S54 rod bearing

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Mon Oct 10, 2016 11:23 pm

craig3.2 wrote:Hey,been a wee while since we have seen a sixspeed post,welcome back.
How is your lovely coupe these days?

I'd imagine that's a bit of a sore point at the moment! Read a page back.
Sorry to see sixspeed

craig3.2 · Post by **craig3.2** » Mon Oct 10, 2016 11:30 pm

Ouch,hope t gets fixed OK

sixspeed · Post by **sixspeed** » Mon Oct 10, 2016 11:31 pm

craig3.2 wrote:
sixspeed wrote:Yeah that video doesn't make easy watching. It also shows just how little (no!) warning you get of failure.

I recommend the vibratechnics mounts. Run.full race mounts on my Z and honestly, the increased NVH is negligible, but it improves the feel of the drivetrain no end.
Hey,been a wee while since we have seen a sixspeed post,welcome back.
How is your lovely coupe these days?

Yeah I don't frequent the forums much anymore but still loving the car. Sadly the reason I'm in this thread is, as TomK points out, a few pages back. But it'll be back on the road again shortly after a rebuild, albeit with my wallet feeling a bit lighter!

craig3.2 · Post by **craig3.2** » Mon Oct 10, 2016 11:33 pm

sixspeed wrote:
craig3.2 wrote:
sixspeed wrote:Yeah that video doesn't make easy watching. It also shows just how little (no!) warning you get of failure.

I recommend the vibratechnics mounts. Run.full race mounts on my Z and honestly, the increased NVH is negligible, but it improves the feel of the drivetrain no end.
Hey,been a wee while since we have seen a sixspeed post,welcome back.
How is your lovely coupe these days?

Yeah I don't frequent the forums much anymore but still loving the car. Sadly the reason I'm in this thread is, as TomK points out, a few pages back. But it'll be back on the road again shortly after a rebuild, albeit with my wallet feeling a bit lighter!

Good luck and hope it doesn't take you for all your hard earned cash.

FD3S · Post by **FD3S** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:17 am

sixspeed wrote:Yeah that video doesn't make easy watching. It also shows just how little (no!) warning you get of failure.

I recommend the vibratechnics mounts. Run.full race mounts on my Z and honestly, the increased NVH is negligible, but it improves the feel of the drivetrain no end.

Your video and a past post of ga41 it is the reason I convinced to change them the soonest possible. Better safe than sorry.
I hope you will get your car back soon and thanks for the advice.

sixspeed · Post by **sixspeed** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:42 pm

FD3S wrote:
sixspeed wrote:Yeah that video doesn't make easy watching. It also shows just how little (no!) warning you get of failure.

I recommend the vibratechnics mounts. Run.full race mounts on my Z and honestly, the increased NVH is negligible, but it improves the feel of the drivetrain no end.
Your video and a past post of ga41 it is the reason I convinced to change them the soonest possible. Better safe than sorry.
I hope you will get your car back soon and thanks for the advice.

Thanks. Found out today its being delivered back into the UK this Friday (to GSR). Unfortunately Will, the engine builder, is over at Imola for a couple of weeks, so still won't be stripped til first week November. But will keep all informed of the outcome..

MrPT · Post by **MrPT** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:13 pm

Hope the damage isn't too bad, i.e. you come out of it thinking you've had a lucky escape and a timely "100k refresh" of the bottom end. Previous owner had the bearing shells replaced on mine as part of investigative work for what turned out to be a top end failure. 50k and they were well into the copper!

Love the way you guys laugh all the way through that video, BTW. You've done millions of laps of The Ring and are still having an awesome time... the fact that your engine implodes doesn't seem to stop the laughter either.

FD3S · Post by **FD3S** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 10:20 pm

Has anybody read some positive review or any complaints about the WPC rod bearings?

I have seen this offer and I am thinking of it.

https://www.ecstuning.com/BMW-Z4-M_Road ... ngs_22412/

pHilli0 · Post by **pHilli0** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 10:51 pm

FD3S wrote:Has anybody read some positive review or any complaints about the WPC rod bearings?

I have seen this offer and I am thinking of it.

https://www.ecstuning.com/BMW-Z4-M_Road ... ngs_22412/

Why not just replace with OEM?

FD3S · Post by **FD3S** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:04 pm

pHilli0 wrote:
FD3S wrote:Has anybody read some positive review or any complaints about the WPC rod bearings?

I have seen this offer and I am thinking of it.

https://www.ecstuning.com/BMW-Z4-M_Road ... ngs_22412/
Why not just replace with OEM?

My main opinion is for OEM, but in case there are reviews that this is something better I will consider it too.

Argenta · Post by **Argenta** » Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:33 am

Hmm I'm thinking I should get mine done.
Everything runs sweetly as ever but with 178000km's...
What seems to be the std fare for the job in UK?

Yorkie Z · Post by **Yorkie Z** » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:48 am

Argenta wrote:Hmm I'm thinking I should get mine done.
Everything runs sweetly as ever but with 178000km's...
What seems to be the std fare for the job in UK?

I believe around £700.

pHilli0 · Post by **pHilli0** » Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:28 am

Yorkie Z wrote:
Argenta wrote:Hmm I'm thinking I should get mine done.
Everything runs sweetly as ever but with 178000km's...
What seems to be the std fare for the job in UK?
I believe around £700.

Give or take a few hundred.

Mikey_Boy · Post by **Mikey_Boy** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 4:45 pm

sixspeed wrote:
FD3S wrote:
sixspeed wrote:Yeah that video doesn't make easy watching. It also shows just how little (no!) warning you get of failure.

I recommend the vibratechnics mounts. Run.full race mounts on my Z and honestly, the increased NVH is negligible, but it improves the feel of the drivetrain no end.
Your video and a past post of ga41 it is the reason I convinced to change them the soonest possible. Better safe than sorry.
I hope you will get your car back soon and thanks for the advice.
Thanks. Found out today its being delivered back into the UK this Friday (to GSR). Unfortunately Will, the engine builder, is over at Imola for a couple of weeks, so still won't be stripped til first week November. But will keep all informed of the outcome..

I just watched this - oooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh. You get *NO* warning at all on the failure but well caught all the same. Mine's coming up to 70k miles so I'll be getting mine done sharpish - I had VANOS done as well recently as a precaution so it makes sense to make it as bullet proof as possible.

Anyone have any views on using ARP rod bolts??

FD3S · Post by **FD3S** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:09 pm

Mikey_Boy wrote:
Anyone have any views on using ARP rod bolts??

I have read mixed reviews for the ARP rod bolts, so I decided to go with the OEM in there too.

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