Originally posted by Benwalsh91
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So after getting to the event, I blew out my front tires. I previously neglected to mention that I couldn't get enough adjustment out of my tie rods so I spent most of my day messing with that at the track. Luckily a friend of mine had a spare laying around that he lent me.
After raising the car to fit the 235's up front and doing an eyeball alignment I was out on the track
I never said I knew what I was doing.
After getting tossed around for a few hours drifting in my stock seats we made the 2 hour drive back home and tucked this old thing back in my garage. I finally decided it was time to paint my M3 bumpers and skirts. Being extremely budget minded and slightly ignorant I opted to paint it using rustoleum. I used to paint and prep cars for a living and was always curious how this stuff holds up so I figured what the hell
How I received the M3 bumper
After a lacquer thinner bath and a scuff pad
I went over it a bit more before I sprayed it. I ordered oem hardware to mount the skirts up, pretty much did a quick and dirty install on that.
A little bit of paint action
Bumpers getting the same treatment
And installed
I did end up adjusting the bumpers to fit better. Please don't flame me
Picked up some random drift spares that were a good deal. They're SSR Bang Vec II's 17x9.5 et high as hell. I actually sold these later on.
Went to another drift event, I was actually having a lot of issues getting my car to run properly during this event. I had replaced all my CCV hoses but when I put it back together I installed the MAF backwards. Rookie mistake, but I corrected that issue with some new plugs
Back at the shop once again
After having enough of being thrown around in my car a friend of mine offered me his Bride's for a decent price so I went ahead and picked those up. They're Zeta III XL's
At this point I was getting ready for the last drift day of the year for us in the Northeast. So I wanted to make my car looks halfway decent. I had ordered some ECS kidney grilles because they were on sale. You might've saw they were "carbon fiber" which I ***** but never got around to painting. So I scuffed them up and shot them with some trim paint
I made a purchase on some wheels I fell in love with seeing them on someone elses car
SSR Comp C RS
Also found some tail lights I've always been super into. Not too many cars pull these off and I'm hoping to make my car look decent with these
Not pictured were the new OEM M3 side moldings I purchased from the dealer. I get a great discount otherwise I wouldn't have bought them new, but I popped them on real quick as well as the new wheels and tail lights
Took it for a test drive, one of the wheels was hitting the spring so I only drove it up the street for a picture
I swapped back to the style 42's and got ready to go drifting. After a few laps I clipped a tire and this happened
No worries, I planned on replacing it at some point anyways. Car looking decent in the pits
Friend of mine grabbed some pictures of me driving
Drove it home and got ready for the offseason.
The plan was to pull the engine and trans assembly. Replace all the leaking seals as well as some other preventative items.
Few hours later
Ghetto hoist setup
Out she goes
The mess of old insulation and useless brackets
Primary reason I pulled this all out
As someone who drives his car harder than the average person, I am constantly double checking every nut and bolt on the car making sure nothing falls apart. That being said dealing with oil covered subframes and control arms drives me nuts.
I figured that since I had the engine out I might as well try and clean it up a bit. I picked up a spot weld cutter bit and started taking out all the unnecessary brackets I will no longer need.
Engine bay shot
Hacked out the redundant battery tray, still need to clean this area up but I will get to it
Acquired a new daily driver
Bought some overfenders. Then sold them because I didn't want to regret cutting up my clean rear quarters
With those sold I decided to sell the Comp's because I ***** how they sat on my stock body. I wanted to go down to 17s and keep my car fairly low. Originally I was looking for some SSR Professors but they were out of my budget. After browsing YAJ for awhile I gave up and came across a deal locally for some SSR Koenig's. Made the drive and picked them up
The only issue was they are 5x114.3, but a friend of mine had some adapters kicking around off his E39. Threw them on and did a test fit
Pretty pumped on the fitment, I still have to get the rear spacers cut down to 1" and order tires for them before I can see how they fit with tires on them. Once thats dialed and the engines back in the car I can setup my ride height.
More to come
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