Recent content by lucasxdiniz

It's almost the end of April and the car is still SORN, unfortunately. The part I've been prep'ing the front end for still hasn't arrived and I've decided to wait until it's installed to get the car out. However, come May 1st, the car will be out of the garage with or without it. The front...

Keeping my tradition of being terrible at posting stuff as I do them... here's a bit of a dump of what I've done to the car since the last post almost a year ago now. April - August 2024 After I fixed the fuel level sender issue, I managed to have yet another fuel system issue (self-caused...

I replaced this bush during some refurb'ing I did last year. I did not have any issues putting it in, but I did get something turned specifically for this, and I left the bush in my -18°C freezer overnight and pressed from diff side to bolt side. You can borrow my tool if you wish. Some...

I have BC coilovers with rubber top mounts, thus no extra camber adjustment, only the tower slots. I did a few tests with spacing the strut out and settled on a 5mm spacer and longer bolts. That gives me -2.2 to -2.8° of front camber adjustment. Running around -2° of front camber cured my...

The prototype survived a whole season of hooning and road trips without a mark. This is good news as I did not use any special resin, so when I tweak the design, it won't cost too much! Looks worse in the photos than in real life.

I know this is G29 specific, but just barging in to say in case anyone is looking for a Z4MC Assetto mod, I have been working on one. Found a guy who had put a 3D model on top of the stock E89 physics and sound from Assetto, so I took that as my baseline and I have mostly reconstructed the...

For posteriority: The routing for the harness which supply the fuel pump from the EKP module runs alongside the diff-prop flange. This harness is secured by a clip which is bonded to the fuel tank. I believe that when I did the fuel filter replacement work which involved removing the harness...

Hi all, I think I'll get my front bumper resprayed in the near future and I'm trying to decide what to do about my front number plate. In the 3.0si, at least do me, the front end looked far better without the front plinth with the number plate stuck straight onto the bumper. However, in the M...

Hi all, Recently I had a whole saga trying to fix a fuel leak I had - I replaced the fuel filter which solved the issue (more about this on my personal thread). This past weekend I went to Wales and had a lovely couple of days driving the car fairly hard there - about 500 miles since the fuel...

I got the part from Quarry Motors. They have a reasonable return policy/warranty for a used part and the packaging was pretty good + pretty much delivered next day. Previously I said I probably caused the part to crack by cleaning it, but I no longer think I had anything to do with the part...

On the day after I posted the above and celebrated everything going smoothly, an issue probably caused by my own doing (+ a bit of bad luck) popped up. I filled up the car on Saturday after making sure the VANOS work was successful and then hooned it a fair bit on Sunday; Monday I walked into...

Hi all, I have recently installed BC Coilovers, so I no longer need my Eibach springs. I bought them brand new last year and they were on the car for approximately 3k miles. The photos show the front springs still installed as I am willing to sell them assembled with the struts, top mounts...

Hi all, Just as I celebrated nothing going wrong after having most of my car apart, I enter the garage to find it stank of petrol. After a lot of searching I found that the fuel filter housing has a hair line crack. Brilliant. Only now I've noticed that at some point someone tried a repair in...

Now back to the VANOS. When I drove a friend's Z4M back to back with mine, I had a slight impression his car was more responsive or faster than mine - at the time I put it down to the intake he has or just perception of speed with very different exhaust volumes. I always thought that the S54 was...

I've been too busy to keep up with posting stuff or to even just browse the forum and learn about our cars via other people's issues, so here's a catch up: Once I received the shifter bushes, I was able to assemble the assembly and it looked great. For anyone who is looking into rebuilding...