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Re: E36 v2 Il make sure to get round to it this week, lol.

Re: E36 v2 Mono's, but I've been out in cars with both. There isn't much difference if I'm honest, changing the spring rate would probably do more. Even when mines on full soft it's very firm, but that could be down all the bushes being poly etc. Its firmer than my E46 M-Sport was on their...

it worked yes

The only sensible words mentioned in here.... this is what you need to learn Rob - thats how you don't wear out a set of pads and ruin a set of discs inside the space of a single day :clown:

Re: E36 v2 Yep, just a typical day driver - has more power but can't drive for sh*t... boost on the straights, hold everyone up in the corners

Re: E36 v2 Exactly hit the nail on the head^. The whole reason I wanted to rebuild the entire running gear set up was to get the car driving as well as it would have 15 years ago from factory, and then some again. I'd probably say I've put more time into this than the Clio up to this point...

Re: E36 v2 One reason really.. Clio = Front Toe + Camber adjustment, easy to get near-ish with wire E36 = Rear Toe + Camber, Front Toe + Camber + Castor (not to mention the big difference in track width!) It really did make a night and day difference. I thought I got it 'close', but when it...

Re: E36 v2 I don't plan on fitting a cage anytime soon or anything like that, and in reality its not going to save me 'that' much weight. Front seats are the bulk of it, dashboard isn't worth removing etc. If I was fitting it cage it would be worthwhile for access (and to cancel out the weight...

Re: E36 v2 Some things never change :clown: On an empty track it may be, but it looses much more speed 'in-corner' in comparison. Its very close either way, not at all bad considering the E36 still has most of its interior in!

Re: E36 v2 Cool. Yeah sometimes its for the best - mine was split down the side where the core joints the casing on the expansion tank side as per the picture further back in the thread. Had a few go like that. I put a clip together last night to compare the E36 against my old Mk1 F4R...

Hilarious lack of quality for the money they charge.

Re: E36 v2 Its one of the 'must do' sub £100 mods really. The map to suit makes it better again. It would probably make more power/torque with a stronger engine compression wise but it still runs sweet so there isn't any need to mess about for now. It's really well balanced when on the limit

Re: E36 v2 They were great. Stopping power was plenty with the bigger master cylinder/calipers/discs. The previous Yellow Stuffs were fine, id compare those to DS2500s, but CL's are the next step up. I used the RC6's in the other E36, brilliant again but really dusty and noisy. The RC5's came...

Re: E36 v2 Went to Oulton Park on Saturday - so the night before I fitted some RC5+ front pads (to replace the Yellow Stuffs), checked a few bits over and filled it with fuel. I had already got a replacement tyre fitted after Blyton, so I was hoping for a dry day to use the RS-Rs again...

Re: E36 v2 So continuing from the RR video, here are a couple of graphs.. Ended up making 216hp/205lbft.. Then we put the graph over the top of the other E36, without the M50 inlet.. Quite some difference. Lost 10lbft, but gained much more peak power. Its actually revving to 7300rpm...

Re: E36 v2 216hp. I will upload the graphs later. We put the old graph from the Blue E36 (Non M50 inlet, etc) over the top of it and you can clearly see the difference it makes. I guess peak power is slightly down compared to other cars of the same spec but its to be expected from a Nikasil...

Re: E36 v2 Bit of both really. Its more than likely the rings/bores/hone thats worn. Its a Nikasil block anyway, on very high miles (180k), so more than likely that. Pulls well enough anyhow. The test will be tomorrow at Oulton, at high RPM all day, see how much oil it uses then!

Unplug the Vanos and see if the rattle is still there... also if you have any diag kit you can turn the Vanos solenoid on and off with the car idling, see if the noise comes and goes. Last thing to try is if it has any codes stored like 'Vanos Jammed or Vanos Unresponsive'.. Buy the kit off...

Re: E36 v2 So yeah.. It loves a bit of a smoke :clown: Yeah, it soon adds up when you start doing the 'proper' jobs to get it sorted. Makes it so worth while when you feel how much better it drives though!

Re: E36 v2 So the car was cutting out on idle sometimes, cranking for longer than it should, etc - eventually got the code reader on it and there was a crank sensor intermittent fault. Swapped it out for my spare, all good. Decided I wanted to swap out the (very high mileage) fuel pump, as I...