E39 Build: 6.0 LS. Coils. Burnouts.

[Earl]

So damn good=)

[e38art]

such a sick build man. ill be picking your brain when i swap the m62 in my e38 for an LS.....and then boost it muahaha

[cullen61918]

enough pics? well documented!

[nsogiba]

well shit





couldn't handle the severe race conditions I guess

[Earl]

That sucks=/

[Darkyoshi154]

That sucks man

[nsogiba]

ok, there is a happy ending to the story (not that kind of happy ending)

overnighted a balancer from Summit, but because it was ordered after the evening shipping deadline it wasn't going to make it in time. There was just one left locally, so I snagged that and a 3 jaw puller. Unfortunately it was the same aftermarket brand as the one that failed, so I have to install the ACDelco that showed up too late. After scratching my head for a while figuring out how to pull her off, I came up with this:

Started here


Took a lot of wiggling to get everything lined up right


and off




I just so happened to have a spare Goodyear belt laying around so popped that on and buttoned it up:



6.0 E39 Fixed! - Click for Video

just in time for this


and this


and most importantly this


Leaving the Wedding - Click to View

I can't seem to get the youtube videos to embed so if anyone can help that'd be appreciated.

a special thanks to my best man, Tim (technician117) who helped immensely throughout the evening (mostly calming my nerves and helping pack the car at the end of the evening).

The End

[speakerboy]

Congratulations on the wedding (most important), and getting the car fixed! Moar burnouts - maybe in the daytime?

[philohlean]

Dude congrats on getting married! Still hope I'll see this thing around Buffalo sometime before I leave

[DeltaAlpha9]

Damn fine build thread. What are your plans for the car in the future?

[nsogiba]

Congratulations on the wedding (most important), and getting the car fixed! Moar burnouts - maybe in the daytime?

Yeah - I need to have someone film/shoot from the outside since it's always more interesting from that angle

Dude congrats on getting married! Still hope I'll see this thing around Buffalo sometime before I leave

Yeah, seems the season is pretty much over, the car is being put away in the next 2 months I think.

Damn fine build thread. What are your plans for the car in the future?

Over the winter:

Install AC
figure out why one of the coilovers feels blown
little odds and ends to reduce some NVH

Long term:
BW S475

[E.Three.0]

Can't read cause I'm in class, but definitely subscribing because of title.

[MommysLittleMonster]

Congrats on the wedding, dude.

I need to get my ass out in your direction to go racing at NYIRP at least one more time this year. Are you anywhere near the track?

[nsogiba]

haha, so funny you ask. I am just under an hour away and just went friday!



Leisurely ride


Crisp, cool fall evening. I wanna say it was in the high 50s








First pass of the evening. I basically sidestepped the clutch at around 2000 rpm - this usually results in the least amount of wheelspin but some significant wheel hop. Once it hooks up it takes a second to come up into the powerband of the cam which kills my 60'


2nd pass, gave it a lot more revs (3200ish?) and slipped the clutch a bit. Still hopped but not as bad. Best pass yet since the motor swap. Back in June I ran 13.5 @ 111 in 95F ambient with 3.62 gears and a 27.25" tall tire, trapping at the top of 3rd! Since then I put shorter tires on it (25.7" tall) and swapped gears. I was expecting the gear swap from 3.62 to 3.91 to make it spin even more off the line and kill my trap speed but it looks like the motor doesn't need to be spun to the moon to make power - the shift to 4th picked up a few mph. Not fast by modern car standards but fun enough for an old boat


I'm sure we can make some improvements here


Nothing broke, home in 1 piece

[nsogiba]

I finished reassembling the coilovers last night. Sure enough, I had somehow accidentally assembled the driver's side rear wrong the first time, placing the load bearing washer underneath the mount rather than on top. The mount had its brains beat in by the concentrated force and failed spectacularly. Brain fart I guess, but oh well. The symptoms were total lack of damping and that wheel bouncing so hard on large bumps that the wheel would leave the pavement (verified by GoPro under the car).

The brain fart washer:


This is supposed to be one pressed in piece, haha. Fell apart when removing from the unibody.



Permanently deformed on top from being smashed around




I took a quick peek at the driveshaft support bearing and it's pretty beat up as well. Since there's nothing stopping the shaft moving front to back, the soft rubber of the bearing has to hold the whole damn shaft...so, even with the quart of Window Weld that I gooped on there, it still separated. I'll have to throw some pics up when I remove it.

Also picked up a new daily. Originally this was supposed to be a winter only vehicle and sit during the summer, but I need a car that can haul stuff year round so I upped my budget a bit and found this locally. '09 Outback XT Limited with a fairly rare 5 speed.