Baby It’s Cold Outside

I had a few free hours today to work on the car. Nothing Crazy, but some good stuff to check off the list. I installed my new Differential drain plugs, which are now 14mm allens instead of 10mm, so I had to use a special setup to install them because there isn’t really enough room to use a huge 14mm tool with the spare tire well. I filled the diff with fluid so that I wouldn’t forget to do it later down the road.

Then I cleaned and installed the exhaust heat shields underneath the car. Used some Purple Power and a lot of elbow grease with a brass bristled brush. The heatshield looks almost brand new now, which is good because it looked like poo before.

Then I had to replace one of the brake pipes from the Master Cylinder to the ABS unit because the E30 M3 uses a special pipe with two different size fittings. So I replicated one of the pipes I had already bent, and fixed a couple of the shortcomings of my previous bending job.

Once the pipe was installed, I started working on a couple other little things that needed to be done. I tidied up the engine wiring underneath the intake manifold. You can see in the picture of the plugged coolant hose that I installed the Intake Manifold braces as well. So why did I have to plug a hose? because I am not going to use the throttle body de-icing system. This car will never see snow, and will only see freezing temperatures if I get caught out in a freak weather event.

I’ve got some A/C Parts on the way, as well as a Power Steering Pump and a couple other tidbits. I plan on having one evening this coming week to work on the car, but we’ll see how the schedule works out.