ASTROCHIMP

How’s the pedal tuner? I’ve seen them around but never really felt throttle response was so bad I needed one. Is it night and day or just a mild improvement?

Bad phone pics.

That's gotta be fake.  If there's not a body in the trunk this is a great deal.

Here’s two E46’s down in Iowa.
https://dubuque.craigslist.org/cto/d/dubuque-2001-bmw-330i/7382879573.html
https://cedarrapids.craigslist.org/cto/d/cedar-rapids-1999-bmw-323i/7380438138.html
 
This site also scrapes facebook and ebay and is generally quite useful.
https://collectorcarfeed.com/cars/

Spotted @Jdesign’s E36 parked just now in Sun Prairie. Wasn’t going to go home again that way but am now to get a better look at it.

The E90, developed a squeal today. Seems like the parking brake is hanging up and at low speeds making an awful squealing at low speed. Seems once up to speed it’s gone. I’ll have to pull the rotors off and see this weekend. 

Its time for an UPDATE!
Holy shit has the past month been a stressful but rewarding in the end, so thats why I have been slacking on updates here haha
For starters the street tuning went well. There's still some touch ups the tuner wants to make which I'm fine with but the car rips pretty well!
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Here is the completed version for now. I made some delete panels for the rear diffuser, it turned out good enough lol.


And with the tune being safe to drift on that meant it was time for some testing at DD80 at USAIR.

 
The car did well, stayed cool the whole day even though it was not super hot out. The power difference is definitely noticeable although I still can't run 3rd. (Might have to consider playing with a different diff, but it does not hinder driving at all)



 
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The bumper fell off and got scratched to shit so that's lame but oh well lol.

 
The biggest issue that arose was the clutch was slipping once the car cooled down at the end of the day, not surprised that it glazed over lol. The current clutch was a FX "HD" kit with a single mass flywheel.
Now began the headaches....
We unloaded the car on Thursday and put it on the lift. Pulled the trans and installed a brand new FX stage 2 kit (e36 style without the self adjusting pressure plate).

While that went smoothly and the car was back on the ground and driving that Thursday night there was a vibration between 2k and up in almost every gear.
I ended up bringing the car home from the shop anyways. I then decided I was not okay with that vibration, so I jacked the car up and pulled the trans out on the following Saturday. 

I replaced the pilot bearing as I was ignorant and didn't do it the first time at the shop. I checked and retorqued everything without finding any true smoking guns.
I drove the car Saturday and Sunday and the vibrations still persisted. So Monday night I went back up to the shop and snagged Sam's old FX stage 4 kit since we know it is tried and true. 
Then on Tuesday I pulled the trans again and threw in the stage 4 kit. At this point I'm getting way to fast at this job lol had everything taken apart and back together in about 3 hours and 15 min hahaha


I then test drove the car on Wednesday and the vibrations were gone thankfully! I also should have mentioned that the vibrations happened when free revving so thats how I knew it was clucth/flywheel related.
 
Now the reason there was such a big rush to get this clutch situation solved is because we had a big event coming up at the Milwaukee Mile hosted by Track Day Direct.
In final preparations for the Milwaukee Mile event I added some seems legit garage axle spacers.


 
Now on to the fun!
We made it! 

 
The track was FAST and took quite a few runs to get the balls up to really send it. This was my first time drifting using 3rd gear and eventually I figured out how to set myself up to get back into second for the final turn, she didn't seem to have enough to let it eat in 3rd on the last turn but I would like to try again next time we are here.
Here are some photos! There was a night session as well and I will share a few photos when they become available!

 



Here's an in car. I really struggled on turn 1 and had to straighten and re-initiate into turn to but when I did that she absolutely ATEEE and thats where the speed came in! Super fun!
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And here is proably my favorite clip I have seen so far.
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All in all it was a great event. I learned alot and was able to put on a show too. 

 
I do have a few things I want to address before the next event hopefully. But summer and this season is off to a hell of a fun start! 
 
 
 

Sounds Great!!

I like it!

Dinan exhaust is on, sounds pretty nice. Idle is quite a bit quieter. Tips aren’t even but that’s a project for a future me. IMG_3946.MOV

Beautiful noise 👍🏼

Dinan exhaust is on, sounds pretty nice. Idle is quite a bit quieter. Tips aren’t even but that’s a project for a future me. IMG_3946.MOV

Dinan exhaust is on, sounds pretty nice. Idle is quite a bit quieter. Tips aren’t even but that’s a project for a future me. IMG_3946.MOV

Dinan exhaust is on, sounds pretty nice. Idle is quite a bit quieter. Tips aren’t even but that’s a project for a future me. IMG_3946.MOV

Alright, so I finally transferred some recent photos off my camera(yes I still use one it’s a Fujifilm X100 if you care) to get this thread going. This is my 2011 E90 335i 6AT, in Alpine White sitting on style 193m’s. 
 
