WallaceGlanza

kenmaychris but his engine was forged.

No they don't. The brackets at the front are different, if you're going from 96 to 98 the brackets off a UK NA will fit.

8mm ID from the fuel regulator to the return

You'll need to make sure the bolt pcd for the bells also matches - not just the diameter of the disc. If you haven't already bought and fitted them that is...

Rings might not be universal as the damper bodies/shocks/inserts vary in diameter.

TD12 is a CT12 exhaust housing with welded wastegate, TF035 compressor housing with modified flange and polished inlet and TD04 internals (centre and both turbine and compressor wheels). kenmaychris made 260bhp on this at 1.4barrrrr

And the oil too! Pretty obvious but when I first got my glanza it had the cracked head too, a garage changed the head for me but didn't bother changing the oil and the turbo feed ended up blocked, it died a week later.

They're not actually that big as the oem ones are cut in half.

I was surprised at how cheap things are for the BMW, if you're doing the things yourself it's not expensive imo. Practical, good mpg (47) and still interesting enough, a big thumbs up from me for a 330d.

You can lower the boost as much as you want, it won't cause any problems. 0.6bar is standard hi boost, 0.4 bar is low.

0.6bar is standard boost, you won't have any problems running that all day long. I don't understand your worry about the "oil feed dropping" either - do you mean low oil pressure? That's not related to the boost level you run.

Depends on the ecu you're using also - you need to make sure the person doing the mapping has experience with it and is happy using it.

It's the empty tube right in the middle of that photo - that's where the actual cable fits anyway but the cable is clearly not there.

Cheers mate, not exactly quick progress but will be good to finally have a bit more power!

Just buy some carpet and cut it to shape!

I think you'll need more than 10 metres, I think I used 15. It'll only pop and bang if it's running a bit rich too - like a VXR map!

Certainly have, almost 8 years of pain! With the better weather coming it was time for the Glanza's annual clay bar, polish and wax (it doesn't get used enough to warrant getting done more often!). At the same time there were also a couple of small mods I wanted to do. First was some centre caps for the wheels, being an old style of Rays wheels the current genuine ones don't fit so I bought some generic ones and finally found some nice stickers to go on them like so; http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1483_zpsa016f62f.jpg.html'> I'd say they look good on the wheels: http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1500_zps76c087bd.jpg.html'> http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1502_zpsaedb3b66.jpg.html'> http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1512_zpsaae00594.jpg.html'> The other minor thing was changing the rear wiper, the old one was a bit rusty and makes the whole car look dated, so a newer one from a Toyota Previa (Got to keep it in the family) was fitted. Before: http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1503_zps1c9527c8.jpg.html'> After: http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1515_zps8923a0a8.jpg.html'> http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1514_zps2896524a.jpg.html'> It's all in the details! As mentioned in the last update I was wanting to get the glanza rolling roaded before squeezing more power out, just to make sure everything is running ok (as usual I'm hearing noises and getting paranoid!). Typically the night before the rolling road was booked the trusty glanza decided to spray v power over the driveway through a corroded fuel line, so a repair was done (bodged) to make sure it would make it! Make it she did and it even managed to not blow up on the rollers at Wallace Performance. On the first run Matty wasn't happy with how lean she was running, a wee tweak to the rrfpr and it was much improved. the power output was as expected - basically the same as she made back in 2007 (albeit on the original engine), 186.8bhp and 164.2 lbft http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/2134b3a9-0e90-47e0-86a4-bfe08394efad_zps0c6c5316.jpg.html'> http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1522_zpsb73b6d6d.jpg.html'> http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1523_zps3ce5ad4c.jpg.html'> With the tweak to the fuelling the glanza is running much better now, its much smoother lower down and doesn't run like a bag of shit when cold! So it seems it's finally time for a bit more power, that means this little lot can can be thrown on: http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/IMG_1530_zps82eb2087.jpg.html'> The turbo is a TD12 which were sold by Tongs/Enzo over on UKSC for a short while, it has TF035 compressor housing, CT12 exhaust housing and TD04 internals so should provide good spool times with a nice power and torque spread - exactly what I'm looking for. http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/CIMG0590_zps792d0f85.jpg.html'> http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/CIMG0594_zpsc5134639.jpg.html'> http://s202.photobucket.com/user/WallaceGlanza/media/My%20Glanza%20V/CIMG0600_zps3330b624.jpg.html'> I can't wait to get it on and mapped!!!!

