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9 minutes ago, Jdesign said:
39k seems high to me for that with the mileage and paint issues. This price is the going rate on BaT auctions if you look at the graph plots IF the car doesn't need a significant amount of paint work. Cars in this price range usually have only very minor spots of clearcoat issues at worst. For the convenience of local, this would be a pretty cool car if you could get it for like 35k. Still a lot but you probably won't ever lose money on it.
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19 hours ago, patsbimmer1 said:
Do you have the route mapped out on a saved link that we could see?
Google got finnicky when the roads started overlapping each other in the Dousman area so I gave up.
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TJ is probably too kind.
He asked if I would help, so after I got done watching a bunch of M3 videos on Friday night because I have no M cars right now and miss the sounds of the S65, I stayed up till 2:30 planning a route. amazingly there were no dead ends and only a couple of roads that were Wisconsin-ish i.e. crumbling.
The route has the usual Kettle roads including 3 passes through Waterville Rd because I love Waterville, and some new roads that TJ and I haven't done before. Basically we will be starting from Dousman, heading south a bit, then coming back up and west through Dousman, down to Eagle, east to Mukwonago and then northwest-ish until we get back to Dousman. There is a good mix of some curvy roads (some new ones that we discovered which are really nice), some very long straight backroads where people can 60 roll/rage crash into trees, and a handful of county highways that we need to unfortunately be on sometimes to connect everything together.
There are a couple of designated "catch-up" spots in case we get separated but most of the route should be conducive to keeping everyone together. There's only one place to really watch out for police and that is when we are on Hwy LO and ES going through Muktown because for whatever reason cops are incredibly anal there about any sort of speeding.
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Updates: track repairs after brake failure are done. I bought standard (see: non-competition) caliper carriers so that I could fit my PFC rotors, since nobody in the E46 world actually uses the ZCP brakes. New calipers, stainless lines, new wheel bearings, all was well.
Then came my Blackstone analysis. Rod bearings completely toasted
So now I have new rod bearings. As luck would have it, when I went to test drive the car after bearing install, my cooling system started to take a shit. Temp needle quickly started to peg at the 3/4 mark and discovered my fan was dead. I took this as an opportunity to replace the radiator, water pump/tstat, and have an electric fan wired in to get rid of the factory mechanical fan.
I took the car in to my body shop today for an estimate on both patching up the dings/dents, and repainting the entire car. I am for sure going to repair the dents that were on the car when I bought it, but I am still up in the air on repainting it and throwing on a CSL front bumper shroud. I dunno. I love driving the car on the street and like having a full interior despite some track-oriented suspension. It would be nice to clean the car up a bit more and make it more presentable since I think I'm going to be driving it more than just only on track days. Still noodling on that one.
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On 9/15/2018 at 3:39 PM, MPW3RLee said:
Nice find on the M3!
I loved the RS4 on my E30 for autoX, but I did notice after about 20 min on track they started to get greasy. Same thing when I had an E46 M3. I imagine the heavier car works it that much harder. What’s next on the list for tires? I remember there was a point in time where bimmerworld sold gently used 18” slicks for a decent price, I’ve been tempted to try those.
Probably RE-71r. I'm at least going to run those for a few events before upgrading to the track candy. I ran slicks on my E30 and you just carry way too much speed around the track with them if you don't yet know how to drive your car. In my case, the E46 is still new and I need to get all my standard turn-in points and braking zones figured out on Blackhawk and RA where I usually frequent, and then I will probably look to slicks. I always use Jon Berget Racing Tires in Delavan for lightly used slicks since they are local and the price is right.
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17 minutes ago, snap said:
My eyeballs lit up when I read that. I will be bringing my son so there will be plenty of graham cracker action on the upholstery. Thanks for looking out for me though
I haven't detailed the E46 yet. It's plenty dirty already. Just let me know if you want to take it.
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On 8/10/2018 at 8:24 AM, KaiserRolls said:
I just meant out of the 200tw tires, why the rs4 over a 615k+ etc etc. I’ll be really interested to see how they last on track! Please let us know!!
They didn't last. RS4 was a bad decision. They greased badly after 7 laps and I wasn't even driving hard. I'm man enough to admit when I've made a mistake.
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this is a really nice car. I saw this when Tim was still trying to sell it at Brew City BMW night in August. Good buy for sure
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Yup $1000 is the going rate for a properly applied, quality product.
A year-round car should definitely see 3+ years before needing new ceramic, if it is garaged and you keep up on washes. People who neglect their cars in winter and wash them once every 1-2 months, and/or park the cars outside where they are constantly battered by the elements - there is a significant reduction in life expectancy on the ceramic at that point. Washing the car regularly and not letting it get abused by the elements are the biggest factors because at the end of the day, it's the breakdown of the ceramic that you're concerned with, which salt, road debris, and sun all play a factor in depending on the time of year. We run the Pilot through a wash weekly during winter, and if there is ever a really bad bout of weather that causes excessive salt to be dropped, then it gets washed sometimes twice a week. I've had ceramic on the Pilot for over 2 years now and it hasn't had to be re-applied.
