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How to design a BBK for any car

So you want to design a BBK (big brake kit) for your own car. It could be a street, race, rally or any other motorsport discipline car. In this post I´ll be going through more of the design aspects for street car, but there will be one focused more

BMW E53 X5 Overlander build

I have been thinking of building a overlander rig to go for adventures with. Nowadays you see a lot of people building vans into campers and some are doing this to SUV category cars also. My take on this would be based on first generation BMW X5. The chassis callsign

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E39 540i project catch up

My 1997 e39 540i at the moment is waiting for proper time and little bit of maintenance to get back on the road again. This is short catch up of all work done to it so far and what might be waiting a long the road for it. So things

E36 Front strut tower reinforcement

E36 Front strut tower reinforcement

So as I will be installing a new aftermarket coil over suspension to my e36. I felt the need to make sure my towers would be as rigid and stiff as possible. My approach to this is to have one 2mm thick plate stamped to fit the underside of the

E36 Rear strut tower reinforcement

E36 Rear strut tower reinforcement

As the coupe is going from normal strut and coil in the rear to full coil over struts. Some more reinforcing is needed in rear to stop strut top mounting plate from buckling or braking while under heavy loads from aggressive driving or cornering. Solution for this for me was

Flow bench build

Specially now when aiming to build high horsepower M50b25 naturally aspirated. I have come to the conclusion that I would benefit from a flow bench, where I could test out cylinder heads flow numbers and match them between each other. This could be also applied to the intake and both

BMW E36 LSD

Currently my E36 is open diffrential, but it is making some clunking sounds while shifting gears. Which lead to this post and quite a lot of research of what type and brand limited slip diff I would wanna install to it. As it will be staying mostly a daily street

Coilovers for BMW E36

Coilovers for BMW E36

Been trying to decide between airbags and coilovers for the NA E36 coupe. Have been leaning towards coils mainly just for price reasons as air system that can be registered in Finland costs quite much. So we are going to do coilovers on the E36! Been looking for few different

Building M50b25tu NA high HP

So as some of you know, I happen to own two almost identical BMW E36 325i coupe´s. My plan for them is to have other one as a boosted and widebodied and the one on this post will be kept looking pretty stockish with aim to get as much

E36 rear bearing install

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E36 rear bearing install

When I did subframe re-enforcement and bushings on my E36 coupe. While re-installing noticed that the rear brake shields where so rusty that handbrake shoes didn´t stay on anymore, also rear bearings made not so healthy noise. Conclusion to change fresh bearings and brake shields. Firstly when got the

Volvo Amazon retromod project

Volvo Amazon retromod project

This is my first post about this car in here. I bought this old volvo few years ago, and since then have dismantled it completely and repaired almost all rusted or damaged body. Still leaving some battle marks to show the journey it has had before. The goal of this

BMW E36 X-brace install

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BMW E36 X-brace install

So I bought an aftermarket X-brace, that will go underneath my e36 325i coupe´s engine bay. Quite simple to install and the one I got also has added protection for M50B25´s aluminium oil pan. This does come at a small cost of service time increase when draining oil,

Up coming BMW E36 cold air intake build

Up coming BMW E36 cold air intake build

Been wanting to do another cold air intake build for this one. Have done one version in the past for my another E36, which is currently getting a turbo build. So what do you need for cold air intake? Firstly you need a good quality high flowing air filter element,

BMW E36 Subframe re-enforcement

BMW E36 Subframe re-enforcement

Got my re-enforcement plates for subframe mount on E36 chassis. These will require you to drop your whole subframe out of the car, to get proper room for welding those plates in to your chassis. Kit consists from 8 plates in total. 2 of them are for your rear shock

BMW E36 325i Big brake project.

Hi all! So this is the first post on this project. My aim is to build a proper, high quality big brake kit for my NA e36 coupe. Most likely this will consist of 4-pot brembo calipers from Porsche and vented rotors from BMW. I will buy calipers second hand

The sub woofer enclosure is finished!

The sub woofer enclosure is finished!

So last time we ended with the sides of the box being mounted and some filler applied. After that we got around to cut the enclosures roof and its holes for the sub woofer and aero port. Aero port is sized to be 6" with quite short runner, Also

Studying automotive engineering in Finland

Studying automotive engineering in Finland

So I have currently studied one semester of automotive engineering in Finland. The first year is heavily focused on getting basic understanding of physics, maths and other engineering related subjects, as not as much of automotive engineering subjects. Only actually fully automotive subject we had last fall was the beginning

Subwoofer enclosure for e36

Subwoofer enclosure for e36

When I got my e36 coupe quite recently. I set myself few goals. One trying to keep it looking factory as much as possible, when looking from outside. This also concerns the audio system upgrade. Specially the subwoofer which is known to be hard to place in a way that

Who am I...really?

Getting Started

Who am I...really?

So as the first post I probably should tell you little about myself. I´m 24 years old automotive engineering student from Vantaa, Finland. Currently doing my seconde semester of the first year. My background is heavily involved by automotive content from young age. I have studied car mechanics, car