Davegerous E21

[Dave-ger]

It lives!

I need to figure out why it idles kind of high. the idle screw is adjusted all the way out. I know I have a vacuum leak at my bottom factory carb spacer, but I don't think that's causing the high idle. Perhaps I just need to jet down? I don't know.

[C-Hutch]

I've always seen your sig but never read your actual build thread. I just did, and I gotta say your fabricate-whatever-I-want, jump right in attitude is awesome. And it's cool that you have a rotary in this thing!

[amichaels]

sitting in class at sac state, looked up after reading this build and it's about 30 minutes later. thank you for teaching me valuable info

[Dave-ger]

Thanks folks, I'm honored to have left such an impact.

[Dave-ger]

I've removed the stock carb spacer, which helped the idle, now I need to check for more vacuum leaks soon and see if that's why my idle is at about 1200 RPM. Anyways, the carb is working great, probably the best upgrade I've ever done to this car. Now if only I could finish eradicating my bad vibration that upset me enough to have it for sale a while back.




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Also, I want to change up the color. I think I'm going to paint the white trim black (kind of got tired of the white), and I was thinking of either a different shade of blue, or maybe a gold. the passenger side rear quarter panel has a ton of bondo on it that is rusting from underneath, so it's been chipping away and reminding me that I need to do a little body work. I guess that's the trouble with a totaled car.

Here's a photoshop from a long time ago of my car to give you a feel of gold. My friend Alex isn't down with the idea, but I'm thinking it would look good, and my opinion is the most important on this issue.



Also, I believe I broke my front ring and pinion in my crawler. So now I have even more stuff to add to my huge mental list of things to do with my projects.




The good news is, I just sold my ford 2.3 turbo motor, which was bought to maybe start a replacement for the BMW... while I didn't want to sell it too badly, I wasn't going to get around to it for a while, and it paid for my holley.

[P78]

gold could be awesome, u goin with a retro gold color?

[softg]

I think anything earthy, gold, tan, brown with a satined finish and some red accents would be so cool. my $.02

check this, should be the first pictures

http://speedmatsuri.blogspot.com/2012/04/2012-idlers-games-rd-1.html

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/rwb?before=1334774531

[Dave-ger]

I'm on board with those paint ideas, but I don't think red accents are for this car. I was kind of thinking of an earthy brown or retro gold actually. or maybe a greyish blue, sort of like the stock color of the car. that way my door jams and stuff would still match kind of.


In other news, just two not so amazing burnouts made my freshly rebuilt diff whine. I'm pretty upset with that after having gone through all the trouble putting diffs in and out of the car and spending all that money. I just had 3 hernias on my stomach repaired, so I'm not supposed to lift more than 10 pounds for 8 weeks. ........ but anyways, when I get a chance I'll get under the car and make sure the crush sleeve didn't come loose or something and maybe pop the cover off. I'm pretty sure I'm either just going to get rid of the car, or more likely, upgrade the diff. I'm pretty sure things like E28's and E30's have the same bolt pattern for the CV's and stuff, so if I could find something like that, I can change my sub frame and stuff to make it fit... if the width is correct that is. Another option if I can make it fit without interfering with my fuel cell setup is to simply put a linked live axle under the back of the car. If my fuel cell isn't in the way of that, (haven't checked that out), it might be a realy good option I think, of perhaps I can try to retro fit an S13 or FC rear subframe, supsension, diff under the back of the car. Lots of options perhaps.

The guy who rebuilt my diff has an extremely good reputation, so I trust he did everything right. My friend who owns G Fab Motorsports only trusts him to set up gears, so I've seen the guy's gear setups holding up to some seriously gnarly rock crawling. if he sets stuff up that withstands rock crawling, there is no way something he did wouldn't handle 2 burnouts in a 2500 pound car, unless E21 diffs are just flat out crap.

Anyways, that's where I'm at with the car.

[Dave-ger]

It's alive!



My horrible vibration issue is gone! (long story)
the rear U joint on the driveline was bad. It was fine when the driveline was put in, but it took me a while of trouble shooting to finally replace the bad tail shaft bushing on the other end. Between that, the period of time where the sub frame bushings were shot (making the car behave in a scary way on the road), and the fact that the U joint was re-used from the driveline that almost killed me (it was nice and tight when it was put in the new driveline), I guess it just went bad around the time I resolved the other issues. The car is tight like a tiger now though!




The bad news is that the diff that was inspected, which only had slight heat marks on the pinion bearings, still makes more noise than I'd like it to. I tried Lucas oil stabilizer in the diff along with some high quality fully synthetic gear oil, and it's not nearly as bad as before the inspection, but still, it makes me nervous. Since it's significantly quieter than before, I'm not going to worry about it for now unless it gets worse. I'm pretty happy that I can finally drive my car over 50 and feel great. Upgrading the brakes will soon be in order.

[Dave-ger]

the vibration is back.

the good news is that I know what it is, and I think it's happening because i have no angle at my pinion U joint (I've read that the needle bearings don't move like that and thus fail), and I have some angle (probably too much) at the trans output. Solution? hopefully raising the trans a little bit, thus reducing the difference in angle at the two ends, and also giving the rear U joint just enough angle to rotate the needle bearings. I guess they are supposed to be within 3 degrees of each other or something, and they probably aren't now.


In other news, I've given the car a little bit of TLC with my small amounts of free time, and I managed to go to the Bendubs Show N Shine 2012!

http://vimeo.com/47991609

[Wyatt Lay]

Sassy!

[zxert]

Shocking!

[Dave-ger]

All I do now is work, so I decided to put some adventure into the other day. Ground clearance, snow tires, ABS, VSC, FWD and AWD or defrosters are nice to have, but not necessary.

[montgomery]

I owe you money. Paint your car.

[logyt]

Your car is awesome dave!