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I just have a guy for this who's been running a detailing business doing it himself for 20 years. I used to try and detail my own cars but it's an art unto itself. I've yet to meet any car enthusiast who can take care of their own shit as well and as efficiently as a properly experienced detailer can.
I will say I keep all my cars ceramic coated, but not with Quartz. My detailer has access to better product. Few things are as beneficial as a properly applied, quality ceramic coat. You basically never have to physically touch the car again when you wash it, and you can just loosely pull a high quality micro across and it will pull the water right off when you're drying. I've taken video of the wash being applied to my cars with ceramic on as well and you have never seen water bead off of a car so nicely. I don't consider it anecdotal because I have it applied to my E92, my S4, and my Pilot. Completely different vehicles and different types of paint. Same result regardless.
Also while not as strong as PPF, I have 7 coats of ceramic on the hood and fenders of the E92, and I have had several rocks get flung at my car from semis that scuffed the ceramic but didn't break through to the clear. My detailer only had to reapply a small amount of ceramic after buffing the area. Some people will tell you that ceramic does 0 to protect against rock chips and that is 100% bullshit. It helps.
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On 8/8/2018 at 2:17 PM, KaiserRolls said:
How did you end up at the RS4?
First and foremost I want to learn the car on street tires before moving to slicks.
Beyond that, these tires have a stiff sidewall which I definitely want while I'm learning the E46 on track. I am quite sure that to begin with I'll be pushing the car harder into the corners than it likes because I'm going to be still thinking like I have the E30 which was so light and easy to brake and corner with that the tires never really overheated or scrubbed.
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Got the car back today with all the
goturn-fast parts on, subframe reinforced, and aligned at least well enough to get me home. Tomorrow I am dropping the car off at Big Bear for corner balancing and proper damper adjustments, but in the meantime it looks pretty mean with -3.5 camber in front. Will have to see how it is after adjustment but the spring rates are like 650/600 definitely a bit bouncy on the street but still the car handles 1000x better than it did before. There was a lot of tired suspension on that bitch.Had to deal with a couple unknown things because the guibo was totally fucked and looked like it had maybe 30 miles left before it completely fell apart. Also had a stock mid section welded back in because what was on there was completely fucked, so now the car sounds normal again without excessive levels of e46 rasp.
and my personal favorite - my shop guy rips all the warning labels off his equipment and replaces them with this:
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best color is best.
Looks like a solid project on what appears to be a pretty clean car
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On 7/24/2018 at 12:34 PM, snap said:
Here's to a guy who is chasing his dreams, not giving up on them like I have
Glad you are here, friend!
His dreams are already a reality - he has a running E30.
My parents live in New Berlin, i grew up there and visit Snap often when I take the kids to see the grandparents.
As far as the video goes, I'm not trying to discourage you, but I'm going to challenge you to think about what really makes your content any different than the other 8070970980 "car review" channels on YouTard nowadays. Everyone basically says the same things about the same cars. In my opinion, savagegeese has probably the best YouTard channel for car reviews because he is doing it truly differently than everyone else - his opinions are truly his perspective as opposed to regurgitated stats about cars that so many people use as filler content, and he has branched into different types of car content with things like his "Fine Print" series.
There's too much saturation on YouTard with the car scene right now and like any other group of people on the planet, there's a few winners and a whole lot of losers. I watched your M3 video and to me it was like any of the other 500 F8x M3 videos I've seen. I admittedly kept yours unmuted for longer than anyone else because you didn't have much footage of the awful exhaust note. I also wholly disagree with the F8x platform as a whole, which is why I have a supercharged E92 and daily an S4 because even on the best of days I could only see using the F8x as a daily, but it's not that good at being a daily compared to other cars out there like the S4. I'm salty because BMW has lost me as a customer completely at this point, though, and I really want to like the F8x M3 but I just can't do it anymore with the shit cars they are producing nowadays.
Welcome to the forum. PM me where you live in New Berlin we can meet up sometime maybe with Snap too.
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5 hours ago, straight6pwr said:
i was considering this for a hot second but then I saw this on a Monday. 🙄 missing a day of work makes the cost double.
yeah it blows that Badger Bimmers (and quite a few other organizations now too) run BHF events on Mondays only. The only decent organization I know of that does weekend BHF is NWSC
Definitely agree with Boris though - if you were considering any events at all, then certainly OFast in September is the way to go because there will definitely be at least a couple of us there. I still think it would be fun to get a group of WIBimmers together for at least 1 legit track day. There's just no getting around the fact that it isn't cheap though.
