hakhawks cosmos e36 coupe

[hakhawk]

not much happening, still waiting on parts.

got the oil pump rebuilt, feels good, will have to wait til its on to find out if it works :S



yesterday was quiet at work, so i decided it was time to sort out the wiring nightmare behind the glovebox(mainly because itll make my life easier when i setup the piggyback ecu which will reside in that area aswell)

before/midway. i pretty much just had everything bundled up in there, nothing was organised as id had it apart multiple times to do different things, and always rushed it back together



after, not perfect, but much more manageable



and my intercooler arrived earlier in the week. i had to have a play with it and make sure itd fit as its fucking huge!!

bumper removed and cooler tied up with speaker wire. so much for subtle



clears the bumper(just). itll get a mist of black to hide it a bit, but its most noticable through the kidney grilles, seeing as itll sit so close to them



need to remove the aircon condenser bracket for more angle, then itll sit in nicer



overall im happy, and now need to make up some mounts to be welded to it

[hakhawk]

more work while i wait for parts to arrive

stripped both my dual pickup oil pumps to rebuild into one. you may wonder why i have 2 pumps, well that would be because the first one arrived broken, due to a lack of packaging materials. the second took 12 months to receive as a replacement(but at least it actually arrived)



i degreased the sump finally and worked out where i'll be getting the drain bung welded on for the supercharger



then i bolted the charger brackets and such together again for a (hopefully) final floor test fit after painting everything. it all looks good, fits together properly, pulleys all look to line up nicely.

[hakhawk]

parts are slowly trickling in for the power steering res move, just waiting on the cooler now. ive been trying to get some help about what to replace to get my vanos system running properly, with no luck. so i decided to bite the bullet and just repair/replace everything.

first off is the vanos unit itself, seeing as its a decent job, and i need the car running, i ordered a spare unit to build. it arrived today

it was advertised as working fine, but i might as well rebuild it before installing, be silly not to. it seems most vanos units look like this, with corrosion/whatever around the boltsmine looks very much the same, as did other ones on ebay. i'll be cleaning the housing and covers up.



and im glad i stripped it down. some of the orings were hard, the rest were getting there. one of the bolt holes was actually partly stripped. i retapped it, and willl run a longer bolt in that hole. the rest of the holes had varying amounts of corrosion/crap in them, so ran the tap through them all. unfortunately 2 bolts snapped, but being off the motor will be much easier to remove.



the seal kit is on its way, and some of the orings wont be here til end of feb, along with a new accumulator for it aswell.

[royalife]

loveeeeeee

[hakhawk]

today was the day i put the charger (mostly) back together.

gave everything a final clean and installed the gears into the gearcase



new cover seal on, and front covber bolted back in place. bearings slid in nicely this time, hopefully they wont come apart if i have to pull the cover off again.



machined up a small spacer/washer to hold the pulley in place. it was previously held with some random crush washers on the back side, and a grubby looking washer on the front. i made damn sure everything lines up(which it seems to), so hopefully when it goes on i wont have to worry about shredding belts



speaking of belts, its all gonna be nice and close. worst case i need to get some smaller diameter pulleys. ignore the bottom area of belt on alt pulley, was just where i pulled it tight, but top area in front of oil filter housing is roughly where itll go to waterpump.



it doesnt look like much space between bracket and charger outlet, but theres plenty enough. i may need to rotate it around some more to clear strut tower, but earlier test fit says i should be fine. also, you'll notice the "mostly" back together of the charger, its missing the impeller, left that off incase i need to pull anything apart again before it goes in, save any damage.



top down everything looks right, think ill sort out some sort of clamp to hold the oil line to the bar, make it a bit neater. need to get one more bolt for the comp housing brackets.

[hakhawk]

today i played with the charger bracket, drilled and tapped the final hole needed for a pulley, ran a drill bit through each hole to remove some burrs, then i worked on the bracket ive decided to add to hopefully stop any forward/backwards flex in the alloy(essentially nicked the idea from the vf engineering setup for e36). bent the bar, notched the ends to suit, then welded it up.

i still need to smooth off some of the visible welds, mainly coz i suck at welding :p but the penetration is there, and thats the main thing.

its probably overkill, but id rather overkill than spitting a belt.

instagram pic because lazy

[royalife]

fck yea!

