The 535i build thread. m30b34->302ci->m30b35 holley terminator x

[BDKawey]

This is my old car!

I bought it for myself in high school and the drove it all through college. It made the round trip from Cleveland to South Florida a number of times.

I talked with the guy who bought it from me a year after he bought it and I heard about the strut tower but he had no contact info for you. I've been wondering if it was still on the road. I literally have dreams of this car.

thats awesome hahaha. im sorry i ruined your old car.. well now you can keep up with it, itll be on the road until is physically cant be (once its back on the road of course)

[e281985]

I'm really glad it's still alive...albeit in need of a heart transplant. I kind of figured it was crushed by now.

[BDKawey]

here is the link to the tear down time lapse. my camera was slowing tipping there for the first half haha. http://www.pictaram.com/media/143078547 ... 4_17392663

cut a small hole in the firewall to open me up for a real exhaust. this will get patched soon.
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[BDKawey]

Progress is extremely slow but we are very near a break through.

had an exhaust made which was terribly complicated and expensive. just a straight pipe but I'm sure I'll be adding a muffler of some sort in the future. likely a super 44.
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sadie looking proud of her wrap job
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car wasnt running totally perfect but heres a video. click the picture and it should direct you to flickr
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and now the main reason the car hasnt been able to move was that i wasnt pushing enough fluid to disengage the clutch with the stock master.
i bought a pedal reinforcement bracket off of David Depin and modified it to fit one of these wilwood master cylidners. went with a 1" bore which may be too large but i can add a clutch stop or downsize in the future but this should def do it. these are the masters that can be used the exact way i did.
http://www.wilwood.com/MasterCylinders/ ... T%20Outlet

now on to pictures.

start with shortening wilwoods pushrod because they are extremely long.
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modified bracket
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and slap'r on there
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tomorrow a buddy is coming over to help me put the clutch line on and bleed it then we'll see what we've got. car should be able to move on its own for the first time in a long time.

[BDKawey]

More update's. I have moved to Newark Ohio for a job. I began drafting at Ariel Corporation in Mount Vernon Ohio. where there happens to be a minty 535i that frequents the work parking lot. still have yet to meet the owner.

I came to discover that I was sold a Maf harness with a speed density ecu. Which I overlooked because I was sold them from the same car which must have been why the car was being parted out. So that ecu had no idea what a maf even was.

Purchased the correct ecu and the car was instantly running amazing. I drove it about 2 miles around town and got it some fresh gas.

when I got home a leaking power steering hose that sits close to my header soaked a fire proof sleeve and it caught on fire. nothing major but I ran into the house to grab the extinguisher, the flame melted together a constant 12v wire to the wire going to my starter solenoid causing the starter to engage. on top of that I left the car in gear so while dealing with the fire the car basically tried to run me over but luckily had a stack of tires the car got pinned into as it pulled sideways into the garage. had the slam it out of gear from the passenger side because the drivers side was blocked and then disconnect the battery.

Pretty ridiculous morning but the hose and 2 wires are the only casualty luckily. im relieved that the car is finally running better and im looking forward to sorting out a better hose to try to move it away from the header a bit.

[BDKawey]

double post

[Nebraska_e28]

That's some serious work on the downpipes! Was this done in Ohio?

[BDKawey]

That's some serious work on the downpipes! Was this done in Ohio?

yeah all the exhaust work was done by a buddy at flitzen factory. a bmw specialty shop in Richfield ohio.

for what it cost I should have done an on3 turbo or bought a single turbo exhaust and just skipped the turbo and used it for its cross over and downpipe while making some dummy pipe with a t4 flange connecting it. but that would have looked silly and whatever. whats done is done

[BDKawey]

small little update, but regardless its all boiling down to me getting my brakes to work. i have a post in the tech section explaining my situation if anyone may have input. i suspect either the return flow is being impeded or the mesh screen on the hydrobooster coming from the high pressure line may be clogged. im heading home this weekend to run some tests and take the line off to check it out.

