SPECIALIST INSPECTS MY HOME BUILT SUPERCHARGED M3

Chris Slix
29 Jan 202427:38

Summary

TLDRThe video follows Chris fixing up and modifying a salvaged BMW M3 he bought, including installing a supercharger kit. Despite initial issues, with help from experts he fixes underlying problems like a faulty coil pack. He upgrades parts like the engine mounts and replaces the rod bearings for preventative maintenance. After sorting issues the car finally goes on a dyno, producing over 600hp. The project highlights the risks and rewards of modifying a high mileage performance car.

Takeaways

  • πŸ˜€ Chris bought a supercharged BMW M3 but it started having issues running properly after initial installation
  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”§ With help from professionals, Chris found multiple issues like a broken coil pack causing misfires
  • πŸ”§ They replaced worn rod bearings as preventative maintenance when removing the subframe
  • βš™οΈ Chris' exhaust was also upgraded with test pipes and carbon fiber tips by Modstock
  • πŸ€” Despite best efforts, Chris and Ethan's supercharger install had many errors the shop found
  • β›½ Fitting a new reservoir valve and sorting wiring issues got the M3 running well again
  • πŸ“ˆ On the dyno the supercharged M3 made over 600 horsepower after tuning fixes and a base map
  • πŸ‘ With some silly mistakes fixed, the M3 build was a success making lots more power
  • πŸ”Š The exhaust sounded much improved as well to match the car's new supercharged engine
  • πŸ˜ƒ Chris was happy with the 612 horsepower result and planned future content with the built M3

Q & A

  • What was the initial problem encountered after installing the supercharger kit on the E92 M3?

    -After the initial startup, which sounded good, the car began to run progressively worse, indicating a significant issue following the supercharger kit installation.

  • What diagnostic code was retrieved from the E92 M3, and what was its significance?

    -The diagnostic code retrieved was 27b0, indicating multiple potential issues with the vehicle, necessitating further investigation to identify and resolve the underlying problem.

  • Why was the battery replaced in the E92 M3, and what was the anticipated outcome?

    -The battery was replaced to rule out the possibility of a dead cell causing electrical issues throughout the vehicle. The outcome hoped for was a resolution to the starting and running problems.

  • What modifications were made to the exhaust system of the E92 M3?

    -Modifications included installing test pipes and a back box mod from Modstock to improve sound and ensure no issues with tuning, enhancing the car's performance and auditory experience.

  • What was identified as the primary issue causing the E92 M3's poor running condition?

    -A coil pack was found to be split in half, significantly impacting the car's performance. This issue was overlooked initially but was critical in resolving the car's running problems.

  • How did the video address the common issue of rod bearings in E92 M3s?

    -The video detailed the process of replacing the rod bearings, a known issue in E92 M3s that can lead to catastrophic engine damage, as a preventative measure to ensure the longevity and performance of the engine.

  • What was the outcome of the dyno tuning session for the E92 M3?

    -After resolving a misfire issue during the session, the dyno tuning successfully increased the car's power to 612 horsepower, significantly enhancing its performance.

  • What specific components were upgraded or inspected during the maintenance and tuning process?

    -Components upgraded or inspected included the battery, exhaust system (test pipes and back box mod), coil packs, rod bearings, and the supercharger kit's installation quality.

  • What was the reaction and plan after finding out the coil pack was damaged?

    -After discovering the damaged coil pack, it was promptly replaced, resolving the ignition issue and allowing the car to run on all cylinders, demonstrating a straightforward solution to a potentially complex problem.

  • What were the reasons for changing the oil and inspecting the rod bearings in the E92 M3?

    -Changing the oil and inspecting the rod bearings were precautionary measures to prevent excessive wear, which could lead to engine failure. This step was critical given the vehicle's high mileage and unknown history.

Outlines

00:00

πŸ˜” The supercharger kit ruins the car

The supercharger kit initially made the car sound great, but then it started running worse progressively until it sounded terrible. The author is determined to fix the issues and get the supercharged M3 working properly.

05:03

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”§ Attempting repairs and modifications

The author tries replacing the battery to fix the issues but it doesn't work. He gets an exhaust installed while still troubleshooting. The car misses the tuning deadline because the issues aren't resolved yet, so they go to a performance shop seeking help.

