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You ain't gonna be satisfied until it's your vision of perfect, and you know what?
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To say I’m disgusted would be putting it lightly.
This is where 8 hours puts me. The engine is mounted, the driveshaft is in, the tail shaft mount had to be rebuilt, as did the engine mounts..On any other day, I’d be happy.
Except it has to come back out..
For the “ told ya so” -ers, You get to bask in the knowledge that you told me so.
I forgot to put the baffle in the fckin pan...and...it leaks at the new weld. Right at the front corner of the new angle cut section of the pan. If it was just this leak, I’d probably try to fix it as is. Whether I try to weld it, or use some sort of epoxy I woulda been up for it, but...I left the freakin baffle out by mistake.
And that’s gonna bug me.
More than the leak.
So,...I’ll have to let it soak in...Thursday is the next day I’ll get to mess with it....By then I should be able to choke down the notion of having to remove the pan,.....again.
Yeah, um, don't do that.The down side being that I have to lay/sit under the engine to remove the pan, scrape the old gasket, and then re-install the pan,.......while the whole thing swings like the breeze hangin from a chain suspended by a 199.00 Chinese engine hoist....talk about tempting fate.
Toyota UZ V8s are the . I have a 2UZ in the 4Runner.It's irrelevant at this point, but I was watching a YT video on the Toyota 1UZ-FE engine. That would have been a cool motor in the monster. Maybe in a few years when the 2JZ has gone stale Mike can put one in it!
Damn, you weren’t phuckin around tonight.
I have to ask after reading your comment. What draws you to the inline 6 so much more than other engines?
Oil leaks, more oil leaks, even more oil leaks...Cant say really. With a BMW it‘s 3liters, amazing power, super smooth,...different.
Take it from the guy that looks under the hood of these things....the 4 cyl, and 95% of their 6 cylinder product use a single, twin scroll turbo. The engine cover reads “ Twin Power”, but that refers to the single twin scroll, and double Vanos ( variable valve lift/cam timing).Oil leaks, more oil leaks, even more oil leaks...
Been working on the things three and a half weeks now... So many oil leaks...
Thing is, everything you like about them, you are 100% correct. The only engines out there that rival a BMW I6 in smoothness are Lexus V8s (and V8s designed for Lexus and shared with Toyota, like the 2UZ in my 4Runner), and as I get older, I appreciate that more and more.
Even Mercedes Benz wishes their ran as smooth as a BMW I6 or a Lexus V8.
The fact that BMW is so bat crazy that even their 4-cylinder engines have twin turbos now (so do their I6s and V8s, which is why they make insane power for their displacement) was part of the appeal in going to work for them.
That's what I meant, posting before I was awake = bad.Take it from the guy that looks under the hood of these things....the 4 cyl, and 95% of their 6 cylinder product use a... twin scroll turbo.
Meh, there's a 43-year old German car in my garage... with a 302 in it.Never own a German car out of warranty.
(I'd break that rule for an AMG Mercedes)
If you worked on them at a BMW dealership, you’d love them. Especially when you quote a broke ass one at xyz hours @ a labor rate like some of our tenured techs have ( like 35-40.00 hr)I hate BMWs....but I'm still looking for a 328 car to enter HPDE racing with. I absolutely hate them and wouldn't mind rubbing the wall or TKOing one on the track. I could've entered with a tuned down version of my fox....but there's no way I'd trash it like that.