Well seeing as I'm a proper member on here I thought I'd better update this.... So over a year ago with an MOT due and a handbrake that wasn't working I decided to take the Glanza off the road (oh the joy of having a second car!) to fix the handbrake and a few other bits at the same time - this was back in April - it took until mid September before an MOT certificate was issued! The list of things I was wanting to do wasn't long but as usual nothing went straightforward. The initial jobs involved this small pile of parts: New handbrake cables, rear caliper rebuild kit, poly rear trailing arm bushes and some heat wrap for the whole exhaust. After getting under the car I was pretty shocked at the condition under there, specifically the Whiteline chassis parts which had corroded very badly in quite a short space of time: The panhard rod was horrible: So I decided to add cleaning up all these parts and the rear beam to the list. I knew the powerflex rear trailing arm bushes wouldn't be a direct fit after seeing people having to remove the ring in the arm to fit them, however I didn't want to do this as imo it doesn't look safe. I had planned to have the bushes turned down to fit but upon trying them against the axle I realised it wasn't going to be that simple, so I contacted powerflex gave them some dimensions and they sent a new pair of bushes for me trial fit, thankfully these fitted perfectly: You can see the dfference between the GT and Glanza bushes here (Glanza on the left): Whilst waiting for the new bushes from powerflex I rebuilt the rear calipers and set about removing the exhaust to allow me to heatwrap it. Due to the exhaust being a custom system it's only a 2 piece system, going from the downpipe right to the backbox just after the rear beam in one section, this makes it bloody hard to remove with the car just on axle stands. Unfortunately I got slightly frustrated trying to remove it, bent a section of the fuel tank and caused a leak! A new fuel tank was required. With the exhaust off I decided to enlist the help of my friend and his welder to make the exhaust a 3 piece system: So it went from this: To this, with the addtion of a couple of flanges and the heatwrap: I was finally able to get the back end put back together and freshened up like so: Whilst the rear end was being played with it was also a good time to finally get a set of 4 pots sorted up front. Before I sold on the previous Wilwood kit I had fitted for one week I took a few measurements to allow me to replicate the kit but with the 288mm discs I needed to fit behind the Rays. The required parts were gathered: Wilwood midilite calipers, custom brackets, hi spec discs (288mm diameter, 25.4mm thick and race grooved) and bells and ferodo pads (which need modified to fit the midilites). The bells also needed drilld and centre bore taken out to suit the hub, one done I had them anodised along with the brackets: After a few trial fits and minor adjustments the completed kit was fitted: A nice tight fit behind the rays (once the wheel weights were moved!): Finally after months of the road it was time to get back on it - after a complete faf getting through the mot involving re-fitting the standard cat and manifold taking them back off to get rewelded then finally passing. I'm happy to say the cars running nicely again though, the brakes are awesome, no more fade on my favourite back roads! After a wee clean and blast up that back road the car looked like this: Next up is finally a bit more power, after driving a torquey beemer most days this thing is feeling a little underpowered, I'm going to get it checked on a dyno first to make sure nothing is amiss then it's finally time for a bigger snail!

Mine doesn't seem to like it either - it just spat a load of it on the driveway through a rotten fuel pipe, joy!

I seen this in ferfar the other night, was gonna ask if you knew who it was...

Definitely get the tracking done including camber - it will be out after you fit the coilovers. It depends on how low you go as to whether you need a panhard rod but technically as soon as you lower it then the rear beam is out of alignment, it's more noticeable the lower you go, you can physically see that the rear wheels don't sit square compared to the front.

Looking good.... but your wheels are on the wrong way round!

Bargain

We've had BP 102 since 2006... http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/bp_ultimate/STAGING/brand_assets/downloads_pdfs/pq/bp_ultimate_uk_102_final_press_release.pdf

I'm pretty sure a lot of members on here thought they were safe paying CJ Performance a lot of money for parts and that isn't looking too good so can't blame a guy for being cautious!