10:05

πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Finding a silly mistake

The performance shop finds issues with the supercharger wiring done improperly. Also a coil pack is split, causing cylinder misfires. Fixing these silly mistakes solves the running issues.

15:06

πŸ”§ Preventative engine work

The shop replaces the rod bearings as preventative maintenance since there's no service history. The old bearings are very worn. Reassembling engine and subframe after the work is done.

20:07

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”§ Correcting supercharger installation mistakes

Before dyno tuning, the shop finds many more supercharger installation mistakes to correct. Tightening things up before moving forward.

25:12

πŸ’ͺ Finally tuned to 612 HP

After sorting issues, the car is dyno tuned and makes 612 HP. There are plans for more content on the supercharged M3 build.

Mindmap

Keywords

πŸ’‘Supercharger

A supercharger is a device that forces extra air into an engine's cylinders, allowing it to produce more power. In the video, the presenter buys and installs a supercharger kit on his BMW M3 sports car. However, he struggles to get it working properly at first. Fixing issues with the supercharged M3 is a central theme throughout the video.

πŸ’‘Dyno

A dyno, or dynamometer, is a device used to measure the power and torque produced by a vehicle's engine. At the end of the video, the presenter takes his supercharged M3 to a performance shop to tune it on a dyno. It produces over 600 horsepower on the final dyno run.

πŸ’‘Rod bearings

Rod bearings connect the engine's connecting rods to the crankshaft. BMW M3 engines are prone to excessive rod bearing wear. As preventative maintenance, the presenter has the rod bearings replaced while the engine is being worked on.

πŸ’‘Coil pack

A coil pack provides high voltage current to an engine's spark plugs. At one point, the presenter finds a split coil pack, causing some cylinders to misfire. This was likely responsible for many of the issues in getting the supercharged M3 running properly.

πŸ’‘Exhaust

After installing the supercharger, the presenter upgrades the BMW's exhaust system. This includes test pipes to improve airflow and allow the engine to produce more power. It also makes the car significantly louder.

πŸ’‘Tuning

Tuning refers to customizing the programming of a vehicle's Engine Control Unit (ECU) to change performance characteristics. Proper ECU tuning is essential to optimize power gains from modifications like adding a supercharger.

πŸ’‘Fault code

Fault or error codes help identify issues with a vehicle. The presenter initially gets a fault code pointing to ignition problems, likely caused by the split coil pack.

πŸ’‘Subframe

The subframe is a structural component that the engine and suspension connect to. To access the engine internals and replace the rod bearings, the shop has to remove and later reinstall the subframe.

πŸ’‘Power output

The key performance metric for the modified M3 is how much horsepower it produces. On the dyno, it makes over 600 horsepower compared to the 425 hp output from the factory.

πŸ’‘Fuel injectors

More powerful engines require larger fuel injectors to supply sufficient fuel. The tuner recommends upgrading the stock fuel injectors to maximize the power potential of the supercharged engine.

Highlights

The assistant is named Claude, created by Anthropic.

The car has a supercharger kit installed but it's causing issues and not running properly.

They swap out the battery to try and fix the issues but it doesn't solve the problem.

They get an error code indicating issues with cylinders 7 and 8.

One of the coil packs was broken, causing the engine issues.

They replace the exhaust system with upgraded test pipes and a new back box.

The car is taken to a specialist shop to diagnose and tune the supercharger.

The install quality is rated 2/10 by the shop owner.

They find no spark to cylinders due to a wiring issue.

Rod bearings are replaced preventatively before tuning.

The old rod bearings showed significant wear.

After fixes and maintenance, the car makes over 600 HP on the dyno.

The car hit a peak of 612 HP after tuning was complete.

The supercharger screams as the car is sent down the runway.

The video ends with the car successfully supercharged and running well.

