I finished a rally! My goals this year were, in order: I probably didn’t do as much car prep as I could or should have, but I did repair the damage from last year. Replaced all the broken suspension on the front left corner, replaced a bunch of a sheet metal and the busted driveshaft…
I took off work a few hours early to go buy paint. As far as I can tell, there are two places to buy automotive paint in Colorado Springs: Sherwin Williams or English Color. I went to English Color even though they spelled their name wrong. Brian used Valspar TB550 Urethane, and I have all…
Finally, I managed to start fixing things faster than I was breaking them this weekend. First up, the alternator. The internet let me know that some E30s refuse to charge the alternator if the charge light wasn’t working. There’s some disagreement about what year that change was made, or if it was universal. My charge light…
The machine shop called to say that three valves were bent, and they were having trouble locating replacements. I quickly browsed all the German car part sites, and most of them didn’t have any intake valves in stock, but ECS tuning did. That should have been a warning sign, but I just ordered them with…
The timing covers on the front were leaking profusely from both engines. As others have mentioned, “they do that.” That’s disappointing and annoying, but I’m not here to solve age-old BMW problems. The engine my car came with managed to completely coat the inside of my skidpan with about 5 miles of driving so, hopefully…