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Author: Dirk Verhaert

Sump ventilation, the remake …

We have proven already several times that from time to time you need to redo a job.
The oil damp ventilation system is a good example.

Despite the original part from BMW is quiet efficient in condensing oil damp, it’s a bit too restrictive for high revving engines.

The R-Box gastro intestinal system …

Luckily it’s much shorter and less complex compared to a human being, even regarding the tasks.
The only useful goal for our M3 guts system is to transport cooling water. Despite it’s hot, we have chosen for blue. The silicon tubes are all standard parts, which means a lot of connectors and clamps.

It’s a pity but a custom setup, with preformed shapes would be too expensive.
Maybe if you all going to copy our setup it could be feasible to make dedicated 1 piece tubes.

Anyway, the coolant fluid can go on the engine, and as you know water is the start of everything !!​

The CAM sensor …

This action point was shifted in time maybe 100 times. Because the car was in the North of the Netherlands Dries (Bosch Tuning) fixed this quickly.
We know we won’t gain anything in power here but we want to inject fuel sequentially to safe a bit on fuel consumption.​

The sump protection …

One of the tasks when in the Netherlands was the construction of the sump protection.
Since carbon is ridiculous expensive, we selected a decent 6mm ALU plate. Because we are not equipped to bend and cut such material it was a job for Ger from HSP.

We know Ger delivers always perfect work and he is always concerned about the looks too.
Some pictures, judge by yourself.​

Writing software can be boring …

At least it looks like if you ask Cosmo one of our incredible lovely chats in the R-Box team.
When the car was in the Netherlands it was the ideal time to continue writing code.
So we made some important progress on this, although Cosmo did not look very impressed :-)​

Ready in 3 steps …

To encourage our self a bit we have split up the ready phase in 3 steps.
Looking to the pictures I could say the external body trim is almost done.
It took again the full Saturday but it starts to look as a car.