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Forgot to post this 1m from the last autox
 

Thanks! I'm aiming for mid 10's next time, which would put me at the fastest manual position!

Congrats man!!
Keep going, you are very close to being THE fastest. 😈

The car made it's first boosty noises this weekend. The s.w.a.g. method that I used to build the timing and fuel tables worked well and the car seems to be running great. However, I'm getting some stray voltage on the chassis start/run bus which is causing the engine to continue running after the key is turned off. Also have a small oil leak that I haven't located yet, but appears to be coming from the lower engine area. 😑
I haven't driven it much yet other than some test runs up and down the dead-end road in front of the shop, but it's been quite amusing so far.

You just made me look it up... yes, only manual in the 10's with stock diff. The other three guys all have an LSD, some with upgraded axles as well.
Yeah, Mike Heffner is his name. Super cool guy, glad he shared some pics he took with me.


Yeah, it's really an awesome device. Tracks many more things in addition to the 1/4 mile as well!

She's got another 2-3psi in her 

I made it to the drag strip the other day and want to share the results! I am now one of four manual N54-powered vehicles in the 10s... in the world!
2560 DA
Log: https://datazap.me/u/suspenceful/1090-1369-mph?log=0&data=1-4
Adjustments I made to the car:
Replaced my blown stock shocks with Competition Engineering drag shocks for a 60s-70s Ford Fresh NGK 97506 spark plugs gapped to 0.022" Implemented 2-step/antilag (didn't hold RPM consistently) Installed a clutch slipping device (didn't work properly) Removed back seats and interior trunk panels (~50-100lbs)
Dragy results from the same pass:

Congrats!

Congrats, very impressive! Any future plans to get that 60' down?

Nice job!  That's pretty impressive man.  Kudos to you.

Fcpeuro is having a pretty decent summer sale from now until 6/30

I made it to the drag strip the other day and want to share the results! I am now one of four manual N54-powered vehicles in the 10s... in the world!
2560 DA
Log: https://datazap.me/u/suspenceful/1090-1369-mph?log=0&data=1-4
Adjustments I made to the car:
Replaced my blown stock shocks with Competition Engineering drag shocks for a 60s-70s Ford Fresh NGK 97506 spark plugs gapped to 0.022" Implemented 2-step/antilag (didn't hold RPM consistently) Installed a clutch slipping device (didn't work properly) Removed back seats and interior trunk panels (~50-100lbs)
Dragy results from the same pass:

Just saw Burger Motorsports on FB gave you a shoutout!

Saturation, clarity, vibrance:

I made it to the drag strip the other day and want to share the results! I am now one of four manual N54-powered vehicles in the 10s... in the world!
2560 DA
Log: https://datazap.me/u/suspenceful/1090-1369-mph?log=0&data=1-4
Adjustments I made to the car:
Replaced my blown stock shocks with Competition Engineering drag shocks for a 60s-70s Ford Fresh NGK 97506 spark plugs gapped to 0.022" Implemented 2-step/antilag (didn't hold RPM consistently) Installed a clutch slipping device (didn't work properly) Removed back seats and interior trunk panels (~50-100lbs)
Dragy results from the same pass:

I made it to the drag strip the other day and want to share the results! I am now one of four manual N54-powered vehicles in the 10s... in the world!
2560 DA
Log: https://datazap.me/u/suspenceful/1090-1369-mph?log=0&data=1-4
Adjustments I made to the car:
Replaced my blown stock shocks with Competition Engineering drag shocks for a 60s-70s Ford Fresh NGK 97506 spark plugs gapped to 0.022" Implemented 2-step/antilag (didn't hold RPM consistently) Installed a clutch slipping device (didn't work properly) Removed back seats and interior trunk panels (~50-100lbs)
Dragy results from the same pass:

Absolutely!
Oops, my bad.
Shoutout to @suspenceful for hooking @GunMetalGrey up who hooked me up with that badass fender roller, much appreciated.

Very long and over due update...
The last 2 months or so have been unbelievably fun with this car and its been exciting to see how competitive she can be against other considerably quick cars.
Over the month of May I took the car to a couple shows, local meets, and the occasional trips to Mexico. The car has been really good and for the most part has been running spectacular except for the occasional mishaps.
First off, guibo...
After about 2 weeks of driving the car I started noticing a lot of vibrations in 2nd and 3rd gear and knew something was up. At first it seemed like suspension so I did a shake down test and while doing this I came upon this.

When I got the new reman'd driveshaft the guibo seemed alright but with the extra torque it didn't last long.
Not only did my guibo shred up quite badly but my reverse light wire wasn't tied up enough causing it to droop down resulting in it getting caught in the driveshaft and being ripped out leaving only some wire running to the connector by the shifter. Ended up having to make a new one which I wrapped up nicely above the trans where it should hopefully no longer have any interference with any more moving parts.

Ordered a new oem guibo through fcp and haven't had an issue sense.

Next little fun incident I had was my fuel pump assembly o-ring going bad causing fuel to leak out of the top every time I topped off the gas tank.

It would pool out a good quarter to a half a tank of gas from the top of the tank. After pulling the back seat and access panel I found this knowing right away that's what it was.

Ordered a new oem ring through the dealer which came the following day, easy swap out. I'm assuming the e85 just took the best.

Haven't had a leak sense!
Next up I installed a catch can. The catch can was a much needed item as I had the ccv hose just running down underneath by the skid plate causing a oily mess in the skid plate and the surrounding areas.

The catch can was a fairly cheap one from amazon but being that I didin't have it recirculating back into the intake I didn't need anything fancy with a good filtration system, just something to catch everything coming out of the crank case. Mounted it in the only place I could find that would make for easy access and fairly clean look.

