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M3 Check engine light finally cleared

In my previous post [https://tedserbinski.com/2007/09/17/rebuilding-bmw-intake-s52-m50-intake-manifold-conversion-day-7] 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,

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, a list of parts

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. The following is a fairly comprehensive list of parts I replaced when I upgraded my manifold from

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, 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. Today I got a new aFe Pro Dry filter in the mail, aFe’s new oil-less filter.

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, day 6

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. Day 1 [https://tedserbinski.com/2007/08/04/rebuilding-bmw-intake-s52-m50-intake-manifold-conversion-day-1] Day 2 [https://tedserbinski.com/2007/08/11/

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, day 5

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. At last, we found a stud earlier this week!! I was at my friend Gary’s shop

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, day 4

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. Started this morning off searching for a new stud. Tried all sorts of body shops, junkyards, and

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, day 3

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. Over the past few days I did some research to try and figure out what the part

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, day 2

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. This Saturday I came back to my parents with a few extra parts in hand–what I

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Rebuilding a BMW intake: S52 to M50 manifold conversion, day 1

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. Today, Saturday was the first day to installing this kit–something that should only take 2-3 hours

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Working on the BMW M3, it's back!

Well my BMW M3 [https://tedserbinski.com/bmw.html] 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