Transcripts

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in the last video you saw us bought a

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supercharger kit onto my e92 M3 but all

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it did is ruin it even though when we

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started up the first time it sounded

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mint she's

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running oh I happy that then every time

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we started it after that it got

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progressively worse until it sounded

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like

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this but I'm not the sort of person

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that's going to give up that easily I'm

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determined to finish this video with a

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working supercharged M3 especially after

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all the hard work that me and Ethan have

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put into this car already so we need to

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knuckle down and do some research and

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find out what could possibly be wrong

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with this car because until we get to

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the bottom of this issue this M3 is

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going nowhere so realistically we need

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to fix all of the faults that we've now

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got on the e92 M3 before we can get it

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tuned so we managed to get the faulty

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OBD Port working temporarily with the

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OBD1 reader and it came up with the code

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27 b0 and that comes to quite a few

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things which could potentially be I've

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got the answer to the problem

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reliability fixed

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wow once we've got this car reliably

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starting every single time and running

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up to temperature we can send this car

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for tuning because we all want to hear

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how this supercharge is going to sound

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that's it it should start now fix

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definitely start now so the first thing

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that I'm going to try is swapping out

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the battery I know this might sound a

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bit nuts but if there's one dead cell in

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the battery apparently that can play

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Havoc with well everything so this

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battery has been dead we don't know how

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long it's been sat in the salvage yard

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so I just want to rule that out and make

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sure it's not going to be a problem so

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I've picked up a new one from BMW which

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cost the same as everywhere else and

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let's put this in get it coded into the

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car and then that's that problem if it

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is a problem done so very quickly I can

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swap over the battery and code the new

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one in but I'm not hopeful this is going

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to fix my

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problem it's running better than it has

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before but it's definitely still not

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right let's turn it off so I'm still

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scratching my head on what could be

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wrong with the M3 we've only got a v

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fault code given us no real indication

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as to what's wrong with it and an

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intermittent inconsistent running fault

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she's still not running right but what

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do you do while you're waiting to get it

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working you modify it so we've got the

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guys here from modstock who are going to

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be putting some test pipes on and also

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their back box mod which is not only

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going to make it sound better but also

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mean that when it comes to tuning we're

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not going to have any issues there so

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you are your two and half pipe and um

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yeah it's going to be loud and test

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pipes okay well I think the car suits it

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the supercharged car we've already gone

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given up with the OEM side of thing so

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it may as well go a bit asbo and I think

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that's what it deserves so the 2 and 1/2

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should be loud but not ridiculous and

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then the test Pipes make it a little bit

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louder too oh they look good don't they

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little mod stock I like it very nice

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these guys also do resonated test pipes

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as well but what we're going for is the

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standard version because just because so

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we need to get this car in the air and

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then we can get underneath and start

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modifying this

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exhaust

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so the guys from modstock can get

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underneath the car and start working on

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taking the old exhaust off by unplugging

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the lumber sensors and unbolting it from

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the

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car and before I could even blink

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they've got the center section

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removed and now that that's off they get

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straight to work on removing the back

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box

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too

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and it's a good job that we're doing

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this because as you can see here there

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is actually a crack in the old Center

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section of the exhaust but luckily

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that's exactly where we're cutting it to

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fit the new test pipe so it won't be a

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problem so this is something we see

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really really often um so oh damn yeah

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damn but it's nothing some nice shiny

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new clamps can't fix but now it's time

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to look at the back box this is the old

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one which came off the car and we're

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going to be replacing this with Mod

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stocks 2 and A2 pipe mod essentially

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these guys modify an original bat box to

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make it sound better I've gone for a 2

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and 1/2 pipe mod but you can go up to

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four and the more pipes you go for the

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louder it

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is but they've now got the test pipes

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fitted with the lambor sensors as well

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and they can start bolting that back up

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to the

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car doing the test pipes is essential

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for what we're doing cuz we've got to

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free up extra flow in the exhaust to

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allow for the extra power that the

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supercharg is going to make and for me

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modifying the rest of the exhaust is a

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must because I want to hear that V8

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scream now that Dean and Chris have got

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the center section fitted they can start

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fitting up the rear section and the back

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box as

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well the bat box is now on and you guys

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can't really see a difference but one

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thing you are going to see a difference

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with is the tips and we are going for

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Boom the new FS series style carbon M

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performance tips which look naughty so

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we're going to have four of these poking

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out the back they're going to be sat

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like that so it looks like a wheelbarrow

