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In my previous post I thought the car was finally fixed—-no more vacuum leaks and driving great. Turns out I was a bit too optimistic.

The next day that little bugger, the check engine light (CEL), came back on. Misfires, bad coils, O2 sensors gone awry. Car running like crap again. What to do?

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Coming to you live from my parents garage in this 7 part series, are the chronicled adventures my dad and myself had converting an S52 intake manifold to the larger M50 intake manifold. See photos of this project Day 1    Day 2    Day 3    Day 4    Day 5    Day 6    List of parts    Day 7

Well my BMW M3 has been sitting on the sidelines over the past year due to all my traveling and work. Now that all that has subsided and things are back under control, I spent the weekend working on the car, breathing new life into the car through a variety of fixes :-)

Starting with new UUC underdrive pulleys, these should bring in a couple more HP, and in my drive after, the M3 was a bit faster under hard acceleration.