the daily e46 320d

[geraldo-46]

this is the boring daily derv im floating about in atm

 

[Gibonz]

Nice and tidy

Any plans?

 

[geraldo-46]

any 1 thats worked on a bm will know the engine is buried half under the dash and under 1000000's of covers.. pain in the hole

now with all that ***** off you have decent access to the engine etc

1st thing is to replace the engine breather.. these yokes get blocked and **** your turbo

new unit

new unit fitted

next job on the list was to remove the 'swirl flaps'. these wee yokes live in the inlet manifold. they have a habbit of coming loose and falling into the cylinders. ****ing your engine.. **** that. so inlet manifold off

they where actually in good condition but better safe that sorry.

replaced them with blanks

while i had the manifold off i noticed my egr valve looked like a hunger strikers wall

so 2 tins of carb cleaner later i was left with this

good jab :thumb:




now for the ******* job. cat front pipe is broken so replaced it with s/s de-cat pipe

let me tell you the nuts where as tight as a Chinese gymnasts snatch. and with no access to the them it made it a proper **** of a job

got it sorted in the end tho

with that out of the way i carried on with the service stuff , new filters etc

built everything back up

fired it up, carried out a health check and reset the ecu adaptive settings

job ****** done

home for a wash cause im a black as wesly snipes ballbag

 

[geraldo-46]

Nice and tidy

Any plans?

yeah a few

ive coilovers for it and im looking out for genuine m3 rims

ive an m3 bumper aswell

then probs remap

 

[Aidan316i]

Fair play Jacko!

I've to do the swirl flaps a.s.a.p aswell, and do an EGR valve clean

Need to do my front flexi too in the future

 

[Lyons]

Good work on sorting those bits out, should make it a bit more dependable now.

A nice E46 is hard to beat.

 

[hannakournikova]

geraldo-46 I would love a 320d touring but everything youve just replaced would need to be done too. Much work in it?

 

[Gibonz]

Excellent work man, fair play.

 

[geraldo-46]

geraldo-46 I would love a 320d touring but everything youve just replaced would need to be done too. Much work in it?

Aye well there was about 5hrs or so including the service. The awkward part was the cat/front pipe. I put a few tyres on it and replaced the coolant and brake fluid aswell

 

[euge07]

nice wagon jack, wouldnt bother with m3 wheels or kit though:/
just lower it as it sits, would be lovely

 

[geraldo-46]

nice wagon jack, wouldnt bother with m3 wheels or kit though:/
just lower it as it sits, would be lovely

cheers

i hate these mv2's tho would even settle for a clean set of mv1's

 

[mthompo]

i am currently thinking of one of these. was looking at 330's etc but the insurance difference was 300 odd quid so getting the pennies saved! looks tidy! health to drive and all that!

 

[geraldo-46]

i am currently thinking of one of these. was looking at 330's etc but the insurance difference was 300 odd quid so getting the pennies saved! looks tidy! health to drive and all that!

cheers lol

be careful there alot of scrap 320/330's out there id looked at about 6/7 maybe 8 before i had to pay £800 over my budget for 1 that was decent

 

[mthompo]

yea well i am not ready to buy just yyet be a few months, but i think il be going for one that hasnt been touched although would prefere the sport model, prefere the interior and the bumpers etc but that one of yours looks dead tidy! were did you get the swirl flap deletes are they easily got hold of? i know about the engine breather and be my first thing purchased for one i work in parts and sold a couple try telling people to buy them but most dont listen lol i knew about the swirl flaps giving bother but never realised you could remove and get the deletes for them

 

[Artoir]

Nice wan.. they are a pig with all the covers, no such thing as a ten minute job lol. I always struggled to get the air box back together as well.

 

[Brennan]

tidy mate

 

[Rover Repair]

Did you get the filterless PCV valve? Never needs changed!

 

[geraldo-46]

Did you get the filterless PCV valve? Never needs changed!

Yeah. Tho the insert does need changed every other service

 

[geraldo-46]

coilovers & new wheels fitted today

****ty pic but had time for nothing today

 

[pablo]

nice car mate and the wheels look great but Im not sure how youre going to get the m3 bumper to look near it, unless you carve it up.

 

[geraldo-46]

nice car mate and the wheels look great but Im not sure how youre going to get the m3 bumper to look near it, unless you carve it up.

you can buy m3 'style' bumpers for the saloon. ive 1 waiting on paint

 

[pablo]

ah sorry thought you meant an oem coupe one!

 

[geraldo-46]

better pics

 

[Con]

Nice and sleek

 

[Aidan316i]

That does look well!