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23 hours ago, KaiserRolls said:
Does anyone else miss the suburban?
I'm actually trying to find a decent turbo diesel truck myself the difference is I'll have a running BMW to take to events.
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On 2/17/2017 at 8:07 PM, TehRaydarlover said:
Put it in a Geo
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I am late to this thread but how amazingly clean is that car? I got my e34 540 from Texas and I can't believe how clean it is. That state mummifies cars. I'd buy every car I ever own from that state if I could.
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Amen to that! Once you go V8, you never go back. #V8Mafia
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On 2/15/2017 at 1:33 PM, YoungCR said:
Too bad the doors are already rusting.
On 2/15/2017 at 1:41 PM, straight6pwr said:you saw the horrendous blue interior and its the doors you're worried about?
Chris only cares about growing the parts stash...
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what app or site is everyone using for Craigslist searching ? site I usually used for a broader search got deleted.
SearchTempest works alright
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cant wait to see the fraken motor. non-vanos + 4.4 liters is best of both worlds.
It's essentially bolt on for the swap with very minor modifications. Hopefully I have the time to do it either this summer or when I'm a nuclear power school next year.
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No price in this case probably means if you have to ask you can't afford it.
That's what I said! He's pretty much selling a Ferrari on Craigslist.
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5 hours ago, patsbimmer1 said:
Nice! Let me know if you need part pricing or have any coilover questions!
What is a good coil over brand to go with? I've found the BR Series for $1k and I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with those.
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I've fallen off the map here on WIBimmers so I figured this is a good way to get back into it.
I picked this car up this summer west of Dallas, Texas. The green 540 was riddled with rust beyond repair and had to go. I picked up this car with 128,000 miles and drove her back home. It was kinda a barn find, two guys who own a BMW shop got it from someone and proceeded to do no maintenance on it.
I decided to try and do this car some good right off the bat. I dropped the money on an 18-piece Lamforder control arm kit, engine mounts, and polyurethane subframe bushings. Doing the work on this car was an experience I've never had before. I would pay you if you found rust on this car. I was rubbing the dirty off the brake lines to find unoxidized metal (see picture below).
Some other things I got done were getting my 2-piece, 18in style 5s redone. They were sandblasted down and are now powder coated, the barrels are imitation chrome, the faces are gray, and the bolts are zinc coated. I also let Marc screw around with the exhaust and this video resulted... https://youtu.be/16bq2TZDAZE
I have some maintenance I want to get done but I am still a college student so it's getting done slowly. I will be commissioning into the navy in May so I should have the money to get some more done. I am thinking about buying another car so I can be dedicated to working on this car but it's very hard to justify having two cars being a 22-year-old in the navy. I also need to find a friend to be able to do my own work down here.
Some upgrades I would like to have done very soon are:
- New exhaust fabbed up, goal is to sound like this https://youtu.be/gT3G2O6pViA
- Coilovers, still shopping around
- M60B44 Frankenstein build (M62 block with M60 head)
- General restoration
- B C, Jdesign, patsbimmer1 and 2 others
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On 1/25/2017 at 10:08 AM, Earl said:
Mikes (mine and Bens old car) should be pretty close to 280k by now haha. I am sure at least one of Chris' has to be up in the 200k range too
On 1/25/2017 at 10:26 AM, patsbimmer1 said:I wouldn't be so sure, that would mean they'd have to be consistently road worthy and running in order for that to happen.
The old car is dead but the new e34 only has 135k on it now
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I found this link to this site in a YouTube bio. It's an awesome tracking website for you to keep records for yourself and check out what others are doing to their cars. It be great to bring a lot of WIbimmer guys to the site so it's easy to check out each others builds and whatnot. Make a profile and add me as a friend so we can get the community going! Link to my car is below
https://www.wheelwell.com/profile/559c09e8c75d6981233bf098/vehicles/559c09fec75d6981233bf09a/specs/
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This is the video Chris sent me right after he finished Saturday. I don't know why but the video is pretty quite but make sure to listen for Chris laughing like a little school girl at :32
He also reported back that there is no extra noise on the highway besides when you punch it. Moral of the story is muffler deletes for everyone.
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For your Frankenstein BMW needs. Disclaimer, may need to change undies after watching.
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I stumbled across this on the interwebs and thought I'd share it and get some opinions. Seems like a pretty good deal to me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPUHIqQLh0
This is just a link to the product they are using http://www.wagnerspraytech.com/motocoat/ I don't know why but they don't have a price on the website but they go for around $120.
What do you guys think?
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Update on the wheel project. Had them unmounted a couple of weeks ago and then yesterday I managed to muscle the rest of the 102 bolts off. The last wheel was stupid corroded together, it took an extra large hammer to get a couple bolts out but eventually it was finished.
After a quick wash they are ready for the next step, stripping the old finish off with Jasco and then sanding away all the imperfections.
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Possibly an exhaust but I'm not quite sure what's in the budget for mods. I'm sure things will be done down the road if Matt wants it long term but he hasn't learned to turn a wrench yet. It'll just be me and Ben doing maintenance for now.
I've been chanting long tube headers to Chris for a while now.
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I forgot about this tread when I posted this video...
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So there is a lot for me to talk about since I haven't posted for a while and there has been a series of dramatic events regarding my car.
To start the story, I'm an idiot. I was screwing around in the snow with my friends and with the combination of fresh snow and no snow tires I ran my car into a mail box.
That's the damage, I bent the hood out a little today but it's not going to make a different. I'm lucky that was it wasn't anything serious but it was a good amount of damage for how fast I was going (not fast, 15 tops). I had to get that out there quick.
Before all that Chris and I got a chance to start attacking the rust a little. We took a little grinder to all the rust on the doors and then covered it up with vinyl.
It turned out pretty good! I barely notice it at all anymore even though the vinyl is matte black. We only got to two of the doors so I'll finish the rest down here.
She even got a interior detail before I messed her face up
That all I really got to this winter, time and money constraint held me back but I'm coming up with a new plan of attack for this car. Since I made my own customization to the front of the car, I've decided which the odometer at 437259 km (271700 mi) this car deserves a much needed tear down. For spring break I'm going to drive her back up to Wisco and park her in the shop till many much needed repairs happen. The list is pretty long at this point,
Upper/lower control arms
Tie rods
Wheel bearings
Engine Mounts
Completely new drive shaft
Transmission flush
Deferential flush
Trailing arm bushing
Rust, rust, and rust
New hood
Euro smiley projectors
Cat delete
Coilovers
Engine refresh (Engine mileage is probably close to 200,000 at this point)
I'm going to do it right and get all of this stuff done before she gets on the road again. It's probably going to take me a long time being I go to school down in SC but it will be worth it in the end to get her into the shape she deserves. Since I have to do so much work on the front end, I might as well take the engine out of the bay, do a good refresh to get some of the ponies back. I don't want to do a complete tare down but at least get the heads off to get them ported and get a good idea of how the engine is looking and of course replace lots of gaskets and whatnot. And with the engine out of the bay it will be much easier to get the work done on the front end with all the extra space. It's going to be a long drawn out process but will be worth it in the end. I'll be driving something else back and forth from SC so I don't have to punish this car anymore but that car is still being determined. Also if anyone knows of a Oxford Green hood out please let me know.
FCP Euro has them on sale for $200 off as well.
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I'm no lawyer but isn't that federally illegal?