Congrats Aidan! But you definitely ain't gonna have more time now.

 

Y'all clean up wicked good!

Lol @sixshooter

Congrats!

 

Congratulations.


In for part out.

 

Congrats again my man. Looking forward to seeing you guys in a couple weeks!

Also I picked up a fridge today so we can store our icecream on the trip to WRLS

 

lol. were still not 100% sure were in. Car isn't tip top (still smoking) and the wedding hit our wallets hard. But we'll see how the next few weeks play out.

 

 

Smoke didn't stop you last year I'll watch your oil if you watch my control arm bolts. For real though, I hope you guys can swing it, we'll be pretty bummed if it's just us on the trip down.

 

Congrats to both of you! Looks like it was a great time. Hope you make it to Laguna.

 

Congrats man!

 

So my smoking symptoms are smoke only* after long engine braking, and then stomping the gas. If I shift into neutral or don't engine brake it doesn't seem to smoke.

Could this be stuck oil control rings? Trying to decide if I should do some acetone+atf cleaning to try and unstick them.

*As far as I can tell in the mirror.

 

not valve stem seals?

 

Already replaced them.

 

have to go through and read 540 pages to see what you've tried. lol.

 

New (old) motor a month ago. It might just be tired rings, but i figured trying to unstick them might be worth it.

 

drive it while you build the old old motor again.

 

That's what I'm doing. (Over a long time). Just curious about people experiences with smokey motors and sticking rings.

 

mixed results, but I haven't been able to make it any worse. lol.

 

I had the same symptoms with a bone stock 1.6 too, it was higher mileage as well. You might ask Craig if he was experiencing the same symptoms, although I don't remember it happening on the dyno. He did ask me to up the boost until it stops making power or stops rotating. Luckily it stopped making power first.

 

He said he didn't remember it happening. But Martin said he thought he remembered it doing it on the dyno, so I'm not sure.

I was going to find out how it did on track but the diff blew before I could get anything in.

I'd really like to make the next BMW club event, but I'm pretty swamped at work right now.