Jdesign Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 On 12/2/2018 at 10:47 AM, Tkuhn said: Finally test fitted the clear tails 😁 Love it. Looks 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Tkuhn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted December 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 7 hours ago, Jdesign said: Love it. Looks 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thank you sir! Should look even better with the planned color change this winter. wasnt m3 and Jdesign 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasnt m3 Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 2 hours ago, Tkuhn said: Thank you sir! Should look even better with the planned color change this winter. Care to spill the beans?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdesign Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 UUMMMMM I hope its white. Otherwise I retract my tailight compliment. Tkuhn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted December 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 @wasnt m3 @Jdesign Jason wins haha I'll spill the beans to you boys here. It will be white, at least that is the plan. Jdesign and Rekpoint 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdesign Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 On 12/7/2018 at 5:48 PM, Tkuhn said: @wasnt m3 @Jdesign Jason wins haha I'll spill the beans to you boys here. It will be white, at least that is the plan. What did I win? Tkuhn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted January 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2019 SMALL UPDATE. My awesome girlfriend got me this HoldFast usa steering wheel that I've wanted for awhile. I've also been wanting to get rear door panels back in the car, never really liked the fully stripped look and honestly never felt like dealing with it last summer lol. But with that being said I messed around and found the perfect way to fit the rear panels with my harness bar! was able to use a hole saw to create a round section on the bottom and then my badass new m12 milwaukee dremel to cut the straights 😁 These panels were the ones that came with the car so I did the same as the front panels. Removed the arm rests and used interior paint to make them black. Kinda hack... I'm aware. But I didnt want to cut into my pristine black panels I got with the M stuff. Plus since the fronts were sprayed black they will match better. I'll save the other black panels for when a cage is put in the car in the future sometime. And since it was 40 degrees and January I decided to back her out of the garage to sweep up while I had the chance. I have mostly everything off the car as I am getting ready for the color change. ChrisO, m42b32, P_Roloff and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdesign Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 Looks damn good from here! Tkuhn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted January 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2019 UPDATE. Rolled the front fenders and rear quarters a bit, I never rolled them before and I wanted to get a little out of them. Not worth showing photos they are just rolled fenders lol. But I got the rear panels put back together and installed. And I am hyped to have rear panels back in the car. Also got a start on making a rear seat delete panel. Made up a good ole cardboard template. Gotta pick up some plastic to cut out but that's it for now. Jdesign 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted January 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 Firmiliar sight here. Got pretty much everything disconnected to pull the engine and trans out. Planning to check things over along with replace the clutch. Found out I'll need to replace an axle as one of the boots is starting to seap grease. Also need a new driveshaft because the damn u-joint has some play in it. Wish these u-joints were serviceable 😑 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted January 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 New bumper came in today 🤗 And I opted to not do what every non M e46 owner does and get a M bumper lolol Quick mock up because i was excited. The bash bar and rad support are not on the car. m42b32, Jdesign, jc43089 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted January 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 Bumper is all trimmed up where it needs to be and mounted nicely. Not a whole lot of progress lately, slowly but surely. Earl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc43089 Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 Looks good! Any progress is good. Especially with the cold weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted January 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 9 hours ago, jc43089 said: Looks good! Any progress is good. Especially with the cold weather. Thanks! And definatly difficult without a heated garage that's for sure, I have a heater but not one to keep a constant temp in the garage all winter long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted January 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Made an exciting discovery that I can't believe I never thought of before. I've been wanting to get projectors in the low beams on my headlights, after doing some research i found that the OEM stuff can be transferred between housings and all the housings are the same with the same slots and markings for holes whether it was a halogen housing or not. It just so happens I still have both of the xenon headlights from my 330i along with one of the ones with a broken housing. I started by taking apart the broken one for investigative purposes. Things looked good like they would work! Stock halogen coupe headlight before: Took this existing light completely apart and deep cleaned it (it came with my car so it had 200k plus of road shit that I couldn't completely scrub put before). I dont have a before photo but here it is all cleaned up. I cleaned up the rest of the parts then drilled a hole for the igniter wires to come our of the housing which then connect to the ballast. The ballast slid right into the coupe housing just like on the original pre-facelift sedan headlights. (No photo but you get the point). Once the igniter was secured in and all the wires were ran I cleaned up the projectors and the reflective housings. Installed them into the coupe housing and put the shroud into the housing. Now that I know it works I have to do the other headlight but I was extremely happy to find I had basically all the parts to do this. Next up is to order some new lenses to get rid of the nasty faded ones, I tried to polish them out but new ones are cheap enough. Rekpoint and Jdesign 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdesign Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 Thats good to know, and it looks great! Tkuhn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris3 Posted January 31, 2019 Report Share Posted January 31, 2019 Looks good! I don't have the expertise to ask the question correctly but is there any need to reflash the LCM/ECU, or will the changed setup just plug and play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 5 hours ago, Boris3 said: Looks good! I don't have the expertise to ask the question correctly but is there any need to reflash the LCM/ECU, or will the changed setup just plug and play? That has crossed my mind lol. I believe the my will still work for sure. Just not sure how the car will react, like it might think that the headlights are burnt our or something since the data being sent back would be different. It might just say theres a headlight burnt out or something. I need to do the end of that research yet. Either way I know it can be coded in if that is a problem, just need to do the research to get that knowledge. I was going to try and plug it in but the battery is not in the car since my garage isnt heated and I didnt want the battery to freeze up haha Boris3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris3 Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Hope it works, it'll mean that bits from the burnt bowl ZKW bixenons I pulled from my car might actually be worth something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Boris3 said: Hope it works, it'll mean that bits from the burnt bowl ZKW bixenons I pulled from my car might actually be worth something. So a quick search said multiple things. I have AL headlights so not sure how it applys to ZKWs but some said pre 03 (chassis) you dont need to code because the newer chassis have some sort of difference. Others said you have to code the light module for a xenon low beam and some other procedure to make the halogen high beams work. Apparently it can all be done using a NCSexpert. Which I have ZERO experience with lol and I am on the lower end of computer savvy in that sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasnt m3 Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 I swapped in oem xenon headlights in a prefacelift e46, which were a direct plug in. Everything functioned perfectly, just had a headlight error until I turned them on. Didn't bother me enough to recode. Tkuhn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 8 hours ago, wasnt m3 said: I swapped in oem xenon headlights in a prefacelift e46, which were a direct plug in. Everything functioned perfectly, just had a headlight error until I turned them on. Didn't bother me enough to recode. Good to know! I'd like to learn to code either way honestly. Have you dabbled it it at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suspenceful Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 I swapped some OEM Xenon headlights into my girlfriend's 2002 E46 sedan that came with halogens. Just unplugged halogens and plugged in the Xenons. Everything functioned as it should, no errors lights either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkuhn Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 3 hours ago, suspenceful said: I swapped some OEM Xenon headlights into my girlfriend's 2002 E46 sedan that came with halogens. Just unplugged halogens and plugged in the Xenons. Everything functioned as it should, no errors lights either. Bitchin' hopefully I have the same results. Although it would be cool to learn to code so I could add some features. I also would like to get my key matched to my car since i swapped everything from my 330i and the fob wont unlock the car with the power locks. But not sure that you can fix that with coding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasnt m3 Posted February 2, 2019 Report Share Posted February 2, 2019 I've got a laptop with all the coding software but never even really bothered giving it a shot. You're welcome to play with it if you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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