Crash's Jezebel in for a Rebuild-Rebuilding an e46 S54 UPDATE on page 26

[sash]

Its not crazy, just doing it right so 20 000km down the road you do it again to see if any variances. If the book says that amount then that is what they bladdy will be...

this reminds me of most, if not all wheel alignment places.., as long as its within spec, its awesome. For me the aim should always be to get it as close to 100% as possible. The tolerance is there to factor in any imperfections(i use the word loosely as it might not be imperfections, but just the millimeters that mechanical parts can differ after manufacture)

All shims can be within tolerance, but having 2 shims on opposite ends of the tolerance scale cannot be a good thing, same applies to my example above...

 

[Peter@AEW]

As soon as our shim stock comes in there will be 2 cars that will need to come back for equalisation of clearances.

So Philip and Ashlin get ready to be without your cars for a WEEK OR TWO.


Ashlin in your case it may need to be longer than a week or two or three :fencelook:

 

[BillyBob]

As soon as our shim stock comes in there will be 2 cars that will need to come back for equalisation of clearances.

So Philip and Ashlin get ready to be without your cars for a WEEK OR TWO.


Ashlin in your case it may need to be longer than a week or two or three :fencelook:

*shock*

*horror*

Just let me know when and I'll come drop her off. Will give you a shout later.

 

[Crash_Nemesis]

Guys... anyone out there know where I can get an air temperature sensor. BMW says there are none in the country, no surprise there...

We need it for the Alpha N tune and we cannot for the life of us, find one. a 325i air temp sensor will be fine.

Thanks chaps.

 

[Nikhil]

i can get you this one :fencelook:

 

[Ashlin]

As soon as our shim stock comes in there will be 2 cars that will need to come back for equalisation of clearances.

So Philip and Ashlin get ready to be without your cars for a WEEK OR TWO.


Ashlin in your case it may need to be longer than a week or two or three :fencelook:

No problem I know its in safe hands. Let me know when I can bring it through. Why longer in my case?

 

[Peter@AEW]

As soon as our shim stock comes in there will be 2 cars that will need to come back for equalisation of clearances.

So Philip and Ashlin get ready to be without your cars for a WEEK OR TWO.


Ashlin in your case it may need to be longer than a week or two or three :fencelook:

No problem I know its in safe hands. Let me know when I can bring it through. Why longer in my case?

No offense to Philip I do though like your colour a lot more and is consistent with the image I wish to portray.:roflol:

 

[Gizmo]

Designa ridez in pta are stripping some S54 motors, you may pic one off one of those. They have a accident damaged S54 with a ESS vortech sc there, the sc kit looks intact except for the intercooler and boost pipes but they still want way too much for the kit, close to the new price.

 

[Ashlin]

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As soon as our shim stock comes in there will be 2 cars that will need to come back for equalisation of clearances.

So Philip and Ashlin get ready to be without your cars for a WEEK OR TWO.


Ashlin in your case it may need to be longer than a week or two or three :fencelook:

No problem I know its in safe hands. Let me know when I can bring it through. Why longer in my case?

No offense to Philip I do though like your colour a lot more and is consistent with the image I wish to portray.:roflol:

:rollsmile:

 

[Crash_Nemesis]

Wonder if they will sell the intake manifold from the ESS kit separately...

Any chance you can find out Gizmo???

I need an e36 air temp sonsor. It's for the Alpha N tune... That goes into the intake, and the wiring from my MAF housing goes into the Air Temp sensor. I have found a 2nd hand one that I will borrow for now, but still need a new one. Goldwagen are bringing one in for me but not 100% sure it will be here before the weekend.

 

[BillyBob]

Peter's effectively saying he likes playing pimp / drug dealer on Imola leather...

I'd suggest leaving a box of tissues in your car as a matter of courtesy when you drop it off. :fencelook:

 

[Crash_Nemesis]

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As soon as our shim stock comes in there will be 2 cars that will need to come back for equalisation of clearances.

