BMW M3 FUN. & edelbrock warning!!

[TURBOELKY]

first of all, I never suspected m3's to be as fast as the one on the 405 today. We ran from a 60mph roll, guess thats why we were so close. I thought i'd still jump on him, but man that car has some top end. Did not sound stock though. I need to race one from a slower roll to redeem my self Looked like a 2006 model, nice car but the driver was an as@hole. Wish we would have started at like a 30 mph roll, i'd probably have done better. Which leads me to edelbrock shocks!!!! i've had nothing but problems with them!! they constantly come loose where they mount to the differential, and today I almost lost my car doing 100+ when I went sideways the shock is a poor design.

The shocks shaft is threaded into its mounting peice which mounts to the rear end housing. I found out today it had unscrewed itself, causing it to fall apart, and I almost lost controll of my car! When I got to my x-mother in laws house, I checked it out. I was able to fix it again for the 3rd time, but will be swapping them out soon. I put a little thread lock in there, hopefully that helps. Stay away from edelbrock shocks!!

 

[turbolou]

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first of all, I never suspected m3's to be as fast as the one on the 405 today. We ran from a 60mph roll, guess thats why we were so close. I thought i'd still jump on him, but man that car has some top end. Did not sound stock though. I need to race one from a slower roll to redeem my self Looked like a 2006 model, nice car but the driver was an as@hole. Wish we would have started at like a 30 mph roll, i'd probably have done better. Which leads me to edelbrock shocks!!!! i've had nothing but problems with them!! they constantly come loose where they mount to the differential, and today I almost lost my car doing 100+ when I went sideways the shock is a poor design.

The shocks shaft is threaded into its mounting peice which mounts to the rear end housing. I found out today it had unscrewed itself, causing it to fall apart, and I almost lost controll of my car! When I got to my x-mother in laws house, I checked it out. I was able to fix it again for the 3rd time, but will be swapping them out soon. I put a little thread lock in there, hopefully that helps. Stay away from edelbrock shocks!!

Edelbrock screwed me some years ago big time, Bought a F.I. intake set up for my SS 454 pickup & tore my hair out trying to figure why it wouldn't idle & had a flat spot on acceleration, What confused the issue was I also changed heads & cam at the same time. They blamed everything else but their product. I worked with their engineers to discover that the manifold castings were bad in the EGR area. which led to a design change, I received a $ 100.00 gift certificate for my problems, I only wish I was able to keep the original part cause looking back I should of sued the sh#t out of them. I was naive for figuring that they would be decent enough to reimburse me for my trouble a little more generously than that for doing their R&D at my expense. I would stay away from Edelbrock period.

 

[Underboost]

I have them on my Silverado. No problems yet. I like the comfortable ride it's great.

 

[petesgn]

saw a rear set of Qa1 doing the same screwing out

 

[TURBOELKY]

saw a rear set of Qa1 doing the same screwing out

exactly what the shock did, unscrewed!! it almost cost me my car. Allstate would have hated me

I agree Brent, the ride is awesome with those shocks, but i'm not going to risk it much longer.lift the boots up and make sure they are not unscrewing!! In the meantime I hope they hold up, but will be switching them soon.

Lou, sounds like they got you for more than 150 bucks! those fuelinjection kits are not cheap.


dang m3's

 

[turbolou]

exactly what the shock did, unscrewed!! it almost cost me my car. Allstate would have hated me

I agree Brent, the ride is awesome with those shocks, but i'm not going to risk it much longer.lift the boots up and make sure they are not unscrewing!! In the meantime I hope they hold up, but will be switching them soon.

Lou, sounds like they got you for more than 150 bucks! those fuelinjection kits are not cheap.


dang m3's

$1,400.00 at the time for the manifold,pulled out the cam because they blamed it & put the stock one back in, Pulled the heads off thinking there was a problem with them. Plus about a hundred hours of labor, All that to do their R&D for them.

 

[TURBOELKY]

$1,400.00 at the time for the manifold,pulled out the cam because they blamed it & put the stock one back in, Pulled the heads off thinking there was a problem with them. Plus about a hundred hours of labor, All that to do their R&D for them.

I would have been pissed at least now days theres alot more options for fuel injection set-ups. They should have offered you a job in their r&d dept.

 

[turbolou]

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I would have been pissed at least now days theres alot more options for fuel injection set-ups. They should have offered you a job in their r&d dept.

In this case the whole concept was stupid. They tried to engineer a system that utilized the old throttle body injector & convert it to a tuned port & all this while keeping it smog legal. Things have come along way since then. On that note this is why the TR'S were so unique for their time was how advanced they were & on the cutting edge of technology sequential timed injection, waste spark,coil pack crank trigger ignition, inter cooled & turboed,The biggest drawback was they hung all this on an obsolete platform using a weak 70's design engine that was never meant to be put through what we are doing. But then again thats the fun of it.