Well feast your eyes on this lunacy! 6-1-19 tinker

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Re: Well feast your eyes on this lunacy! 6-1-19 tinker

Post by 164 coupe » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:33 pm

Fantastic news that she is now road legal Simon.
Massive respect for your technical know how and sheer determination.
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Post by simon13 » Sat Feb 13, 2021 9:58 pm

Thanks all
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Post by bss325i » Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:33 pm

Mark is not a good passenger lol!

It’s been a great collective effort at BMR performance to get this up and running for Simon.

Lots of time spent going through 525i non EML and 535i EML wiring diagrams, working out parts that were either wrong or missing altogether.

A few more electrical niggles to sort out. A replacement Bi turbo instrument cluster would be a help!
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Re: Well feast your eyes on this lunacy! 6-1-19 tinker

Post by Drew » Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:52 am

Top job. The best news on the best thread on the forum!

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Post by Metrics » Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:06 pm

Nice work Simon, one very special and one off car!
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Re: Well feast your eyes on this lunacy! 6-1-19 tinker

Post by simon13 » Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:01 pm

Little update I've done 370 miles now and nothings fallen off!

I popped up to CPC the other saturday came away with a few new spares and a good chat catch up. Phil's a genius

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A spare turbo and 2 wastegates and the petrol flap off the original car! The only bit left of the shell now sadly




Had the bonnet up and a little poke around see how things are

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both belts felt loose, maybe from just everything settling down after some real use at last. Any how i adjusted both belts as they were slack.




I'd also noticed a bit of oil on the drive

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when adjusting the belts i needed the car in the air to do the power steering belt and this seems to be the leak. I've nipped up the 22mm banjo bolt and will keep an eye on it as this looks to be the leak




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clipped a kerb in a LHD moment like a tool. Luckily the tyre took damage and the wheel is ok and front spoiler




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I also broke down, 200 yards from home. It had run out of petrol.....kids were eating dinner and wife was pissed at coming out for a push to the side of the road, ha ha. Even more so when it just needed fuel lol


So 2 new tyres on order for the front and grounded until then as that bulge wouldn't be too clever to drive on. Desperate for the rolling road to re open. As its torture driving and keeping it sensible but the little mid range i've used is punchy. No red line action as i don't want to melt anything from possibly running lean

I had it snaking laying 11's up the road in 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th in the wet the other day and keeping the revs under 3500rpm! love it
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Post by jolls » Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:48 pm

Top stuff Simon. I tip my hat to you.
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Post by simon13 » Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:03 pm

i've driven about 700 miles now and all is good. Its been hard not driving it hard aswell without knowing whats going on properly with the engine



Yesterday i was finally able to put the car on the dyno due to covid restrictions relaxing and see how things are, back to Charlie who started this whole project.





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As i imagined, im running lean with 372bhp and 450lbs. But it appears my rev counter is not reading correctly for some reason which i do not know why but explains why it seems so long geared and would explain alot on that front. The rev counter should be reading nearly double what it does it seems. So plenty to sort out still and decide the best route but theres a fair bit of more power locked in there with the fueling mapping sorted
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Post by simon13 » Sun Oct 08, 2023 11:00 am

So i sold this yesterday to a nice chap with an e28 B9 also. Its gone to a good home with someone motivated to finish what i had started and turn it from a running driving car to a nice car with everything shiney and working
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Re: Well feast your eyes on this lunacy! 6-1-19 tinker

Post by KennyP » Sun Oct 08, 2023 11:10 am

A project and a half Simon. Glad it's gone somewhere you are happy with.

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Re: Well feast your eyes on this lunacy! 6-1-19 tinker

Post by ScooBeeFive » Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:11 pm

simon13 wrote:
Sun Oct 08, 2023 11:00 am
So i sold this yesterday to a nice chap with an e28 B9 also. Its gone to a good home with someone motivated to finish what i had started and turn it from a running driving car to a nice car with everything shiney and working
Good news Simon - nice to know it's gone to a good home. Hopefully we'll get to see it at some point.
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