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Those are one of the best looking M3's in my opinion.
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I removed this and replaced it with an oem joint and DSSR from IE. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t particularly care for the fitment of this. It was mostly because it was a bitch to install. With that said, it worked. And it worked completely fine and there was absolutely no reason for me to replace other than my personal vendetta with Garagistic.
New this would all run you about $170. I’d ask $90.
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I keep making progress so I'm going to keep posting some pictures. It's a lot of fun to go back through all of these pages and remember where the car was and where it's going. I've actually forgotten about a lot of the things I've done, changed, etc.
Things went in the other direction the other night. Switched the ratchet from loosen to tighten. Body harness going back in freshly re-taped and loomed.
Modified Porsche 944 brake booster.
If anyone is looking for a tap and die kit, the Husky kit from Home Depot is awesome. And affordable.
Larger master cylidner.
I'm going to print a small spacer to go between the 944 booster and firewall. This one is flat on the back and it's pretty tight with the clutch master hose.
I bought new connectors and terminals and have replaced the coolant level sensor and brake fluid reservoir wires and connector. Will do the same with the fuel pump connector and wires. The fog light and horn connectors both crumbled this time. I have new hella oe style horns that just use spades and found some fog light pigtails on ebay. The side marker light wires fell apart. Fixed one and will do the same on the other side:
Still looking pretty clean in there.
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I think I made my first thing in freeCAD. It's an ABS sensor plug. Based on dimensions from the sensor. I know I can buy these for pretty cheap, but I'm doing it more to teach myself. I'm slowly learning how all of the sketcher tools work, how the constraints work, when you make a sketch what can be padded and what can't be, combining shapes, slowly making my way into other workbenches.
I'm slowly learning how to use the various tools in different ways. There's a definite learning curve here compared to sketchup. I always felt that sketchup was extremely user friendly, but getting something like this done in sketchup would have been much messier.
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Non car related. Scored some free cabinets from a house my parents' are renovating. Just need to build an exhaust hood and I'll have a place to keep all my brewing stuff and start doing that again! My wife got me the Northern Brewer electric brew kettle to make indoor brewing possible.
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5 hours ago, m42b32 said:
I placed an order for a Prusa MK3S+ kit, hopefully it doesn't take months to get here. I'm excited.
Looks like a very nice unit!
I received my new laptop last week and got a bed leveler and a roll of PLA filament today. I've been watching freeCAD tutorials in the mornings before work. Really excited to start playing with it. I have a couple pretty simple things I will try to make to get familiar with everything.
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Cut the ABS harness on the engine side and pulled it out through the firewall inside the car. A few wires left that go into somewhere else:
red/yellow on engine side. appears to go to the ABS relay. however, it didn't go through the firewall and looks like it went into the twist lock connector that engine harness connects to.
blue wire inside the car. wire diagrams says it makes it way to the alternator.
green/red wire inside the car. power from the ignition.
Red wire on the engine side. Diagram says it goes to the relay, but it seems like it goes straight to the power junction block where the main battery lead comes into the engine bay.
The good news is that it seems like none of the ABS wiring is integrated into anything else. Other than receiving power from the car, it stands on its own. So these wires will likely get clipped and then heat shrinked over the ends.
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I'm starting to go through the engine bay wiring harness from the fuse box, and there's some stuff I want to get rid of. For example this is I believe a brake pad wear sensor connector? IDK, it's never been connected to anything. But here is where it splices into the harness. Can I cut it, put a small piece of heat shrink over the individual wire ends and then another piece over the two and tuck them back into the harness?
Similar question for other things - the ABS stuff that I'm no longer using. Can I cut the wires, cover the ends and tuck them away? Leave the wires in the bundle in case at some point in the future, after I'm long dead, my daughters are like, "Dad sure was a huge dum dum poopy face, let's put the ABS back in the car!".
And a pic of the bay all painted and polished! Not perfect by any means. I believe I did not give the pre-paint prep spray enough time to evaporate and the first coat had some blemishes. But I said fuck it I'm going to gob the paint on and cover it up. Turned out fine.
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I think the bed leveler and improved springs are going to go on before I do more printing. As I do more reading that seems to be some improvements that make a lot of sense.
Got a little nerdy with the printer enclosure. Put in some cheap led strips. I wanted to have light in there to help see what it’s doing since I also plan on putting one of my spare Wyze cams in there so I can watch it when I’m not in the garage, but, it also looks neat.
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The amount of resources available for 3D printing is awesome. And the Ender printers seem to have endless tutorials for them as well. My next step is to start diving into the actual slicing programs and understanding gcode.
I started looking at bed levelers, but read that the CR Touch seems to be a slight improvement over the BR and they're so cheap. But I'll probably play around with the printer some more before I dive into adding things to it - although the bed leveler seems like it would be a great addition sooner.
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2 hours ago, REKIII said:
Creality makes good stuff. I got my daughter an Ender 5 for her B-day in october and she's been printing all kinds of stuff with it.
Regarding software, like GMG, I have SolidWorks, through work, so I'm not too familiar with the cheap/free stuff. The educational SW license you can get with an EAA membership, is the best deal out there. We did that for my son. Plus you get the magazine which is neat.
Make sure to research the different materials available, all kinds of neat stuff is out there now, some good, some bad. All have pros and cons.
Thanks for the tips!
I got the Ender 3 V2 put together yesterday and did my first test print. Quickly learned about the different types of filaments and the importance of nozzle and bed temps after a few failed print attempts. I picked up a roll of PETG, apparently one of the harder filaments to use. But got it dialed in as I learned more about it and successfully printed a dog.