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Hey guys, the maiden voyage of the E46 will be at this event (unless it's raining. I won't drive if it's raining. Me and BMWs don't mix in the rain at the track if history is any indicator 😂). I was talking to Jeff Fait and he says the numbers are really low right now - 4 in advanced, 14 intermediate and only 2 in novice. Badger Bimmers needs at least double those numbers to not lose a bunch of money.
So if anyone wants to burn a Monday on some track fun, come join me in the Novice run group. I'm planning to go slow for a couple events on street tires to learn the braking points of the car, best gears/speeds to be in for the corners, etc.
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So I'm leaving for vacation in Tennessee this weekend and my first track day is August 13th at blackhawk. I ordered a lot of stuff that will be getting installed, and also having the subframe reinforced.
The mod list is as follows:
GC coilovers, camber plates, and swaybars with adjustable endlinks
GC rear camber arms
solid aluminum RSFBs
poly diff bushings
RCABS
FCABs
RTabs
PFC direct drive rotors and 08 pads up front
PFC 332 pads in the rear
Apex ARC8 265 square on hankook RS-4
Some parts have arrived, and here is a comical test fitment of the apex wheel prior to having camber plates installed (it will require -3.5 in order to not rub):
One of the main issues the seller had with this car was that he didn't want to pay $560 for a new passenger shadowline trim. The weatherstripping at the rear window was disintegrated so basically the car can't get wet, and BMW doesn't sell it separately. You have to blow 500 bucks on a whole goddamn new trim piece which is fucking absurd to me.
So with an $18 weatherstripping kit from 3M and about an hour of my time, I pulled the liner and ripped out the old weatherstripping and just replaced it. The trim that sits along the bottom of the rear window is also crumbling but that's only like $25 per side for new weatherstripping as an OE part so I ordered those to finish the job tomorrow.
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1 hour ago, Rekpoint said:
Congrats on the purchase! LOOKS GREAT!
Here are some APEX ARC-8s back on that WCEC if you haven't seen them already.
love where your head is at. Unfortunately those are the wrong offset. I'm looking for an ET22 for a square 265 setup
1 hour ago, YoungCR said:Congrats! What's the first event?
BHF with Badger bimmers on august 13th!
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I blame TJ. Woke up this morning and saw that he sent me a link to a very reasonably priced 2005 M3 in the most unlikely of places - WCEC classifieds. Upon brief deliberation, we agreed to go together to the shanty one-horse town of Watertucky and see if this car had any merit.
It turned out to not be a piece of shit, in fact it was actually quite solid and fit the bill perfectly for what I was looking for in a new track car. I had almost given up hope that a reasonably priced, non-clapped out E46 M3 existed. Engine and clutch are solid, no signs of subframe cracking, amazingly the seats are like, mint for being 150k miles, and it's quite clean underneath. I will be taking the car to Efab next week for some GC coilovers and camber plates, subframe reinforcement, and refreshing a lot of the bushings. In the meantime I need to scoop some apex wheels because the wheels that came on this car are junk ebay wheels with questionable fitment.
This will be my dedicated track car and be parked most of the year, but I don't have any plans to do crazy track prep with it because I don't want to be back in the world of needing a truck and trailer. I want a car I can drive to/from the track, has cheap-ish running costs, and holds its value. I think at the price I bought this thing for, I should always be able to sell it to a broad audience if I had to and get my money out of it.
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Just now, Rekpoint said:
*CCCCOOOOUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
haha not exactly what I'm looking for but I like where your head is at. Snapsby already linked me to a car in Crystal Lake today that I am reviewing right now
Fall colors meet/cruise Saturday, October 6th, 2018
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If anyone wants to review the route ahead of time to get familiar these are the instructions. With the wet roads we will be on i'm expecting it will be a bit longer of a drive. I recommend bringing up a Google earth view on your map and it will be pretty easy to visualize the overall route.
TJs house to Parry to waterville S to ZZ
ZZ to 67 S to Piper E
Piper to Waterville N
Waterville to ZZ W
ZZ to 67 N
(short) 67 to ZZ W
ZZ W to County N southbound
N to 59 W
59 W to County S southbound
County S to 67 E
67 E to LO E (slight right)
LO to Beulah south
Beulah to J eastbound
J to I northbound
I to LO eastbound
LO to 83 stop lights, cross over on to Pearl ave
Pearl to National/Fox east
National (Hwy ES) to Hillview north
Hillview comes to a tee Johnson splits left stay on Hillview to the right
Hillview to Oakdale/XX north
Oakdale/XX to Lawnsdale west
Lawnsdale to River s
River to Point w
Point quickly breaks 90 degrees north
Point to Saylesville rd / X
quick left onto Saylesville then right onto Rockwood Trail
Rockwood to 59 W
59 to Hillside N
Hillside to Wern Way / Hwy D west
D to Highview south
Highview to E north
E to D west (D is also Wern Way)
D to C (waterville intersection)
waterville to ZZ west
ZZ to 67 N
67 to TJs