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Something happened and my account posts and thread got deleted. No clue what happened and no moderator has gotten back to me to even try explaining what happened. Im going to give this one more shot and hope it stays up.
Long story short, my girl and I had a nice e36 M3 but we ended up selling since we wanted to start fresh with a sedan.
We wanted to get a sedan this time and if we were going to spend the money to look for the right color. We ended up looking for Techno Violet or a Dakar Yellow sedan.
After 3 months of searching, we found one out of state. Let the road trip begin.
We get to Oregon to pick up the car and just our luck, it snowed the night before.
Yup, now we are driving home with sport tires on snow. Also a truck drove around us, kicked up a rock and cracked the windshield
Drove all the way to CA just fine. We washed the car and here she is. The new daily project.
The garage
After talking with my buddy at KW. He had me give these a shot. ST XTA Coilovers. They are basically KW V2's with Clubsport camberplates and spring rates.
We also found a set of Dinan wheels. They were hurting so we decided to redo them.
Its always great having her help. Much easier to split wheels
AND THE FINISHED PRODUCT!
Unfortunately right after they were finished someone made me an offer I could not refuse so I never even got them mounted on the car.
Guess its time to redo my Kinesis and make sure they are nice and clean.
Its time for the coilovers to go on.
As we were putting the coilovers on we realized the thermostat gasket was leaking. So we went to pickNpull and picked up a metal housing.
Since it was bad this made it a perfect time to delete the Clutch Fan.
Parts:
- Metal thermostat housing
- Low temp thermostat
- Low temp fan switch
- Water wetter
The tools to pull off the clutch fan.
Old metal housing we picked up
Where it was slowly leaking from
Cleaned it and decided to paint it
Getting the reg. temp sensor out
New low temp fan switch
Small issue. The clip is off. So youll have to trim the little line off the plug
Paint dried
Low temp thermostat
Almost done
DONE!
Now since we did all that we decided to change some other stuff. I mean Im not working on it, so why not. Change away
Parts:
- NGK Iridium Spark Plugs
- BMW Igniter Boots
Alignment time. I think we drove enough on it the last few days to let the coilovers settle.
Driving back from the place. She loves it.
We went for a mountain drive and it started raining. Looking at the iphone my girl found a cool side road. We decided to take it and the car got really dirty.
Washed
Hanging out with friends in LA for Bimmerfest last year
We got home and found someone selling a clean pair of OEM rear mudflaps. Why not
So I somehow scored 235/40/17 Falken RT615's from Falken. I worked out something with them. Always loved these tires. My buddy at SpeedElement always hooks it up and they are the only guys in the area I trust not to scratch my wheels since they do dope wheels all the time.
And to celebrate the new rubber, we went for a drive.
After the last drive, the front brake parts were not doing so hot. So I installed my OEM 2 Piece floating rotors I had laying around from my last car and I put in brand new Project U Clubracers. These pads are awesome.
And after another coilover adjustment. Alignment again...
And the other project
We had my buddy at Carbonite Detailing do full paint correction on the car. Freaking amazing. I cant believe how good the color looks now.
One day goes by and there is pollen spots all over the car. WTF. Did get a windshield banner on. Nakai approves.
Rain again. Yay for rain. We have not gotten that much rain in CA so its nice every time it comes
And I finally found something Ive always wanted to do on the e36. Only US M3 not to have ITB's. I found someone selling the "dbilas dynamic" ITB kit.
UPDATE
And one of my friends decided to sell his RS's. Here is the test fit.
Specs:
5x120
17x8.5 ET13 Square
205/40/17 Square
So....... I cant do the stretched tires on a car Im going to use for mountain driving bliss. I decided to move the order of the lips/barrel/center in order to get more offset. The centers will be face mounted. I had to get the back of the wheel machined to now fit the lip and barrel in the back.
Finally took the time and washed it again.
UPDATE
No much happeded. Went for another drive with the babe. I mean my girlfreind, not the car
UPDATE
New goodies
- Sparco Seat/Brakets/Sliders
- Bimmer World Seat Mounts
- NRG Quick Release Hub
- Momo X Illest Steering Wheel no.111
- Momo Hub
UPDATE
Decided to clean up my garage and side yard. I got a dumpster to toss all the stuff I don't need out.
Pulled the 2002 out
Cleaned up the back yard. All thats left.
UPDATE
Slacked a lot on the M3 as I have been working on our 135i. That being said I managed to park next to this bad ass Alfa on our trip to LA. Loved how clean it was. I hope he did not mind that a squeezed next to him. Parking was a mess
Coming up next:
- BBS RS's have to get rebuilt
- Seat and steering wheel has to get installed
- ITB's are getting sent out to get synched
- Ordering new falkens for the RS's
Something happened and my account posts and thread got deleted. No clue what happened and no moderator has gotten back to me to even try explaining what happened. Im going to give this one more shot and hope it stays up.
