DTMPower BMW Forum - E36 M3

heres the problem, i have no idea

e36mthree — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:54:36 GMT

alright this past weekend i was driving my car kinda hard. it was fine up until monday morning when i tried to drive to micky d's. it was driving fine all the way there but then i was about to order and i noticed a very weird sound almost sounding like wind chimes or something simular coming from under my car. so i just thought i'll drive back home and see whats up. so thats what i did, all the while hearing the same sound. there was no engine overheating or anything along those lines just the weird sound. so i get back to the house part the car and pop the hood. there was little droplettes of oil coming from somewhere and pooling up on the right side(when standing in front of car) wheel well. there was also a large amount of coolant leakage from, i have no idea where. i have started the car once since then and dont know what it is. i was thinking maybe a motor mount? or maybe the head gasket or something.

please if you have any idea what in the world this could be, HELP!

2010 E36 M3 Calendar

99MPower — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:59:08 GMT

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New m3 need bit of advice

shanksy21 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:49:28 GMT

gday boys and girls i recently just bought a 95 e36 M3, its got 95 000kms on it and has had the trumpits widened, and a m3 gt computer chip put in, am just wondering what size exhaust i should look at running and also should i look at new extractors or r the original ones alright. also what do ya guys think of her, ive put some pics up

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Some new ragz

gelb3 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:58:33 GMT

Ordered these the other day, My favorite new hoody...even though I haven't actually got to wear it yet. And I'm wearing the t-shirt as I type this.
Crappy pics,sorry ass phone. M stripes are way brighter than they appear in pic and the shirt is just in your face bright and big! I thought they were cool enough to share.

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Some fall pics....

BadGTho — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:42:10 GMT

new camera.. still playing with it but here you go:

Time for a new battery..

BadGTho — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:37:21 GMT

with 10+ years to its credit.. my OE battery is weakening and the car is slow to crank when it sits.

i did some reading and Douglas (who made the oE battery) is now gone and the dealer uses Exide.. the cheapest I found was about $100 plus shipping.

I did some reading and an MTP 91 from interstate is a good replacement. it's a bit shorter but fits due to the multiple anchor points in the trunk, it's vented and more powerful.

I went with a generic Deka group 91 that i got through a wholesaler we deal with at work.,. $77 with the vent kit.

I am pleased so far.. but i def will not get 10 years out of it.

Strange PCB inside the ECU

rija — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:05:47 GMT

I opened my ECU and I found this inside of it:
Does anyone know what it could be?

Dual exhaust

Warren — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:41:33 GMT

Has anyone fabricated a dual exhaust with seperate pipes for each side of the car?

I've seen it before...
just wondering how the pipes were run? where did you put the hangars? did you use a cross over pipe? what type of muffler? .. glasspacks? does is sound good? did you have to cut out the bumper?

and just a hundred other questions haha :lol:

Thanks for your help!

Fall '09 Issue of EuroBerge ready to read!

Roland H — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:01:37 GMT

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Noob Vanos

dtjphex — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:24:48 GMT

I'm looking into buying a new engine for my 318i. I've located 5 spd one from a 93 325i. I'm phyced to put this engine on a mount and work on it 10 hours a day! but I dont know enough about this vanos stuff. some say this model has vanos other say its not a vanos engine.

Also I want to buy and install after market sport cams will this screw with the vanos. prolly yes so is there any way to remove the vanos or just disable it?!???!

Dyno'ing an Autotragic

Xear0 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:18:23 GMT

i just had a thought about dyno'ing automatics. this would apply at least to E36's.

couldnt you just get the car into limp mode to lock it into 3rd? i ask because the guy had problems with my car downshifting on him last time i had it dyno'd. (mayb im the only one with this problem)

now besides wrecking the car(if possible i'd rly rather not lol), wat else will put it into limp mode?

Lifters...how should they feel?

///M3* — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:00:49 GMT

Hey guys,

I am about to put my lifters back in the M. I pressed on a few of the lifter pistons and a couple of them pump up and down very easily and others won't budge at all with the press of a thumb. How should they be and do I need to prime these before I set em back in?