Martins BMW 318is SC Project.

[4agzeSE]

Way to go buddy....doing the job right. You seem to be on the right track. Your ls1 joke was funny and you had me for a sec!!! Can't wait to see the it done. You know my car is still going to be faster right?

[bbarnumboy]

i dunno u may have a fight with me. it is rated to put me aroun like 175-185 to the wheels, but i do have a much heavier car that you so we'll see

[immorality]

The Blue Civic of Death pwns you both and you know it.

[4agzeSE]

The Blue Civic of Death pwns you both and you know it.

Pound it cabage roll!

[bbarnumboy]

do i head a little waiger coming on here. hmmmmm

[bbarnumboy]

well today i recieved the oem replacement syle gauge holder, along with a set of 4 BMW wheel caps that i have been meaning to get for my new rims for a year now. lol gauges should be here today or tomorrow!

[bbarnumboy]

well i spent about 5 hours wiring up the gauges and still not finished. i need to wire the signal wires and mount the sensors. but all wiring is routed and power and lights connected. here are some more crappy pictures of that. i am going to finish it up tonight and take a picture of it in the location it is to sit in.

This is a rats nest of wires. I have so many splices i almost fear fire!!!! but i set it up pretty well i think.






left to right. digital boost gauge oil pressure gauge and on the right a digital AFR gauge with sweeper around the top.

[bbarnumboy]

just got off the phone. and the supercharger kit will be in the mail on monday. yay. also all of the seals etc for the car just came in as well so those can hopefully go in this weekend.

also got the vacuum hooked up and the boost gauge works great. waiting for the supercharger install to do the afr and oil pressure senders

picture of seals and goodness.

[4agzeSE]

Good to see this project is on the roll. I wish I could say the same about your MR2. keep up the good work and I want to see pics of the SC!

[bbarnumboy]

well as far as i know the supercharger should have been shipped out today. "monday" no confirmation on that though.

well the maintenance portion of this project just took a major step forward. i thank taylor for his garage, and alex for his help alot! pretty much in the course of saturday and sunday i would say i spent 30-35 hrs working on the car to do the following.

raised the car and removed the tranny, driveshaft, guibo etc. proceeded to clean the very nasty trannsmission, with 8 cans of brake cleaner . lol there were three of us blasting it like a hose. but it turned out amazing, and looks brand new. keep in mine this thing leaks from every little spot it can, that is why this is all being done.

we did the brain surgery with picks and screw drivers to remove all the tranny seals to replace them. and it all turned out great. i warn anyone who has a E-36 BMW to not remove your tranny it sucks. me and alex spent 1-2 hours on one bolt during the installation because, bmw decided to make the starter bolts, mate with a loose nut which is inaccessible with tools or even hands. so that was frusterating and fun, thought about welding them to the starter but cant get that out lol.

in the end the installation went well, and through this i discovered why the car started to get a bad vibration at high speeds and revs, and it was the Guibo, which is the rubber six bolt dampener for the drive shaft. the old one i could flex and bend, it was horrible.

i will plaster this with pics and action pics to make it exciting. enjoy, and next on the list is supercharger installation and front of engine leaking/seals replacement. oh yeah and i welded a bung in for the new O2 for the AFR gauge it works amazing!

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done