff, don't throw it out. That air-con rad is copper IIRC. |
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and it took a fair few turns to get to that compression, would that point towards rings/bore wear? needing the oil to move to get a seal? Not unless a fair few is 20 or more! It usually takes 5 turns to get a proper reading on anything I test. It doesn't seem that bad either - the discrepancy is odd, but I've seen that kind of variance on cars running fine before - and on cars not running fine! I think my M50 touring had something similar going on and it was absolutely 100%. Also if you aren't keeping the air-con stuff, don't throw it out. That air-con rad is copper IIRC. i still have the rad and fan, rest went into a shell on the drive that is waiting scrap to get a little more weight into it ;D i think i am going to run the black 7 till it goes pop ;D my 328 went today and was replaced by something far more 'me'! there is going to be quite an update tomorrow morning when i am awake enough to type!! ;D ;D ;D |
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well my update this morning didn't go as well as i had hoped!! well, here is the replacement for the 328..............  (pic shamelessly stolen from previous owner who is somewhere on here!) i'm pretty chuffed with it, its much more me than the 328 was! so far i have swapped the tec 1 steering wheel for a tec 2, i'm really really not a fan of the tec 1 wheel! and thats about it really! there are a few things with it..... 1) its an auto. i think if you have got this far into the thread you can probably guess my views on bmw autos/ guess whats lined up for it ;D (i am hoping i can persuade rob0r on here to sell me the conversion for it as i think he might still have all the bits lying around) 2) it has an interesting noise coming from it. It happens between 2500 rpm and 2750 rpm. It is exactly like an exhaust heat shield rattle BUT it is only under load. it only sounds between that rpm range and always sounds when under load. my local friendly mechanic suggested 'pinking', underfuelling, ignition timing, but he said that it was a very wierd sounding noise. first thing tomorrow will be taking the spark plugs out to see if i can get an idea of whats going on, then hopefully i will be allowed to use the gas machine at my friendly garage to give a better picture on fueling. 3) there are a couple of the usual niggly bits, someone has painted the needles in the speedo cluster red. in essence this could be cool BUT a) its a red backlight so driving home in the dark i struggled to read the speedo and b) they forgot to do the mpg counter so it looks a little pony! i think if/when i sort the manual conversion i will try and get a manual binnacle as i want to keep it looking as OEM/standard as possible. couple of other little bits like a loose connection on interior light and a couple of bits that need touching up paintwork wise. All in all i am chuffed, i think it has the potential to be a real nice car and hopefully i can do it justice! i will try and keep it all updated here! |
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rob0r
East of England
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Wow, there's no stopping you! Is one of the 7's making way or are you running three up 3.5 beasties!
Is that a proper Hartge??
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E30 320i 3.5 - E23 730 - E3 3.0si - E21 316 M42 - E32 750i
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Wow, there's no stopping you! Is one of the 7's making way or are you running three up 3.5 beasties! Is that a proper Hartge?? i think the black one will be parked in the garage after the hartge is manualised for a big re-furbish, thinking respray maybe  but it is my baby! ;D it is indeed a proper one ;D shed loads of paperwork with it, if i get a spare year i'll give it a proper go through!! |
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rob0r
East of England
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Great work then!  What engine is in that beastie? |
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E30 320i 3.5 - E23 730 - E3 3.0si - E21 316 M42 - E32 750i
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Great work then! What engine is in that beastie? thank you ;D its the 3.5 but its got the hartge gas flowed head and a shrick cam. sadly it looks a very standard exhaust so i think that will be the only modification that will come at some point as standard they seem to have more boxes than most cars! its a little tiny bit quicker than the black 7 series, i think this is mainly down to transmission loss with the auto box which is another reason that i want to manualise it ;D |
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so, i had a fanny about with the hartge this morning. i had already swapped out the tec 1 wheel for a tec 2 yesterday -  i really really prefer the tec2 but i don't think i would be able to explain why!! so i started to look into what is causing the rattle, first port of call spark plugs! in removing them i found this -  hopefully you can see my fingers through the split. as the white 7 is parked up it is being a donor for the moment! so i got the plugs out and found this -   much cleaner than i expected. i was expecting the center to be white to point towards overheating/running lean/ bad ignition timing so i was suprised by the redness. hopefully i can get it on a gas tester tomorrow to get some better results. any ideas anyone? i think any help at this point would be more than appriciated!!!! |
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and having the sale of the 328 fall through this morning means i'm not as flush as i had expected.
but it is my baby! ;D