Gizmo
Banned
Some of you know this car as it comes from Cape Town, well a customer of mine in JHB bought it some time back and paid way too much for a poorly built wreck of a M3. He was very disappointed when the car arrived as it was in no state that the former owner had said it was, such is the issue of buying a car from a far away place without looking at it in the flesh....
Anyway, after 20km of driving in JHB the car broke down with a broken turbo oil feed, the car was flat bedded to me and sat here for some months while I finished on other project cars. The customer has asked me to go bumper to bumper and fix everything I find wrong with it and boy there is alot wrong with it! Now Im all in with this rebuild and I just want to show you guys how poor the workmanship in this country can be...
Awesome tiny intercooler placement, behind the bumper stiffener where there is no airflow...
Intercooler mounts are 3 cable ties, one on the top and 2 on the bottom, NASA quality right there!!
Wastegate dumps into engine bay.
Wiring mess behind headlight.
Cut and weld job on the oil cooler lines.
Bonnet insulation collapsing and windshield cowling missing, windshield also poorly installed as water comes in from the top.
Crappy boost pipe is the lowest point of a 60mm dropped car, 1 speed bump and its stuffed! Oh and turbo has no filter so everything it picks up is being force fed into the engine! Severe oil leak on turbo drain and leaking oil cooler too.
Transmission tunnel insulation has disintegrated and running on the propshaft, gearbox rubbers in pieces and propshaft flex disc collapsing too.
Grass-fit exhaust hard up against rear sway bar.
With the plenum chamber out the way I can see where the turbo oil feed is tee'd into the filter housing. What a mess!
Now its time I sort this shit out, first we need to address the intercooler and bigger is better!
Proper way to mount an intercooler and still run brake ducts!
Setrab oil cooler will be mounted above intercooler this week.
I will be doing alot of mods/repairs to the car in the next few weeks like 6 speed swap, bi xenon conversion, Setrab oil cooler and braided lines, new boost pipes, new dump valve, air filter, 6puck copper clutch plate, roller sun blind, m3 lip boot spoiler and many other fixes/upgrades on the list.
I will keep you guys posted and updated with pics too.:thumbs:
Anyway, after 20km of driving in JHB the car broke down with a broken turbo oil feed, the car was flat bedded to me and sat here for some months while I finished on other project cars. The customer has asked me to go bumper to bumper and fix everything I find wrong with it and boy there is alot wrong with it! Now Im all in with this rebuild and I just want to show you guys how poor the workmanship in this country can be...
Awesome tiny intercooler placement, behind the bumper stiffener where there is no airflow...
Intercooler mounts are 3 cable ties, one on the top and 2 on the bottom, NASA quality right there!!
Wastegate dumps into engine bay.
Wiring mess behind headlight.
Cut and weld job on the oil cooler lines.
Bonnet insulation collapsing and windshield cowling missing, windshield also poorly installed as water comes in from the top.
Crappy boost pipe is the lowest point of a 60mm dropped car, 1 speed bump and its stuffed! Oh and turbo has no filter so everything it picks up is being force fed into the engine! Severe oil leak on turbo drain and leaking oil cooler too.
Transmission tunnel insulation has disintegrated and running on the propshaft, gearbox rubbers in pieces and propshaft flex disc collapsing too.
Grass-fit exhaust hard up against rear sway bar.
With the plenum chamber out the way I can see where the turbo oil feed is tee'd into the filter housing. What a mess!
Now its time I sort this shit out, first we need to address the intercooler and bigger is better!
Proper way to mount an intercooler and still run brake ducts!
Setrab oil cooler will be mounted above intercooler this week.
I will be doing alot of mods/repairs to the car in the next few weeks like 6 speed swap, bi xenon conversion, Setrab oil cooler and braided lines, new boost pipes, new dump valve, air filter, 6puck copper clutch plate, roller sun blind, m3 lip boot spoiler and many other fixes/upgrades on the list.
I will keep you guys posted and updated with pics too.:thumbs:
