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Pretty excited about these!
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Should hold me down a bit better at NCCAR.
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My grill is faded on my silbrgrau. What did they look like new? Black?Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
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Yup, black from the factory...Quote:
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Installed the used sprint booster v2 for testing before wiring to the sport button.
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IDK why some e46 guys don't like these things... pretty awesome in my opinion.
I am however tempted to scope throttle input and actual position on all 3 settings, feel free to link it if such a thing has already been posted.
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Not sure what you mean by that.
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I think I can answer this, as someone who really dislikes it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
I find it near impossible to drive the car smoothly with the Sprint Booster. It doesn't do a good job of providing an appropriate level of throttle response when barely touching the accelerator, and instead provides way too much output. In a Sprint Booster car, the only throttle positions seem to be on or off.
It needs to be able to sense whether the driving style being employed is aggressive or not so it can better react to the driving situation at hand, which it does not do. As a result, you have to finesse the throttle way too much to get a smooth start at anything less than an aggressive launch.
Ultimately, anything the Sprint booster does you can do with the stock pedal settings: add more throttle. If anything, the stock settings provide better control due to the larger usable range of input.
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I LOVE my SB, but to each his/her own. The new ones are way more customizable.
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Originally Posted by johnrando
I never had any of the issues that BP was referring to. Maybe he had a bad one? I had no problem rev matching or anything else with mine
I find it unlikely that the three cars I drove that had them all had defective units.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
I never owned one. I do have a PedalBox, which behaves a little better, but has the same fundamental problem, which is why it's disabled all the time.
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Bruh how you liking that leather wheel wrap compared to the Alcantara?
I like it, it ads a bit of thickness to the wheel so that is nice. But it's not perfect by any means. Easily has the potential to be if the manufacturer would make a minor adjustment to the pattern and or stitching.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZHPizza
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When I reached out to the ebay seller, they responded in similar fashion to Eonon, if you've ever dealt with them. i.e.; suggesting I remove the cover and try again, I'm not gonna lie when I realized the issue was there the first attempt I unstitched the wheel and started over again even went as far as to work from the opposite side. On that attempt I realized they had the pattern off and the stitching did not line up on both sides. So I got creative with the threading to get a tight fit. It looks [emoji106] everywhere except the right side around the top of 3 o'clock spot.
The leather is starting to fatigue in that area, but all in all money well spent.
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Installed the CCV solution from G.A.S.
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Was it pretty easy? Did you have to shave off some of the plastic?
Im liking that alot
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Originally Posted by Vas
Interested in your thoughts after some time behind the wheel with it.
The intake manifold needs a bit of work with a file, may have taken 2-3 minutes. The fuel rail cover needed a little bit of work as well. I'll post more detailed photos when I'm at a desktop.Quote:
Originally Posted by holyc0w
2 SB controllers were sacrificed for the sport button mod. Desoldering/ Soldering small circuitry is difficult without the proper equipment. [emoji28]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3f9f8a515e.jpg
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Squeezing the front mounts for as much camber as they can yield[emoji28]. I need plates ...[emoji17]
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I may get crap for this but, my mounts were pretty beat, lotta unnecessary movement and the occasional pop out of 6th gear... while I really wanted these.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f847bf4ab2.jpg from Black Forest industries.
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I know I know, "Megan racing" "ebay" "junk" etc. but I wanted to give them a shot,
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They claim to be a poly/rubber mix??? Not sure what that means.
The motor mounts are much smaller dimensionally, they weigh a bit more, the keying on the mounts is in the correct place. They installed as easy as any set of mounts. I thought it best to keep the factory heat shield in place.
The trans mounts were a bit different than I'm used to seeing, almost like a washer or plate is suspended between the two ends. But they too were keyed correct and mounted fine.
Start up I noticed only that the shifter seemed to vibrate less, not that it vibrated a lot to begin with. Driving around town there is no more clunk from sudden acceleration. I had written the accelerating clunk off as being caused by the akg diff bushings and limited slip diff.
No negative NVH to note.
And tomorrow they will be at the track!!!
I also installed a UUC clutch stop. Had to cut a bit off to get the right mounting depth for the clutch switch to engage.
I gotta say I can't believe I didn't buy the clutch stop sooner.
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Excited to hear how you like the cheapo mounts!
You can disable the clutch switch requirement in PA Soft btw. Spenser and I had to do that to use our UUC clutch stops.
Rebuilt the Vanos and performed the anti rattle from Besian.
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There was a significant amount of axial play that is now eliminated from the piston assembly.
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Curious to know, how big of a wear lip were in the piston bores of the VANOS? especially smaller bores in the covers...
They were worn but much less than I expected to see. I didn’t think to mic them while apart[emoji36]. the covers had less wear than the bore on the housing. I feel like you can almost see the lip in the intake housing/bore in the last photo
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Yea, I was asking because I still have mine apart. Mine appear to be worn out with, what I would consider, a huge lip. I have a micrometer and a caliper but nothing to measure bores correctly. My covers are worn more than the housing...
Raj at Beisan: "the bores should be 70mm and 45mm. anything more than .1mm is probably not good"
Idk I feel like the worn groove on mine was more than .1mm . The car accelerates much smoother after the procedure. I’d put it together and see what happens. The contacted area should be out past the seal anyhow. I’m thoroughly impressed with how nice the car drives after just 50+ miles of break in on the seals.
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Nice! I need to do this. How long did it take you?Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
I really took my time with it. I’ve never done a Vanos rebuild before. Worked on it last night from 4:15 to 6:00 on and off and this morning from 6:30 to 8:30 so 3.5hrs give or take.
I also ran into some issues with valve cover removal due to my installed G.A.S. CCV the filter housing top 2 portions had to be removed. And I had to either remove the secondary air port manifold on the intake or remove the stud in the head closest to the CCV outlet on the valve cover. I chose to remove the stud.
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Interesting, thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
How do you like the G.A.S. CCV unit? I haven't heard too much from any of the beta testers.
Only complaint is the bit of oil that spills during service. It may be user error on my end but I’ve done 2 oil services on it since install and both times I seem to spill a bit when I lift the cap section off.Quote:
Originally Posted by BMWCurves
The unit is super easy to clean. And had been clean both times I serviced it. I just spray down the passages with a bit of brake clean, wipe it off and back together it goes.
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Any oil consumption improvement?Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
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I really don’t think it’s had an affect on it. I’m still using about .5L every 3k
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Nice werk!Quote:
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Apex SM-10 18x8.5 et35
These came in today. Installed with a set of wheel studs. Tires are stock figment rear 255’s rub a bit
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Would love to see some more pictures
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I like these a lot more than the SM-5. Do you know what length those studs are?
I do tooQuote:
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They are 75mmQuote:
Originally Posted by 704sw
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They look really good on your car!