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and yeah it should look pretty sick so

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let's get those on and very kindly the

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guys at modstock have also offered to

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give you guys 5% off any modified

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original exhaust systems by using

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discount code slick 5 when getting in

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touch with them via Instagram all of

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their details are going to be in the

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description so the guys have just

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finished off on my exhaust and

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unfortunately we can't hear it at this

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point because it's not running the best

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but my mate has just had exactly the

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same back box mod but minus the test

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pipe so we can hear his

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instead

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damn what's your

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thoughts very good but as good as that

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sounds it doesn't take away from the

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fact that the M3 is still broken and I

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completely lost track of time modifying

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my car meaning that I've actually missed

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my deadline to get this car working

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again and as good as this exhaust looks

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it just doesn't fix that but the only

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hope we have is the fact that we've come

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to a re performance to get this car

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tuned and I'm praying that they can help

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us get to the bottom of this running

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problem before this car hits the dyno

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later today and we are now officially

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out of time we're at our deadline where

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we need to get this car in for tuning

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and Ethan from stealth movements has

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brought us down to Norwich or is it

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kingslin kingslin with the M3 down to a

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Reeve so we can now get this car

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unloaded and hopefully get to the bottom

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of this running problem and then we've

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got some serious work to get to on this

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car

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[Music]

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Big East if anyone wants a car moving

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where do they go uh stealth movement

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mate how do they get in touch with you

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uh Instagram Facebook and there's a

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contact number and all information is

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getting contact on there is it all going

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to be in the description all in the

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description my man nice so we are tight

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on time with lots of work to do and also

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some faults to figure out nice work eth

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smashing it and I'd be lying if I said

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at this point I wasn't worried but

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something tells me when I walked into

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this place my car was in the right

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[Applause]

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hands I've never even seen a

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supercharged M3 In the Flesh before and

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then coming down to a Reeve and they

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being a workshop full of them just fill

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me with confidence that we might

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actually be able to get this fault

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fixed

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she don't sound healthy it doesn't sound

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good does it sounds

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perfect so not only are we about to get

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our work inspected we're about to be

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ripped to shreds Yeah man so Mr Aaron

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reev himself and his team set up on my

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e92 M3 and started trying to find what

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this fault could be what's your first

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thoughts

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um and very quickly they started to find

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quite a few things we did wrong in

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stalling this kit that should be behind

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that okay we got that wrong we were

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trying okay we were working off 240p

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instructions we may have wired this

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wrong as well yeah it was it was it was

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guess work I can't lie the white wire

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with a red line yes and then that well I

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have Earth that there and then well

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that's why we're here we've come to the

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pros for a reason we gave it a good

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shoty we gave it a go these SP plug

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covers off intentionally no we just

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forgot to put them on and then couldn't

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get them in you can't you can if you

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just cut a little square out okay maybe

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that's a good idea if you had to on

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first glance rate the install out of 10

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what would you give it

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[Laughter]

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two wow maybe we didn't do as good a job

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as we first thought have you found

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something uh there's there's no spark to

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any of these four cylinders all um it

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look at the live data it's just shut off

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the spot completely so receiver and up

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could be a wiring fault can be a Vanos

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fault as well but they sometimes with

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these with like Vanos FAL and stuff

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they'll go into limp mode but they don't

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even know why the ecus aren't

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sophisticated enough to know that but

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you are yeah so using his wealth of

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knowledge Aaron starts digging around in

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the engine bay checking the spark plugs

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checking all of the basic things that

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potentially could cause this fa and it's

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something that none of us even predicted

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it was something so obvious and in your

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face that it's almost daed well I think

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it's safe to say sometimes I do make

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stupid mistakes and do you know what it

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happens to the best of us but the funny

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thing is it didn't go like that when I

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pulled out I told you to pack this in

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your

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suitc so one of the coil packs is

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literally split in half it didn't pull

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apart when I pulled it out but I think

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that's pretty safe to say that's going

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to be our issue isn't it I'd say so yeah

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so um where's the bin

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now that's sorted hopefully we can push

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forward can't we well I'm just want to

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let you guys know that that is my side

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of the engine and this is Chris's and

