hybrid Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Some new toys Dunlop 240/625r17 D11's and 17x8 BBS RC 304 Two spare slicks on the right. Off to be refurbed next week Slicks are fun ... Now to get use to their limits. enjoy Some additions. I was very suprised how light these all were. Front strut brace, rear strut brace and under body chassie brace. Front strut brace installed. It cleared the s50 perfectly and more importantly the brake fluid well. The rear brace was a little bit more difficult to install because of my ground control rear top mounts and tower re-inforcement plates. I had to remove both wheels and drop the top bolts out. and installed Ill install the under body brace tomorrow and upload the result. Time for some new goods. Brake bias valve to dial out some rear brake pinching under hard braking when the tanks half full. annnnd finally got this done .... makes a crap load of difference .. like driving the car at winter time. Floor it in the first 3 gears = wheel spin Stoked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybrid Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Myself vs an e60 m5 ... great battle that I really enjoyed going toe to toe. I backed off a couple of times in the sweeper as I didnt want to plow into it! as he was pushing it pretty hard. FUN! enjoy. Road interior nearly complete. Nappa Have some other goodies but its pissing down outside and I cant really photo it in the garage .. Maybe tomorrow night. The stock BMW cooler was pissing me off so I replaced it with a big ass Earls oil cooler / lines (under number plate)...which extends up to the top of the bumper with the blue lines through the grill. Its all isolated and rubber mounted as not to twist the cooler frame You can kinda see the brake cooling ducts. All set for summer of time attack So been a bit busy ordering some new stuff. New Oil housing with the elusive pressed in Oil Thermostat, yes you have to buy the whole housing just for this one bit. My old one is poked shut. And while im at it I installed a new Ratiometeric 0-100psi, 0-5 volt industrial grade pressure sensor (Thanks to conrad for help locating one) This will eventually connect to my new GPS datalogger project (watch this space) Just sitting it in the housing, will seal with alloy washer once locked in. Nothing too special .. but got a second set of race wheels and a supply of slicks. Wheels: BBS RX 17x8 et38 Test fit on car Caliper Clearance for BBK .. slick supply .. went halves with james Been working on the brakes recently to hunt out a few issue with over heating Changed out the pads to something a bit more race orientated and less best of both worlds Followed Ollies Gee's path and went with the V8 Super Car / NZv8 route. Performance Friction Pads Type 81 Medium Compound Bevelled edges for noise reduction, my neighbours will probabaly love me now instead of the screaming from the other pads which normally happens on warmup Also thanks to Ollie McDermott working on some prototypes, these are back from the laser cutters and currently being welded up. All alloy light weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybrid Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 More updates: -- this is actually leading to something small update ... kind of pointless and expensive to do, but i'm a details guy :/ Before After: Genuine recover Roof rust be gone It was pretty bad if some of you remember ... decided it was more than time to get something done about it. Rocking the RXs for the time being while I put it back together Wet weather weekend stuff rules So starting to put the final touches on the car of all those little bits that have annouyed me. Will have some more interesting updates come soon but for now you have this I decided to splash out on some new OEM replacement pre-fl tail lights. Will just thank Jon the Pom for pointing me in the right direction for these. unboxing Old tail lights doing what all e30 tail lights do best and cracking. Still not bad for 26 years old. The right side had spider webbed pretty bad And the left side had the usual inner piece fall off. Its so strange that this combo always happens to every car? Removed the old lights and cleaned up the area the new sealing gaskets would sit. After messing around with the wiring and plugs which had started to loose their bite on the terminals .. here they are installed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybrid Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 A rather cool oppertunaty came up to purchase a brand new e30 m3 260kph speedo. I almost passed this up but a couple of things made sense. My speedo's odometer had just crapped out and stopped reading K's and new units dont come a long for this price very often. Big thanks to Dylan for this as dylan was replacing a needle in his car and didnt need the whole unit. (long story) Anyways, photos. Unboxing Inside the box Pulling apart the cluster and removing the old Odometer Installed the new e30 m3 260kph odometer Seriously .. I hate reinstalling this dam bitch nut! and all installed ready to click over to 000000 Everything works perfectly, including my rev gauge was giving issues as it was down 500rpm, this was because of the needle was out on the spindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybrid Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Some nice shots while I was out this winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybrid Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Some shots of the data logger / display system how running in the car ... including gear position (among a ton of other things.) Prototype #2 is now ready and as far as the programming almost all features are functional. Still have to program and sort out the hardware for the shift lights ... will probably also use a photo sensor to dynamically adjust brightness .. as the super bright clear LEDs are f**kin bright .. work great in sun light though And here is some of the output from my dyno pulls a few weeks back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybrid Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Mine - e30 m325i s50b32 dyno sheet - stock s50b32 with standard DME, stock s50 headers custom straight pipes to back box muffler, lightened flywheel, custom cold air intake, stock plenum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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