Bassboy3313

I was down in Arkansas for work, browsing craigslist when I found something I had to have haha. 12.5hrs on the uhaul later and it's looking pretty in my garage! Will add more details when I get the chance.

It's that time again!

PM me your mailing address if you would like to participate (I will post your name on the list of participants once I receive it) and I will assign you a random participant to be a secret Santa for. Gift cost should be capped at $20 but you are free to spend a little more on your own free will. Deliver or mail your gift in time for Christmas and we can post the results here.

I use the gift I received last year on a daily basis!

Tj sure loves the gift he got from Mitch!

Remind us all what you got him again



 

 

 

1) Bassboy3313

2) Earl

3) straight6pwr

4) wasnt m3

5) m42b32

6) YoungCR

7) snap

8 ) REKIII

9) HipMF

10) TehRaydarlover

11) Visian

12) patsbimmer1

13) Daggerty

14) KaiserRolls

15) Suspenceful

16) Rampelsauce

17) Jdesign
18) Jeff

My boy is coming!!!!
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I know of a mechanic/shop that's just a bit south of the airport tunnel on Howell. He is my dad's coworker's friend. He did the clutch on my saabaru and will be doing more work on it in a couple weeks. Last time I was there he showed me an e36 that they did a custom SS exhaust on. He does the work after hours for cash only. 

http://appleton.craigslist.org/pts/5866909587.html
"5 Bmw"
...not bad.

No problem, and thanks!
Another great weather weekend (whats up with that?)

 
Finished another all red taillight DIY.
Previous e30s i've painted with the Testors model paint, but the e34 I used lamin-x with great results, so I'm doing that again with the e30.
It takes just 2x universal sheets 7"x8"

start at the inside and work around the corner, pushing out bubbles and making sure to leave no creases. some water and a credit card works well to push in edges

the lamin-x works around the edges really well. just keep forming it with the credit card

you have to work it between the groves on e30 taillights

then just trim all the excess around the edges

and done. the lamin-x has a great shine, just like the original taillight finish.


 
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then I replaced the sunroof crank.  it was broke and the return spring was long dead. pretty much falling off the car:

yup, broken frame

new parts. also, I love this thing. way more fun than pushing a button.

 
 
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3rd project: passenger side front seat was borked. it basically was leaning back against the rear bench and could not be reclined out of that position.  I found a guy in illinois who had a "fully working, just needs cleaning" set of black vinyl seats. well, like most people on Craigslist these days, he was either an idiot or just lied. drove all the way to some god-forsaken suburb (homer glen??) including $12 in tolls each way to find that the passenger seat was good, but the drivers seat was completely borked...well i needed the passenger seat, and he wouldn't sell it alone so I ended up with both seats plus another extra drivers seat bottom frame and mechanism. swapped the passenger seat in and decided to learn how to take apart e30 standard seats and see what was causing them all to be borked.
found mice nests in both seats...

mechanisms all seem fine, even on the non-functioning seats...

ahhh, jackpot. the seat bottom frame where the main pivot point of the mechanism is bolted is torn. not cracked, completely torn off.

so out of the 5 seats that i now have in my position, 3 (probably 4) are in the same state of broken. design flaw? i think so. at least I can save all the seat material which was in really good shape on all of these.

 
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Project D: Front lights.  when I bought the car only the low beams were working.  highs, turn signals, euro 'city' lights, and fogs are all inop.
Turn signals were just not plugged in. only good news of the day.
High beam bulbs were dead. easy fix with a run to NAPA KNOW HOW
City lights were never hooked up or even bulbs put in, so I made some harnesses which connect the city light holder to the e30 stock side marker plugs.
Top: harness that comes with Depo euro headlights for the 'city' light.  Bottom: bulb holder for stock e30 side marker

merged together for an eternity of happiness.

 
All lights now working! I do need to get better HIDs, these are generic crap 1,000,000k ebay ones that are very dim. Also seen in this picture - new BMW center grill and Abraham Motorports 'Kopi' euro grills and smoked turn signal lenses.

 
#5: i also wore down my rear tires a bit driving around today  
 

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I contribute Snap's potato-phone pic of my car for the "pile of crap" page of the calendar. 
 

Hey Pat, why didn't you tell us about your pawn shop?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/middleeast/bulletproof-bmw-isis-snipers/index.html






































Cliffs:




Armored $10,000 7-series purchased by man in the war-torn middle East.




After his city was attacked by ISIS, he transported people to safety through the city facing 50+ hits from ISIS snipers.




BMW offered to give him a brand new BMW in exchange for this E32 that they wanted to put on display at BMW headquarters.

