Duncan's V37.......race car?

[The Bogan]

35 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:

I hope it's actually possible. This is a write off in insurance world.

Hopefully you can just unbolt them, thank them for their service, then bin them and not replace them

Apparently the sensors like to set them off with only minor impacts at low speed

It looks like they do a delete kit for some of these, but, it is costly 

[MBS206]

4 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

I hope it's actually possible. This is a write off in insurance world.

Nah, lots of insurance repairs on V36 and V37 for pedestrians deployments. Reasons ranging from possums, to extremely severe potholes have deployed them.

However, paying for the full repair can still be upto $5k AU some people have noted!

[Duncan]

Having had a reasonable look at the car, I'll be able to remove the (one time) rams and retract the hinge (they are held in the down location by a tiny (m3?) sacrificial screw) which will get it physically back in shape.

From there if you remove the rams you need a resistor to turn off the airbag light (as Mark said, there are plug in kits and I might go that way because its reversible).

And...per all the threads on here, even if you have the resistors to turn off the airbag light, the bonnet light will stay on as it writes to the airbag computer history - that is either replace the airbag controller, reprogam the EPROM (if I can work out how), or remove the globe from the dash.

Having seen how sensitive this system is, if I had my time over I'd pre-emptively remove the rams, even on a road car, because this is all a very unnecessary pain in the arse.

Reminds me, time to go and have a look at the Fuga too....

[PranK]

Wouldn't get that in a BMW. 🤣

Sucks that this happened so early in the day but good to hear the suspension feels better.

What kind of diff options are available?

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

3 hours ago, PranK said:

Wouldn't get that in a BMW. 🤣

I support this statement lol

[Duncan]

our good friends at nismo make a diff for it, I have one (and a spare housing to put the centre in) on the way. https://www.nismo.co.jp/products/web_catalogue/lsd/mechanical_lsd_v37.html

AMS also make a helical one, but I prefer mechanical for track use in 2wd (I do run a quaife in the front, but not rear of the R32)

[Duncan]

So I mentioned the apprentice, @LachyK helped take the bonnet off. We just undid the nuts on the hinges and unclipped the gas struts, then pulled the bonnet back a little as the front was catching on the front bar. 

I had a good look at everything today and have removed the rams, repaired/reset the hinges and bolted it back together like it never happened.

I'll do a separate write up on the repair, and I also removed the poppers from the Fuga today too to save grief down the road.....as said above it is at least $5k to repair retail.

I'm also happier about my ability to prepare a race car, and less happy about Nis-nault's engineering (I can hear @GTSBoy sAfrican Americaning) because the top hose of the radiator didn't slip off.......it snapped clean off.

By practice I put the hose clamp hard up against the flare on a neck to make it least likely to ever move (thanks @Neil!). I guess that puts a little more pressure on the end of the pipe as it is further away from the rad, but still, that is pretty shit.

I've put it back on for now as there was a fair bit of neck still there, but obviously there is no lip on the neck any more so I don't think I'll track it again until I have a new rad.

Speaking of which....more research required. It looks like Koyo makes a standard size radiator in ally which I'll grab in the meantime, but I really want something thicker so might have to go custom in the medium term (ouch)

Coolant still needs a refill and I have the pressure tester on it over night, but other than a wash down of the engine bay it seems alright.

And @MBS206 noted something noisy on the front of the engine and I think I agree....time for a new accessory belt and tensioners I think.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Fark what are the changes of that snapping like that, clean.

Nek minnit, custom radiator goes in, with built in oil cooler like those discontinued PWR ones from yesterdeacades ago