Hi lads, small update, fitted some new Performance Friction Z pads all round with some Motul RBF600 fluid stops well now when needed.
After that I was getting a very slight misfire and these engines are known to coke up so i decided it was a good idea to do a carbon cleaning. The factory method used is to walnut blast the intake ports to clean all the gunk from them, i bought a media blaster, 20kg bag of walnut shells and various port adapters and wands and got stuck into it, results were night and day. Car drives so much smoother. Took about 5 hours, also replacing gaskets etc while in there
Durty port:
More upgrades now included some Turbosmart Recirculating valves
Solid Aluminium charge pipe(with meth bung!!)
After that i sold some old parts i lads left over from the Lexus to fund more mods and splashed out on some fancy catless Downpipes from Evolve. Again i decided to fit them myself since i have access to a lift. What a pig of a job to do, i think it took me about 8 hours all in.
Driving home with just new downpipes fitted, fook me the car breathes so much better and pulled harder. Next day i upgraded to the MHD stage 2+ map and it was even better again, I contacted MHD directly asking them what power it should be making on this 95 tune and they said it should be about 400 with my mods, I don't know if its quite that but its not far off going from the butt dyno. He said it should make 430 on 98 but we all know that will never happen in this country!
After that it was time to put in some newer injectors. Brand new set from BMW cost 1200 euro so i wasn't willing to part with that money, you can buy older revision injectors online for about 300 euro for the set, so i picked up a set and installed them along with some new Teflon seals and couplers.
Old ones have seen better days and it looks like they were removed in the past and reseated with old seals and the couplers got damaged
Typical BMW you need a special tool set to expand the seals onto the injectors and then compress them back down again to fit into the block. Laser Tools 7085 does the job here for getting old seals off and compressing new ones on before refitting to the engine,
Next up is a refresh of the cooling system, water pump and thermostat, then maybe some better fuel either meth or ethanol, some suspension upgrades, most likely m3 control arms etc which are a cheap bolt on upgrade. Fighting hard the urge not to upgrade the turbos!
Fingers crossed nothing major breaks in the mean time
Long overdue detail aswell, touching up the stone chips on the bonnet, not bad for a 13 year old car