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Figured I'd post this here since we're likely changing our oil much more often than typical drivers...
I know it's just a matter of time until I strip out my oil drain plug with multiple changes a year, has anyone used these? Not sure I fully trust the oil valve on track but there is the secondary cover. Seems pretty neat. https://agatools.com/products/clean-oil-drain-plugs
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which is like $1200 lol. and that tool thingy.
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This seems like a much more reasonable option, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
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The AGA tool seems to be much more compact, but at much more cost. OEM plug is completely flush with the oil pan as BMW designed it that way.
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I was poking around on their site. The $1200 pump is optional, not needed with their drain plug. What is needed is the $299 adapter that connects to their drain plug. Either way, it is a little steep for a drain plug when it'll cost almost $500 when all said and done.
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If I tear the cap off the stalhbus valve I've already wrecked a lot of other shit in front of it. Perhaps our ride heights differ. |
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i was just about to say this... even with blown engine mounts my oil pan wasn't anywhere near touching anything LOL. sure it was resting on the belly pan, but the drain bolt would still be out of harm's way.
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It's an ECS drain plug, seems that they can take a beating but I think that's a one off situation, have no idea how nothing else was damaged and doubt it'll happen again.
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I have changed my oil so many times that I could no longer reset the CBS light. Apparently there is not enough memory on the ECU for such long use. I had to get the local dealer to code it out so it's only a dipstick now. It never lets me know anything other than level. In my 40+ oil changes I have never stripped my pan. In fact I have extra drain bolts in a jar as a result of buying service kits. A torque wrench set to 18ft lbs tells me not to go ape. I never put the bolts in a hot pan as well. A torque wrench is $25. How the fuck are yall stripping these? Is it the newton meters to foot pounds that is get'n ya or are we changing oil between track sessions?
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The Fumoto oil drain valve or the "EZ Oil Drain Valve" seem better in every way. Where's the benefit of this?
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Here's a video of my off track adventure.
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All I'm seeing is miles of endless, low/no consequence runoff.
If we're presenting anecdotal evidence, I've got some. I went off at VIR, skidded across the grass and was promptly met with a tire wall. Chassis mounted splitter: busted off and went flying. Mporium under tray: wrecked. The stalhbus drain plug cover was untouched though. |
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Btw: while the aluminum under tray was decently bent up it did an awesome job of protecting everything it was designed to protect. I replaced it but I definitely could have unbolted it, bent it back straight and ran it for my next off pavement adventure.
Btw, there's a free, slightly mporium undertray available for pickup in SC if someone wants it. |
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You aren't alone with what happened coming over the hill. The video below is a sweet M4 that goes off in the same place you did, on the out lap no less. He turns in later than I was shown, he ends up in the middle of the track at the top of the hill, so then he has to get the car turned back to the right. Chassis is unloaded, steering angle to the right and the engine is coming onto the sweet spot. Couple that with his decision to turn OFF the traction control for the first time prior to gridding. His car (leased) made the trip home on a flatbed… You handled the situation WAAAAY better than he did.
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I learned my lesson, I now let the car track out left to the middle of the track with no steering angle before coming back to the right for the next corner. As for handling the situation, I've spun so many times at all sorts of weird angles with years of autocross that I always remember to go off straight and two feet in on the clutch and brake. That guy got it much worse!
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I've somehow avoided tragedy twice now... Got lucky last month, went 2-off coming out of cotton corners and was essentially riding on the steel skid plate for a few feet. Another member here actually broke off his OEM drain plug off in that same location due to the large drop-off, luckily he shut it off before the engine ate itself. Glad my Alumalite splash guard took some of the impact, just replaced it with a Pinnacle piece.
Really want some sort of additional protection for the oil drain plug opening. Might start a fun flat bottom / extended front splitter project for the winter.
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