Long story short, my girl and I had a nice e36 M3 but we ended up selling since we wanted to start fresh with a sedan.
We wanted to get a sedan this time and if we were going to spend the money to look for the right color. We ended up looking for Techno Violet or a Dakar Yellow sedan.
After 3 months of searching, we found one out of state. Let the road trip begin.
We get to Oregon to pick up the car and just our luck, it snowed the night before.
Yup, now we are driving home with sport tires on snow. Also a truck drove around us, kicked up a rock and cracked the windshield
Drove all the way to CA just fine. We washed the car and here she is. The new daily project.
The garage
After talking with my buddy at KW. He had me give these a shot. ST XTA Coilovers. They are basically KW V2's with Clubsport camberplates and spring rates.
We also found a set of Dinan wheels. They were hurting so we decided to redo them.
Its always great having her help. Much easier to split wheels
AND THE FINISHED PRODUCT!
Unfortunately right after they were finished someone made me an offer I could not refuse so I never even got them mounted on the car.
Guess its time to redo my Kinesis and make sure they are nice and clean.
Its time for the coilovers to go on.
As we were putting the coilovers on we realized the thermostat gasket was leaking. So we went to pickNpull and picked up a metal housing.
Since it was bad this made it a perfect time to delete the Clutch Fan.
Parts:
- Metal thermostat housing
- Low temp thermostat
- Low temp fan switch
- Water wetter
The tools to pull off the clutch fan.
Old metal housing we picked up
Where it was slowly leaking from
Cleaned it and decided to paint it
Getting the reg. temp sensor out
New low temp fan switch
Small issue. The clip is off. So youll have to trim the little line off the plug
Paint dried
Low temp thermostat
Almost done
DONE!
Now since we did all that we decided to change some other stuff. I mean Im not working on it, so why not. Change away
Parts:
- NGK Iridium Spark Plugs
- BMW Igniter Boots
Alignment time. I think we drove enough on it the last few days to let the coilovers settle.
Driving back from the place. She loves it.
We went for a mountain drive and it started raining. Looking at the iphone my girl found a cool side road. We decided to take it and the car got really dirty.
Washed
Hanging out with friends in LA for Bimmerfest last year
We got home and found someone selling a clean pair of OEM rear mudflaps. Why not
So I somehow scored 235/40/17 Falken RT615's from Falken. I worked out something with them. Always loved these tires. My buddy at SpeedElement always hooks it up and they are the only guys in the area I trust not to scratch my wheels since they do dope wheels all the time.
And to celebrate the new rubber, we went for a drive.
After the last drive, the front brake parts were not doing so hot. So I installed my OEM 2 Piece floating rotors I had laying around from my last car and I put in brand new Project U Clubracers. These pads are awesome.
And after another coilover adjustment. Alignment again...
And the other project
We had my buddy at Carbonite Detailing do full paint correction on the car. Freaking amazing. I cant believe how good the color looks now.
One day goes by and there is pollen spots all over the car. WTF. Did get a windshield banner on. Nakai approves.
Rain again. Yay for rain. We have not gotten that much rain in CA so its nice every time it comes
And I finally found something Ive always wanted to do on the e36. Only US M3 not to have ITB's. I found someone selling the "dbilas dynamic" ITB kit.
UPDATE
And one of my friends decided to sell his RS's. Here is the test fit.
Specs:
5x120
17x8.5 ET13 Square
205/40/17 Square
So....... I cant do the stretched tires on a car Im going to use for mountain driving bliss. I decided to move the order of the lips/barrel/center in order to get more offset. The centers will be face mounted. I had to get the back of the wheel machined to now fit the lip and barrel in the back.
Finally took the time and washed it again.
UPDATE
No much happeded. Went for another drive with the babe. I mean my girlfreind, not the car
UPDATE
New goodies
- Sparco Seat/Brakets/Sliders
- Bimmer World Seat Mounts
- NRG Quick Release Hub
- Momo X Illest Steering Wheel no.111
- Momo Hub
UPDATE
Decided to clean up my garage and side yard. I got a dumpster to toss all the stuff I don't need out.
Pulled the 2002 out
Cleaned up the back yard. All thats left.
UPDATE
Slacked a lot on the M3 as I have been working on our 135i. That being said I managed to park next to this bad ass Alfa on our trip to LA. Loved how clean it was. I hope he did not mind that a squeezed next to him. Parking was a mess
Coming up next:
- BBS RS's have to get rebuilt
- Seat and steering wheel has to get installed
- ITB's are getting sent out to get synched
- Ordering new falkens for the RS's
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