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    ian b

    You've got me scratching my head now...
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    How much work do you do on your car

    Wise words and well said!
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    ian b

    I meant to say injectors. Sorry for any confusion!
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    My new car coming soon

    Is that because you're not bending over it or stuck under it for repairs...? I thought the TD5's were OK on their suspension?
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    E36 lumpy idle & sticky throttle...

    Hope today's gone better for you Mart! Let us know how you're getting on!
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    proud of my efforts today...

    Passenger wing after painting
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    proud of my efforts today...

    Passenger wing before painting...
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    proud of my efforts today...

    So Mother Nature was on good behaviour today and so I thought i'd test my lacquer gun to see what it's like for base paint... The front passenger wing needed spraying anyway and so it was a good test for it. Given today's test, I think i'll keep the lacquer gun as it was and get a new gun for...
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    ian b

    out of curiosity... have you looked to see if there's oil collecting around the plugs?
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    E36 lumpy idle & sticky throttle...

    Any other ideas then Mart on what it could be if you've bled the fuel rail?
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    proud of my efforts today...

    Looks like it'll be a nice day today so I might just get the gun's out and do a wing or two...
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    proud of my efforts today...

    Gasket's should arrive on Friday meaning a job for the long weekend... that's if my other half hasn't already booked in other work for me to do... like the bathroom, painting, skirting... basically she wants to refresh the house over the long weekend... I hope not as I want to play! Plus it'd be...
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    proud of my efforts today...

    Waynne... do you mean the car in general or the gasket? The gasket should be done this week. The car is a long term project. The last project I had lasted 10 years with constant little updates and improvements. And that other project only started out as a small one... but then grew as they all...
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    ian b

    could it be two seperate issues? If it judders under hard acceleration could it be the clutch? As for misfiring... i would think it could be anything from dirty fuel (happened to a close friend recently) to injectors starting to fail... As per HDi.... has the CEL/MIL come up on your dash at all...
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    E36 lumpy idle & sticky throttle...

    nice clean tb... for a happy idling car
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    E36 lumpy idle & sticky throttle...

    Hi Mart Thanks for your reply. I had a play yesterday and ended up finding two things... 1 - AFM boot cover was split in 3 places (new one due tomorrow so just put gaffer tape around it for now) and secondly the throttle cable was very slack. TI also cleaned the two butterfly flaps and after...
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    proud of my efforts today...

    I'm proud of my efforts today in working on the little project car... drives much better now. Though I've got a bit more work to do... oil in the #2 plug and oily smoke coming out of the manifold where it meets the collector indicates the cam gasket is knackered... so that's another job in the...
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    E36 Door card inserts...

    Hi All... I'm in a bit of a quandry and am hoping you might be able to help... Last Sunday the passenger side door car fell off our little coupe. Brilliant I thought... gives me an excuse to have the interior retrimmed. So I've taken the card to a couple of retrimmers only to be told by...
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    How not to make an exhaust

    Oh it's plain to see for all who Charlie is! A bloody good fabricator by the looks of things! :-)
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    Upgrading your pride and joy.

    Before 1..... should be 0. Insurance ... no point starting a project if you can't insure it!
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    Post Your Favorite Pic Of Your Car

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=195095580638375&set=a.195095557305044.1073741842.129194957228438&type=3&theater here's one of me at Snetterton...
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    E36 lumpy idle & sticky throttle...

    Hi All, on our little 'Babe' it has a lumpy idle and sticky throttle. The car itself is a '97 318is with an M44 engine. I'm fairly certain the lumpy idle must be something like an idle control valve that must be gruby? I'm thinking it couldn't be an air leak because the lumpiness is...
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    Peugeot 206gti (138bhp)

    the manifold on your GTi is very restrictive... change it and you'll release quite a few healthy ponies and the difference might just make you change your opinion of it... The engine in your little Pug is actually a secret powerhouse if you want it to be so personally I wouldn't call it gutless...
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    How much work do you do on your car

    I'm happy doing what I've been showed how to do... anything else... then no. The safety and reliability of our DD is just too important to stuff around with. My wife knows that secretly 'if it ain't dirty, then I ain't interested!' so I'm always happy to learn!
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    What is your BHP

    My little old skool engine seemed to have torque which newer engine designs did not... Whereas Honda's vtecs appeared to not have any really usable torque untill 6k my little car had it in bucket loads at 4k which is why I think I did well on handling circuits compared to them. I know one of the...
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    What is your BHP

    My little race car 'only' had 161lb of torque at 4001rpm (iirc) as tested on the dyno not a lot by some stds but it only weighed 790kg with me in it and had relatively short gearing which helped a lot. My bhp was 194.7 on the dyno at 7000. I race competitively against 280bhp cars on handling...
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    Hi all!

    I wish it were something exciting! I always name my cars in a way that i can always identify the officially... "Babe's" first 4 characters of his vin are... babe!
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    ECU Management - which gizmo should I use?

    that sounds like a sensible plan to me!
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    ECU Management - which gizmo should I use?

    CWP is crown wheel pinion. Yes it's to do with the gearing. Some manufacturers use same bell housings and so some transmissions from smaller engines can bolt onto cars with different engines... think 1.6 gearbox from a peugeot 205 into a 1.9 engined Pug 205 for example. Same gear ratios just...
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    Tips on improving my fuel economy

    Have you removed the dead body from your boot? No really... have you?! Excess weight in your car will have an impact on economy. As will your tyres... have you checked their pressure to make sure they're not under inflated or over inflated? A remap won't help you with the economy for your...
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    ECU Management - which gizmo should I use?

    If I were you, I wouldn't go the route you're thinking of re: changing management. The real gain in remapping your engine's management software will actually be more from the throttle map than anything else. You MAY get a little more in the middle and some at the top end of the rev range but for...
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    Hi all!

    Just a short hello! Thought i'd join up to learn more about the vehicle we currently drive... a BMW 318is. It's a bit of a project vehicle really so the more i learn about it the better. Have always owned Peugeot's up till now so it's a bit of a learning curve... Anyway I'm based in the UK...

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