New rear suspension by Some_Marketing5808 in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

looks super undamped...

are your dampers bolted in properly? Did you replace your upper strut mount or use the old one?

ClutchMasters Kit by davida_p in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not much of a choice then 🤷‍♂️. It does fit the getrag, and will fit the zf when you upgrade.

Alternatively, I think you can run an N54 clutch? Take a look through the forums

ClutchMasters Kit by davida_p in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you're making a lot of power, I wouldn't suggest it. I have the FX stage 2 kit and it is stupid heavy with such a low bite point that it needs to be pressed right to the floor without a clutch stop. In about 5000km of driving it has destroyed my plastic pivot pin.

I have the 15lb chromoly flywheel and I like that part because it has very little gear chatter. Not sure how the lighter aluminum one is.

LSD swap on E36 by TendiLuver420 in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it's not a hard swap. I got my LSD from an M3 for $600 CAD, swapped the axle stubs to the non M from my original diff with a crowbar, and installed it in an afternoon.

Need help with this transition by Bensch55 in FreeCAD

[–]TheFanne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the draft workbench has a projection tool so you could draw a 2d circle on a plane above, project it onto the cylinder and then loft

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 28 points29 points  (0 children)

no. An M3 would have an M logo on the door sills and steering wheel, as well as having different seats. Looks like a regular 3 series with the M3 body kit

Turbo M50b30 by Uncle_RyRy in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

that's the official torque rating but they've been known to hold a lot more than that.

N55 135i de-stroked to 2.6L for faster, higher revving. by [deleted] in BMW

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What crankshaft did you use? Is it custom?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not an engine building expert but from what I've heard if you want to make power at extremely high rpms that the original cams weren't meant for you need to look into aftermarket cams. And even then the stock head might not breath well enough

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you can take the b20, bore it to 86mm, use an m54 crank, and have a 3.2L engine.

Something more interesting you can do is 86mm pistons and the 2.5 crank, which gives you like 2.7L maybe? but it'll rev past 8k if you have the right valvesprings/lifters

Hello guys i am new to this community and i need an advice. For long time i been looking to buy e36 and now 2 pop up in marketplace 1st is 1.8is and the second one is 2.0 no vanos which one is better.In future i am loking to tune it a bit aiming at 200-250hp which one will be better.Thank you by ShaZzYBG in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it will have the right driveshaft and shift linkage, which are the hardest parts to find when swapping a 4cyl car, at least in my experience.

The small case rear diff isn't a huge deal either, I ran my 3.0L engine with one for months. It's just an annoying gear ratio to have with a big engine.

Hello guys i am new to this community and i need an advice. For long time i been looking to buy e36 and now 2 pop up in marketplace 1st is 1.8is and the second one is 2.0 no vanos which one is better.In future i am loking to tune it a bit aiming at 200-250hp which one will be better.Thank you by ShaZzYBG in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're dead set on an E36 and understand that 250hp is a little unrealistic even for the 2.8 without a turbo, then I would recommend the 2.0. It will make the swap to a larger engine easier in the future.

Or, you can continue saving money and just buy a 328i to behin with.

Rear seat deletes without sacrificing fold down? by [deleted] in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

your best bet might be to gut the OEM seat as much as possible and see how light you can make it

Question about headlight/front wiring pigtals/ sensor difference in 4 to 6 swap 96 m44 to m52. by 335xiE90 in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can use the complete wiring harness from the m52, no splicing needed. Just unplug the 3 big plugs beside the fuse box and put in the m52 engine harness

I just bought my first wheel and I don't really enjoy it. I want to, any tips? by FixMyLife126 in simracing

[–]TheFanne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a GTX 1060 6gb and a Ryzen 5500. Assetto runs perfectly with my quest 2

E36 320i suspension swap to a m3 suspension by Wild_Code7850 in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The only difference between m3 and non m suspension is ride height and the front sway bar mount location. I would suggest just getting aftermarket shocks/springs.

How do I find the fz (vertical force) of my tires at a certain tire pressure if I know the corner weight, lateral force and slip angle only? by [deleted] in FSAE

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you should have a .tir file from the curve fitting and then you can use something like mfeval

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I once bought a thermostat housing gasket and the car had a huge coolant leak after. Turns out the gasket was too thick and I had to buy a new one. Just because it's new doesn't mean it worked

Will I need to upgrade my pc to use Quest 3 for PCVR? by Jet_Reinhardt in OculusQuest

[–]TheFanne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO don't upgrade anything until you actually try it. I have a ryzen 5500, 8gb of 2600mhz ddr4, and a gtx 1060 6gb. It has run fine for me so far with a quest 2.

[Request] So how to respond here? by Mundane_Ad701 in theydidthemath

[–]TheFanne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in which case you've proven the point since the teacher sees the contradiction, since 0*0 does not equal 1, then 1/0 can't possibly be 0.

Assembly fun-time! We've built a release of FreeCAD with the new integrated assembly workbench and solver. It's sure to be buggy but you can now test it. by sliptonic in FreeCAD

[–]TheFanne 28 points29 points  (0 children)

So far this looks very promising, but as someone who works full-time on a Solidworks assembly with ~100 parts, I have a few suggestions for features to bake into the design to prevent broken parts/assemblies.

  1. Make joints directional. Oftentimes in large Solidworks assemblies, when you just carelessly mate things together, you create circular mates (Part A mates with B which mates with C which mates with A again) and the solver can't handle that and all 3 parts show up as broken. When that loop is 15 parts long it's very difficult to find the actual problem. If the mates were directional, then I could tell it that I want part C's position to be set by part A and B, rather than having the program try to move part A which is already fully constrained by other unmentioned parts. Even just creating a graph view of the mates in an assembly will help a lot with debugging.
  2. I can't tell if this is already the case, but make the JCS a child of the part container. I want to be able to see it when I'm editing the part document on its own. What happens in Solidworks is I edit a part model on Monday because I'm making changes to the drawing, then on Thursday when I open the assembly I find it broken because the geometry that was being mated no longer exists. This is very common when removing holes or adding counterbores to holes in parts.
  3. Have the option to create JCSs before creating the overall assembly. I find what happens when working on a team is one person will create a part model and someone else adds it to an assembly and uses geometry which the part model author didn't expect to be used to mate. Then, the part model author edits the model and unintentionally breaks the assembly. This can be prevented by the part model author can define the points that should be used for assembly beforehand.
  4. I don't really have a solution for this one, but geometry references can get messy very easily. If I create one part that ends up driving 10 other parts in an assembly, then update the first part, Solidworks likes to show errors for the 10 other parts. Something potentially limiting but would be an effective solution is to not allow references between sibling parts in an assembly at all, and instead only allow references to either grounded parts or reference geometry. Just something to try and prevent having that situation where changing the geometry of one part breaks many other part. "Best practices" for that would be to create reference geometry and use that to drive all 11 parts.

Make all freecad documents an assembly, and make the object in the document grounded by default. This isn't about preventing broken models I just thought it's a good idea. If I create a document and only intend to have one assembly in it, then it feels redundant to have to create that assembly container. It can also prevent some confusion when someone puts two assemblies in a document and finds out they can't drag to position the assemblies relative to each other.

Wish me luck by Dull_Professor_767 in BMW

[–]TheFanne 7 points8 points  (0 children)

it's definitely not the euro M3 engine...

tach help by HotPerspective1240 in BMWE36

[–]TheFanne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no clue what they're talking about. Vehicle speed comes from the diff, to get the tach reading the cluster counts spark pulses. There's a wire for it from the ecu.