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which side's the plug broke on I broke I

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broke the call p apparently but if

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that's what we found already with this

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car I think it's only going to get worse

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from here can't wait to see the

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rod and it really was a silly little

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mistake sometimes it's so easy to miss

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something that's potentially so obvious

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but something so small can cause big

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problems so I'm glad managed to find

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that but now it's time to test it and

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thank God it's all working fine now and

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the car is running on all cylinders well

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silly mistake job done but easily found

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they're the best sorts of mistakes

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because they're cheap and they're easily

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fixed but there may be other problems as

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well we have found one other thing as

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well the tensioner looks like it's not

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working properly on the new belt so we

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to get a new tensioner on there to make

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sure the belt's not flapping around so

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now it's time to get the car up in the

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air and have an inspection underneath

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before we went on to the next job and

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these guys are actually pretty impressed

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with the condition of this car

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especially considering the mileage and

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how original everything looks on there

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as well to get these from they are mod

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stop so say what you want cuz apparent

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he's a friend of yours no I'm just

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saying God say it and this next job is

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one that I needed to do saying goodbye

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to 300b worth of oil because e92 M3s

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have a common problem where the rod

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bearings wear excessively which can

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cause catastrophic damage to the engine

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and the first step to do doing these is

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draining all of the oil out the car

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including out of the oil filter housing

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as

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well right some people in the comments

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were telling us that these bolts where

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we had bolts in our oil filter housing

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which weren't supposed to be there Aaron

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what did you say to those people in the

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comments uh they need to read the

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workshop manual nice these bolts are all

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part of the pressure relief valve for

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the or filter so obviously they are

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meant to be in there um they are perfect

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ly not that somebody's randomly left

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some bols in there so now it's time for

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the bit you lot have been nagging me

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about and of course I was going to do it

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if we're supercharging this car it be D

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not to we have no history on the car at

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all so this is where we're going to

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start doing the rod bearings and it's a

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common failure point on these cars

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supposedly isn't E Yeah clatter clatter

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bang bang so we need to take off the

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subframe we've also

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got some crusty power steering lines to

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change as well so we're going to get

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those done at the same time cuz it makes

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sense subframe off some off and let's

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inspect these bearings go these rapid

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because if these bearings went it could

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cost me an absolute Fortune just like if

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you were buying a car that you didn't

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know had hidden history but we nearly

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ended up with a crash damaged camera

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teers that's why whenever you buy a used

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car make sure to check it out on car

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vertical because not every seller is

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100% truthful and honest and now all the

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arms are disconnected that means that we

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can start taking away to the engine and

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whilst we're doing that let's take a

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look at an example of a report that you

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wouldn't want to see when you're

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checking out a car so you can see here

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this f8 M3 has a green tick for mileage

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Finance but an Amber warning for damage

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and as soon as you scroll down to the

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photo section you can see exactly how

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badly it was damaged with huge damage to

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the passenger side and all of the

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airbags going off if we continue

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scrolling we can see the car has never

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been stolen and also all of the mileage

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checks out and then worst of all if we

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go down again we can see on the damage

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section that this vehicle has been

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marked as a category B right off meaning

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it can never go back on the road and

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it's only useful for salvageable parts

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but my favorite part of car vertical is

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the timeline they give you we can see

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here when the car was made and when it

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was crashed only a year later mean this

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car hasn't been on the road for long so

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to check out your car a friend or family

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member's car or a car that you're going

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to buy make sure to do it with car

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vertical using discount code Chris to

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save some money and as predicted this

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engine mount looks shot but stayed in

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one piece this one has completely left

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the chat it's gone in off so that is why

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we replace them when the sub frame comes

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off next thing to come sump after we had

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a clean up down here so me and Ethan

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started removing all of the T30 bolts

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which hold the sump in place and there

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is a lot of them but after we got all of

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those out it was ready to come off I'm

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going to go ready got it one down she

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comes oh god oh goly gosh oh she

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drippy M gloops nectar and then the

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final thing to remove is the oil pickup

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pipes so these obviously take oil from

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the sump and then pump it around the

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rest of the engine but these need to

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come off so we can get get to all of the

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bolts which we need to get to in order

