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Fron today. Here's a fun picture of my other Shark (1988 Porsche 928 S4 Manual). A car I found about an hour north of where I live, it was left under a bunch of trees for several years, so not a barn find but a "left outside and forgotten about find". And if you're interested, the white Da...

Here' a quick first start-up video with the new exhaust. It's a bit loud as my garage is enclosed and a smaller room, so the sound amplifies.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ux7-68ddauc

tschultz wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:22 pm Turbos help reduce noise so I bet it isn't overly loud even if nor much of a muffler there!

Tom is correct.

The Turbo is basically "the muffler"

I am running a straight pipe from the turbo back, no muffler(s) at all.

On the car:

And this is the new exhaust:

One thing that has been a bit challenging is trying to figure out which way to go with the exhaust the car. I built a few different versions before settling on the final one. this took a few weeks of work and I finished it this morning. Here is what I removed from the car. Exhaust Before 1.JPG Exhau...

Gotcha buddy. Here you go: The shift knob: https://www.ebay.com/itm/276055496719 The shift boot: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1250793139/for-bmw-e28-5-series-19811988-manual?click_key=ed9e97476df6978bc78a0b845cf63f9e22f82923%3A1250793139&click_sum=e98b6ebc&ref=search2_top_narrowing_intent_mo...

Sure thing Bob.

What pieces exactly?

The shift knob (probably one of the best I've purchased) came from an eBay seller in Poland.

Shift boot came from an Etsy seller.

Trying wrap up a few things.

Installed a new shift boot and shift knob tonight.

Hopefully this weekend, I will have the exhaust completed and installed.

Very nice!
Dinan turbo! I bet it runs great.

Quite a transformation!!

Congrats. Keep enjoying in great health.

I've seen their website but have not bought anything yet.

If you do buy something, make sure you have coverage through your credit card...just in case.

Tom I'm out of ideas. You're heading down the right track with the distributor swap. The AFM, ECU and coil are typically all very reliable components.

That's a lovely M635!

Here's a quick video I shot of the front end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJ46PG ... 1tiqZ1NFMM

Then bled the brakes! Finally! I'm not sure how many of you guys use this suction method connected to shop air, but it works great, compared to the Motiv Power Bleeder. With the Motiv, you have to be careful on pressuring up the system as to not blow out the clutch gravity feed line which does not h...

Voila!

One fun thing I did yesterday was fire up the lathe to cut down some bolts that secure the rotor to the hub. You know the ones that have the allen key head that you always get anxious to remove..hoping they don't become a complete circle once you stick your drive in there and start turning. I always...

Nothing wrong with putting all the bolts in one direction. I've studied this ad nauseum over the years. If you decide to alternate it like the arrow heads shown on the guibo, you have to completely remove the driveshaft to replace the guibo, as there is not sufficient room on the trans side to slide...

Filled the diff last night.

This will be the first time trying RedLine in a BMW. Anyone else using this?

Here's another view of the rear end all installed: After 8.JPG One neat thing I did was to modify some generic 19mm Suspension Techniques poly bushings (purchased off Amazon) with my table top belt sander. The original rubber bushings that were on the car were in poor condition and so here was an op...

I had a bit of an unfortunate incident last night installing the drive shaft and torquing the Guibo, my 1/2" Torque wench slipped off one of the M12 bolts and smacked me in the face. At first, I thought I lost a front tooth (as it hit me so hard) but just ended up with a really badly busted lip...

Nice. I have the K Mac rear adjustables - they do a good job of straightening up the rear camber. Also, I applied some of that thick crinkle finished 3m wrap on the leading edge of the gas tank to take the gravel rash Thank-you and agreed on the addressing the rear camber with the eccentrics. Thank...

I just noticed the rear sway bar reinforcement brackets They must be Dinan parts?? They look pretty slick, Simple yet effective. Solid design without having to weld in reinforcement brackets like I did. Jeff Jeff - That's correct, those brackets are part of the original Dinan kit. Very well designe...