Re: <E28> Do not buy Fuel Pressure Regulators from WorldPac or Subsidiarys

["Ron J" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes it does still have tons of power.  No issues in that regard.. I am
lucky.. I drove the car all the way down to Key West Florida, from Toronto
Canada with that 2.5 bar FPR, and the engine held out!!!  thank god!!  Now I
am totally convinced about the reliablity of that engine.  Something to be
said about precision german engineering.  I bet if it was an american or
japanese car, the pistons would have melted..

Cheers
Ron
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Orr" <orrs@domain.elided>
To: "Ron J" <ron@domain.elided>; "BMW" <bmw-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: <E28> Do not buy Fuel Pressure Regulators from WorldPac or
Subsidiarys


> Ron,
>
> I'm suprised you did burn a piston with that much heat. Does the engine
> still have
> the same amount of power as it used to?
>
> Dave Orr
> 88 528e
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I just returned from the Dealer with my new BMW fuel pressure regulator.
> I
> > changed it out for the "New" one from thepartsbin.com, apparently
supplied
> > by worldpac warehouse, who also supplies trolhatten.com, and a few other
> > websites..   The one I got from them is in fact a bosch product, and
fits
> > right onto the feul rail on the 535i engine (M30) however , when I
pulled
> it
> > off to replace it with the one from the dealer, I noticed it was rated
at
> > 2.5 BAR.  and the one from the dealer is rated at 3.0 BAR, which means
> that
> > the warehouse is selling miscalibrated fuel pressure regulators for E28
> 535i
> > engines.  So if your shopping around, don't buy one from them. I suspect
> > they got a bunch somewhere on surplus from Bosch that were mismade, or
> > belong on another engine, and decided that the 0.5 difference was not
> enough
> > of a difference.
> >
> > Well my situation proved it.  They cause problems,. almost disastrous
ones
> > in fact.  Aside from that who knows what kind of damage can be done from
> an
> > engine running lean.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ron J
> > 85 535i with proper fuel pressure now
> > 73 911s 2.7 (waiting in the garage for paint and warm weather)
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