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to change over these rod bearings so now

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we have done all of the leg work and

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we're going to leave the proper

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intricate stuff to the master because I

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know for a fact I would mess this up I

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would get this wrong somehow I'd do

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something stupid I don't think it's

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actually too hard is it it's pretty

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simple not that but if you get it wrong

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you get it really wrong so Aaron

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delicately starts removing the end caps

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from the

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rods

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and with Precision like open heart

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surgery he replaces those rod bearings

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but something tells me that he's done

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this job so many times he could

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practically do it with his eyes

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closed no point crying over spil

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te now one of the things which makes

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this job take a while apart from the

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fact you have to be meticulous is that

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these new bolts need to be torqued and

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undone three times before they can be

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fastened up for the final time

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new bearings are in but the question is

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how bad were the old ones well we're

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about to take a look and we're getting

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them all laid out here now typically the

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ones at the front of the engine are not

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as bad as the ones at the back so here

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we go this is for cylinder 1 is that the

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Right freeze cylinder one so you've got

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the lower part of the Bear in there and

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then the upper part the upper part as

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you you can see here has obviously take

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more of a wear that's the part that's

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against the crankshaft and takes the

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main frust of the crank obviously as the

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crank goes up the rod goes down is

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taking the main loading of it if we just

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go the other way to cylinder 7 you can

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see this bearing is severely quite worn

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this is an LCI car which has tin and

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aluminium bearings BMW changed the

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material compound of it contrary to what

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people seem to believe on forums BMW

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never improved the bearing design of

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these cars ever since they came out the

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bearing clearance is exactly the same

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the material changed but that makes no

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odds but yeah just goes to show it's

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definitely worth doing these I mean it's

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a preventative thing but we don't think

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that subf frames ever even been off that

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car so these are completely original

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they're the original bearings so yeah

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120,000 Mi but I think it's not had a

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hard life but they they need changing

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any thoughts

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eth

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wow so many facts here this is this is

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intense so with the old rod bearings now

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removed and I'm so glad we did this even

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as a preventative measure if we didn't

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do this you can see how worn they are

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and this could have caused irreparable

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damage to this engine but we now have

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the new ones in so all we've got left to

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do is reassemble the engine and the

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subframe and then we can get this car on

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the dyno and get it tuned and hear that

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supercharger

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scream so we can give the sump a good

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clean down in the parts washer followed

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by a new sump gasket sump bolted up new

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rod bearings inside now what's it time

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for Ethan pull-ups on my car apparently

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so you tip the whole thing over big boy

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so now we need to get the subframe back

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on I think we should clean but first

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before we do that we need new engine

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mounts because the old ones well they

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were they're done they were they were

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bad but we don't want to go back to OEM

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we're going to upgrade these for some

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lovely power Flex ones which are going

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to last forever and ever

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so we have new power Flex bushes to go

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in and correct me if I'm wrong but these

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holes here are for these pins so we can

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adapt the stiffness of the Bush

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depending on how many pins we put

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in pinch and

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roll so with the pins fitted and the

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subframe cleaned up where the old engine

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mats were we can now fit up these new

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nice power Flex ones it's just another

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job which makes sense to do while you're

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here and these new power Flex ones are

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going to last much longer than an oem

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Bush and now those are in we can fit up

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the subframe and steering rack

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again and with that now refitted we are

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finally getting somewhere the sub frames

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on the rod bearings are in and

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everything is starting to slowly take

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shape so we can now attach all of the

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arms and trap rod ends and then it's

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back up top to have a look over the

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supercharger before this car hits the D

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it's safe to say the professionals

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weren't impressed stupid so we're done

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underneath and before it goes on the

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dino we want to make sure that me and

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Ethan have done this right so we' pulled

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the plum off and how much stuff have you

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found that isn't right about about 80%

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about 80% of what me and Ethan have done

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his wrong nice we left a vacuum pipe off

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we rooted K hoses wrong what else well

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yeah the wir yeah so we've got some

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Tiding up to do first is what you're

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saying oh yeah I wanton take long yeah

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we tried our best the instructions

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weren't the clearest but you know we got

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it on even if we did do alph ofit wrong

