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I made a graph of my car so far. 

Excuse me sir, that's 4k RPM less than a proper race car should be operated at. 

Productive start to the weekend. Just finished oil filter housing gasket now taking hpfp out and did trans, transfer case, and rear diff fluids. 
 
Plus a new bms filter cap woo woo

I always love coming across this video every now and then.
It's also where my PF pic is from.

Productive start to the weekend. Just finished oil filter housing gasket now taking hpfp out and did trans, transfer case, and rear diff fluids. 
 
Plus a new bms filter cap woo woo

Dang, this is tempting. Wonder how much it would cost to do a manual swap...

Productive start to the weekend. Just finished oil filter housing gasket now taking hpfp out and did trans, transfer case, and rear diff fluids. 
 
Plus a new bms filter cap woo woo

Not much new with the car as of now. Replaced the left axle again before DD76. Which was due to my own dumbassery, the outer joint was leaking grease from me using a persuader tonget it in the hub against my better judgement, and the cup bent allowing the grease to escape. 
Anywayssss. 
The event went well, my first few runs I thought I heard a clunking in the rear end but it was inconsistent and ended up being my 2x4 e-brake and a beer cap 🤷‍♂️😂
Also @Sam_Holzmann and I finally touched tips, which was bound to happen with how close we get to eachother. Luckily there was no major damage. My bumper ejecto-ed as designed (3 small zip ties with the intent to break under pressure and then my bash bar bent in a bit. Which was easily bent back.
@Jdesign was in Sam's car when it happened even 😂
Here's a pic of the "damage" the bash bar was already bent back before this pic.

 
And a full rack of burnt tires from both sam and i.

 
And a few pics from media!

Seems like a good price too bad they are 17s
 
https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/wto/d/milwaukee-bmw-wheels-and-tyres-make/6976204164.html

They ended up getting picked up on sunday by P_roloff

They ended up getting picked up on sunday by P_roloff

Pending pickup 

Well better late then never. Finally installed my springs and struts/shocks I've had for a couple months. No more xi rake

Fcpeuro is having a pretty decent summer sale from now until 6/30

Fcpeuro is having a pretty decent summer sale from now until 6/30

Aunt Jemima is a dumb pancake eatin' b**** who doesn't even understand how VANOS works.
 

So far I am impressed with the work that they did. Not overly impressed with the amount of time it took but I don't know how much control they had on that. I think that really fell on the insurance company and having to transport it to the alignment shop plus waiting for an axle that had to be shipped from Germany. Brian was great through it all even with me constantly emailing him for progress updates. They are moving soon to a bigger shop because they have been slammed. I would feel confident recommending people there.

That's pretty awesome that you made one yourself. I think for now I'll just do the subframe and down the road look more into the diff bushing especially if it starts to wear out. I'm getting really antsy to get my car back so I don't want to ask them to do much more and have it for longer. 

Are there bathrooms at the park? Those burritos have a pretty low residence time.....

We finally are buying a house.  It took a while but it's a nice house about a half hour outside of Wausau, it is a raised ranch built in 2013, 3 bedroom 2 bath on the main floor and finished walkout basement with 2 bedrooms and a bathroom.  And a big attached garage with in floor heat, I think it is about 24 deep by 32 wide.  The door is a 16' door centered on the width so there is a big space on either side.  The whole house and garage are heated with a wood boiler with LP backup.  It's on 26 acres that are mostly woods with about an 8 acre hay field.  We are supposed to close June 12th so we are pretty excited about that.  We have been living with my parents like all cool Millennial folks.
 
Also have a deal lined up on a very good condition Rotary 10k asymmetrical lift.  The garage ceiling isn't 12' tall but I will either modify the top of the lift to fit the 10' ceilings or box in some holes to the attic and run the top bar through the attic.  For 1800$ I couldn't pass it up, it is less than 10 years old and the guy who had it in his shop was very particular about keeping everything spotless so it looks all but new.
 
Tomorrow is my last day of work until August (Tech school instructor) so I will be able to get working on the BMW van and other things.  Still planning to drive it to the Hawk vintage races this year.

I got a new computer setup yesterday. Editing photos and videos will be so much faster now 🤘🏼
Intel i9-9900K 8 core processor GeForce RTX 2070 8GB graphics card 32GB 3000MHz DDR4 memory 512GB Intel NVMe M.2 SSD 3TB secondary hard drive ASUS Prime Z390 motherboard Liquid cooled CPU Dual 24” curved LED monitors

My Passat with the 2.0t rn

Well that is reassuring to hear. So far my only thought has been I should have been going there the whole time and not the dealer.

Big week boys, got engaged on Monday, put in an offer on a house on Wednesday, and just today the fiance said she misses me having a sports car.
 
Best week ever? Perhaps