#EUROKRACYPREP
2017 Work.
This took place over the course of a few months, with the carburetor stuff happening in the last month to today.
Cheapo.
Instead of buying fender protectors, I made my own with an old quilt. I’ll have some leftover vinyl sewn (by my Nonina) in a few areas to make future messes easier to clean-up.
KMph Speedometer
Nothing fancy, just installed the KMph speedometer but while I was at it, I added some additional ground wires for good measure.
Rocker Panel Trim
I’ve always wanted to use plasti dip on something, and now I finally had a reason. The plan was to spray the rocker panel, I figured it would allow me to see what it looks like in a temporary but not too temporary fashion.
I used the black plastidip on the rocker and then I installed the stainless rocker trim.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t a big fan of the look (Kosta ate a gyro and agreed). It looks cleaner without the lower trim or maybe I was just used to looking at it without the trim. I decided I would re-plastidip the area, and plug the holes with some plastic plugs. I had to re-plastip because I originally masked off the area midway behind the lower trim... and I didn’t do a great job. yay.
Oil change, check.
Started her up just to make sure everything was functioning before pulling the distributor out. Would want to falsely accuse the new distributor.
Valve Adjustment (aka Valve Job, aka VJ)
I should have done this last year but I just didn’t think about it and then when I did, I would forget again. I was also very anxious to get it running. This time I had the valve cover off (for 123ignition install), so the time was now. #VJ
123Ignition Tune (Blue Tooth) Distributor
I made a little wire-harness because I thought the wires were going to be slightly short to the coil (I didn’t really check to be honest). I prefer the cleanliness and ability to quickly disconnect the wires easily over splicing connectors.
I found TDC on cylinder 1, popped the dizzy in, according to the super thin instruction manual. Turned ignition on and connected with blue tooth from my phone. I programmed the advance specs for the 2002 TI from Haynes book. Reconnected spark plug wires. She fired right up and is already running smoother.
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Using the advance timing light I discovered it was off by 3 degrees by setting it to 18 degrees at 1000RPM (in the 123Tune app), then finding out it was actually firing at 15 degrees @ 1000RPM.
Excitement is building!!!
Removed Italian mismatched Webers
Now that I had confirmation the ignition was firing, I started the fun job of unbolting the Italian DCOEs, the lower nuts which connect to the manifold studs are especially fun. Shorty combination wrenches would be very helpful.
With the carbs out, I emptied the leftover fuel in to my lawnmower and it was time to swap out the venturis/jets.
I popped them back in, the velocity stack on cylinder 3 just touched the brake booster so I will shave down the bottom side of it so it doesn’t scrape the booster when the motor rocks.
They newness makes them look SLICK!
Throttle Linkage
I wasn’t happy with what I currently had, picky, picky... so I ordered a new throttle cable linkage from the UK. The new kit has 2 throttle cables, so I fabricated a bracket (out of a thick piece of aluminum) to support the 2 cables above the pedal lever.
Popped on the brackets above the carbs, made the adjustments...etc
Tuning.
I was expecting to spark up the motor, fidget with the carb settings and drive off in to the sunset, but this fn’ car had different plans for me.
I finally tried to start it 2 weeks ago. No dice. And fuel leaks out of the velocity stacks. I re adjusted the floats, fuel still leaks out.
After messing around with the carburetors, I got it to start and idle horribly (still with fuel leak). I had to turn in the idle screw a fair amount (which opens butterflies). The idle is not stable, when I try to synchronize the carburetors, the engine speeds up, and is sucking way too much air for the low RPMs.
I’ve been trying to pinpoint the issue, and have received (and continue to receive) a lot of advice from the folks on BMW2002Faq
So far I’ve...
- played with the timing.
- changed the spark plugs and re-gapped them to .025.
- tested spark on all 4 cylinders with timing light.
- double checked spark plug wire order.
- bought a vacuum gauge to test vacuum signal. The signal is super erratic at idle (which goes in to pressure), then stabilizes with revs.
- re-checked/did the valve job, in case I messed up something, no issues there.
- removed the carburetors to replace the intake manifold soft mounts in favour of some paper gaskets... no change
was hoping this was a source of vacuum leak or something.
- finally I put the unmatched Italian DCOEs back in. The motor idles nicely, but does not perform well
I have emailed RedLine for some support because I don't understand why the new 45DCOEs behave like that.
Popped on the IE Strut brace I purchased to see if it helps with the carbs
I've been trying to get all this shit sorted out so I can attend Eurokracy. The 2002 hasn't been on a highway yet and has only 17kms since I finished the resto mod. I will make the final call in a couple of days... if I go solo or with the 2002.