Yet another 335i in the making - Engine now in and running

[Rav335uk]

Good, let me know as i think mine is overfuelling too and can't find why.Looked for air leaks, non, tried to adjust afm, no good there either.

[winx]

yup my afm doesnt adjust, turn the screw and nothing happens. Tried another one and same, so one more to try and then its find another m30 engined car that is running fine and start swapping bits!

Since it has been in it has done 14mpg on every tank, whether pootling to work or 50 miles of track work. However for some weird reason it managed 19mpg on a 190 mile run on Sunday night

[Rav335uk]

Mines giving me 200 miles on a £40 tank.

[Jhonno]

My diff cover is cracked exactly the same!! Only in one place though (Top of the 2 cracks). The bush stays in place, but knocks

[e30_singh]

Where do get this manifold from?

I need one as well....

Good progress, looks way better than my 335i.

[Rav335uk]

Thats an E34 manifold

[whipsey]

was wondering when we would see some updates on this

[gareth]

E32 manifold is the same (or very similar) though yours appears to have been modified for steering column clearance

for economy comparison, i usually get around 20mpg around town (on petrol) but managed high 30's on a run over to the 'ring!

diff backplate cracking seems to be a common problem. any other medium case E30 diff backplate will fit though, make sure when you push the new bush in that any corrosion is cleaned out of the hole (course emery will do it) as it will make it very tight fit and may crack the new backplate when the new bush is being pressed in.

[Rav335uk]

make sure when you push the new bush in that any corrosion is cleaned out of the hole (course emery will do it) as it will make it very tight fit and may crack the new backplate when the new bush is being pressed in.

A very good point

[winx]

polybushed the diff now so no problems with pushing it in
Seems to be ok, will be doing 200 miles tonight and then tomorrow a couple of runs over a road called strines in Derbyshire. My absolute favourite driving road so will see how we get on

[Rav335uk]

Don't drive too slow then eh

[winx]

well all went well, seems to fine now.... touch wood!

Also got my second afm yesterday, fitted it to the car, put it on the gas analyzer and managed to get co down to 1% which I am chuffed with! So the 2 previous afms I bought were duff although being advertised as good working order

We shall see what else fails tomorrow on it's first trackday!

[DRIFTBOY]

That's good news, I'm glad my afm was good for you!

[winx]

thanks fella, will be doing some feedback for you soon

Also would be interested to have a chat about turbos at some stage if we are at a meet together

[Rav335uk]

You bringing the car down for the west mids meet???

[DRIFTBOY]

thanks fella, will be doing some feedback for you soon

Also would be interested to have a chat about turbos at some stage if we are at a meet together

No problem at all, I'm always happy discussing engines!


Speaking of which, I've only just put two and two together, that's a McLaren F1 engine in your avatar, isn't it?

[winx]

yup Hence the quest for more power in the e30, absolutely nothing feels quick after the company car

[DRIFTBOY]

Company car!!!


You need to get a job at Bugatti!

(I'd prefer to own an F1 though, much cooler!).

[winx]

nah, much prefer the F1 thanks. We don't need 4 turbos to beat the production car speed record. We still have the n/a speed record at 241mph

Having said that though, the bug is a seriously quick car Just doesnt feel like an event once you are in one

[DRIFTBOY]

Yeah, 241mph isn't too shabby!

I think the F1 looks and sounds better too, and Gordon Murray is probably my biggest hero ever!

I wish I could comment but I've not had experience of either car.


Sorry, I've taken this waaay off topic!

[winx]

Right
After the Abingdon trackday the engine went quickly downhill
Pulled it apart to find carange everywhere! 6mm of crank endfloat, piston slap galore and a knackered oil pump.

So after weeks and weeks of searching for an engine I finally decided to buy a full car...

So collected this on Friday evening:

Had a few too many miles for my liking but was a good price and at the right time (ie I was getting desparate!)

Another boat anchor:


Getting a little better at removing these engines now so was quite easy, and llooooaaadsss of room compared to the e30!

Side by side ready for distruction:


Unfortunately I ran out of time due to family events at Easter and Mother's birthday on Monday so although it had a lot of tasty morsels as it was a sport the donor car got loaded up in true farmer style:

And went to the scrapyard in the sky!

But not before being loaded up with scrap!



The next part of this sorry story was the clutch expiring on the trusty discovery after dropping the trailer back at my mates place.
I need the truck to go and collect another car for a clutch replacement over the weekend so it's double trouble. So I'm geeing myself up for an overnight clutch change on the disco tomorrow night (please pray for no rain as it will be in the car park at work!) in order to go and collect this to work on over the weekend:


Wish me luck peeps

[keri-WMS]

Right
After the Abingdon trackday the engine went quickly downhill
Pulled it apart to find carange everywhere! 6mm of crank endfloat, piston slap galore and a knackered oil pump.

Bummer...

So I'm geeing myself up for an overnight clutch change on the disco tomorrow night (please pray for no rain as it will be in the car park at work!) in order to go and collect this to work on over the weekend:

Been there, done that - I like it! (Just In Time philosophy finds another application...)