Update in case anyone had the same issue: Pulled off the SAS hose from the airbox and plugged the port. Currently just clamped off the SAS hose so it can't spit dust into the engine bay, although I may need to make it its own little intake when emissions testing comes around. I tried cleaning the MA...

As any of you with a red P80 know, the single stage paint oxidizes very quickly and turns a pretty sad shade of pink. There are a lot of tutorials out there about how to restore the paint on these cars, so this is what worked for me. I based my technique off of this superb article https://www.hemmin...

I second under the parking brake! Fits perfectly

Wanted to follow up in case anyone else has a similar issue. Thankfully it ended up just being that the oil cooler failed inside the radiator—head gasket is totally fine. Replaced the radiator and she’s been running perfect with no further issues, and no pressure in the cooling system. So, it’s inte...

This may be documented elsewhere, but wanted to provide a warning of how quickly a leaky heater core can progress. Although the typical heater core leak may be a slow drip, it has the potential to be a source of massive coolant loss, as happened to me. My 1996 850 had a slow heater core leak (a few ...

Will do when I can! It actually isn’t particularly impressive visually, no clear separation or anything. Essentially it just started leaking around the entire circumference of the end cap.