According to CNN He declined and wants to keep driving the E32.
According to Jalopnik he is donating it to a local museum True hero of a man! A real saint

Then how cool it is to see an old BMW (albeit modified) not just holding up to the test of time, but some extreme use as well.

Yup! It was changed all over the freeway the day of the fall cruise.
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Spent yesterday morning at The Petersen automotive museum in LA, holy shit was it the most amazing place ever. Checked off a dozen cars I thought I'd never get a chance to see (McLaren F1). The visiting exhibit was about the artistry of the Buggatti family so there were many pre and post-war examples including the new Chiron.
Not on wifi so just posting the BMW highlights, the David Hockney 850csi 6spd! and the Matzo Kayama 535i. Also on display was the Z4 used in the 2009 "Expression of Joy" commercials and part of the artwork.
I also paid for the vault tour showing what's not on display in their basement, lots of cool hot rods and movie cars. I wasn't allowed to take pictures down there but the BMW 100th/2002 50th anniversary BMW classic built 2002ti was down there apparently with the motor out. It's that orange "BMW Alpina" car that Stanceworks did a article on a while back. 

Yup! It was changed all over the freeway the day of the fall cruise.
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freaking great weather today. I putzed with the car and met a new local BMW guy - nice to meet you Mike! he is mkoepp here on the forums and has an awesome 535i that he is fixing up and a sweet alpine e39 touring daily.
joe was awesome and lent me a 4x100 spacer so I could test fit my new rollers before ordering adapters and tires. the front wheels are 16x7 et33 currently with a 205 tire, and with a 15mm spacer here is the clearance I got at the strut. i'm very pleased with this, I should be able to fit 225s with a final et18 offset. it will be almost an identical tire placement in the fender as a 16x8 et20/225 tire, which is common e30 setup.

rear will be no problem at all. 16x8 et38 with 15mm adapters with put me at et23, which is very close to the best e30 setup of 16x8 et25

here are the wheels in question. drove all the way to Minneapolis to get them. Seller was a nice guy who does automotive photography and daily drives a porsche cayman and a mini cooper.

 
and I think Earl must have accidentally ordered some parts for me. who doesn't love a bag full of new hardware?

I managed to get the coolant tank on (and flushed the system), got the washer tank and fuse cover on, installed a new trunk emblem and placed some of missing hardware bits around the car as well today.

the guys at kummrow automotive did a great job installing my skid plate this week.
for those unfamiliar, these are 'severe duty' skid plates for e30s made by HIK fabrication, and I highly recommend them.  http://hikfabrication.com/arvixe/Home.html

the 'hoop' bar gets welded to the frame to support the plate instead of relying on the core support.



 

Same thing applies to having kids

Dang, now I have to get jimmy johns for lunch.

Fixed.

Besides looks, that's a great DD.

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Sure, if you wanna go all nerdy on the subject 

got more done with another great weather weekend.
got some great deals on some parts from wibimmer's members

 
switched out euro check panel. 1) can't read german. 2)hate broken stuff

that's better.


when the swap was done, the glovebox trim panel was never put back.  1)unsightly 2)lets more noise into the cabin

the placement of the new ecu makes fitting the original panel impossible, so a quick trimming and all is well. (i forgot the after photo)

 
this montage is for Snap.  these cheap-ass autozone tuner lugs are the worst thing ever freaking made by man.





 
Installed a trunk spoiler. Here's a quick write-up.
 the BMW measurement doc is 100% awesome, use it.

goodbye perfect decklid

blue painters tape for drawing your measurements on

measurements in place. note: the two center-most holes are NOT equidistant from the centerline.


dun dun dun dun dun

the instructions call for 7.5mm holes but who the hell has metric drill bits?? 5/16" is the closest size in SAE

test fit before removing tape in case a correction is needed

boom, nailed it!

ready for the spoiler!

i will now have less drag on the freeway, and also the ladies can't resist a good decklid spoiler.

 
i also installed a euro analog clock, the front fender liners, and did a power steering fluid flush
i also DROVE THE CAR a bit, and many big, stupid grins were had. 
 

 

 
 

They may have lasted 240k miles of normal driving, but not 240k miles of crazy launches from a higher torque engine swap. [emoji14]
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They may have lasted 240k miles of normal driving, but not 240k miles of crazy launches from a higher torque engine swap. [emoji14]
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I know of a mechanic/shop that's just a bit south of the airport tunnel on Howell. He is my dad's coworker's friend. He did the clutch on my saabaru and will be doing more work on it in a couple weeks. Last time I was there he showed me an e36 that they did a custom SS exhaust on. He does the work after hours for cash only.