my kraut burner

[hakhawk]

so uhh, whilst collecting parts for the car today, i also collected a rabbit and a nail on the way home!! noticed the nail since it was tapping against my guard after hitting the rabbit, drop tyre off to tyre shop tomorrow and see if its fixable, hope so!!

the rabbit did a good job on the bumper, one big mashed area(probably where its head hit) and many other stress cracks around the area. looks like im gonna be rockin the steel bumper for a while, while i fix it(gives me a chance to put the chrome paint on too)



chucked the 002's on for now, gonna have to take it easy on these, they break traction waaay too easily with the new motor




now onto the good stuff!! ordered some more bits last thursday from the states, and theyre here already!! i got the correct rear rotors this time(see they bolt on :p), an oil temp gauge to replace the boost gauge in the dash, some russell proclassic braided hose, and a bunch of fittings. i'll be putting my oil cooler and remote filter on this weekend! and i ordered some better camber/toe adjusters for the rear, these weld to the subframe, instead of being an eccentric bush. much more adjustment.

i was digging the old valance better but it still looks good regardless.............and for some reason the style of this series bmw reminds me of james bond. :screwy:

[hakhawk]

so not much happening lately, cars driving fine, just spending money on more upgrade parts and waiting for them to turn up.

this weekend though, i tried the modified dizzy housing after getting it welded again. it still leaks, so this time i slapped a bit of jb weld on it, and its only weeping a tiny bit now. hopefully it holds up for the next week or so, while i get iblown to make me a new housing, no half assing it this time, one piece billet plz.

also got dad to check the tappets(hasnt been checked since motor went in), and theyre fine. whilst playing under the bonnet, we noticed the alternator bracket was broken, so welded that up and its ok again now.

i should start playing with the timing soon, just gotta get the time to.

random engine bay shot, looks so much better with no dizzy. also took the old ignition module and wiring off.

[hakhawk]

took her for a drive today, ended up in a few different places and putting another 350ks on the motor

heres a few pics











and more pics here

sunday drive - a set on Flickr

[hakhawk]

so we went for a looooong drive to get a mates new car, and got a few shots of the bmw.

parked out front of mates shop



rolling shot with a mate in the passenger seat



parking at a servo



next to mates car for shits n giggles

[sixonefive]

i <3 e21's!!!

[ollycarbs]

thanks, i guess i will change mine for stock too, not so expensive so...
i will try to find something stronger after...

[hakhawk]

hey!!!
still awesome work there!!!

i re-start mine last sunday and i ride it all day now!

I hope you don't speak about that previously but do you work on the engine mounts? i wanted to put some stiffer one to replace the stock dead one but i can't find something great for E21, some guys use E30 m10 mounts but it looks not working for one side...

still on stock mounts, theyre still in ok condition, but yeh want to get something stronger sometime.

[ollycarbs]

hey!!!
still awesome work there!!!

i re-start mine last sunday and i ride it all day now!

I hope you don't speak about that previously but do you work on the engine mounts? i wanted to put some stiffer one to replace the stock dead one but i can't find something great for E21, some guys use E30 m10 mounts but it looks not working for one side...

[hakhawk]

picked up a replacement muffler today, coz the old one finally decided to shat itself on the way to work, its 90% broken around the back of it, and the mount that the last person put on was on the tailpipe, so it has broken from weight. got a couple new mounts to mount it properly tomorrow.



bye by dizzy, got the spare housing plugged and welded, so will paint that and put it on tomorrow, and that nice big chunk of alloy sitting beside it, well... thats for something else

[hakhawk]

ok, monday just gone, went to start her in the morning and nothing, ended up late for work(had to get a lift). got home, messed around with it, turns out i killed my circuit breaker(most likely that night, as it was working in the morning), and the crank sensor(note: dont go grinding any plastic off around the end of the sensor, not enough material, hits coil wires )

so i ordered another sensor(from an aussie car, ford, slightly diff mounting points), and a bigger battery, small one just wasnt cutting it with new ignition system, and bypassed circuit breaker(for now, ordering new one monday)). swapped the wires on the sensor and she fired up without hesitation today.

new battery(moved it to above axle, instead of behind it this time). just gotta clean up the area where the old box used to be. gotta get some cable protective stuff, and maybe reroute the cable somewhere else



couple pics from a drive today, here

[hakhawk]

idling and a few revs on the megajolt ecu(moreso to show the lack of leads on the dizzy :p)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzjhWR_KOac

and a test drive. starts off a bit boring though. no high revs, still running in motor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rZ2iu8c_U

[hakhawk]

cheers guys, heres some more mods for your enjoyment :p

this weekend was dedicated to getting my ecu running, which i did!!

first things first, i scraped my bumper for the first time yesterday, forgot and reversed out a parking lot wrong, and it scraped backwards, and took a couple chunks out. no biggie





wired the edis module up under glovebox, only place i could find that wasnt in the way, or in enginebay



wired the ecu up and mounted it beside my cheap ass "headunit"



ok, so the edis kit that i got for the ecu came with coil on plug, but they wont fit with the current brake system where it is(another reason on the list to piss it off :p)

so, knowing i can use commodore coilpacks(the edis system is wasted spark, like vn-vs v6 commodores), i got to work making a pair of coils work.

grabbed a module and cut the end coil area off, ripped the alu plate off the bottom, and gutted it.



i worked out what pins id need(the ones that goto each coil) and removed the rest. soldered up my wires, and globbed a heap of hotglue on it to stop anything coming astray



i drilled some holes, welded some nuts under the wheel arch and mounted the coils to the car, came out pretty good. just need to get some leads made up to suit(using an old set of commodore leads for now, 3 are good, ones mega long)



final setup. will run it as is for a week, and get a spare dizzy housing modified to remove the dizzy hole. was hoping to remove the oil sensor hole aswell, but not enough money to get the remote filter stuff sorted before taking dizzy off. oh well, a bung will do fine.

can spot the fan mount changes i did yesterday too, trialing it for now, but its raised low speed temps, and hasnt really changed higher speed temps. might go back to old shroud and a cooler thermostat.




uploading some vids, will take a while though.

[not.cute]

at least that head is super complicated lol

[HTOWN///M3]

looks badass. You did a great job with this car! I WANT ONE SOOO BAD!!!