No more oily messes!
This was after a weekend of driving and racing around quite a bit.

Next up was my fenders. For the most part, my wheel and tire setup have been great but my front tires clearance from the inner fender was tight and was causing quite a bit of a rubbing. Thanks to @GunMetalGrey hooking me up with a fender roller and some guidance I spent a few hours making some better clearances.

Sense I had all the wheels off and the roller I decided to do the rear as well which oddly enough had been rolled but only halfway on both sides. After checking on a couple other e30's we determined that it definitely wasn't something done from the factory. Nevertheless it made for an easy job on the rears and they went quickly.
No more rubbing issues!
Next up was the steering wheel. I had just about enough with the airbag steering wheel and decided it was time for it to go. After spending a week researching and deciding on what to replace it with I decided on a momo steering wheel, the montecarlo.


Its incredible how much of a difference a slightly smaller better feeling steering wheel can make. The new steering wheel matched with the z3 steering rack makes for an unbelievable feeling that reminds me of driving a go cart, I love it!
Oh and I also have a horn now lol. The original airbag steering wheel was messed up causing the horn to go off every time I turned it forcing me to pull the fuse and run without.
Next up, brakes.
After refreshing the entire brake system I installed centric oem high carbon rotors and stoptech sport pads. This setup worked great with the NA s52 setup and I felt like I had sufficient stopping power. Now with the extra power they are starting to show their weakness. I went out with a couple of friends this last weekend and drove some country back roads with quite a few curves pretty intensely. By the end of it my front wheels were smoking really badly and I even noticed quite a bit of fade on the brake rotor. After seeing this I knew it was time for me to upgrade to something a bit better. I stuck with an oem high carbon rotor but switched over to some hawk hps pads for both front and rear. I was considering doing another step up to the hp+ pads but found that many said they weren't the most ideal if the car is being drivin on the street as they squeak quite a bit. I will see how the hps pads perform and go from there.
Lastly and most importantly, my cut out issue.
This is something I've had ever sense I got the car back from the dyno. It happened very rarely at the beginning but as I drove the car I figured out where and why it was happening but wasn't quite sure how i should adjust it.
Scenario: I'm driving in 3rd gear at about 2600 rpms. If I gave the car 100% throttle right away the car would almost immediately cut out and I would lose all power. I would then let off the throttle completely and let the car roll for a few seconds in which it would then return to normal and I could go along my way with no problem. Now, if I rolled into the throttle in 3rd gear instead of 100% she never cut out and would pull well with no issue. It would also never cause an issue when starting from a dig and revving out all the gears. I started digging through TS a bit and I came upon the afr safety settings. After reading through the settings and thresholds set compared with when the issue was happening I feel that this is what is causing it. After 2500 rpm's when the afr was found to be off by 1.3 lean or 1.3 rich it would kill spark and then fuel tell I let off the throttle for 3 seconds in which it would return to normal. 

Luckily I just recently found a local guy who tunes a lot of standalone systems and is quite familiar with MS and tunerstudio. I'm bringing the car over to him Wednesday and hopefully we will be able to clear up this issue before the weekend.
Well that's about it in terms of things that were fixed and what needs improvement. For those of you who I didn't get to talk to at the picnic I finally got to take the car to my local drag strip and got to see what she runs in the 1/4 mile. Being that it was my first time doing this I was quite nervous causing my first two runs to a little weak.
All in all I was able to get in four runs total with my best time on my third run, 12.23 seconds at 118 mph.
The match was against a Mitsubishi ralliart which had quite a bit of work done to it including a larger turbo and running e85. (Owner predicted it at around 425 hp awd)
Well, it wasn't quite enough...
What hurt me the most was my 60 foot which was about 2 seconds. I think I should be able to shave off a good .3 seconds off of that but it's a bit challenging being that trying to launch the car at all results in me spinning a little tire.
I had a lot of fun overall and it was a great experience.

As for upcoming events I am excited to say that I will be participating in my first auto x event this Sunday at the US air motorsports raceway in Shawano. Hoping to see a few of you guys there!
 
Burnout vids coming soon.

 
 
 

That's pretty awesome.  I drilled a hole in my back garage and it's exactly 4".  Based on your pictures I can't imagine there's much you couldn't do on this lift.  Good buy!

https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/d/san-diego-1989-bmw-e30-325i-touring/6910921836.html

Thanks! I can't imagine having to roll the cart out, connect the lines and trip over that crap every time you want to use it.
My concrete is 4" thick, the minimum requirement. No discount for the review. Jegs has it on sale for $1699 and after using a $100 discount code I found (SAVEMORE), it was $1599 + tax with free shipping.
https://www.jegs.com/i/Dannmar-Equipment/296/1375659/10002/-1
MaxJax usually charges $100 for liftgate service and $40 for residential delivery. Jegs must eat that charge because I didn't have to pay anything extra to get it dropped off at my house. Shipping guy called me a few minutes before he arrived so I ran home and had him put it right in my garage.

Thanks! I can't imagine having to roll the cart out, connect the lines and trip over that crap every time you want to use it.
My concrete is 4" thick, the minimum requirement. No discount for the review. Jegs has it on sale for $1699 and after using a $100 discount code I found (SAVEMORE), it was $1599 + tax with free shipping.
https://www.jegs.com/i/Dannmar-Equipment/296/1375659/10002/-1
MaxJax usually charges $100 for liftgate service and $40 for residential delivery. Jegs must eat that charge because I didn't have to pay anything extra to get it dropped off at my house. Shipping guy called me a few minutes before he arrived so I ran home and had him put it right in my garage.