Recent content by StinkyBeard

Dropped her off at the dealer this morning. Got a call that I needed to replace the cold air intake. Explained that I don't have the OEM intake and that I've put 8000 miles on the car since purchasing with no issues. :(

Well, figured I'd go for a long shot and tried running at idle without the air filter. I have a cold air intake by aFe (dry) and thought maybe, just maybe it was clogged up and not getting enough air. It made no difference. Not sure what else to try. Only to take it to the dealership and...

Got the kink out of the pipe. no change. Guessing my braking may be better now, but trying not to rag it until i get this idle and loss of power fixed. Put a glove over the oil fill cap, with the cap removed of course. No suction whatsoever. Guessing that means a very sizeable vacuum leak...

So, doing a little research on the sucking jet pump, it appears it only provides additional vacuum to the brake servo, not the other way around. If the brake servo provided extra pressure to the intake, it might have made since why it was throwing a mass air flow failure. I ended up cutting 4'...

Added a picture to the previous post. FYI, the kung fu grip is immortal hand strength. Hitting it with pliers merely meant squeezing it with pliers to attempt to open it up. On realoem.com I'm not able to buy just that pipe. Is there any other place to source it?

Everytime you guys say something it reminds me of something else I've tried or uncovered. Yesterday taking out the intake manifold I found a collapsed pipe going from the brake servo to the intake manifold. It goes through the 'sucking jet pump'. I tried to hit it with the kung fu grip and...

I read something about this last night. Going to give it a try today. The mechanic who had it said that BMWs in general have a really rough time running with the oil cap removed. He said with mine, removing the oil filler cap made no difference which puzzled him. From what I read, the...

I should have mention this is an M Roadster. S54. Here are the codes is throwing: 2D06 air mass system 29D1 Misfire, Cyl. 5 29CF Misfire, Cyl. 3 29CE Misfire, Cyl. 2 29CC Misfire, several Cyls 29D0 Misfire, Cyl. 4 They did a leak down test which came back with no findings. 3% or something...

I'm at the end of my rope here. Started a rough idle 3 weeks ago. Took it to the shop where they replaced 6 coils due to misfires on several cylinders. No change. Still throwing a MAF code, so they popped a new MAF sensor in. No change. Next they inspected the fuel injectors where they saw...