Are you overfilling your gas tank?
You may get a few more miles out of overfilling your tank, but is it worth it?
Dirty E30 (Pt.3)
02OCT16 More parts are in!! This time it’s a replacement shifter boot and bushings, Mann air filter, intake manifold gasket set, fan clutch, pilot bearing, flywheel bolts, rear crank seal and rear crank seal cover gasket. Most of the stuff i’m saving for another weekend project. First, the easy stuff! Things appeared to be straightforward; […]
Dirty E30 (Pt.2)
30SEP16 Parts are in!! Redline MTL 75W80 GL-4 for the transmission, Redline 75W140 GL-5 for the noisy differential, Febi oil pan gasket, magnetic oil pan plug, oil filter housing o-ring, Mann oil filter, new light bulbs all round, and a new set of Bosch copper spark plugs. Let’s see if I can squash this noisy drivetrain […]
Dirty E30
28SEP16 Anyone who’s into cars knows of the glorious E30. Being produced from 1982 to 1994, they’re literally becoming classics. It’s easily the most competition-winning vehicle chassis in existence to this date. A true ‘drivers car’. The value of these cars has held steady over the years, but there’s hints of the value increasing on the horizon. With that […]
What is a Dual Mass Flywheel (DMFW) for anyway?
Is a DMFW necessary? Will converting to a solid flywheel hurt anything? Can I just throw my DMFW in a dumpster? What the heck does it do? In a nutshell, it depends on how the engineers designed the rest of the drivetrain. When LUK designed the first DMFW in 1985 for BMW’s 525e, they had driver comfort, increased […]
German Autohaus 