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It lives. 
Charged the battery up and dropped it last night after work, started right up.
Drove it up and down the street just to stretch it out a little bit. In dire need of a wash and probably a little air in the tires.
Probably need to have a valve adjustment done this spring, sounded a little ticky. Or the oil just hadn't circulated entirely from starting for the first time in 6 months.
Back into the storage until it's nice out full time.

Replace your CPV o-ring while the headers are off.
 

So jacked I nabbed this plate! "E46 M3" was taken, but this was up for grabs

https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/d/mequon-1983-bmw-e21-320i/7304372857.html

I think we're on year 3 almost exactly now...

The Bilstein PSS_ setups look like a great Ron Popeill set it and forget it solution but they have very poor corrosion resistance from what I have seen. 
 
great pic!

Back to daily duty

One of my vendors recently turned me on to these guys and it's been my go to work music the past week.
 

Back to daily duty

Back to daily duty

Thanks to @Rekpoint for the deal on the e36 racing dynamics strut brace. Got it installed this morning on the coupe. Needed just a bit of clearancing on underside of hood and for the strut tower ground lug. Otherwise fits great!

Your hosting and maintenance of this site continues to be appreciated, Chris.
I agree on quality over quantity. I am so glad to have made lots of good friendships and connections through this group and hope that continues.
I don’t know what it is about Facebook but I find it to be a toxic cesspool. The local BMW groups consist of people who are too lazy to put proper effort into finding parts, information, repairing cars etc.  The wisconsin car classifieds are a sad place for people to band together and heckle people trying to sell their cars. It isn’t a healthy thing to be a part of.
With that said, I am glad we seem to have a decent group that can be trusted to go for a cruise, hangout, buy/sell, and nobody is going to bust out a dine bag of meth and start spinning donuts on the grass at Frame Park.
 
I do think a scrolly type layout that shows the latest post, regardless of subforum, would cater well to the lower site traffic we have had. Chatterbox would be amazing to  pop in on a sunday evening for some banter 😄

Car up in the air and taken apart.
The drivers side sway bar mount is perfectly intact. The passenger side not so much.

 

 
The ends of the cracks were drilled. Metal pounded/pulled flat, welded, ground, and prepped for a reinforcement plate.

 


I had ordered some pre-made reinforcement plates and was surprised when they were only 0.114” thick (11 ga.) Then I measured the chassis sheetmetal. It comes in at a measly 0.053” (17 ga.). 
 
Massive thanks to @Bassboy3313 for  coming over and welding, can’t thank him enough for his help.
Grade 8.8 screws were preheated to 300 F, welded, then slow cooled.


 
Since the drivers side was intact, that reinforcement plate was welded in as-is. Once both reinforcements were welded in they were painted. I am making this post while waiting for the paint to dry. I should have things buttoned up, re-grease the sway bar, and be back in action later today.


 
 

Car up in the air and taken apart.
The drivers side sway bar mount is perfectly intact. The passenger side not so much.

 

 
The ends of the cracks were drilled. Metal pounded/pulled flat, welded, ground, and prepped for a reinforcement plate.

 


I had ordered some pre-made reinforcement plates and was surprised when they were only 0.114” thick (11 ga.) Then I measured the chassis sheetmetal. It comes in at a measly 0.053” (17 ga.). 
 
Massive thanks to @Bassboy3313 for  coming over and welding, can’t thank him enough for his help.
Grade 8.8 screws were preheated to 300 F, welded, then slow cooled.


 
Since the drivers side was intact, that reinforcement plate was welded in as-is. Once both reinforcements were welded in they were painted. I am making this post while waiting for the paint to dry. I should have things buttoned up, re-grease the sway bar, and be back in action later today.


 
 

Car up in the air and taken apart.
The drivers side sway bar mount is perfectly intact. The passenger side not so much.

 

 
The ends of the cracks were drilled. Metal pounded/pulled flat, welded, ground, and prepped for a reinforcement plate.

 


I had ordered some pre-made reinforcement plates and was surprised when they were only 0.114” thick (11 ga.) Then I measured the chassis sheetmetal. It comes in at a measly 0.053” (17 ga.). 
 
Massive thanks to @Bassboy3313 for  coming over and welding, can’t thank him enough for his help.
Grade 8.8 screws were preheated to 300 F, welded, then slow cooled.


 
Since the drivers side was intact, that reinforcement plate was welded in as-is. Once both reinforcements were welded in they were painted. I am making this post while waiting for the paint to dry. I should have things buttoned up, re-grease the sway bar, and be back in action later today.


 
 

Car up in the air and taken apart.
The drivers side sway bar mount is perfectly intact. The passenger side not so much.

 

 
The ends of the cracks were drilled. Metal pounded/pulled flat, welded, ground, and prepped for a reinforcement plate.

