Here is Casey's thread: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=141
First thing on my list was to help with radiator cooling a bit, thus enter some shop-vac attachments with hoses.
I would like to find something that will turn these 90 and open them up so if stationary with the fan on they could pull air from the front of the car rather than the engine bay. Ideally a 2.5" to 5" very sharp 90 would be ideal but i haven't really done any research on this yet....
I also will be trying to add some brake ducting of some sort. The rotors were warped and i want to avoid doing this in the future, although I am not planning on driving this car hard, I have never done this before and would like to try to see how it comes out. I know the rotors are at the end of their life, i will try to get through this summer with them and then pick up a new set from coleman for the next summer.
here are the rotors getting turned:
thinking about these from a few minutes of research:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003C0 ... PDKIKX0DER
Now to the elephant(s) in the room that i have not addressed yet. After
reading through some threads and a bit of research I am pretty convinced that the rings are probably a little weak, but i think i will be able to live with it for a while. A friend of mine suggested switching to dino oil of a heavier weight (20-50) to help reduce the blow by. He had a TTV8 american muscle and when he tried switching to synth oil he had tons of blow by and when he switched back it got better. I am not thinking this will completely cure the problem but i think it may help a bit. If anyone knows any reason not to please LMK.
The other issue was with the starter, it did act up on me a couple times, but honestly it was not all that bad. Since Casey said he had the starter rebuilt i am leaning tward the ignition switch. I may before the car is on the road again wire a push button start in and see if it helps. If not I will be looking into it more when I am actually using the car again.
i would assume the CR lowering HG's are not reuseable, although I hope to not have to tear down the motor for a couple more seasons at least. Ivan was fairly convinced i would lower the oil consumption by switching to dino 20-50. I didnt get on it that much and thus it didnt put to much into the catch can. Although i have heard good things about this OEM BMW CCV:
thicker oil should slow things down.
