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Steve, right now I'm planning to use the standard Bosch 3bar fuel pressure regulator.

Cool. Thanks. Feel free to email me offline: trichardson AT clifbar DOT com

Thanks guys. As mentioned, lots of work ahead but I'll do my best to document it so that others may be able to learn from my trials and tribulations. Beast02er, I am indeed familiar with the 77e21 guy and his build write up has certainly helped me. The 1/2 aluminum "log" just next to the head is a common vacuum tube that will collect and feed the vacuum signal to the MSII unit. Each manifold port has a vacuum port put into it, and then I have a feed tube to the ECU dropping out of the log between cylinders 2 and 3. At the rear end of the log as in inlet for my E21-style cold start valve. The thinner metal tube mounted on top of the ITBs themselves is also a vacuum port but this is just providing vacuum to the fuel regulator. From everything I've read, these small combined ports are not really good enough to provide a steady signal to the ECU, hence the aformentioned common log. And Beast02er, I'd at least be interested to see photos of the airboxes you are putting together. My hope right now is to build one that looks a lot like the old Alpina style ones since I'd like it to maintain some period appearance to it. That said, I'm also thinking an S14 box may be able to fit in there. I have a decent bit of clearance vs. the brake booster since I tilted the ITBs upward by a few degrees by having a local machinist cut out a triangular "wedge" from the manifolds to tilt everything upward; he then re-welded and bored them so it's nice and smooth and there's a very clear shot to the intake valves all the way from the airhorns.

I've still got a couple of days worth of work dealing with wiring, fuel lines, brake bleeding, etc... but today I finally mounted the ITBs to the motor for real. This has been several months in the making; collecting parts, fabricating parts, researching, etc.... I have been running for the last three years an S14 block and lower end, mated to a spruced up E12 head in conjunction with EFI via the old 318 intake and 325 TB, and running MSII and EDIS. The long term goal was always to go to ITBs but I just didn't have the time or money to bite it off. Now that the 02 is no longer my daily driver, the time felt right, and here I am with many hours of EFI tuning ahead of me. An airbox is also in the plans but haven't fully decided on the design yet. As you can see from the photos I'm running pretty long velocity stacks, about 5 inches, and they are split between the stubby air horns and the straight extensions. Where these two pieces mate is where the airbox will ultimately connect and enclose the little TWM air horns. As I said, lots of work ahead, but am hoping to turn the key for the key for the first time in the next week or ten days, life and work schedule permitting. Woo hoo!!!

So I'm mounting up some ITBs and they bump into the dipstick in a pretty big way. For those that have done similar installations, or perhaps with side drafts, how did you get clearance vs. the dipstick? Bend the tube? Shorten the stick and tube somehow? Is there a different stick which is shorter? Thanks in advance.

Last year when travelling with the family in San Diego we rented a Mazda 5. I wasn't impressed with interior material qualities (no nice soft touch plastics) but the practicality was honestly pretty awesome. Easily converted from 2-3 rows of seating, sliding doors on both side for great access, plenty of room yet didn't feel "big", half way decent motor and driving dynamics, and pretty darned cheap too. Haven't made up my mind on the newer body styling yet...

Inventory? What's that?

If you want a beer selection head over to Lucky Baldwins in Sierra Madre (johnC lives right there.) Probably 50 or so beers, many on top, lots of Belgians. About 20 min from Burbank traffic permitting.

I'm getting ready to install an ITB set-up on my car and am realizing I'm not clear on where gaskets need to be used. I know I need to put some between the manifold and the head, but do they also need to be put between the manifold and ITB, in addition to between the ITBs and the airhorns? Also, is there a rule of thumb as to when to use a gasket cement?

Today I put in a new (to me) tii booster. After getting it all hooked up, I noticed that the connection between the booster "fork" and the rod connecting to the brake pedal do not line up. I've tried rotating it a bit by depressing the pedal but to no avail. Short of taking the booster off and adjusting the lenght of the fork, is there another way to make this line up? I'd really prefer not to have to pull the booster again. Thanks.

Those videos are nuts. The 02 drops that Camaro (or is it a Firebird??) like a sack of potatos. Wow.

Very nice indeed. Could you post a few close-ups of the carpet fitting into the tricky areas? What was your impression of the fit and finish of the GAHH kit? My understanding is they are very highly thought of. My non-GAHH kit is decent but I've never been overly thrilled with the way it fits.

For those that have done this, did you remove all the old wiring that came out of the regulator into the alternator and various other spots in the wiring harness? Any pitfalls to doing this?

Call me crazy, but it sounds like one to be very careful of, especially since it doesn't sound like you know these cars super well (and I mean that in a respectful manner.) If it's a genuine Turbo $10k may well be a decent investment, but for anything else it may be much less so. Any way to confirm that 100k? Remember these cars don't have odometers that show beyond 99,999 so it's impossible to tell without service records how many times that thing has gone around. Regardless, confirm exactly what it is, photos and details here, and then have someone knowledgeable check it out. Best of luck.

I pulled a 3-pin pigtail connector from a late 80's 7-series (I think) to use for the Bosch TPS on my ITB set-up that I'm installing. The connector has three wires going into it, one yellow, one black, and one slightly fatter one which is brown. Anybody know if BMW has standardized what function each of these colors equates to? Thanks in advance.

You could probably buy ALL the nice 2002's for that kind of money.

Perfect thanks. And does it matter if the hose connection is at 6 o'clock vs 12 o'clock or can the booster operate the same in both orientations?

For those that have ordered new hard brake lines from BMW: I know they come pre-cut to length, but do they also have the flares pre-formed into the ends? If so, I'm guessing they would also have to have the connectors on there also. The connectors alone are shown as NLA or realoem. Thanks in advance.