Glad you finally got the car sorted. They seem to be selling for decent money these days. I agree and think Bring a trailer would be a good platform to get good money for this car.
I need to put in a vote for an E36 in the future. Selfishly, I'm new to E36 and it's been fun learning about all the intricacies of the chassis. Content on it would be awesome :D
Woohoo finally, you did it! It reminds me of an old Rhodes piano I bought with the intention to restore (also older than me), but got stuck due to several reasons. Like getting bad spare parts supplied (and not knowing about it), or partly vague manuals. I ended up selling it half restored, which was for the better, because it apparently was just not my area. Anyway, you got yours working properly now, good luck on the sale!!
FINALLY! YOU GOT IT ALEC!! 🎉 I have seen how this car got you demoralized after all that hard work. At the End you won!💪 Good job buddy. Such a nice cruiser that E30. Hopefully you score a wonderfull Price for that puppy. Thanks for your nice content again.🙏 Can't wait for another one.✌️
Outstanding! I got lost when you ear timed the engine and smelled the exhaust for idle mixture… on my points and carbureted Mazda 1000 from 1982 I set idle speed and mixture in the carburetor after setting the idle spark advance. But never in a fuel injected car.
What an awesome surprise to wake up to! Always a good morning with a Day Off DIY vid! Congrats on finally passing smog!! Now you can enjoy it and it’s no longer sexy lawn art. The fuel pressure bleed is probably leaky fuel injectors. Kinda common. For some more engine compartment access, you can disconnect the shock on the RF hood hinge and the hood will rotate forward a bit more. Hopefully this will sell quickly. It’ll make a nice lil toy for someone for sure.
Great idea. maybe i should throw a gauge on the rail and see what things look like after i turn the engine off. gunna get back onto the e30 soon and get her cleaned up for listing
Holy shit - thought you'd never get that thing sorted! Kind of painful to know it was something small like a distributor, but it's just good to have to running well and road legal. Curious to see what happens with this one.
Alec, where did U find the distributor,????....I have a 1994 318i, and some of the parts are getting harder to find....glad U were able to solve the problems U were having....
Nice Video man i love old BMW's! so i was wondering if it is legall to test drive a car that isn't officially legal on US roads? because in Germany you get yourself into trouble by doing that :D
The engine will want more advance at higher rpms due to the time it takes for the spark to produce the power and pressure from the exploding air/fuel mixture. Old Chevy's back in the day had about 12º initial timing at idle and up to 36º of advance in either mechanical (weights and springs) or vacuum at high rpm. Too much advance and the piston fights the pressure on the way up and too little advance keeps the engine from making maximum power as the piston is already moving down when the explosion of the air/fuel happens. You want more advance at high rpm and less at idle. As for a computer controlled vacuum advance with a relay, you're on your own sir ... Good luck.
@glock22357 Texas ev driver just busted texas for $15 of an inspection fee of $30+ for passing smog test. So oh now it is fixed and 1995 or older is no smog test. Duh! No cars back then were smog tested. Lol.
the Portland metro area requires any car newer than 1979 (not sure why) has to pass smog emissions. Medford is the only other city in Oregon that does but it's only if the car is newer than 20 years old. everywhere else in the state you don't have too.
California. There used to be a 30-year rolling exemption, but that ended in 2005. At the time, I owned a 1976 VW Type 2 Westfalia Deluxe, so as you might imagine, I was pretty disappointed. Keeping those older air-cooled cars out of gross polluter territory was pretty difficult. I ended up selling the van, but took the sting out of it by replacing it with a Porsche convertible.