So Philip and Ashlin get ready to be without your cars for a WEEK OR TWO.


Ashlin in your case it may need to be longer than a week or two or three :fencelook:

No problem I know its in safe hands. Let me know when I can bring it through. Why longer in my case?

No offense to Philip I do though like your colour a lot more and is consistent with the image I wish to portray.:roflol:

:rollsmile:

No wonder why this engine build has taken longer that we hoped for... PETER likes our car colours Ash.... hmmmm. I understand now.

 

[Ashlin]

:biglol: :biglol:

 

[Peter@AEW]

:

As soon as our shim stock comes in there will be 2 cars that will need to come back for equalisation of clearances.

So Philip and Ashlin get ready to be without your cars for a WEEK OR TWO.


Ashlin in your case it may need to be longer than a week or two or three :fencelook:

No problem I know its in safe hands. Let me know when I can bring it through. Why longer in my case?

No offense to Philip I do though like your colour a lot more and is consistent with the image I wish to portray.:roflol:

:rollsmile:

No wonder why this engine build has taken longer that we hoped for... PETER likes our car colours Ash.... hmmmm. I understand now.

Problem with yours Chris is that currently it is not mobile whereas Ashlin's is very much so........

 

[Crash_Nemesis]

Not mobile for now... Come sunday... That all changes. :fencelook:

 

[Peter@AEW]

Not mobile for now... Come sunday... That all changes. :fencelook:

True and if correct then I will require some time to do clearances on the throttles prior to you taking it!

 

[gavsadler]

I just want to say Damn you Crash - those videos kept me up in the wee hours of this morning, I thought I would read a few updated posts, but then got hooked watching all the update vids, lol.

I'm glad to see there are still a few guys out there who are more bonkers than the rest of us when it comes to dedication to a car :rollsmile:

Great build, love the attention to detail. Looking forward to the end result.

:thumbs:

 

[Peter@AEW]

We have finished the first rough installation of the S/C ad we will be getting an inlet pipe made up in the morning (hopefully).
Still waiting for a few bits and bobs however motor should be in over the weekend all things being equal.

I doubt we will be able to start the car..............let us see how it develops.

Chris has now had first hand experience on how long things take to get done correctly.

 

[Crash_Nemesis]

OK. I have gotten the air temp sensor. So thanks to all the guys who helped look for one.

We test fitted everything last night, looking awesome. Peter and I had a lot of stressful fun designing a little pipe from the supercharger into the Active Autowerke intake manifold.

Remember, I am running a custom kit here, half Active Auto, Half VF engineering, so some parts are incompatible and we need to fill the gaps. Hence why we won't be starting this weekend. The supercharger and intake manifold were sent to Peter's secret engineering workshop, where some awesome Magical Dwarfs create awesome shit... See what I did there morinor.

Another thing we noticed was that we needed to refill the supercharger with new synthetic oil from Vortech. Well, imagine our shock when we couldn't open the the fill plug. It looked to be stripped from a previous fill that was done when I still had the charger on the 323i... to make matter worse, oil was coming out of it... Luckily Peter's dwarfs were able to open it easily and the oil that was coming out of the charger, was because the plug was also a breather plug, to vent any excess oil incase the supercharger was over filled. Obviously the supercharger was sitting upside down and the oil escaped out the breather plug. I got a fright thinking the threads were stripped and oil was escaping out of the charger, but thank goodness that is not the case.

Needless to say, I am very relieved. Almost had a heartattack on the spot as the plug is specific to this supercharger and NO ONE has them in South Africa. Not even RGMotorsports, who sell Vortech chargers. The bolt is going back into the charger and we will refill it with the new oil I just bought...

Anyone want to hazard a guess how much RGMotorsports charges for this oil?

Here are pics

leaking supercharger oil​

Stripped Breather plug​

The Fill/Breather Plug hole​

The Vortech V3 supercharger​

The insanely expensive Vortech Oil for the supercharger​

 

[lambchop]

I'm praying now

:thumbs: