KaiserRolls

I can't believe how well it fits!

I also got some new tools courtesy of Sonic Tools...

Used the install of the new fan wiring as an excuse to Clean up a bunch of wiring for the MS3, gauge wiring, and other stuff I had been putting off as I hate removing all the interior stuff. Got it all buttoned back up last night. Tonight going to rebleed the coolant after putting in the new radiator. 


eventually I should probably have it aligned, but next up is making a mount for the MS3 as it’s just hanging out in the glovebox & making some type of heat shield to go in between the filter/engine Bay Area along the frame rail 

Yes sir 
EPAuto Spill Proof Radiator Coolant Filling Funnel Kit https://a.co/d/cM6Vx8S
I use a combo of the red neck, yellow cap & I steal the stock gasket from the stock expansion tank cap
it looks like they may have updated it since 2020, so YMMV on the colors. 
 
it works great, makes bleeding super easy

Used the install of the new fan wiring as an excuse to Clean up a bunch of wiring for the MS3, gauge wiring, and other stuff I had been putting off as I hate removing all the interior stuff. Got it all buttoned back up last night. Tonight going to rebleed the coolant after putting in the new radiator. 


eventually I should probably have it aligned, but next up is making a mount for the MS3 as it’s just hanging out in the glovebox & making some type of heat shield to go in between the filter/engine Bay Area along the frame rail 

Well, got the break in oil dropped in and did a thorough look over of everything. I ended up using the old tune from the last setup for start up. Other then lower compression and different turbo this new setup wasn't much different from the old setup tuning wise. I figured it would probably run a little rich but still ok for idling and light throttle. Pulled the coils and plugs for ease of priming the motor and got a solid 15 psi of pressure shown on the gauge before re hooking up the fuel pump relay. Did another check over everything and then hopped in and started cranking... 
Video was cut short as we noticed a coolant leak and shut it back off to correct that before letting it get up to temp. Once it was up to temp, I got the front valance re-installed and the car lowered on the ground. Being that the engine was running well and the afr's were looking good I wanted to get it out on the road and get some more load on the rings to break em in better. The tune obviously wasn't dialed in enough for this setup to see any kind of boost but some light to medium acceleration would be fine. Went down a few country roads near the shop and besides some trouble to stay idling at a few stops, the car ran really well!
Drove it around about 15 miles before returning to the shop and draining the oil right away and changing the filter.

Also went ahead and popped the valve cover back off to re-torque the head studs. I did notice that the gasket had some coolant seeping out which was not ideal to see. I originally torqued the studs in three steps to 75 ft lbs as per arp's recommendations. I did some searching around and found that others had similar issues and followed ces motorsports recommendations of upping the final torque to 85 ft lbs to correct the issue. Re-torqued the head to 85 ft lbs and also checked the torque on all the cam caps before re-installing the valve cover.

So not to much left besides wrapping the wires up and getting things buttoned up. Got my tuning date scheduled but unfortunately that's not gonna be tell June 30th. Wish it could have been sooner but by the sounds of it everyone is booked out atleast a month for dyno tuning. Gives me plenty of extra time to really go through things so it can be fully ready to go.

Its possible my work network was blocking it, sorry for the fake news 

Forgot to add the e36 part
IMG_7112.MOV
 

First autox event of the year (ignoring ice racing) & the car did great. 
probably needs an alignment after having everything out of the car for the swap but it was close enough 

Took fastest raw time of the day. 
Unfortunately was only able to run the 4 morning runs as the fan??(tbd) died. 
GF was supposed to co drive it but I couldn’t get the fan going which is necessary for the conga-line style this club had for grid. Tried everything short of directly powering the fan but gave up attempting to fix it. Quick ran the car home (local event) and grabbed the e36 so the GF could at least get her full 8 runs in. She did great and took second overall raw time
 
ive been messing with some cheap wireless mics for the GoPro, had this one too close to the exhaust though I think
IMG_7082.MOV

Probably have around 5hrs of drive time on this thing -have been letting VE analyze do it’s thing after adjusting the afr targets/idleVE/rescaling the tables. 
 
I had the valve cover off just to double check the cam stuff, good to go there, but I have developed the smallest oil leak from the valve cover on the passenger side rear of the cover, true to bmw form

Solid lifters sounded the same at the start and end of every run, happy with that. 
 
I reloaded the e36 vid, hopefully it works

First autox event of the year (ignoring ice racing) & the car did great. 
probably needs an alignment after having everything out of the car for the swap but it was close enough 

Took fastest raw time of the day. 
Unfortunately was only able to run the 4 morning runs as the fan??(tbd) died. 
GF was supposed to co drive it but I couldn’t get the fan going which is necessary for the conga-line style this club had for grid. Tried everything short of directly powering the fan but gave up attempting to fix it. Quick ran the car home (local event) and grabbed the e36 so the GF could at least get her full 8 runs in. She did great and took second overall raw time
 
ive been messing with some cheap wireless mics for the GoPro, had this one too close to the exhaust though I think
IMG_7082.MOV

Worked for me before. Both cars sound amazing.

