Engine Videos

Engine Start:

E30 M50 Engine Start from kevdeno on Vimeo.

Engine Running:

E30 M50 Engine Running from kevdeno on Vimeo.

Engine Running 2:

E30 M50 Engine Running 2 from kevdeno on Vimeo.

Engine Start Troubleshooting

Once I got the car back from the exhaust shop, I got to work getting the final connections secured and double checked. I had already put fluids in before the exhaust shop trip, so it was really more of an electrical game at this point. When I finally was ready, I can honestly say I only hooked the battery up for 5 to 10 seconds. I wanted to see if smoke would come billowing out of somewhere. Luckily none did.


This is the picture of the power block in the engine bay before it got organized. I took this picture to share with some forum friends to see if they could help me. My car wasn't starting. Check out my thread to read about it. I finally isolated the problem to the fuel injectors. All 6 of them were bad. I can only guess that they gummed up from sitting for over two years.





I got a set of 6 used injectors off ebay for $90. Once I had them installed I did another test start. It fired up immediately! It started so easily that it startled me. I had become conditioned to expect nothing for so many attempts that to hear it growl at me was terrifying (no muffler, mind you). You've not seen a grin as big as mine was at that moment.