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Yeah, theres no chance I could use it daily, even if it had a standard interior. Luckily its just sat around most of the time and its more of a 'toy'. They are bad on fuel to begin with really, even more-so now with the 3.0L, and the more you use them the more needs doing. With the amount thats...

Engine seems to be getting better with more use, and no real problems as of yet - hopefully it will continue that way. Certainly an interesting drive in this weather, but don't just want to leave it sitting around. Back out in February and March for a couple of days, nothing needs...

Car is 12v. USB is 5v. You need to convert it. Thankfully the far east have this covered. I use them to power GoPros and dataloggers in track day cars, never had an issue. If you want it all the time, wire it to a permanent live, if you want it on ignition, then an ignition live, etc.

M50/M52 are the same part, casting and design. Valve springs differ (M50 has twin springs, M52 has single). The E36 M3 is very similar, just has slightly different machining for different size valves and dual VANOS on the 3.2 :smile:

With some miles on the new engine I wanted to put it on the rolling road @ EFI-Parts to see how it compared to the old 200k 2.8, and my previous completely stock E36 328i. My first (Blue) E36, that was completely stock engine wise (M52B28), on 160k, made 203hp / 215lbft. The last time I went to...

I got it next day from this 'authorised' re-seller, using a discount code to bring it down to ~£44 http://www.banggood.com/Mobius-Full-HD-Sports-Camera-1080P-30FPS-720P-60FPS-For-Multirotor-p-90648.html

Yeah, although mine were solid top mounts, but I had it off the car at the time anyway. If yours are the stock rubber type 100% remove it..

Good work - much better noise with the M3 Manifolds. How much were the gaskets?

Hes not got any other days this year, probably best to sort something for the new year now going off the response so far.... In the past anyone having their car on the dyno signs a waiver for damage, like most dyno days, basically so you can't go back if your engine blows up and say it was the...

Black E36 Think you appear in my video. Syncing isn't too bad, especially if you put one video to L and the other to R, then just match up the sound

I used one for a rear view on the same day too, good value for ~£40. I just added a second cigarette lighter into the boot on an ignition live, so can just plug in a power adaptor for it on track days. Turns on with the car and starts recording, etc.

Spoke to Chris.. Anyone interested in Saturday 13th December or Sunday 14th December?

Unfortunately EFI is 2WD.. I've emailed Chris to see if he has any dates available before the end of the year, will see what he comes back with..

Cool, well will see if there is any interest from anyone else in the coming weeks

Im disappointed the camera didn't end up going up and down every time.

Yeah, I would have considered it if it wasn't fully booked... no doubt it'l be sunny now!

Thanks James, don't blame you with the weather!

Yeah, ideally EFI as I can compare/overlay previous runs on the old engine to the new..

...or would anyone be interested in one? Thought I'd ask before just going over one evening..

Couple more pictures that have appeared..

Before Oulton Park on Friday I had a few other jobs to sort on the car, tidying up wiring, sorting dashboard trim out and lots of other little things. The only main job was to fit some new front brake pads, the CL5+'s still had some life left, but had worn oddly and I was getting bored of the...

Cheers for the comments everyone. Ive been having a few issues with the mini-usb power cable moving slightly with vibration/acceleration/deceleration, even though the rPi is securely mounted in the glovebox. This causes the whole thing to power down mid-logging, which is a pain. Need to find an...

Yeah, then won't start again until the ignition has been off and back on again. INPA hides a lot of the raw data/values, and NCS expert can change pretty much anything you can think of that varies between models across the world. There isn't that much documentation out there, but do able for...

Not a guide as such but I know much more about it now I've done this. INPA is just a front end for the EDIABAS software, which is what does the communication. NCS Expert and ToolSet32 do much more... and go into far greater detail about it. What do you need to know?

I should really power them all off a separate feed, but I just wanted to 'get it working'. Plus with most of external bits running on 3.3v, going 12v-3.3v is a pain. If it was 12v-5v it would be easy just to hack up a USB cigarette lighter, but didn't bother looking into it any further yet!

Will have to have a look - not sure how much power I'm pulling at the moment. I know the internal fuse is a tad under 1amp, and its currently powering the rPi itself, the two FTDI serial adaptors, the screen and backlight and the GPS chip. Probably talking a few hundred ma there - all depends...

I could, but then the hub needs power, etc. Just as easy to pop the glovebox open and pull the card out lol. Not going to be using it all the time anyway, just track days and diagnostics really, not in use daily anyway

Should have explained better - the rPi is on a permanent battery live, controlled by the red rocker switch. Ignition has no effect, so I just press the shutdown button, give it 10-15 seconds then flick the switch off :)

Yeah, the Clock button literally checks of the logging is currently 'off', then runs 'shutdown -h now', and thats it really. I just take the SD card out and put it in the PC to read the log files off. In an ideal world you'd run it on the new rPi B+ which has 4 USB ports, and I could log to a...

I just use the CSV files in MegaLogViewer (designed for Megasquirt stuff), and thats what the plots above are. It cuts out all the legwork, you can cross reference any field and its really quick etc. I could probably plot it quite quickly using a script and output it to a file, but MegaLogViewer...