Beemerlad's M52 Chromie

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:10 pm

Rubbbbbbish mate. I was sure they would have sorted it! They were known to be good. At least you have spare coils.

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:45 pm

What's the crack with next weekend bredrin?

You up for some donk naughtyness?

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:48 pm

I noticed on mine today actually similar problems to yours. Bit down on power and then out of nowhere all hell breaks loose - like its being held back. But i need a new icv becuase it keeps sticking which could be related.

I would be interested in finding out how you get on chap.

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:52 pm

My cam sensor has done about 3k miles, the crank sensor is a 2nd hand one so cannot absolutely be trusted, but I don't want to spunk £70 on a new one just for the hell of it.

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:54 pm

I've fitted both brand new cam and crank oem sensors and 2 bosch lambdas too. Im just looking through my bentley manual now so you can measure the resistance of the throttle position sensor

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:56 pm

M50 thottle body on mine dude (incase there is any difference)

Although I have no idea how to use my multimeter

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:57 pm

Take the vacuum pipe off the fuel reg Lee, see if it makes any difference

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:00 pm

Throttle position sensors are interchangable between m50 and m52 so i presume they are the same.
From closed to wide open throttle you should get a smooth 1-4k ohms between terminals 1 and 2 on the sensor.
You should get 4k ohms between 1 and 3 on the sensor
You should get 5volts between 3 and ground on the harness connector with the ignition on.

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:20 pm

Not sure about next weekend Lee. I was out on a black un last night. In the house at 5.30. In bed all day fooked. Trying to get a day pass next week might be tricky.

Plus been in the reception loads this week got nothing done. Play it by ear I reckon. You free weekend after?

Post Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:22 pm

Should be good for weekend after mate, so just shout up nearer the time.

Dan - I'll try the FPR vac hose and report back

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:44 am

Drove the car into work this morning, reversing into my parking space, there are collapsable bollards on each space. Reversed back and caught one of the silencers on the post, stopped the car dead, now it is blowing big time, not sure where from or if I have bust one of the welds off the downpipes but it sounds like I am running with just a manifold. Oh the joys.

Reason for using th chromie was the wife's golf wouldn't start, sick of old scrap

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:22 am

FFS, No luck atm mate

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:21 pm

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Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:30 pm

Or

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Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:34 pm

Lol, they ain't going to detect a folded down parking post. The trouble with them is that they are just after the pavement slopes up to the parking space, so the car isn't far from beaching itself anyway and the extra inch the parking post sits out the ground caused it to snag on one of the centre silencers. It literally stopped the car dead and the exhaust immediately sounded like a tank.

I haven't been able to look properly as the ground is soaked and i'm suited & booted, but I suspect one of the welds on the downpipes has been fractured.

No chance of looking at it in daylight until the weekend and I'm probably going to have to take the whole system off to weld it again. Oh and figure out why the Golf is flooding itself when trying to start. I think the poxy injectors are leaking when the car is switched off and filling the chambers. I pulled the fuse for the fuel pump and carried on turning it over until it was almost flat, but still no joy, which is why the beemer got dragged into service.

So 2 pieces of crap to fix now.

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:44 pm

Get down dezzys, its a good reason for him to get his hands dirty for a change

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:50 pm

As always Lee is more than wecome to darken my door.

I need some motivation atm.

Its a good excuse to play with his new toy though isnt it

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:55 pm

Is it wrong that I read 'atm' in a different context to what its meant?

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:55 pm

Need to cure the misfire before i'll travel 50 miles up to Dezzy's.

Plus like Dez said, it will be a good opportunity to get my hand in with some welding and sort the height of the exhaust system at the same time as this needed some fettling anyway.

I don't think I could drive 50 miles with it sounding like it does either

Post Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:05 pm

Thing is.. That issue is not down to it being an old turd (other than the Gold breaking down).. At least being an old turd it can be fixed easily and cheaply!

Post Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:25 am

DanThe wrote:Is it wrong that I read 'atm' in a different context to what its meant?

After his attempted yet failed bedroom antics, one of my mates was known as 'cash machine' for a while. Took him ages to work out why!!!!

Post Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:45 pm

Spent all day coonting about with the Golf and eventually got that to start after stripping down the fuel metering head and also checking voltage & resistance to various sensors & components etc. My god I actually feel like an adult now I've mastered using my multimeter for the first time in my life

So that at least starts & drives, but still needs looking at by someone who can set it up properly, ancient K-Jet wrongness.

