What endlinks are on your anti-roll bar? I have spherical rod ends, and they 'creak' when not lubed. The anti-roll bar bushings also creak if not lubed well.
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What endlinks are on your anti-roll bar? I have spherical rod ends, and they 'creak' when not lubed. The anti-roll bar bushings also creak if not lubed well.
Use a Teflon or silicone based lube on the poly bushings. Aladdin magic lube comes in both Teflon and silicone. The silicone based is super sticky. Yes you'll see it's for pool equipment but I've been using it since the 80's for everything where you don't want to use a petroleum based lubricant. Any lube that can survive in chlorinated water is going to be good stuff...
i think that might be my issue. i can't remember if i used silicone lube or PFTE lube... since it was likely 1AM when i installed them. :) if it was PFTE, then that might explain it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
I disconnected the sway bar, no change. In fact it may have gotten more frequent. I reinstalled the links and lubricated the bushings just to be safe.
Checked the torque on the strut nuts just to confirm the tightness.
Popped the cap off the nut area and I’m 99% sure i found the culprit.
Photo doesn’t do it justice but both sides have metal shavings in the bearing area
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Called Vorshlag and ordered a set of Oe style perches for the camber plates i got off another forum.
So we will see if the noise goes away in about a week or two.
Oh you're the one that got those... Good deal!
Camber plates are in! The front feels very well planted now that there is no rubber in the front suspension.
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Ride home was noise free, right up until I turned into my neighborhood.
I’m gonna do as some of you guys have mentioned and pull the fcabs back out and re lube them. I’ll be picking up a synthetic / water proof grease in the morning, not sure what’s in the generic wheel bearing grease at work...
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Millennial falcon?
Yeah, a co-worker/friend/the guy who trained me has decided that’s what he’s gonna call it. He also has a vinyl cutter. He was lobbying for that sticker to go on for some time. So I found a place for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZHPizza
Forgot about this as well,
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Purchased an oil pan off eBay and had a coworker weld in an Achilles baffle.
Can’t wait to install it one night next week.
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weird. yeah, i'm going to be doing the same this weekend - even the camber plates!Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
nice that you've got some more caster dialed in. i'm excited to dial in a lot more, currently at 4.6º, which is under spec (factory range is 5.5º to 6.5º, if i remember correctly).
Nice oil pan baffle... I have the VAC version of that... looks like you're running Bimmerbrakes Gen 3 headers?
Nice
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Thanks! And yeah they are Gen 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
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The fcabs were the culprit. Removed them and cleaned them. Applied a synthetic grease I picked up this morning. Green marine grease of some sort.
Noise is gone for now.
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I'm not so sure "lubing" the FCAB'S is recommended. I'm curious what the SIB says.Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
Looks great BTW.
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Thanks!,Quote:
Originally Posted by danewilson77
I think you may be confused lol, they are AKG bushings. They recommend wheel bearing grease, but what I originally used was flashing off and thinning out on hot/track days to the point that it sounded like the front was coming apart.
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Not confused. Just didn't know they were poly.Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
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I like my gen 3 headers... lots of torque but they were a bitch to install.Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
I'm using silicone based grease on my front and rear poly swaybar bushings... stuff works great! They've never dried out in the 6 or 7 years I've had them on the car. I re-apply when I take them off to do other maintenance as PM
Yes these are the worst headers as far as install goes. My co-workers think I’m joking when I say I’m just dropping the motor out on the table if i ever have to remove them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
And I’ll be keeping a close watch on these bushings, any more noise out of them I’ll try out a silicone grease.
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Lol I may have said that too... Plus I have a 70 lb supercharger on the other side... I'm thinking of dropping the whole thing to do the clutch
Yeah I’m holding on to the shred of hope that a used ESS kit will come up for sale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
Probably gonna do a lightweight flywheel in the next year on the ZHP.
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Wow - 70lbs... Really?? Is that just the weight of the blower or the whole system? How much did the additional weight affect front end grip?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sockethead
The twin screw its self it pretty massive and the manifolds before and after the blower are cast aluminum.
The box the whole kit came in was 90 lbs so I guesstimated 20lbs for the box, water pump heat exchanger small parts, etc.
I felt like I lost one of my nuts by the time I got that thing bolted in
I'm still on the fence of whether it's worth all the $$ and aggravation. Still having idling and drivability issuesQuote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
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Originally Posted by Sockethead
Wow I didn’t realize that. Are you trying to run their shelf tune and adjust via email or is it a local dyno tune?
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It's their off the shelf tune that they've been emailing updates for... Been through 6 tunes already... And initially, they sent me the wrong injectors
I don't think they are very good at tuning the MS45 especially if you have any mods at all
Problems I'm having is idle, off idle and any time I try to rev match. Sometimes it will seem like it's going to die when stop quickly say, for a yellow light
Also, AJ is very difficult to work with if you ask for anything out of his range of thinking. For instance, it took me a while to convince him that my data logging and AFR was just as accurate as running the car on the dyno... If I dyno'd the car for every tune he sent, I'd be out of about $700 so far, he doesn't seem to take that into consideration.
Also since around the third tune, I get a check engine light and the code is 0x0000. Took it to the wife's dealership so they could hook it up their diagnostic since my diagnostic laptop is down but couldn't come up with anything
The whole experience has been very frustrating. I got the kit in the first place because I don't have a lot of time to work on the car while raising my twin boys and kit was supposed to be pretty much plug and play.
Sorry for the rant...
James, this might be a stupid question but do you do anything to your ordinary 3pt. belt when you’re using the Schroth, or do you just let it flap about against the B pillar? I just picked one up to hopefully keep my small frame planted in the seats better, but I suspect hearing that thing rattling in my ear at 120 would drive me nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
I pull it to the back seat and run the outer belt through it. It gets it off the pillar that way. The buckle slapping around drove me crazy at the first event with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by 704sw
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Awesome, that’s exactly what I was thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
Thanks, and great progress on the E36!
Thanks Hoping to do a DE with it by the end of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by 704sw
Did you do driver and passenger harness? Every club I’ve ran with requires equal restraint for the instructor (assuming you haven’t solo’d yet) .
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I’d been waiting for a good price to pop up on the passenger side, but I might just bite the bullet to make sure it comes in before my DE in 2 weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
Hopefully your E36 is ready in time for the fall charity laps. My car is pretty much all sorted out now, so I might actually be able to keep up!
I found mine as a used set on eBay.Quote:
Originally Posted by 704sw
And yes, charity laps at the very least. We’ll have to group up in the paddock, I’m sure there will be a few BMW from the raleigh area.
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Finally got around to installing my baffled pan. Also swapped on a set of f30 wheels and played with the camber adjustments and adjusted for a bit of toe out.
Hopefully not wear through front tires as bad next weekend at NCCAR
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I like those ALOTQuote:
Originally Posted by bimmerteknik
How heavy are the F30 wheels?
I'm seeing 26 pounds.
I’ll weigh them on Monday. They are pretty hefty.
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Cool pic of the car up
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Damn, that engine support brace is huge!
The engine support is actually pretty light weight.
And I didn’t get to weigh the F30 wheels. Our used car guy grabbed them for something.
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Went to NCCAR over the weekend with Apex Track Events. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...593f0dcced.jpg
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ZHP did great!
Unfortunately the M3 has scoring in cylinder 6 so it’s smoking and gonna need another tear down
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Are those the LTWs from the E36?