for starters here is a current engine bay picture. the car now has gt40P heads and an a explorer upper and lower intake. good for a combined 40 or so horsepower over the stock fox body setup
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one of the problems I was experiencing with the hydro boost was that I was trying to supply fluid to the stock ford pump from its reservoir, as well as our stock remote reservoir. that proved to be complicated because the reservoirs land at almost the same height and the fluid didnt know where to reside and it was choking itself and then overflowing when the accumulator gets emptied. this was the solution that I came up with. i hacked up the stock ford filler neck from the pump and jb welded it to a pit bike gas tank. giving me nearly the capacity of our stock reservoir. I instantly saw an improvement in my brakes performing but it just shifted to a new problem, which I am working on. the front end was on jack stands which is why the fluid level is crooked, it sits much more flat than that
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I mounted a new passenger seat, have to get some more metal in order to make the drivers seat mount. anyone have a guess as to what vehicle they're from?
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and also a cockpit shot. which includes a little center/switch gauge panel I am working on. the rectangles are cut out for my power window switches and once I get my hands on a hole saw bit I was cut 3 holes at the top for my water temp, oil pressure, and voltage gauges. that wheel is soon to go because the concave is way to deep for me to comfortably sit as well as reach the turn signals. if anyones got a legit wheel for sale let me know. would prefer nardi or momo.
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progress has been extremely slow since I live 2 hours away from the car which is parked at my moms house. but I do feel the end is near and I sure hope so as drift season is uppon us and about to begin.

[grayz221]

so ghetto lol

[BDKawey]

so ghetto lol

never said it wasn't, take your shitty butt hurt-ness else where.

[delvin]

Great progress doggie!

[thugginrobby]

Stupid photobucket :/
But the 302 sounds amazing! Definitely something different!

[BDKawey]

Stupid photobucket :/
But the 302 sounds amazing! Definitely something different!

I know, im not happy. I intend on going back and fixing these at some point at best I can.

is flickr a reliable prolonged hosting site still? or is it going to fail us in the future like photobucket?

[thugginrobby]

Stupid photobucket :/
But the 302 sounds amazing! Definitely something different!

I know, im not happy. I intend on going back and fixing these at some point at best I can.

is flickr a reliable prolonged hosting site still? or is it going to fail us in the future like photobucket?

I used Village Photos, it's pretty reliable and easy to use.

[BDKawey]

Update time. Drove the car for 2 or 3 weekends and put almost 300 miles on it. some missfiring and sputtering but it moved around and no overheating now that I threw a big aluminum summit radiator in it. but sadly it also leaked an entire quart of oil out of the rear main during those 300 miles.
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so after attempting and failing to pull the tranny by itself because somehow the pilot bearing was jammed onto the input shaft, I decided to pull the motor and tranny together after running a compression test with mediocre results: Untitled by Aaron Wey, on Flickr

she was jammed on there pretty good. I had to fight it to yank the bearing out of the crank to get the transmission off and even then the bearing stayed on the input shaft. i wasnt quite sure what the problem was so I also unbolted the pressure plate through the clutch fork hole while the tranny was still on the motor to try to help it off. Untitled by Aaron Wey, on Flickr

so thus started my first "semi" full rebuild. it has been honed, all new crank and rod bearings, and piston rings and a mildly choppy ford motorsports b303 cam.
this picture is just the passenger side bank honed: Untitled by Aaron Wey, on Flickr
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rotating assembly back together: Untitled by Aaron Wey, on Flickr

and its pretty much back together, need to actually bolt the lower intake back on and throw it on the hoist for it to get the flywheel and clutch and i'll be taking advantage of my upcoming 3 day weekend to drop it back in and fire it up after I plum an oil pressure gauge and try once more to get my dakota digital tach adapter to cooperate.
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[BDKawey]

double post

[BimmerDan]

Nice work! I feel your pain I need to pull the transmission out because of a failed slave cylinder. Hopefully, I don't end up as deep as your project.

