mk3 gti and an e21

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hopefully sickening in a good way haha. although many times i am sickened when all these arts break haha.

[itsjustkevin]

Slamburglars fuck yea! The e21 is sickening man

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So I installed my brand new pump. The other used pump I put in was starting to go bad. The new pump seems to be working just fine. I am havering a tough time finding a mounting adapter for my autometer pressure gauge though, but that will be going in soon so I can keep an eye on things.

And the other thing I noticed is my motor mount arm is broken. Good thing i didn't drive it very far. I had been telling harry for a week or two I noticed the car was more rumbly, and I assumed my trans mount collapsed because i knew it was going bad. my car surprised me haha.



Thankfully the guy on e21legion sent me a new one for free and it's the beefier steel version

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Picked up some wheels for the e21. I need spacers for the rear, lower the front a lot more, and lower the rear a bit more. Also the tires I'm mounting have a bit taller side wall than the tires that came with the wheels.

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A few pics of the Gti

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So my original oil pump for the e21 had 330xxx miles and the pressure relief valve became permanently stuck. The pump I put in has 150xxx miles and the valve is sticky. I finally bit the bullet and bought a new pump.

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showing the GTI some love

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So I installed all new shift linkage. The shifter feels much better. The internals of the trans feel a little worn, but that's another issue.

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since the car is dead it has been parked on a hill. I had to move it for street cleaning. It became very heavy so i pushed it up the hill with the gti and messed up both cars bumpers -___- . I should have let it sit and paid a $60 street cleaning ticket instead of causing a couple hundred in damage to my cars :/


I finally got all the stuff to fix the e21s oil pressure. And some stuff to fix the shifter slop and vacuum leaks. ��





after doing a bit of research i guess its common for the oil pressure relief valve (in yellow) to get stuck open and cause a loss of oil pressure when its stuck. I think this is what happened to my car because the other day I started it and it had oil pressure. This means the knock was just a loss of pressure and not a spun bearing. Either way I have new bearings to slide in and the lower mileage pump. 170xxx miles versus my e21 pump with 330xxx miles

so I worked on the BMW yesterday

took out the old oil e21 pump

put back in my lower mileage e30 pump

put on a newer gear with fresh teeth, plenty of loctite, and a shim for the chain

my rod bearings were definitely toast. The main bearings and crank were all fine.

slapped in the new bearings and a good pump and no more oil light. hooray.

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and i finally figured out the issues with the e21 so i can drive it hooray!




and this stupid thing spun a bearing. All i did was start the car and i noticed a loud clunk, then i saw my low oil pressure light. I thought it might be valve train tick at first so i let it warm up, but as I raised the rpm up to 1k it got really loud. Valve train tick wouldn't cause a low oil pressure light, and valve train noise is at twice engine rpm compared to rod knock.

This car is cursed.

Luckily con rod bearings are like $40 and my friend can get me a new OEM bmw oil pump for $55.

If much more breaks soon after this i dont know if i can take it.





well I have ordered the stuff to hopefully fix my loss of oil pressure. I will inspect the bearings next week and hope the damage is minimal and slide in some new bearings and a newer pump. All this darn maintenance could have been cool wheels and coil overs darn it. Thats all I really care about. I am putting back in my lower mileage (175xxx) e30 pump compared to my e21 pump (330xxx) miles.

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The stupid e21 is quite challenging hhaha. The car cuts power off idle sporadically and it is annoying. I opened up the AFM and cleaned the resistor contacts. I now have the specs to measure out the resistors so I might go back in since the car still has drivability issues.



And I had spare parts from the e30, so I swapped the coil, cap, wires, ignition control module, and gapped the plugs

I had previously extended the wires to the ignition control module, but they were bothering me, so I cut out the extension and soldered the wires short again and shrink wrapped it.
Still drives the same oh and i checked the fuel pressure regulator.

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the new motor as i was stripping it down and cleaning it


the fresh motor when it was going in


The bmw now runs. all "modern" with that swap from a '84 e30 haha. EFI and AFM working and got rid of the bosch CIS. some dude drove out from reno to buy my old CIS parts. he was pumped.

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[berjjj]

Hey man, I own the white e21 you posted above on ssr's.
Seems higher in photos than reality haha, you'd have to do some fairly serious subframe mods to drop the car any further, the LCA's would rest on the subframe otherwise! Here's a side profile pic

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Someone posted up an E21 on 13" SSR Mk3s a while back. Absolutely go 13".

oh you mean this one? this car is my motivation. I just hope to be a bit lower.



i think this guy is on 13s as well. could use more low, but i dig the wide 13s