[hakhawk]

^cheers guys

more progress, the power steering res worked well, and is bolted to the strut tower. just waiting on a cooler and some hose/fittings to plumb it up and try it out.

looks factory enough to me!



and today i received my new charger bracket and comp housing clamps from my mate today. i need to drill one hole, and clean up the edges and such.



this bracket has identical mounting locations to the original one, but has less excess material, venting for the alternator and looks a hell of a lot nicer.



compressor housing clamps i had made because it only came with 2, and i wanted a third. additional hole is to get maximum clamping surface depending on bolt hole locations. i had 4 made



bottom spacer needs some more machining, not much, but ill probably do it anyway. better safe than sorry



and the one im sure everyone was waiting on, the test fit. just on the oil filter housing and blower, but it all fits.

[rozayE36]

looks great. very motivating

[xXp_ExoTiic_qXx]

Incredible!

[hakhawk]

so i picked up some bits at the wreckers on the weekend to start relocating the power steering res, seeing as its in a difficult spot to check, and is in the way of cooler piping.

i grabbed a bracket off an e46, and started hacking away at it today. end result, it fits where the old washer bottle bracket was.



the hoses may end up close to the headers, in which case ill throw some heatshield sleeve over them, but looks the goods so far



then when i got home i blasted the cut sections with the welder, so its nice and solid, then hit it with some black paint.



just have to sort out hoses, and im going to throw a powersteering cooler on it for the hell of it.

[Nico]

Badass Badass E36, anytime i take a look in this thread i cant get enough.

[hakhawk]

Why havent you just put the super charger on yet? hurry up :P

shush you, or i'll switch your indicator and headlight wires around!!

today i tested the piggyback ecu test loom. first i checked signal to each injector, as the injector wires were the only thing i wasnt sure on. the previous owner had wired them in a completely different setup to the instructions i was given by the ecu manufacturer.

the outputs worked as per instructions, so i was happy to start it up and see if it ran, which it did. bit rough, but not wrong. real test will be when it gets tuned i guess.

everything seems to read alright, adjusting timing and fuel trim seems to work.



then later today i cranked the mini lathe up again and made up some spacers for the charger bracket and idler pulleys. ignore the offset hole in the big one, me being slack, not using a small enough pilot drill, it kicked off center. not a big concern seeing as its just a spacer. the ends are flat, which is the main thing.

[Cinemod]

Why havent you just put the super charger on yet? hurry up :P

[hakhawk]

^blow me noddy!

so yesterday i replaced the tie rod ends and rack ends, because i knew there was some play on the left hand side last time it was in the air, but last few weeks its been feeling worse on the highway, so i bit the bullet.

silly driveway means front splitter almost kisses the ground



can see my modifid washer bottle in this pic, still holding strong



yes, thats me swinging a spanner, also barefoot, because slivers of metal on the shed floor do wonders for the soles of your feet!!



interesting, it has rack spacers to stop the tyres hitting the inner arches on full lock. i thought only m3's got these



all done, reused the original boots because they were perfect, just a touch dirty



while i had the wheels off, i decided to have a look behind the guard liners to see if i could squeeze the charcoal canister in there, to make more space for charger piping.

turns out i could!!

cut off some of the bracket that gets in the way(which probably actually didnt)



extend fuel vapor and vaccum lines, theres an access hole near the chassis rail where the brake sensor lines and such go, worked perfect.

i had to make a angled spacer to kick the top of the canister back a bit, since the bracket is angled, i just cut down and filed down the face of a aluminum fitting i had lying around, no pics.



guard liner back on, tyre just touches on full lock, i'll hit the plastic with a heatgun ad try and push it in a touch further sometime.



plenty of space for piping now, just need to move that power steering res.



and then i washed it during the test drive