Adventures of the ///M Waffe
This is a little blog for the ///M cave and our small group of E34 M5 and E30 M3 owners that hang out in the cave.
Things that don't fit into specific threads or questions
We have 4 E34 M5s, 2 x E30 M3s an E9 coupe and my 540/5
Jacob also has an E39 and an F10 30th Anniversary M5 in the USA
We are slowly educating him on the joys of the older M5s
We get together most Saturdays to do work on our cars and hang out
Here's some photos from today.
Jacob brought his M5 up from Central Java for a gearbox change and some minor servicing
... Turbines , there's only one set in the group on Taffy's M5 (GA25331) , we accept anyone , even Turbinati
None of us are professional mechanics , we have a couple of tame aircraft engineers that do most of the serious wrenching and between us we have the largest stock of new and used E34 ///M parts in Indonesia (it now half fills a 20ft container)
We are doing a lot of valve shim adjustments on S38 / S14 engines as none of the dealers have the tools or spares in stock and we've got this down to about 4 hours now including the ITB balance.
I love to experiment , it keeps my mind active and due to being on the *** end of the BMW worldwide supply chain (parts are 4 to 8 weeks away) we improvise and build a lot of things that most people can have delivered to their door the next day.
Fuel consistency is also a problem and we're developing our own octane booster which we test with our own cars.
As Jakarta's traffic is now officially the World's worst we have also modified our cars for existing local conditions with upgraded cooling systems , when the M5 was new the traffic was probably a third of what it is now so keeping the S38s cool and reliable is one of our biggest challenges and we've pretty well solved most of the cooling problems.
So this is our little private workshop for our own cars and close BMW friends ... if anyone else has a similar group or informal workshop days let's hear your story.
This is a little blog for the ///M cave and our small group of E34 M5 and E30 M3 owners that hang out in the cave.
Things that don't fit into specific threads or questions
We have 4 E34 M5s, 2 x E30 M3s an E9 coupe and my 540/5
Jacob also has an E39 and an F10 30th Anniversary M5 in the USA
We are slowly educating him on the joys of the older M5s
We get together most Saturdays to do work on our cars and hang out
Here's some photos from today.
Jacob brought his M5 up from Central Java for a gearbox change and some minor servicing
... Turbines , there's only one set in the group on Taffy's M5 (GA25331) , we accept anyone , even Turbinati
None of us are professional mechanics , we have a couple of tame aircraft engineers that do most of the serious wrenching and between us we have the largest stock of new and used E34 ///M parts in Indonesia (it now half fills a 20ft container)
We are doing a lot of valve shim adjustments on S38 / S14 engines as none of the dealers have the tools or spares in stock and we've got this down to about 4 hours now including the ITB balance.
I love to experiment , it keeps my mind active and due to being on the *** end of the BMW worldwide supply chain (parts are 4 to 8 weeks away) we improvise and build a lot of things that most people can have delivered to their door the next day.
Fuel consistency is also a problem and we're developing our own octane booster which we test with our own cars.
As Jakarta's traffic is now officially the World's worst we have also modified our cars for existing local conditions with upgraded cooling systems , when the M5 was new the traffic was probably a third of what it is now so keeping the S38s cool and reliable is one of our biggest challenges and we've pretty well solved most of the cooling problems.
So this is our little private workshop for our own cars and close BMW friends ... if anyone else has a similar group or informal workshop days let's hear your story.