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so then we went about Tiding up all of

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our

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mistakes and also fitting a new Reser

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valve because this one's pretty old we

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want to make sure it's going to work

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perfectly so we know this new one is

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going to be spot on and not only that it

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actually looks better as well so then

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the final thing to do is fill the car

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back up with all its fluids so all

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wheels and power steering fluid and

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coolants and then it's back on with the

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wheels and with those talk to spec it's

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Dino

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Time speed stop I don't know are you

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feeling ready I don't know I'm not

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feeling ready but we' got all the fluids

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in the car now Aza we're ready you're on

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it big man we'll be fine you go for

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first is the key in there yeah yeah okay

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here we go tense

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music

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you hear that

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hard so first we crank the car over a

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few times to generate oil

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pressure and then it's time to go for

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that first proper

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start damn God damn she sounds good that

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woo and she's running not being lumpy

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with no tune on like Aaron said

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originally rule number one of getting

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your car tuned is remember to put fuel

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in it so don't be a dipstick like me and

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if you haveen any car tuned go with some

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99 just have to run off and get some

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fuel so after hours of hard work already

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in this car going over some of the

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maintenance stuff and also me and Ethan

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fit in this supercharger to to begin

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with it's time to see if all of that

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hard work is finally paid

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off so we can clear some space and move

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some cars out of the way so we can get

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my e92 M3 on to Aaron's maraha

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Dyno but everything to do with this car

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so far has been a risk buying it in the

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first place on 120,000 Mi with zero

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history and then fitting a supercharger

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to it I really have put my faith in this

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car Aron is this the worst conditioned

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car you've ever had in your

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Dyno probably got less bits than

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those but I'm praying underneath this

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slightly tired and battered body beats a

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heart of pure gold because it's about to

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get some abuse on the dyno and I've got

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to thank Aaron Reeves so much for

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letting us come down and film here and

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also helping us out with doing some of

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the work on this car and he also wants

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to help you guys out at home as well so

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he's offering you guys Β£100 of having

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your Rob bearings or a supercharger fit

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into your car and to redeem that all

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you've got to do is quote Chris slicks

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when you're contacting them I'll leave

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all the information in the description

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and now with all the cooling fans in

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place we can strap the car down and we

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can see what this car is going to

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do we are now loaded up onto the Doo and

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how sick is this dino by the way just

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like to say but it's the moment of truth

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let's see whether this e92 is going to

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survive or not I'm giving it a 50/50

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chance at this point so the first thing

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to do is Flash the base tune onto the

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ECU followed by warming the engine up

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and the gearbox on the

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[Music]

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dyno how we

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looking good just getting it ready to L

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I have no idea what he just said I know

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and now it's finally time for the first

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run here we go big man are you ready

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yeah man

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I think it's broke oh no you got a Miss

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fire on 7 and eight oh dear same oh

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ignition disabled 7 and eight and we're

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already running into problems does a

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dino r ever go to

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plan probably not we've got a misfire on

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cylinder s and

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eight it does look dirty that and it was

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the same faults that we had before when

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we had the broken coil pack but this

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time on the other bank but we've already

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changed over all the coil packs so we're

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praying just tightening up the Earth

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does the job and makes this car run

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right but let's find

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[Music]

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out

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[Music]

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and though he reached the red line that

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I hope you that's the problem fixed and

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thankfully it was the car run perfectly

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that time so we can now do a few more

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runs and start finessing this

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tune

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that's a base map she got more yeah

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should do cuz if this is the older red

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injectors obviously they have a a lat of

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how far they'll go I'd expect this to do

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just over 600 on this pulley as well

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over 600 in a e92 M3 that's a

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beast he jaly no I'm coming for you this

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car is now a beast but I think we've got

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one more run left in

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[Music]

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[Music]

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it

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[Music]

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so that's the final run completed so as

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the car came down the revs it was time

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to finally see what that final power

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measurement was let's see what she's

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made oh damn

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612 oh me 612 horsepower what a car what

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a car could you ask for much more out of

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an M3 that is sick there is one thing

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which we need to do with this though

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before we finish this video yeah what

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we're doing send

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[Music]

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it well I hope you guys have enjoyed

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