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You should get the plate “NO URO” just to remind yourself never to buy URO parts

I’ve had a few valve cover gaskets and head gaskets delivered to my house in the past few years. My wife is catching on:

Just a share, there were a few wibimmer members there and it was a f*cking riot. great track! do recommend.
USA International Raceway, Shawano, WI - Fox Valley Sports Car Club hosting.
 
Great turnout, 100+ cars.
 


Car #524, not #542.


KaiserRolls and +1 in the EvoX


Nice e39 m5 there. No tire spinning at the start line though, boring! Sounded awesome.



A few other e30s in attendance.

This G37 surprised the hell out of me. He drove it hard, it was faster than my e30 by a lot!

Tow Mater! (yes he raced! lol)


mmm white.

It shouldn't see much/any vacuum, it is upstream from the throttle body so it should be between atmospheric pressure and full boost.  To be extra safe I would recommend full throttle at all times so any pieces are blown out rather than in.

Well the 3M stuff didn’t really pan out, as expected. Returning that stuff tomorrow.


However I remembered I had a plastic welder collecting dust so I figured why not give it a go. Worst thing that happens is I can’t fix it & buy a new one (avoiding at all costs)


What follows is the progression of my frugality.





Swiss cheesed (4 holes total)





2 done, these were the smaller ones and were pretty easy to fill





I used aluminum foil held on with duct tape as backing for the larger holes





All done. I let it harden up a bit, then went back and took care of any low and thin spots




I tried pushing and poking at it to see if I could crack it or separate it & I could not. We’ll see how long it lasts

$225 saved.

The correct answer is:
When you can go WOT and add some steering angle without having a brown pants day

Headers will need some more hammering in order to clear subframe/motor mounts. Hoping they line up with the midsection of exhaust that I have. Needed to drill out every hole on the flange in order to get them remotely close to lining up. Kind of a PITA.


Figured out the intake location for the SC. Initially since there is a lack of room I was going to run it out the headlight hole. I really wanted to keep my headlights as well as the “stock” appearance of the car so I opted to go thru the engine bay. This also allowed me to use the stock VF intake tube which has provisions for the bypass valve & pcv hose. I will need to create some for of splash shield or just not drive in the rain ever





After that pic I spun the MAF 90° in order to point the connector back towards the harness. Cleaned up the routing and left some more slack for the connector. The hole was pretty rough but I cleaned it up later.





Doesn’t look pretty, but should be snagging fresh air and not soaking up heat from the engine bay/radiator. We’ll see how it works.


So that left me with expansion tanks. The stock one just wasn’t going to work. It physically fits in the stock location, but the outlet on the tank runs it directly into the VF intake tube & the angle the hose would need to navigate made me uncomfortable (it was also very close to the sc). So I opted for an aftermarket tank/cap. Stock e36 system is a 2bar cap so I went with a stand lev r vent 21-25lb. Little bit lower pressure rating but safer than going over the stock cap rating. I hacked out all the mounts and “cleaned” them up to what I consider good enough for this cars intended purpose is. In drops the 1.25 quart (less capacity from the stock by .75(?)) tank.


The outlet on the left side of the pic is for the overflow & the outlet on the right side is for the top of the radiator. Kind of sucks that it was 180°, but this is what I had to go with.


Found some 90° bends and called it good. This hose will work it’s way back to the “coolant spider hose” which I have replace with 1 line with a T fitting to get rid of the explosive nature of the stock rotted hoses.


This location is maybe 2” below the stock outlet- if I have issues bleeding I’ll just hold the tank up in the air unbolted from its mounts and crack the bleedable cap.


Another reason for mounting stuff the way I did is I will be running a vacuum block. This left the fender wide open for this piece


After dealing with the seemingly millions of vac ports on Miata Intakes and the 1 on an e36 obd1 manifold I figured I’d get this to simplify vac sources & routing.


Also got the two married dipsticks back from my welder friend. Basically I didn’t want to tap the pan because I didn’t want to remove it and greasing up a bit to catch the shavings isn’t something I wanted to do. So I had an e36 OBD2 dipstick merged with an e34 Dipstick. Overall length stayed the same and now I have a fancy oil drain


Come to find out he welded it in the wrong orientation of what I told him, but it should still work anyways.


Red arrow is direction of drain tube, he welded it about 45° the wrong direction. Running a tad longer hose is the answer here.





Random shot of coolant hose that is flipped 180°, will just need to be trimmed up to fit and a stock hose should be an awesome solution to an annoyance of finding random hoses that work.





All the oil distribution stuff is finalized as well, got the pressure sender hooked up as well, this was an annoying mass of dongles to get lined up.


Chase bays front brake ABS delete stuff is installed but not tightened, waiting for the mid/rear lines to show up & to install the headers to figure out front brake line clearance (their kit runs it along the sway bar. Dumb)


After the line stuff shows up I pretty much have everything to get this back together and going, found out last night I’m missing an Injector clip but should have one on the spare harness hopefully - need to get the 30lb ones clipped in.


Ordered some harness wrap to put some more lipstick on this pig as well.


(You can see the before pics if you scroll up and see the electrical taped mess)





It’s about as close as I could get to the stock harness wrap (shown here at DME connection thru firewall).


It’s a self wrap style that you spread open & tuck the wires into. It then self closes, kinda neat and can with stand some pretty high temps and withstands sharps well too-it was nice for going through the hole in the firewall. I will be doing most of the engine bay harness with this.


That’s about it for now hopefully this weekend I can beat this flu and get out in the garage and get the headers fitted up for good.

Yeah doubt it

Mitch and I talk about sweating from time to time. Its good to have a support group.

Is this more or less our Fall Meet? I've been asking Mitch for weeks if you guys were having one. Kept getting the "yeah doubt it" and "doesn't matter we aren't going" speech. Figured the forum would answer my question lol.

We will be there [emoji6] don't know if it will be in a bimmer, but Kaiser rolls and I will be there haha.

Once upon a time there was a Rampelsauce. He organized some things from time to time.
Rampelsauce is no longer with us so I have taken it upon myself to try to organize some other things. I made it official by using the logo and told Chris to sue me.
 
So yes, this is the fall meet for lack of any other fall meet. Glad to hear you will be making it. You guys seem to make it when there are rare miata parts for sale so I will sell some rare miata parts that look like M20 parts at the meet if that's what it takes.

It sure is=) I wonder if we will have a record number of members in non-BMW's. lol I will not be in one either

Is this more or less our Fall Meet? I've been asking Mitch for weeks if you guys were having one. Kept getting the "yeah doubt it" and "doesn't matter we aren't going" speech. Figured the forum would answer my question lol.

We will be there [emoji6] don't know if it will be in a bimmer, but Kaiser rolls and I will be there haha.

Yes there is. i dont care what you are in. Show up. It will be a good time regardless.

Should be done for the aug 13 road America autox...... lol

Making this engine great again.

As a part of the CES cut ring install, last night I refinished the block.
Used the coarse/fine sides of the stone. Tons of brake cleaner, wd-40, lacquer thinner, rags and beer.
Biggest thing I found was keeping the stone and block clean and well lubed. As soon as the WD started to change colors, the stone didn't seem to "cut" anymore.
Plugged up the cylinders as best as I could with plastic and tape, oil and coolant passages will be brake cleaned and flushed to death.
This is what I started with:(only crappy pic I took before hand)
And this is what I ended with

One step closer

Y'all don't know bout my art degree

If I was a mod I'd ban you

Does it run yet?

Does it run yet?

Does it run yet?

Does it run yet?

Does it run yet?