First autox event of the year (ignoring ice racing) & the car did great. 
probably needs an alignment after having everything out of the car for the swap but it was close enough 

Took fastest raw time of the day. 
Unfortunately was only able to run the 4 morning runs as the fan??(tbd) died. 
GF was supposed to co drive it but I couldn’t get the fan going which is necessary for the conga-line style this club had for grid. Tried everything short of directly powering the fan but gave up attempting to fix it. Quick ran the car home (local event) and grabbed the e36 so the GF could at least get her full 8 runs in. She did great and took second overall raw time
 
ive been messing with some cheap wireless mics for the GoPro, had this one too close to the exhaust though I think
IMG_7082.MOV

Forgot to add the e36 part
IMG_7112.MOV
 

Probably have around 5hrs of drive time on this thing -have been letting VE analyze do it’s thing after adjusting the afr targets/idleVE/rescaling the tables. 
 
I had the valve cover off just to double check the cam stuff, good to go there, but I have developed the smallest oil leak from the valve cover on the passenger side rear of the cover, true to bmw form

Saw that pop up as well, thought the same thing lol

Nice driving!! You car sounds fantastic, did the solid lifter conversion eliminate any post-run ticking? 
E36 video isn't working for me unfortunately. 

First autox event of the year (ignoring ice racing) & the car did great. 
probably needs an alignment after having everything out of the car for the swap but it was close enough 

Took fastest raw time of the day. 
Unfortunately was only able to run the 4 morning runs as the fan??(tbd) died. 
GF was supposed to co drive it but I couldn’t get the fan going which is necessary for the conga-line style this club had for grid. Tried everything short of directly powering the fan but gave up attempting to fix it. Quick ran the car home (local event) and grabbed the e36 so the GF could at least get her full 8 runs in. She did great and took second overall raw time
 
ive been messing with some cheap wireless mics for the GoPro, had this one too close to the exhaust though I think
IMG_7082.MOV

First autox event of the year (ignoring ice racing) & the car did great. 
probably needs an alignment after having everything out of the car for the swap but it was close enough 

Took fastest raw time of the day. 
Unfortunately was only able to run the 4 morning runs as the fan??(tbd) died. 
GF was supposed to co drive it but I couldn’t get the fan going which is necessary for the conga-line style this club had for grid. Tried everything short of directly powering the fan but gave up attempting to fix it. Quick ran the car home (local event) and grabbed the e36 so the GF could at least get her full 8 runs in. She did great and took second overall raw time
 
ive been messing with some cheap wireless mics for the GoPro, had this one too close to the exhaust though I think
IMG_7082.MOV

First autox event of the year (ignoring ice racing) & the car did great. 
probably needs an alignment after having everything out of the car for the swap but it was close enough 

Took fastest raw time of the day. 
Unfortunately was only able to run the 4 morning runs as the fan??(tbd) died. 
GF was supposed to co drive it but I couldn’t get the fan going which is necessary for the conga-line style this club had for grid. Tried everything short of directly powering the fan but gave up attempting to fix it. Quick ran the car home (local event) and grabbed the e36 so the GF could at least get her full 8 runs in. She did great and took second overall raw time
 
ive been messing with some cheap wireless mics for the GoPro, had this one too close to the exhaust though I think
IMG_7082.MOV

That E36 fucks

Probably have around 5hrs of drive time on this thing -have been letting VE analyze do it’s thing after adjusting the afr targets/idleVE/rescaling the tables. 
 
I had the valve cover off just to double check the cam stuff, good to go there, but I have developed the smallest oil leak from the valve cover on the passenger side rear of the cover, true to bmw form

Probably have around 5hrs of drive time on this thing -have been letting VE analyze do it’s thing after adjusting the afr targets/idleVE/rescaling the tables. 
 
I had the valve cover off just to double check the cam stuff, good to go there, but I have developed the smallest oil leak from the valve cover on the passenger side rear of the cover, true to bmw form

Changed the oil/filter on this as I was just using some cheapo 10w-30 as a way to get the storage crud knocked out of this thing. Filter looked as expected as this engine has been sitting for almost 3 years under a trash bag & I’ve messed around with the cams in and out a ton, new lifters, etc etc. no big magnetic chunks- just dirt/old crud. 
 
pulling the valve cover off to double check the torque on the cam caps and other miscellaneous hardware in the head after a few heat cycles - once that is good to go just going to button everything back up and get it bolt checked for a local autox in early May. 
 

 

 
 
 

CF trumpets are on and motor is bolted back up to the car.  Partee Racing made the trumpets.