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painted headlights and upgraded my hid's. spent 2 days removing the bumper and fenders to get to the headlight. then baked the headlight to remove the lens and change the color. best of all the orange lights are still visible to turned on.
Spotted about half an hour ago at oak and 41st, looks sick
19x8 +48 OZ Superturismo GT, H&R 60mm studs, Monster open ended lugs, and H&R springs.
Spoon Lip, 16x7 +35 Regamasters, stickers on the regas lol, 215/45/16 Azenis, CT Icebox, centric premium rotors, stoptech pads, SS brake lines.. and a lot of camber to make wheels fit :s
Next week were going to put the black 16x7 +45 regamasters on and the Koni/GC i have collecting dust... then send for proper alignment.
It was a busy 8 hours anyway lol
All the camber I had to dial in for the +35 wheels to fit has totally fucked up the balance of the car... might be too much poke for me... mehhh
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Tackled the valve cover gasket on my e46 last night. Overall a lot easier than I expected, first time doing it. Car only has 118k km and the gaskets are incredibly hard and brittle. A lot of them actually broke when I nudged it to try to take it out :s Are the gaskets supposed to be like that overtime, or is that just a clear sign that it should have been replaced a long time ago?
Lots of golden brown oil gunk on the top of the cover, which is apparently normal with BMW's as they recommend oil changes at ridiculous intervals (as per e46fanatics)? Yuck.. Will always be changing my oil at 5k or lower intervals.
While I had everything apart I was also able to route my angel eye wires along with the stock wire harnesses Don't really notice a difference before and after since a lot of the plastic pieces around the engine bay covered the wires previously, but makes myself feel better having everything routed along the stock wires. Also had to take out the radiator fan and intake to find a missing bolt that was caught in between the undertray and engine, which kinda sucked but eh
I put my clutch and motor mounts to the ultimate test of strength and durability; I had a driving lesson with the GF (manual transmission) last night.
After about fifteen minutes of bucking and jerking, she started to figure it out.
Let's just say the clutch is less grabby than before.
Just another excuse to throw in a lighter flywheel sooner.
If cats always land on their feet, and toast always lands butter side down, what would happen if you strapped burnt toast to the back of a cat and dropped it?
I changed out my in tank pump for a Walbro 255 thinking that it was a bad pump causing my random no start issues. Unfortunately it didn't solve my issue, but I have a loud fuel pump now...
Tackled the valve cover gasket on my e46 last night. Overall a lot easier than I expected, first time doing it. Car only has 118k km and the gaskets are incredibly hard and brittle. A lot of them actually broke when I nudged it to try to take it out :s Are the gaskets supposed to be like that overtime, or is that just a clear sign that it should have been replaced a long time ago?
Lots of golden brown oil gunk on the top of the cover, which is apparently normal with BMW's as they recommend oil changes at ridiculous intervals (as per e46fanatics)? Yuck.. Will always be changing my oil at 5k or lower intervals.
While I had everything apart I was also able to route my angel eye wires along with the stock wire harnesses Don't really notice a difference before and after since a lot of the plastic pieces around the engine bay covered the wires previously, but makes myself feel better having everything routed along the stock wires. Also had to take out the radiator fan and intake to find a missing bolt that was caught in between the undertray and engine, which kinda sucked but eh
I'm planning to change the VCG on my car soon. Any tips? How long did this procedure take you?
Keep your bolts labeled and organized, other than that there's really nothing else haha it's a really simple and straight forward job. One part I did mess up on though is that I thought the gaskets stuck to the top of the cover, and they were all really brittle so I had to spend a while prying them off while they kept breaking into little pieces. Put the new ones in, then when I tried to bolt the cover back on it wouldn't sit flush. Checked again, one of the gaskets by the coil packs actually stuck onto the block so I was trying to put a gasket on top of a gasket -_- Stupid mistake, but yeah as long as you double check everything you shouldn't really run into any problems. Opening the valve cover was kind of hard though since it was stuck on there pretty good
Tackled the valve cover gasket on my e46 last night. Overall a lot easier than I expected, first time doing it. Car only has 118k km and the gaskets are incredibly hard and brittle. A lot of them actually broke when I nudged it to try to take it out :s Are the gaskets supposed to be like that overtime, or is that just a clear sign that it should have been replaced a long time ago?
Lots of golden brown oil gunk on the top of the cover, which is apparently normal with BMW's as they recommend oil changes at ridiculous intervals (as per e46fanatics)? Yuck.. Will always be changing my oil at 5k or lower intervals.
While I had everything apart I was also able to route my angel eye wires along with the stock wire harnesses Don't really notice a difference before and after since a lot of the plastic pieces around the engine bay covered the wires previously, but makes myself feel better having everything routed along the stock wires. Also had to take out the radiator fan and intake to find a missing bolt that was caught in between the undertray and engine, which kinda sucked but eh
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