The long road - E34 M5 S38b36 a resurrection story

[Andy1GP]

Chris did the honours. I'll take a pic of the sheet and post later.

 

[Andy1GP]

Doing a little more today

Packed out the remainder of the parts that need to be fitted.

Radiator oil cooler viscous fan and shrouds

Throttle bodies intake manifold. Distributer cap. Plug leads. Expansion tank. And injectors.

Cleaning parts before they get fitted

 

[Andy1GP]

Cleaning the ITBs radiator and oil cooler.

Starting to see a before and after

Getting there

 

[Andy1GP]

 

[Andy1GP]

Done for the day. Time to partay!

Only thing holding me up now are the shimms and the compression test.

 

[Andy1GP]

Well well well...

I continued some more work today and knew that I would near completion.

Luckily I had the battery in trickle charge since yesterday. Its still surprisingly strong.

Then I fitted fuse 23 (fuel pump) as the last step before starting.

I imagined the car would crank for a long time before running. After a couple of turns she slowly emerged to life!!

I then ensued to run rampant around the streets shouting as if it just turned new year again. Beyond belief and extatic!

Honestly I was quite nervous that she might not start but was even more surprised to see her come to life on the first attempt.

I just need to get some more oil and water tomorrow as some of the water clamps weren't tight enough.

No oil or fuel leaks.

A bit of smoke was seen during warmup coming from the fresh gaskets. I believe this is normal.

One or two covers still need to be fitted then she is good to go. Ill have her in my driveway tomorrow washing her for the first time this year and in 7months.

Thanks to everyone for supporting me during this trying time.

Special thanks goes to Peter Chris and Rick. They calmed a lot if my nerves during the critical cam stages as well as engineering the head. And many many other things.

Luke helped source the elusive head gasket and thanks to Tiaan for helping with the tedious cleaning.

This thread will soon come to an end and I will continue to post on the main thread.

Here is the car's first glimpse of the world after its 7months of slumber

 

[Loom]

Congrats! You must be very excited!

 

[Ga-3M]

Awesome stuff Andy!!! So great to see the classic beast back up and running again!!:clapper::coolShake:

 

[sash]

congrats andy

 

[moranor@axis]

its alive :rollsmile:

 

[H|TM@N]

Nice Andy, and good to see that she is running again. Awesome car this.

 

[Andy1GP]

Thanks everyone Yes it is alive and very well. Purring even better than before. I'm still very gentle with her a I want to do clearances again after 1000 odd kms. Thereafter I'll start feeling her out a bit.

 

[444YYY]

Very nice!
Quite an achievement to put that (or any) M motor together!!!!

 

[StickShift]

Andy congratulations on getting the engine running:clapper:

We need some videos of the car

of how the engine sounds :rollsmile:

 

[Andy1GP]

Will post a video of the induction noise soon enough. Still want to do valve clearances again and then thereafter I can start feeling the power.

I also want to fit the rear number plate holder.

Pics to follow.

 

[Andy1GP]

Covers in place and looking good.

 

[sash]

woo hoo:clapper::clapper:

 

[league_of_ordinary_men]

Maybe after the 1000km you can give it a proper test run like this:rollsmile:[video=youtube]

On a privet road of course oh and remember to take video please, we need some e34 m5 content from South Africa on youtube for a change.

 

[Andy1GP]

Uhm no.

I remember watching this video a while back, poor car. Just cringed.

I'm very keen to take some vids of the car, however going to mozambique again for a while. Hopefully I can take some proper vids in feb. Still need to source correct shimms.

 

[Fordkoppie]

Maybe after the 1000km you can give it a proper test run like this:rollsmile:[video=youtube]

On a privet road of course oh and remember to take video please, we need some e34 m5 content from South Africa on youtube for a change.

And look how that ended: