E46M3 Alpine White III #Update Pics on P2

[Sabretooth tiger]

Glad you keeping her. She is a keeper. See the blue one is for sale.

 

[Andy1GP]

Overdue update.

Big end bearings finally done

Subframe down

New prop coupler (old one in pic)

New belts (old ones shown)

New power steering pipes (very expensive) and only one shown in pic

Bottom end cleaned nicely

Carbon intake on its way with the afe big elbow as well. Will post pics of it hopefully over the weekend

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[AlexYannoulatos]

awesome Andy :clapper::clapper:

 

[NtandoN]

Wow :clapper:

 

[Razz]

Nice.
That's a nice old 7 series in the first picture as well

Which carbon intake are you getting?

 

[Sabretooth tiger]

:clapper:

 

[sash]

nice going Andy. Was this still a DIY? I would be disappointed if it wasnt.... lol:rollsmile:

 

[Andy1GP]

The Intake

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[Gizmo]

Nice.
That's a nice old 7 series in the first picture as well

That's a e21.

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That guibo is proper poked!

 

[Fordkoppie]

Those bearings came out not so bad as one would have thought.
But at least you can now sleep peacefully :rollsmile:

 

[AdiS]

Those bearings came out not so bad as one would have thought.
But at least you can now sleep peacefully :rollsmile:

I was actually thinking the same thing. But at least they are done now.

 

[Ratslaaf]

Those bearings came out not so bad as one would have thought.
But at least you can now sleep peacefully :rollsmile:

Eish, I disagree. There's copper showing right through on 3 of the bearings. In that case, it isn't a matter of if but when. All that needed to happen was for just one of those bearings to heat up enough so the copper would bite to the crank and it would've ended up in tears. Bearing in mind (pardon the pun) that bearings aren't suppose to touch the crank in the first place, and you'll understand why some of us are so vocal about the bearing wear issue.

But yes, it's a good thing they were changed when they were.

 

[AdiS]

Those bearings came out not so bad as one would have thought.
But at least you can now sleep peacefully :rollsmile:

Eish, I disagree. There's copper showing right through on 3 of the bearings. In that case, it isn't a matter of if but when. All that needed to happen was for just one of those bearings to heat up enough so the copper would bite to the crank and it would've ended up in tears. Bearing in mind (pardon the pun) that bearings aren't suppose to touch the crank in the first place, and you'll understand why some of us are so vocal about the bearing wear issue.

But yes, it's a good thing they were changed when they were.

I don't think anyone of us disagree that the bearings needed changing. But those bearings look better than mine that came out with 95 000km on them.

 

[Fordkoppie]

Those bearings came out not so bad as one would have thought.
But at least you can now sleep peacefully :rollsmile:

Eish, I disagree. There's copper showing right through on 3 of the bearings. In that case, it isn't a matter of if but when. All that needed to happen was for just one of those bearings to heat up enough so the copper would bite to the crank and it would've ended up in tears. Bearing in mind (pardon the pun) that bearings aren't suppose to touch the crank in the first place, and you'll understand why some of us are so vocal about the bearing wear issue.

But yes, it's a good thing they were changed when they were.

Agreed. I simply meant that I have seen way worse.

As a matter of interest - a few decades ago, the race engine builders used Lead-Copper bearings that could take a punishment of note. However, if something did go wrong, it would fail catastrophically.

 

[Andy1GP]

Small update. Changed to Chromies all round

And up next something I've wanting to do for ages. And with the Help of OBDWORX this will be possible!

MSS54HP

 

[Xack]

MSS54HP time for some education here Andy, iam all ears:=):

 

[Sabretooth tiger]

Awesome Andy, car looks stunning.
CSL software coming?

 

[ShaunB]

Just went through this whole thread, excellent work.

Love your attention to detail. Keep it up.

 

[tumzozo]

wow Andy! I love this thread! raise:raise:raise:

 

[Xeqtr]

The Intake

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Andy where did you even get this? I even want