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 Shit box bmw theme continues...




Above one made me taste few bites of excitement cake to slide side ways and smoke tyres, could not resist to switch to something daily drive-able and less beaten up. Big part of daily drive-able vs trailer only car is price of course.

After some sells tracking found e46 silver sedan with m52TUB25 which is labelled by 323i model. Basically it's early version of m54B25 with bit less grunt, real m54 would bump price at least 500-700e, 3 litter another 500e, so was obvious to stick up with lower range 2.5 litter and idea that it's enough to start learning driving side ways. 



From technical point of view this engine is closer to m54 than m52, cause has dual vanos, cylinder walls has steel sleeves unlike older m52 with nicosil/alusil coating on top of aluminium, which are prone to major failure when not serviced extra carefully.

Of course car had some issues but important to me things were fine:

-engine

-shell free of accident damage

-normal rust amount (basically only under sideskirts)


Things needing love:

-suspension bushings

-engine mounts 

-oil leaks (standard bmw stuff)

-shifter felt like spoon put in jelly can

-clutch slip 2ng gear


At that point was hungry for taste of making things 'great again' and decided to proceed. 

My plan was to stiffen suspension and make car more happy to powerslide. Ordered full set of  polyurethane bushing for drivetrain made by MPBS, shipped from Poland.



Chosen eccentric version, just to make things more fun.

Hate oil leaks and work on dirty/oily parts so had to give some love there.







Apart from standard oil/filters service, changed oil pane gasket, few coolant hoses and both low pressure power steering hoses, general oil cleaning to tiding things up in the front. 

Radiator itself was replaced by previous owner and other bits looked fine around engine area. 

Also tried out IRP engine and gearbox mounts but was shocked by vibrations, especially around 3.5krpm range. Switched to regural ones, cause resonating vibration at specific rpm would not be manageable by kinda daily driven car. Now think that loose dual mass flyweel was the cause, will try these guys once again with fresh single mass flywheel.


Deleted air conditioning compressor with radiator cause our climate isn't that hot and it was out of gas already, didn't find motivation to waist effort on fixing it and dismissed as weight saving :) Also with no old/dirty air con radiator covering main cooling radiator slight improvement on main radiator cooling.


Talking about weight, dismissed some from the trunk as well. Another good thing that playful exhaust and differential sounds are now noticeable in the cabin when accelerating.


Ah, and through in some lowering springs, this is locost nevertheless. Had a bit of headache with compressing lowering ones cause compressor I had was too short, had to fabricate longer stroke to make it work.

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  1. minduzas2020 m. gruodžio 11 d. 01:00

    Good job man! Looking forward to test this beat on track! :) I hope you'll give me a chance to spin the wheel so I can compare the improvements made.

    AtsakytiPanaikinti

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