oh good....thats enough for a band!

thepits wrote: Sporty1 wrote: I'm here. So am I - except I don't

...ive driven "her" Simon!

Hoover wrote: ...ive driven "her" Simon!

Just rememember he was there first...

really good, nice and predictable ride and handling, mine is harder and reacts to road chages more, you have to fight it a bit whereas "she" was really stable and sure!

just needs  a bit of TLC

You missed something Simon, "She" also has Sport Evo bonnet seals on the front wings

SHEPSM3 wrote: You missed something Simon, "She" also has Sport Evo bonnet seals on the front wings

(You found the other mod when you power-washed the bumper/radiator didn't you?)

grant w wrote: thepits wrote: Sporty1 wrote: I'm here. So am I - except I don't I'm here

I'm still here (now and then). Since the snow has gone and the weather is improving I have been spending more time working on the car rather than reading the forums. Winter projects are nearing completion. Probably have it back on the road just after Easter (unless there are any unforseen problems).

  hello, I do too

E36 Evo saloon

m3Cecotto wrote: Think it's quiet here?    You want to pop over to the 6 series forum.  You can *hear* the rust forming.

so where has everyone gone?

Lancastrian wrote: grant w wrote: thepits wrote: Sporty1 wrote: I'm here. So am I - except I don't I'm here I'm still here (now and then). Since the snow has gone and the weather is improving I have been spending more time working on the car rather than reading the forums. Winter projects are nearing completion. Probably have it back on the road just after Easter (unless there are any unforseen problems).

Well, I'm still here (now and then). Can't believe it was last March when I said last winter's projects were nearing completion.

Finally managed to get them completed and get out for a trackday at Oulton Park on 2nd November

Main change has been the installation of a newly (self)built 2.5 Sport Evo engine with new BMW crank, Arrow rods, JE pistons, Schrick/KK cams, Arrow shim under bucket followers, Carbon airbox and Maxx Alpha N (closed loop wideband O2).

Completed about 230 miles between 9:30 and 15:00 (when it started pi55ing down). I started the day with a very moderate rev limit,  increasing this a bit as the day went on.

Engine was less than 2 miles old at the start of the day and ran faultlessly straight out of the box and continued like that all day.

All I can say is that the straights at Oulton seemed somewhat shorter than they did before.

I am very pleased  

Only issues were with the brakes. Think I have some seriously warped disks. So that is another project (along with a number of others) for the coming winter

Peter

PS I suppose I should update my sig as the spec is pretty much confirmed now.

Thanks Uwe. I have tried to email you a couple of times (at the address you gave me) but got no reply. Thought I might have been consigned to the junk folder

I have the wide band controlled Maxx. It is absolutely magic. As far as I could tell it just ran smooth and clean right from the word go. And I was just using the straight forward base (mild tune) AFR map.

I guess if you got really out of the power band, ie wide throttle / low revs /wrong gear it pinged a bit but then I guess any motor would.

 I really wanted to do some data logging at Oulton so I could see how much correction the MAXX was having to do from the fuel map, but I thought the laptop on the passenger seat might not go down too well with the authorities. 

It is not taxed or insured so can't take it on the road to mess with the tuning.

and just for Hoover, A few photos:

Where to start.

Well to protect those of a nervous disposition I have only included 2 shots from before the rebuild, They give a flavour of the task which was fairly straight forward but very messy.

The first two photos show the car as it was when I first saw it - and I went ahead and bought it.

Basically it was a sound but very grubby (understatement) rolling shell with some key bits and pieces missing. IE no engine, gearbox, propshaft, diff, interior trim or instruments. It did include the missing bumper and door.

I had a lot of the missing pieces from my previous Cecotto project. So the first phase was to strip it all down to a bare shell, clean everything, sort any rust etc and rebuild it into a viable car for fun use on the track - ie it did not have to look particularly pretty.

Some year or so after I started work on the project and with a standard 215BHP engine it was in a good enough state to appear on track at Cadwell Park (Summer 2009).

I did another few trackdays in 2009, including Donington Park - Toyo 888s and standard seats make for an interesting experience for the passenger (my nephew).

and then returned to Cadwell 12 months later, still with the 215 engine (not by plan, but engine building, which was going on at the same time, is a slow process - at least it is in my life). However, somewhere along the way I had found time to remove the red and white stripes from the front bumper.

After that I finished the new 2.5 engine and installed it.

The car is still not particularly pretty - the only paintwork that it has had from the the start of the project is a  bit of brushed on enamel underneath and inside and a few aerosols of diamond schwartz on the repaired scuttle and RH front wing (hence th orange peel effect)

A little bit of treasure picked up along the way. What I believe to be a full set of original leather SRDs - very slidy for track use, though.

That's about it for the moment. Not sure what is next on the agenda but brake upgrade seems likely as well as some further bodywork mods and possibly a respray.

Thanks to Hoover for the supply of a front wing and Uwe for the engine parts which formed the basis for the new 2.5 engine build.