TORSPD: NEVR

then back to taco boost

 

Marked the crank pulley, prior to removal of the timing cover. Needed to replace some gaskets, and get to the oil pump nut.





You can see the smaller chain which goes into the oil pan. The nut for that gear, is notorious for backing off. Manufacturers make a nut with a hole through it, and a wire tie.




Well....I am in no mood to remove the oil pan. Screw that. Backed the nut off as much as safely possible. Used long picks, and pressed this Loctite into the thread. Ran it on and off, added more, then locked it down. @Lucario Runner knows how strong this stuff is. As well as being 650ºF rated.

 

I was up at Kozmic Motorsports earlier. Saw a set of GTR headers, and told them, that is how I'd like to do my future setup. Mmmm

 

Last few pics until the new valve spring retainers arrive tomorrow.

Going to be Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!!

 

Since I have 4 more sets of 321 SS header flanges, it will be time to experiment.

 

Not meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh?

 

The old cracked retainers.



New ones assembled to the head.





Now this was quite interesting. The JE ProSeal head gasket.




Ran some thick oil into the cyliders, and wiped it around the walls. Dabbed it out afterwards.





Head being torqued down, with ARP head studs.






Cam trays installed, with a nifty trick to prevent the hydraulic lifters from falling out. Used a long piece of painters tape across the bottom. Then slid it out when everything was close. Voila!






And we wait for tomorrow to wrench some more on this M52. Nearly complete.

 

I love me some straight 6

 

Didn't get the chance to take any pictures, but had a visit from the long lost @rcfreak201 last night. Rolling in with all of his long travelin', tube chassisin', PreRunnin' madness. Great dude. Did some exploratory wrenching on his rig. Got it back up to 100%.

Thank you for the beers mate.

 

Bimmer is a few short components shy of being done. Starting to feel like Torspd is synonymous with head gaskets..... lol.

 

How long will you run the engine before you change the oil?
Does it matter based on the engine?

 

Being that it isn't necessary to "break-in" this engine, I'll be able to much longer that if I were breaking it in. I'll put a tank of gas through it, then will.

If it were new, around 20-30 minutes of run time, after positively and negatively loading the engine.

 

On that note, didn't take any time to snag any more pictures. Was in the home stretch last night. Took about 6.5 hours to finish up. Took forever to burp the coolant system. Not a fan at all of how that system is setup.

Cranked it for a while to prime the fresh oil, before re-inserting the fuel pump fuse.

It had an 1/8 a tank of old gas in it. About two years old. I added a gallon of fresh fuel, with a bottle of VP Racing fuel system cleaner & Redline Oil S1 fuel system cleaner to the tank. Just to get it to idle, and get me to the gas station.

Idled well, with no CEL's, but was a bit noisy. Most likely a combination of the injectors and the hydraulic lifters. The lifters take a while to fill with oil. Especially considering how much assembly lube I I had installed on them. During this time is when I was burping the system.

Slowly limped it to the gas station and wow! It sounded like a diesel, and good lord it blew smoke like a chain smoker. Had circled around to get a wiff of the white smoke, and it was a funny smell. Maybe a rat crawled into the pipe in front of the cat???? Lol. By the time I made it to the gas station, it was only a little hooka smoke. Filled it up with 93, and it started running much better.

It was a rewarding night.

 

Swapped all my fluids again before my trip to Pismo. Transmission fluid was almost black, but magnet had no large particles and I swiped the cleaned off magnet through the old trans fluid to see if it picked up anything and there wasn't much else. Only about 15k miles on that fluid, makes me wonder if the shop actually put MT90 back in like I requested, or if I'm just to harsh on the clutch. Probably the second one lol.

So 2 different shops have told me my diff shouldn't grenade this weekend, but I had my spare diff built identically just in case it does and the guys said this diff came out perfectly. Next week I'll swap it in and do a 1k break in this time just to be safe. Or I'll change it this weekend in the sand lol, fingers cross for not.

Shot an email off to Unichip with my set up just to see if they happen to have an initial map for me or not. I'd like some sort of tuning someday soon.

 

Would the smoke and smell be the assembly lube?
That was why I asked if an oil change would be needed sooner rather than later. I remember we ran into that with abuddies motor and it was kinda an oh shit moment.
Good to hear its all said and done!

 

Very little possibly. It didn't smoke when I first had it idling though. Only after the fuel with the two containers of fuel system cleaner was introduced. They have a specifically unique smell too. So I knew it wasn't oil, when I did a drive-by wafe. Lol.

 

Soooooo video?????

 

Not long enough or worthy enough to upload to YouTube. Waiting on it to be on my Photobucket file. Then you shall hear the diesel. Sucker scoots!

 

just waiting patiently...

 

Bruh,. Why havent you put in a set of these weight reduction valves yet? Thought you were on top of all the new tech. Time to scrap Goldilocks and start new with these