 


I had ordered some pre-made reinforcement plates and was surprised when they were only 0.114” thick (11 ga.) Then I measured the chassis sheetmetal. It comes in at a measly 0.053” (17 ga.). 
 
Massive thanks to @Bassboy3313 for  coming over and welding, can’t thank him enough for his help.
Grade 8.8 screws were preheated to 300 F, welded, then slow cooled.


 
Since the drivers side was intact, that reinforcement plate was welded in as-is. Once both reinforcements were welded in they were painted. I am making this post while waiting for the paint to dry. I should have things buttoned up, re-grease the sway bar, and be back in action later today.


 
 

Oh hey. 
2009 328xi in Platnum Bronze with saddle interior. 150k-ish miles. It's a normal car that I don't plan on making abnormal. However I will disconnect the exhaust after the headers for any meets because it's tradition.
here's a bad picture. 

Okay, bye!

The E30 has racing pedigree.
It’s the same automatic, bronzit paint, and comfort seats used in the DTM racecars.
If you cant appreciate a racecar tamed for the streets then get a Daihatsu.

All clean and ready to rip!

Your hosting and maintenance of this site continues to be appreciated, Chris.
I agree on quality over quantity. I am so glad to have made lots of good friendships and connections through this group and hope that continues.
I don’t know what it is about Facebook but I find it to be a toxic cesspool. The local BMW groups consist of people who are too lazy to put proper effort into finding parts, information, repairing cars etc.  The wisconsin car classifieds are a sad place for people to band together and heckle people trying to sell their cars. It isn’t a healthy thing to be a part of.
With that said, I am glad we seem to have a decent group that can be trusted to go for a cruise, hangout, buy/sell, and nobody is going to bust out a dine bag of meth and start spinning donuts on the grass at Frame Park.
 
I do think a scrolly type layout that shows the latest post, regardless of subforum, would cater well to the lower site traffic we have had. Chatterbox would be amazing to  pop in on a sunday evening for some banter 😄

The E30 has racing pedigree.
It’s the same automatic, bronzit paint, and comfort seats used in the DTM racecars.
If you cant appreciate a racecar tamed for the streets then get a Daihatsu.

This site needs to get with the times and be more like TikTok. Minus the chinese spying allegations. All posts should be required to be a video of us performing a lip-sync, twerk, or other trendy bmw related moves.
 
but no really. How can we revive the site, short of a DDoS of Facebook?
are forums in general dying?
what if we had a scrolly format?

Your hosting and maintenance of this site continues to be appreciated, Chris.
I agree on quality over quantity. I am so glad to have made lots of good friendships and connections through this group and hope that continues.
I don’t know what it is about Facebook but I find it to be a toxic cesspool. The local BMW groups consist of people who are too lazy to put proper effort into finding parts, information, repairing cars etc.  The wisconsin car classifieds are a sad place for people to band together and heckle people trying to sell their cars. It isn’t a healthy thing to be a part of.
With that said, I am glad we seem to have a decent group that can be trusted to go for a cruise, hangout, buy/sell, and nobody is going to bust out a dine bag of meth and start spinning donuts on the grass at Frame Park.
 
I do think a scrolly type layout that shows the latest post, regardless of subforum, would cater well to the lower site traffic we have had. Chatterbox would be amazing to  pop in on a sunday evening for some banter 😄

Facebook's format is horrible for useful car information. The revolving door of stupid questions and stupid answers is basically all it is. No useful way to post a DIY, maintain a build thread, search old posts for info, etc. I like forums the way they are to be honest, but we do seem to struggle to maintain new members. I don't have any useful suggestions to make improvements though, maybe the twerking suggestion has some merit?
@YoungCR is right about the main group of members here focusing on not-car-stuff at the moment and making it seem like the forum is dying, myself included (see: WIBASEMENTS). But I can assure you I am itching to get back to working on the cars more often! 

I have a few thoughts but I'm interested in everybody's opinions on how our community here can grow as well. Personally I know I don't get to post as much as I'd like because my car projects have been on the back burner for a while. I think the core group of us has also phased into different life priorities as well i.e. graduating college, starting careers, buying houses, starting families, etc. My 2021 goal is to work on cars more as I've forgotten how much I enjoy it and its therapeutic working on them for me at least. More small but frequent meets/cruises should be on the ticket as well.
I've been holding off on the website updates for a while, the mobile app has been available and should be stable by now so I'll start testing that out. I'm sure there are some other features that we could implement as well. As far as facebook, I've given up on promoting the website as the conversion rates were pretty low and you've had to pay for posts to get any exposure for a long time now. Personally I don't care to have our meets rival WCEC anyways, id rather have quality over quantity.
I'm committed to the Forum format though. Facebook groups are just a revolving door of repeated questions and posts are so hard to find in search. If people would like to have a live chat feature again I could look into other services as the built in one was discontinued.