What did you do to your vehicle today?

[richardmozis]

Painted my orange band-aids silver

[meme405]

Okay. So they aren't on the car yet, that's my plans this coming weekend.

BUT:



It's all ready to install.

The paddles are from a G37s, custom mounted onto a factory FX clockspring, and then the factory steering wheel trim was chopped up to accomodate:







^That telephone jack looking thing was the solution to accommodate for wiring the kit in. This is the harness:



Couple relay's, and wires to tap permanent power, as well as into the tiptronic switches, and Voila should have working paddle shifters.

[trollguy]

wait what. what does the telephone jack do? you know,.. you could hook up a vtech phone. just saying

[bcrdukes]

56k modem? What kind of hipster bullshit is this for?

[meme405]

Originally Posted by trollguy

wait what. what does the telephone jack do? you know,.. you could hook up a vtech phone. just saying

It's rather genius, the telephone jack allows me to send morse code from the paddles to the gearbox in order to tell it what gear I want to be in...

[trollguy]

[tofu1413]

Originally Posted by meme405

It's rather genius, the telephone jack allows me to send morse code from the paddles to the gearbox in order to tell it what gear I want to be in...

literally tapping it into gear

[knight604]

I insured it

[lowda9]

Put in a new timing chain tensioner. Gonna see if it cures my cold start noisy engine.

[brrrz]

Cars a little dirty but added the punisher emblem today

[euromoron]

Went to NAPA and bought some stuff to do some general maintenance on my car. Totalled about $110 so I asked about a discount I could get from school. He said alright, punched it in, and it totalled around $85 or so. He said "hmm", then punched some other code in and bam, price drops down to $66. Guy says "that's better", so I happily give him my money and leave satisfied. Safe to say I was NOT expecting that.

[joquio]

Originally Posted by lowda9

Put in a new timing chain tensioner. Gonna see if it cures my cold start noisy engine.

Planning to do the same thing on my AP1.
Just gotta head down to pick up my parts.

[bcuzracecarz]

Took apart entire exhaust and tried to fix exhaust leak from where new downpipe connects to the catback section. Moved around all the pieces and tried everything I could to try and wiggle the two sections to line up properly but no dice so the leak remains. Going to try and see if I can figure out something tomorrow and if not then take it somewhere. Huge pita

[Flatsix]

Rebuilt a friends Hirschmann power antenna off his 911 sc

[jackp0t]

The fun DIY (as i call it) begins



started with the easiest lol
re-badge




Failed on the spoiler didnt fully bond needs a redo


started with the sides




the front



results



for extra support i feel the need of adding splitters rods

playing around with the placement

Spoiler!

Im pretty happy with the results!

Now just patiently waiting for thursday to come
to get rid of the wheel gap

[Energy]

That rebadging template is pretty cool. Nice to know they exist.

[westopher]

Removed my seats and cleaned the interior. Also removed the seat cover and cut up some foam to fill the damaged seat bottom so the cover wouldn't rub the frame. Its very common on e36s to have the frame+jeans+fat asses in the outer bolster over time. It was fucking terrifying taking apart these seats haha.


Reinstalled and cleaned.
DSC_0405 by westophervan, on Flickr

[fliptuner]

It's so nice to clean your interior when the seats are out.
It just feels.....thorough.

[westopher]

Agreed. As much as its kind of a bitch to lug the seats out, I'd say its should be a twice a year occurrence, especially with my big lug Monty that spends some time in the back seat. Its nice to see everything is in order that you can't see as well.

[jackp0t]

Originally Posted by Energy

That rebadging template is pretty cool. Nice to know they exist.

Man I was very surprise on how many DIY(s) are for the bmw!
My routine right now before I sleep is surfing thru bimmerpost. haha

Picked up the coilovers at the border


Im really stoked to do this one because mods like this the difference between before and after is significant

That wheel gap is just

[wonton1017]

Riced it with homemade rear diffuser/splitters, pretty close to the varis e9x full diffuser except this is just the outer piece to fill in the rear-side profile:

Took a billion tries to get the shape and size right.

Chloroplast, then chloroplast + CF vinyl for testing
Almost-final product with real plastic (except its cut off in the pic)


Final product (if I'm not lazy) will have evenly spaced bolts and will be in carbon fiber:

[Energy]

^ Nice. Take better pics once you finalize and install them!

[1exotic]

had the turbo rebuilt/refurbished and installed it today, looking nice and new now =D

[underscore]

Did a rough install of the dashcam for the Matrix, just need to pick up the parts to wire it to the fuse box.

[tofu1413]

Originally Posted by richardmozis

Painted my orange band-aids silver

took some window tint and wrapped the damned corner markers.

Ordered new tail lights too...

And so the mods begin...