hakhawks cosmos e36 coupe

[e34///M]

what made you paint it? it was beautiful...

[hakhawk]

inlet hasnt progressed, been busy ordering parts

one of which turned up today. OEM side door mouldings.

i bought ebay copies not long after i first got the car, and they never fit correctly. eventually they started to bow with heat, many times did they pop off when i opened the door.

i finally decided to bite the bullet and go genuine. the difference in quality is amazing, theyre much heavier than the ebay jobs, everything feels more solid.

before: you can see the bow, drivers side the rear section bowed out aswell.



and after: theyre textured instead of smooth, i also swapped over my ///M Clubsport badges :p



random pic



going to repaint my alpinas, and throw some fresh tyres on, the bbs are almost due for tyres, so ill take them off and repolish.

[hakhawk]

haha all good dude!!

so next project in between doing a billion other things, carbon foglight duct for charger intake

so this is the vision. these can be bought as a pair for a cool $599us, i only need the passenger side and they arent even the same shape as the foglight hole.



so i have a bunch of carbon fibre cloth and epoxy lying around from the airbox project. ill be trying to use scrap bits before cutting any of the good stuff off.

lets build one shall we.

take a mould of spare foglight to get shape



not bad. couple bits of tape got embedded under resin, but cut out easily enough. bog will fix any problems, but theyre on the edge and wont be seen.



shape the inlet with foam



couple layers of fibreglass over that(should have taped it more, as it ate through and left the glass wrinked)



bam, thats the basic shape. bog and sand this to get it smooth and curvy



cut a hole in the base piece, and once the inlet is shaped how i want, i'll cover it in release wax and glass into the base piece to create the plug mould for carbon fibre to get laid into



its probably a long winded process, but so far its working how id planned(mostly :p)

[SnazzyQ]

ill buy my own cookie!!

only way i could rock that low is bags(and im too cheap for bags), i drive the shit outta this thing every day, so it needs to function.

i could sprout a tonne of excuses/reasons as to why i cant go that low, but really i just dont need to go that low. im happy with the cars height, how it drives, how it sits on the road.

i love low, but id like to destroy as little as possible when i push it hard through the hills

Damn stop giving me valid points that I cant argue against.

But I understand i was just giving you some shit lol.

#CanWeBeBestFriendsNow

[hakhawk]

more work today, finished rebuilding my spare vanos unit. now just need to install it



threw one of the silicon joiners and pipe on the supercharger, just to see where it sits now, looks to be in a decent spot. intercooler piping should be fairly easy by the looks.





then i decided to try and work out positioning for rubber stud mounts for the plenum. the one i got with the "kit" was only supported by the plastic trumpets and inlet hose. its not heavy, but vibrations over time will crack the trumpets, and theyre not cheap to replace. so as with most of the other stuff, i want to over engineer and make sure it wont fail on me, by using the existing bracket for the heavy cast factory plenum.

couple of pics to show the differences between the 2. this is a spare i had from when i was building the carbon intake(ill finish that oneday :p)





so to work out the positioning, i placed the plenum on the ground, marked out its location, and bent some alloy to get the bolt hole location, and marked it to replicate. i then put the new plenum down, and worked out where it would land.

then i grabbed some scrap alloy, and shaped it to fit where it needed to. i'll drill and tap holes once the blocks are welded on and i can double check position ON the car.

the IACV hose had to go, so i'll add another hose fitting for that, also need to add air temp sensor and pcv fitting.

[hakhawk]

Make your car this low and ill give you a cookie

Also I love your car.

(but lower it)

ill buy my own cookie!!

only way i could rock that low is bags(and im too cheap for bags), i drive the shit outta this thing every day, so it needs to function.

i could sprout a tonne of excuses/reasons as to why i cant go that low, but really i just dont need to go that low. im happy with the cars height, how it drives, how it sits on the road.

i love low, but id like to destroy as little as possible when i push it hard through the hills

[SnazzyQ]

Make your car this low and ill give you a cookie

Also I love your car.

(but lower it)

[hakhawk]

some supercharger progress!!

finished cutting and positioning the outlet, and got it welded, along with a vband clamp for the inlet.



threw some paint on it last night(weather was awesome)



so much more clearance now, drain fitting should fit a lot better too!



so i started playing with the inlet piping, needed to cut it on an angle to clear the strut tower, and wanted to get it closer in to the charger.



might need to trim the alternator air duct to get it to swing around a bit more, but thats just a bit of plastic :p



pretty happy with position, should clear everything but need to bolt it all on the car and test fit again. shame its raining today




and a random engine bay shot from the other day

[hakhawk]

so i replaced the fuel pump last week, picked up some response/power doing that, so it definitely needed it. next is to put the old pump into the passenger side to eliminate starving through corners with low fuel.

fairly sure this was the original 20yo pump



also replaced the bonnet cables with 2 new bmw cables, also needed doing. cleaned the latches while i was at it.



gave it a wash today, havent really given it a wash since being on holidays. its still not clean, but its better than before.

[hakhawk]

yeh, i mustve got lucky coz i dont think i saw any cops til i hit canberra. wanted to just open it up through most of it, but can never be sure whats lurking over the crests

[e36bm]

It's a mad drive up to Canberra through bombala-Cooma way. I drive it a few times a year, it's a shame every second car is a HWP.

[hakhawk]

so im finally home from a 2 week holiday, took the e36 upto qld to catch up with friends there and on the way, was an awesome trip!!

did roughly 5000km
used roughly 500l/$800 in fuel

things that failed:
-broken bonnet cable(middle one between the 2 latches, was on its way out anyway) happened on the first day!
-left hand HID intermittent on startup(pretty sure its bad/dirty connection, as it started playing up when rad hose popped)
-hesitation/bogging after ~2hrs of driving(mixed highway/town/traffic), seems heat related as it fixes itself after more highway cruising or parking for 10mins or so, and only happened on hot days. will check codes tomorrow, see if anything shows up.

the bonnet cable would have broken regardless, the hid i should have fixed already, the hesitation is the only real bad thing, and isnt directly related to the drive, so im super happy with how the car went.

ive got an absolutel stackload of pics to go through, so for now i think ill just dump a bunch now, and maybe some more later on.

so first day was the drive to canberra, stopped in cooma for some lunch







then met up with a mate in canberra



sunday we took the car to the German Auto Display, was a great day, met some more people, looked at some mad cars, got sunburnt, relaxed!

got there nice and early, so got to see some of the cars rolling in.



^was fitted with chrome/billet stuff everywhere



this thing turned heads as it rolled in. some of you would have seen it going around facebook and the likes with a 6/71 hangin out the bonnet. in current form, he said its around 700hp from memory



obligatory gogomobile pic



boat car didnt sink



some of bmw section



some of vw section



rolling back to sydney with some of the people i met there









some of the areas i stopped along the way, usually for lunch or breakfast









funky laundromat in port macquarie



seagulls are everywhere, always, relentless



went to bathurst, see here http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...eum-visit.html (shouldnt need to login/make an account to view pics)

moore park beach in qld, one of the places i grew up, i do miss it





and some pics of the car that i took today

[hakhawk]

nope, no problems as of yet.

[Nixxon]

No problems with brakes overheating with that covered up hole?

[hakhawk]

photodump