[BDKawey]

Nice work! I feel your pain I need to pull the transmission out because of a failed slave cylinder. Hopefully, I don't end up as deep as your project.

oof. do you have one of the slave cylinders that slide over the bearing retainer?

thanks what im running. I'm hoping she holds together. my clutch is pretty stiff on a stock level clutch but i dont have a over center spring and have a slightly larger bore master.

[BimmerDan]

It's the whole throw out bearing and slave combo that the t56 uses. I'm guessing we are running the same transmission. Are you using a t5 or t56?

[BDKawey]

its a t5 from a 4 cylinder turbo mustang

[e281985]

Still at it?

[BDKawey]

Still at it?

yup. before i dropped the insurance on it for the winter it was running pretty good and i put some miles on it. right now I have some 540i brakes I rebuilt ready to go on this weekend with some hawk pads and a better hand brake for it. other than that im hoping to drive it more this coming spring/summer and have some content

[e281985]

Nice. Glad to hear it.

[BDKawey]

Little update thats happened in the pst few weeks. Upgraded the brake system. So now im running the “massive” brake booster delete with a vw fox master cylinder. Abs delete. And e34 540i front and rear brakes with hawk pads.

Rears

Fronts before

Fronts after


Also since then ive upgraded the injection system from the stock foxbody wiring harness that i botched up when i was like 18 to a full stand alone holley terminator x efi system.

Here the wiring was about 95 percent complete, was testing things before i totally tidied up. Kit runs about 1200 dollars and you can wire up everything in a few hours with minimal brain power. Would highly recommend this for anyone doing a 5.0 or LS swap.you just need 12v switch, power/ground to the battery, and then wiring in fuel pump power and coil ground. Which both come out of the fuse box. The kit comes with a 3.5” touchscreen lcd for looking at most every parameter and has several inputs and outputs for anything. Right now i have it running 2 aux fans set to come on at different temps as well as a speedometer input coming from the cluster which converts it to the hall effect style signal wave. The plan in the future is to snag a cheap windows tablet and have a fully functional digital dash

Also switched handbrakes to something with a ratcheting mechanism so i can have a functional parking brake since i had to cut the stock one out of the driveshaft tunnel

[e281985]

Nice work. It's been so long that I've had an e28 that seeing my old car is the only reason I come here anymore.

[BDKawey]

Nice work. It's been so long that I've had an e28 that seeing my old car is the only reason I come here anymore.

haha thats funny. its so tough to find one worthy in ohio. hope if you're looking for one you find it. i was under the carpet of this thing last night tracing wires are its ridiculous. the floor pan is practically separated. ill be flinstoning soon

[gadget73]

Which Ford ECU was that running? If it happens to be an A9P and you want to dump it, I'd be interested as a spare for my Towncar. The A9L is the 5 speed one, which I expect is what you had.

[BDKawey]

Which Ford ECU was that running? If it happens to be an A9P and you want to dump it, I'd be interested as a spare for my Towncar. The A9L is the 5 speed one, which I expect is what you had.

Yeah it is an A9L and is for sale.

[BDKawey]

Yesterday I went to install a new distributor. i was experiencing temporary spark loss after driving for a period of time due to heat affecting the pip sensor inside the distributor.

I started the car and it died so i turned the distributor a little bit to find the sweet spot that it would run at until i could hit it with the timing light. after that I lost rpm signal. shortly after i find out the distributor isnt turning anymore so i pull it. the gears were burned and slightly damaged but still in tact. i put my phone down to film and find out the cam is not spinning at all. I spent the night tearing it down to find a broken cam bolt and a sheared cam dowel. I really dont know what to make of this. just from cranking i did this much damage. im not sure if valves or pushrods got bent, i didnt hear any noises prior. Im really thinking it might be time to pull the plug. ive been dicked around too much on this thing. need to cut my losses at some point. if a defective distributor really locked up my cam, that seems crazy unheard of.



i just got off the phone with the site. he's going to talk to the higher ups about what they can do for me.