700mopareater
New member
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2002
- Location
- All over MA
Hi, my name's Mike and i'm new, looking for some ideas, info, etc. Been reading here for a while and seems there's a lot of good ideas. Well i'm pretty much done as far as i can go w/ my NA proj, and so far am pleased w/ the results, nothing super fast but a car that gets up a little bit more than you'd expect, basically this:
1987 740 GLE, M46 (rebuilt), 193,000 miles
Did all the basics, new belts, plugs (bosch platinums .30), regular oil changes, flame trap cleaning, changed diff fluid to semi-syn, going to do full synthetic on the tranny, still doing dyno on the motor (don't want to open up leaks if there are any. Basically anything electrical that could go wrong has been fixed (resoldering relays etc etc.)
So basically, the start was get it close to newish condition.
Now comes the simple stupid stuff
opened up the airbox, closed of the hot-valve in it so it's always getting cold air, run 93 gas (letting the EFI do its job and advance timing for me), free-er flowing exhaust , cat, + downpipe. popped off the sway bar endlinks on a hill 8) so i replaced those and made a set of busings (half poly, half metal).
Basically i've wound up w/ a car that runs very smooth and has a good feel on the powerband. It also makes a damn good contender to my friend's 88 dodge daytona :evil:
Ok this is where i run out of ideas on what to do. I think i've done as much simple stupid stuff as i can possibly do to this car w/in my budget. So i'm looking for more simple stupid ideas, my problem is i'm a college student, so cash is short. Not looking to do anything so far as lightening flywheels etc, that's beyond my skill level right now. I'm willing to get pretty greasy though. Just looking for good cheap ideas that will make the car keep up better and still remain a good daily driver. Oh, and the occasional bench race, just 'cause i can't afford to doesn't mean i haven't had a few dream blocks up in my head 8)
1987 740 GLE, M46 (rebuilt), 193,000 miles
Did all the basics, new belts, plugs (bosch platinums .30), regular oil changes, flame trap cleaning, changed diff fluid to semi-syn, going to do full synthetic on the tranny, still doing dyno on the motor (don't want to open up leaks if there are any. Basically anything electrical that could go wrong has been fixed (resoldering relays etc etc.)
So basically, the start was get it close to newish condition.
Now comes the simple stupid stuff
opened up the airbox, closed of the hot-valve in it so it's always getting cold air, run 93 gas (letting the EFI do its job and advance timing for me), free-er flowing exhaust , cat, + downpipe. popped off the sway bar endlinks on a hill 8) so i replaced those and made a set of busings (half poly, half metal).
Basically i've wound up w/ a car that runs very smooth and has a good feel on the powerband. It also makes a damn good contender to my friend's 88 dodge daytona :evil:
Ok this is where i run out of ideas on what to do. I think i've done as much simple stupid stuff as i can possibly do to this car w/in my budget. So i'm looking for more simple stupid ideas, my problem is i'm a college student, so cash is short. Not looking to do anything so far as lightening flywheels etc, that's beyond my skill level right now. I'm willing to get pretty greasy though. Just looking for good cheap ideas that will make the car keep up better and still remain a good daily driver. Oh, and the occasional bench race, just 'cause i can't afford to doesn't mean i haven't had a few dream blocks up in my head 8)