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can we camp out at your place?
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been to this gathering, its a good time and great food! would recommend people checking it out!
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looks good man!
Now go and clear out your inbox. I can't reply to your PM because your inbox is full...
all clear, sorry about that.
alex- this is a long procedure. it was about 5 hours to do that one projector.
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needs a little love, but its a good place to start! PM returned
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reserved for more pictures.
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Hey guys thought I'd share this build with you all. I am putting some FX-R bixenon projectors into my e30. It will give the most possible light without going to some $2k military grade LED kit or some such thing. The light output is quite simply amazing. I went from standard halogen in my e30 to HID, and it was a huge jump, this will be a jump similar in scale from the HIDs.
Parts:
Depo smoked Euro Headlights (ordered from DTM Fiberwerkz)
Bi-xenon Retrofit Kit Stage III (ordered from The Retrofit Source)
-upgraded to Philips 85122+ DS2 bulbs with 50w ballasts
Depo Smoked Euro Headlights (started dissasembly before I remembered to take photos)
The reason I got the Depos vs. real euro lights are 1)Gauranteed new condition 2)The glass in front of the projector is perfectly clear, no fresnel to botch up the perfect cutoff!
The FX-R projectors, harness, ballasts, etc
I will be converting these H1 HID bulbs to a marker type light for the high beams
I took some time and modeled the parts in 3D so I could see how they would fit before I just started randomly hacking away. It gave me a better idea of what larger portions I could leave intact to add some support
Cutting away at the housing to make the projectors fit:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4047/fit1e.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8004/fit2.jpg
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/2113/fit3.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5601/fit4a.jpg
Also did a quick attachment of the harness to car, and it worked like a charm! It comes with a relay which enables you to plug it into any main body power source, then plug one of the normal low beam plugs into the harness to act only as the switch instead of the power source. It was definately needed as the power getting to the low beam plug was not enough juice to fire the 50W ballast. Also plugged the high beam into the actuator on the bi-xenon and it flipped the cutoff up and down no prob.
Next step is to seal up the projector then repeat on the other side. More to come as I get to it!
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highway 100 cruisin at night? lol what are we 16 in our honda civics tryin to look cool?
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i've seen that car around by brady street, never heard of an owner whos online.
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i still cant find WiBimmers on facebook. have searched everything, can someone link it for me?
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Dan whatever part you needed its yours that car was an AWESOME find.
actually, if he included the stock airbox with the car (i think he put some crap-tastic CAI on it recently) i could use that!
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failbook! but i guess i shall participate.
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hows this for random: two deer are now living in the small patch of woods (literally a 30ft wide swatch) behind our house in the middle of the city.
In reality, they are trapped, and we are worried they will run out of food water, so we started putting some rations out for them. Now to get those pesky racoons to stop stealing it...
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A member on R3v with the username uberg33k or something does rallying events at gravity park.
Ryan is spot on. uberg33k is Hans, and he is into that stuff. He would be the man to talk to to find events, and even race against as a fellow e30 owner.
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sweet pictures! did you buy his tan seats?
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oooo should be fun! did you end up buying the car?
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maybe one by one us other guys should go by and offer him even less, making your offer look good!
but heres a better example of what you can get for 5.5 - 6k as Boris3 has stated: http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105729
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theres a red e30 (early model) that parks in Shorewood by the Sendiks everyday that I see when I go to lunch.
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i got all the cool cars!
oh yeah i forgot to ask, how was the French Dip?
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pictures from today. it was nice and sunny, albeit it cold.
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9992/dscn5594j.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9995/dscn5595w.jpg
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http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/1324/dscn5598e.jpg
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http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7819/dscn5602q.jpg
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that sounds good.
anyone who sees this and is heading out, feel free to stop by at my house first! (You know where it is) I'll be home from work at 5:20, then be around for a little to wash the car before heading out at like 6:00. Let me know you are coming so I don't miss you.
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the meet starts at 5. sounds perfect to me!
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looks great! but the volvo lip is a disgrace to any e30, regardless of durability!
need some ellipsoids for your car? <--i have some FS if you are interested. /shameless plug.
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glad to see some others will be there tomorrow. should be nice weather!
Badger Bimmers car show June 11
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wow, how did I forget about this!