Then moved on to getting the chromie jacked up, this was a mission on the gravel and after getting the rear on axle stands and starting to jack the front from one side it decided to move sideways a bit and fall off the axle stands, narrowly avoided one of the axle stands punching it's way through the fuel tank, but the better news is that one of the front axle stands has mullered the passenger front jacking point after the car fell and the axle stand tilted, great news eh.

The exhaust has a 2 inch hole in it just past the gearbox where the tubes bend inwards towards the transmission tunnel, so a patch will sort that. But I'm going to take the whole system off as it needs some finessing near the downpipes to try and get the system sat closer to the floor of the car.

I think I am going to get shot of the 55m drop and the B6's and go for some brand new B4's all round with a 40mm drop and run it on 15" BBS with OEM size tyres. The car just isn't pleasant to drive at the mo and speed humps are a no go zone.

Post Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:23 pm

You're not just sounding like an adult, you're sounding like an old man! Balloon tyres and raising the ride height? WTF?

Oh and jacking on gravel, you know that's silly!

That's the second time a E30 has tried to kill you now!

Post Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:32 pm

15" wheels are against club rules.

Post Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:28 pm

Dezzy wrote:15" wheels are against club rules.

Just what I was thinking...... :ban:

What is wrong with the B6's Lee? Much better than a B4, if its too low just pack out the springs with some new pads

Post Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:35 pm

DanThe wrote:
Dezzy wrote:15" wheels are against club rules.
Just what I was thinking......

What is wrong with the B6's Lee? Much better than a B4, if its too low just pack out the springs with some new pads

He is running the risk of disaplinery action

Post Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:40 pm

I have a council de-chrome (rattle can satin black) gutter trim at the ready Dez, what was the agreed punishment again, 15 lashes?

Post Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:13 pm

Some council action with the welder today.

Pulled the system off to sort that out first.

Here's the offending gash

So with some heat on it and various bodgery with screwdrivers etc I managed to bend it back outwards a bit

Then the decision was to give it some rash with the welder and see if I could fill it out. It came out alright, but on shining a torch on it and looking inside the pipe, I could see lots of little pin prick holes.

Trouble is, when you go to sort out the pin pricks I tend to then end up blowing holes in it again, even on the lowest setting. So I went over it again and it looks shite.

This is what it ended up looking like before it got dark and I got ready to burn the garage down for being too small and full of shite.

I am probably being a tart and should just bolt this back up, but I'm tempted to put a patch over it instead. What do you think?

I've still got to take off the manifolds and fettle the angle of the downpipes a little to raise the height of the system.

That'll be next weekend then

Poxy winter

Post Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:20 pm

If its sealed then its not going to blow, so job done

Post Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:27 pm

Bear assed wasn't it?

I would be tempted to give that a tickle with the grinder. Dress it up. See where it's thin and give some more welder action. See if you can make it look nice.

I wouldn't want to patch it really. Half the problem will be you won't be using stainless wire.

Post Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:59 pm

Yeah I didn't have any stainless wire, had a 110ltr co2/argon bottle to help a bit.

Will give it another tickle with the grinder and another pass with the welder, it has to look better, no bodgery in the Cr24V corner.

Post Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:00 pm

Sick of this turd now, almost on the verge of starting a frag fest thread!

Welded exhaust system up and also modded one of the downpipes which was causing the system to sit too low and on the pish. That has been a success, but because I'm a homo pen pusher I have managed to mod the pipe a bit too much so that the exhaust system sits on the pish but is tilted the other way as the modded downpipe sits a little higher than the other. So there is a comedy angle of the back box and this is causing the centre silencers to tilt and they catch on loads of humps etc.

Plus the poxy misfire.

Weigh the coont in and forget pishing around with cars and just buy something gay like a MK4 Golf Gti and be done with it.

So I have a car I can't use. May aswell get the soarer MOT'd and taxed, at least the coont is reliable.

Post Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:22 pm

Nightmare mate.

Would it make it up here?

Post Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:23 pm

Well done on the exhaust, Lee! Bought yourself a welder, taught yourself something new and saved a few quid. Nice one!

Although I do feel that your club makes the rules up as they go along.

Post Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:28 pm

Dezzy wrote:Nightmare mate.

Would it make it up here?

Not until I get the misfire sorted dude. I reckon if we hit the pipe with the gas axe and bent it, it would be sorted but my poxy blow torch wasn't even able to get it glowing.

I'm off work tomorrow waiting for the gas engineer to come & repair our boiler, so I'm going to have a dabble with the misfire then, but christ knows what I'm looking for with this fault.

I haven't disconnected the hose yet to the FPR like Dan suggested so need to do that and see if it makes any difference.

Chris, yeah I'm down with the crew with my mig setup, waiting for an audition for flash dance