other My Car Is Officially Road Legal!!

[DaveBMX]

Hi guys,

 

For those of you who have helped me over the last 11 months i'd like to say a BIG thankyou to you!

 

car passed its mot yesterday morning and i finally got to take the car on a drive last night.

 

Still got lots to do as im having a few issues with leaks from my brake calipers and some rattles and clanks that need tracking down but the car is now ready to begin quality control testing!

 

As an interesting thing the MOT station actually weighed my car and it has a wet weight of 1088kg!

 

heres a couple of photos

 

 

 

regards

 

 

Dave

[Conserv]

Congratulations! And it looks great!

Steve

[bmwfan]

Looks awesome, let's see some engine pics!

[DaveBMX]

Hey BMWfan here's a photo from before I sorted my wiring rad etc. Will get some new pics once I've retouched my paint in the bay!

Regards

Dave

[stuff]

Nice work Dave. Car looks fantastic. Lived in England for 25 years so I remember how much of a pain the MOT is for older cars. I can only imagine the test has gotten even more strict over the years. Anyone complaining about California being strict for emissions testing should consider themselves lucky! ;-)

Cheers,

Colin

[DaveBMX]

Thanks Colin! 

 

yes they definitely take it very seriously! luckily i scored well down on the emissions so glad about that!

 

 

regards

 

 

Dave

[DeanR32]

Yep, that's a bit of me Dave!

Lovely car mate. If I get mine looking half as good, I'll be a happy man!

[DaveBMX]

cheers Dean! you wont have any problems i dont think! 

 

 

 

regards

 

Dave

[thinksound_mike]

Congratulations! I'm sure that ride home from the inspection was one of the best ever.

[ar_kid]

Well done Dave, it's good to see the car back on the road and has inspired me to get a move on.

 

I was going to reply to your coolant thread the other night but got side tracked. I wanted to ask if your M44 engine has ODB2 as this would be a good source of reliable data and there seems to be plenty of cheap Bluetooth data loggers about.

[DaveBMX]

no probs yes it is obd2. I have the bluetooth adapter hooked up and the little tablet in the centre console on the pic above shows the real time data. I've messed around a little bit with it but not had time to get stuck right in.

 

I have so far only messed wit the Torque app but it doesnt appear to display correct info as it was saying my intake temp was -40c ha!

 

When i start messing it with it properly i might make a thread

 

regards

 

 

Dave

[ar_kid]

I'd be interested in seeing an advance/rpm/load datalog as it would be really helpful for generating a base timing map. Mine is first generation ODB so I don't think I'm able to extract that kind of data from it.

[DaveBMX]

wow that sounds technical!!

 

haha it does do dataloging with Torque so i will see what i can get recorded! I Should really start getting to grips with this type of stuff if im planning to wang a huge turbo on there at some point!

 

regards

 

 

Dave

[Cru Jones]

Congrats Dave. Car looks the business.

[DaveBMX]

thanks Cru!

 

 

the m44 is annoying me though,

 

and then i had to see this!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

arghhhh!!!

 

 

regards

 

 

Dave