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No pictures today but we did have a start today as I am ready to button up things in hopes that the fan addition cures my lack of boost issues. An interesting note is that after I replaced the Mickey mouse fitting, I filled the coolant and did a purge. I was unable to run it for 10 minutes due to other obligations but yesterday I had some time and was able to do it. What I found interesting in all 3 attempts is that the water pump kicked in without me engaging the pedal. If anyone knows why chime in. I though it was because a sensor was not wet somewhere but the first two try's lasted more than a few minutes so I thought this is a new issue. Yesterday, I returned to the car after 15 minutes and the pump was still running! I did not have the fan plugged in and when I did the fan shut off, so there is something to the fan affecting the ecu since if I understand correctly it is controlled by it.
No leaks but my hoses are really close to the crank pulley. I run my hoses so the cooler is being fed by the exhaust house (top) out of the heat exchanger. I think if you go the other way it is simpler. I will get back under there with the racing zip ties and see what I can come up with. If I don't get what I like I have two options. Both involve removing the hard lines off the dct. I would then cut the swage from the oem pipe to hose and plumb in new lines directly from the pipe to the cooler. The other choice is to put in an aftermarket fitting on the side of the trans which allows you to run dash 8 hoses directly from the dct all the way up to either the cooler and or heat exchanger with freedom from BMW engineering. I hope I can get what I have to work.
Regardless the car is going down to GMP in Charlotte for a once over as I am sure I have something screwed up somehwere and maybe I should get some adult supervision.
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