As I looked more into the available programs, it looks like I might need something other than a Chromebook. Either way. It's been fun to play with and look forward to continuing to learn more about it.
I ordered the Ender enclosure for it since it will be in the garage.
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1 hour ago, Rekpoint said:
I use Fusion 360 to design things because it comes free with my Tuition. Pay 14k a year and get a free program. Great.
I tried coming up with a joke, but I remember all the "free" subscriptions I had while in undergrad and graduate school and it's not funny.
After reading reviews and some 3D Printing sites I ordered the Creality Ender 3 V2 from Amazon. Supposedly a really good print quality and user friendly. I was able to create the things I want to make with arbitrary dimensions in tinkerCAD so I think this is going to be a fun project and allow me to make random things for the car or around the house - like chip bag clips and cock rings.
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18 minutes ago, YoungCR said:
I'm likely going to get one within the next 6months too. I know @Jeff used Fusion 360 at his machine shop and that's what I'm most familiar with from learning various Autodesk software in high school but the hobbyist license was severely limited about a year ago. If you become a member in the EAA you can get a solid works license for hobbyist use which is by far the best value anywhere but solid works is windows only. I'm not familiar with the chromeOS options are besides the online web apps like TinkerCAD.
I'm finding with the Chromebook that almost any program I can use needs to be web-based. I played around in tinkerCAD this morning and was getting more familiar with it and it should be able to do most of what I would need out of a 3D printer.
2 minutes ago, Bassboy3313 said:I have a printer and use tinkercad most of the time. It's super simple to use for basic things, but lacks any enhanced tools. Fusion 360 seems to be a go to for most 3d printing folks. I'm sure with your knowledge of sketchup, you shouldn't have a hard time with any software you decide to use.
My wife has a mac that I'm sure I can use if I need to. Fusion 360 looks to have an app for Chromebook - albeit with terrible reviews. lol.
Sketch Up and tinkerCAD operate so differently and how you build something is almost opposite between the two. Sketchup you start with nothing and build out. tinkerCAD you start with a giant block and basically have to chisel away what you don't need. It was really frustrating at first.
Do you find that you use the printer for miscellaneous things that makes having one worth it?
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52 minutes ago, m42b32 said:
I don't have anything to add but I'm also planning to pick up a printer fairly soon as I keep finding more and more uses for one. I have free-reign of the printers at my work but it would be really nice to have my own as those are almost constantly in use. I would be very interested to hear what people use for free or 'low cost' CAD options.
My brief detective work the past few days led me to tinkerCAD and freeCAD. I've been messing around with tinkerCAD and it's relatively annoying to get a hang of because it's simplicity makes it almost harder when I'm used to all the various tools in Sketch Up. Unfortunately I only have a Chromebook and freeCAD is only available on Windows and Mac.
Either way, it's been really interesting to reading about it and learning the various programs that are needed and how they all work together. I'm likely going to order one today to start messing with.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen some of you do 3-D printing before. I have a couple projects on the e30 I'd like to do and would need to create some objects (relatively simple) to make them happen. I've always thought having a 3D printer would be a beneficial tool to have anyway. I've found some good entry level printers and I'm not concerned about that.
I've read about all of the software programs that are available and I'm wondering those that have a 3D printer, are the design programs relatively easy to get the hang of? I have used sketch up a lot at work creating 3D renderings of parks, downtown, buildings, my house, my garage, etc. I've used it to design our fireplace, shelving units, a closet, etc. I'm hoping if I have a good grasp on that, then transition into something like freeCAD wouldn't be too difficult.
Any input or advice would be appreciated!
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Rust fixed, sanded, seam sealed.
Put this together for painting in the garage without getting overspray everywhere. It worked as well as it could have. In between coats I was able to hang out in the garage and watch the packer game. This morning there was a strong paint smell, but no paint dust on anything. It was a more enjoyable experience compared to painting the car.
Bought this on Amazon for ventilation and it worked really, really well.
And primed!
Wait a couple days and then I can wet sand it and spray color. I'll dismantle the paint booth and set it up at a later time to spray the spare hood and hood hinge thing.
This also happened to me. Ordered a new fuel vent pipe that goes from the charcoal canister back to the gas tank and the first one arrived bent in half (on the right) to fit in the box. 😆 They ordered and sent me a new one right away. Somebody actually thought that was an appropriate action to take to make it fit in a box.
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Steering wheel sold. Help me get this stuff out of my space!
Forgot to add I have the lock strip that will go along with the windshield gasket.
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Door panels and floor mats sold. Updated some pics and added a few things.
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Bump with more things added.
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1 hour ago, straight6pwr said:
stock booster still available
https://www.pelicanparts.com/More_Info/34331157416.htm?pn=34-33-1-157-416-INT
i got the part #34331157416 from Real OEM based on a 1990 325i coupe build date 01/90
https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=1113-USA-01-1990-E30-BMW-325i&diagId=34_0703
I should have clarified - when I said unavailable, I meant out of stock or backordered everywhere I looked. FCP has the 944 booster in stock and will pair that with the e32 7 series master cylinder which is a supposed upgrade for the e30 (and it's cheaper than the e30 MC).
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8 hours ago, Boris3 said:
Given the location here’s a guess. There is an outside temp sensor that fits in the e30 325i/s drivers side plastic brake duct, the sensor plugs into a connector with wires that feed info to the onboard computer on your dash.
My car didn't come with brake ducts or a ambient temp sensor anywhere so I would have never guessed that! Thank you!
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