I bought the car in April or so of last year, year before it came out of Arizona and currently has 85k. So far I haven’t done much to it but big plans are under way. Currently general maintenance has been done and a VRSF charge pipe(that I’m unsure if I seated correctly to the intercooler but until it pops off I’ll assume is fine). Currently it’s a fish bowl but I have a tint appointment on the 3rd, Turner High Kick Spoiler should be here around that time. 
This will be going on this weekend after some cleaning and it should be set for the summer. Will probably do a suspension overhaul at some point as well. It is my commuter car so I’m hesitant to start adding power that may resort to me having to steal my girlfriend’s car for a day. But eventually plan to go FBO and tune for 93 as it’s relatively easy to find currently by me. 
 

Alright, so I finally transferred some recent photos off my camera(yes I still use one it’s a Fujifilm X100 if you care) to get this thread going. This is my 2011 E90 335i 6AT, in Alpine White sitting on style 193m’s. 
 
I bought the car in April or so of last year, year before it came out of Arizona and currently has 85k. So far I haven’t done much to it but big plans are under way. Currently general maintenance has been done and a VRSF charge pipe(that I’m unsure if I seated correctly to the intercooler but until it pops off I’ll assume is fine). Currently it’s a fish bowl but I have a tint appointment on the 3rd, Turner High Kick Spoiler should be here around that time. 
This will be going on this weekend after some cleaning and it should be set for the summer. Will probably do a suspension overhaul at some point as well. It is my commuter car so I’m hesitant to start adding power that may resort to me having to steal my girlfriend’s car for a day. But eventually plan to go FBO and tune for 93 as it’s relatively easy to find currently by me. 
 

Alright, so I finally transferred some recent photos off my camera(yes I still use one it’s a Fujifilm X100 if you care) to get this thread going. This is my 2011 E90 335i 6AT, in Alpine White sitting on style 193m’s. 
 
I bought the car in April or so of last year, year before it came out of Arizona and currently has 85k. So far I haven’t done much to it but big plans are under way. Currently general maintenance has been done and a VRSF charge pipe(that I’m unsure if I seated correctly to the intercooler but until it pops off I’ll assume is fine). Currently it’s a fish bowl but I have a tint appointment on the 3rd, Turner High Kick Spoiler should be here around that time. 
This will be going on this weekend after some cleaning and it should be set for the summer. Will probably do a suspension overhaul at some point as well. It is my commuter car so I’m hesitant to start adding power that may resort to me having to steal my girlfriend’s car for a day. But eventually plan to go FBO and tune for 93 as it’s relatively easy to find currently by me. 
 

Alright, so I finally transferred some recent photos off my camera(yes I still use one it’s a Fujifilm X100 if you care) to get this thread going. This is my 2011 E90 335i 6AT, in Alpine White sitting on style 193m’s. 
 
I bought the car in April or so of last year, year before it came out of Arizona and currently has 85k. So far I haven’t done much to it but big plans are under way. Currently general maintenance has been done and a VRSF charge pipe(that I’m unsure if I seated correctly to the intercooler but until it pops off I’ll assume is fine). Currently it’s a fish bowl but I have a tint appointment on the 3rd, Turner High Kick Spoiler should be here around that time. 
This will be going on this weekend after some cleaning and it should be set for the summer. Will probably do a suspension overhaul at some point as well. It is my commuter car so I’m hesitant to start adding power that may resort to me having to steal my girlfriend’s car for a day. But eventually plan to go FBO and tune for 93 as it’s relatively easy to find currently by me. 
 

A good friend of mine shoots rally and off-road race events for fun. I asked him if we could get some shots of this thing. Here are the results. If you are looking for epic pictures of off-road vehicles I suggest you contact Andy. https://noggsphotography.com/

Love it, Volvos are rad. 
 

Update. But not to the e30. Since we got Katherine’s Atlas, we don’t use the wagon for anything other than me going to and from work. So, the wagon is going and I got something more fun for a daily. 



Needs and exhaust and some other minor things, but, I’m very excited to have something more fun for a daily. 

@B C The E30 picnic? I may go, I’m out of town part of that week so I might have things to catch up on during the weekend.
Hoping to at some point get to cruise with some other members. 

Hello, I just joined up here. I’m not great at introductions but I’m located in Madison and I currently drive an alpine white E90 335i. I’ve had my E90 a bit over a year now, and this summer I’m hoping to finally get check some things off that I’ve been meaning to do.

If you don't have luck finding one, CoPart's nationwide pick and pull listings are pretty good. If milwaukee doesn't have one I'm sure you could find one to pull down in Chicagoland.

Hello, I just joined up here. I’m not great at introductions but I’m located in Madison and I currently drive an alpine white E90 335i. I’ve had my E90 a bit over a year now, and this summer I’m hoping to finally get check some things off that I’ve been meaning to do.