Hey Waters, I’ve been looking for an unmolested 9”rear style 66, bent one on a big assed pothole a year ago. Let me know what you intend to do with your 66’s.
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Haha! The gypsy rim was quickly replaced with an old style 29 spare.
I wish I could help you out, but it's going to depend on whether or not the m-pars are good. I was thinking of just buying a new rim, but then part of me wanted to go with 16" steelies with big tires, but that seems unlikely since the wife hates the car so much.
2003 540i/6
Can confirm, 16” wheels and fat side wall is a cushy ride.
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Replaced the M-sticker. Much better!
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I used a heat gun to soften the adhesive for the sticker, and a plastic razor blade to peel up the corner. Thankfully, it came off pretty easily with a minimal amount of adhesive left behind. I used some Goo Gone to clean up the residual gunk, then sprayed some water on the badge and the sticker so I could position it just so. I squeezed the water out with a credit card, and warmed the sticker with the heat gun again. Good as new!
Nate J.
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Titanium Silver/Black Nappa Full 07-18-2001 E39 M5 Heritage (BZ99672). 198,000mi+. Increasing daily. Engine rebuild thread.
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Alpineweiss III/Black Merino Full 03-26-2007 E60 M5 Manual (CX08265). 157,000+. Dead starter -_-
RIP, Seabiscuit. Black Sapphire/Schwarz 03-11-2003 530iA Sport (CK39185). T-boned 03-01-2017 at 155,861mi.
Take 2 "Otto" - Toledo Blue/Sandbeige 04-25-2002 530iA Sport (CH98032). Sold 11-10-2017 at 147,743mi.
Take 3 "Manuel" - Toledo Blue/Grau 10-29-2001 530i5 Sport (CE92358). Sold 02-01-2019 at 217,600mi. I regret that. Build Log
Reliable P.O.S. - Green/gray 1995 Camry V6 LE. 270k mi. Sold for space.
Installed some new wiper blades. SCT Germany is the brand name. Cheap from Ebay. They work perfectly so far, and look better too. IMO.
Started tracking down a power steering leak by cleaning up and bought a new O ring for the reservoir cap to stop it getting messy on top of it.
I also discovered the tape deck can figure out where the next song is on the tape, I pressed fast forward and it correctly started a new track each time I did! I never knew such a thing existed for cassette players! I'll still be upgrading the stereo at some point but this little feature is pretty damn neat in the meantime.
I do not believe in a risk free society where the thrill of living is traded for the safety of existence. Nick Ienatsch
The law does NOT determine "right" from "wrong". They are unrelated.
If you put cheap parts on your car, you will soon have a cheap parts car.
It's pretty incredible for it to be in a car, I have a home cassette deck the size of a VCR and it can't even track select. I knew a guy that had a Japanese record player that could track select though, I have no idea how it worked really but I could only guess it scanned the record with a laser like a CD and saw the grooves? Who knows.
Installed some extra padded Greatness,
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E85 fueled, Eaton m112 supercharged 4.5L M62TU, TTV racing flywheel, Spec stage 2+ clutch, 88c thermostat, eibach sway bars, wavetrac 3.15 lsd, m5 steering box, Quantum 340lph fuel pump, Dinan camber plates, some powerflex bushings, Supersprint headers, M5 cats, 2001 gas pedal upgrade and many other things done. all diy by me
changed out all the spark plugs and coils on the 540it.
Re-seated the far back corner of my valve cover gasket. Had been chasing a leak and felt the back corner and it was wet. Left most of the gasket in place, rtv stayed put at the half moons and massaged it a bit. Best pic I could get but looks better and so far no leaks. Will have to monitor it over time...
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Got one of the elusive TEC cupholders.
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My God, you guys are such a bunch of peasants.... No offense.... lol
the tape decks that do it, scan to the next, or the previous song, had the head skim the tape lightly as it fast forwarded, or rewinded, when it hit the gap between songs, it would stop and play the next song. My reel to reel tape players all did that too, nothing special. Now it would have been cool if 8 tracks did that...
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I put an 8 track in a buddy's 2002 (not the year) for free if he agreed to take all the 8 tracks I had collected and didn't need anymore. I had an 8 track stereo in my Saab 99. Also had an 8 track cartridge that was an FM radio.
Finally got around removing the old engine and building the new one ready to be installed on my diesel e39
ah i remember them...thought i was hot stuff when i added the FM adapter to my first car radio 8 track. and i so remember having to open up the 8 track cartridges when they started dragging and manually rewinding them (jethro tull thick as a brick was the most played so the most often rewound)
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some guy outa lithuania sells em on the big eauction site, only took about 10 days to get mine. its so much nicer without having ones elbow sitting in the phone groove.
Thankfully I never did the 8-track thing. Funny weird system. I worked in radio in college so I am deeply versed in the origins of the 8-track cartridge, the broacast 'cart', which was the 'endless tape' cartridge used in radio stations for ads and promos and station ID's and 'drops' and whatnot until the advent of digital. Except a station cart was just stereo 2-tracks and much higher quality (aka near-reel-to-reel). We'd make them up out of empty housings and reels of raw tape... they could be any length you wanted really. 5-seconds, 5-minutes, whatever, just how much tape you reel up on it as long as it would fit.
As a DJ you'd pop it in a machine, hit the 'play' button and it'd run until it hit an end cue marker recorded on the tape and then automatically stop. The carts all were labeled with the time in seconds of the spot, and the 'out' - the phrase that was at the end, like "...your independent radio station!" so you'd know when to either hit the next cart or record or start talking or whatever. Crazy far cry from today where the whole radio program is computer managed, and you just talk when the computer tells you to..., and most 'radio shows' are pre-recorded anyway so a 5 hour 'radio show' like Alice Coopers classic rock thing is really recorded in :40 minutes on some random afternoon and he pretends he's playing the various songs, then the computer just splices it all together when its time to broadcast... So he can do a weeks worth of shows in an afternoon...
Ahhh I miss 'real' radio...
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2003 M3CicM6 TiAg
2002 540iT Sport Vortech S/C 6MT LSD TiAg
2008 Audi A3 2.0T DSG (the daily beater)
2014 BMW X1 xDrive28i (wifemobile)
Former:
1985 MB Euro graymarket 300SL
1995.5 Audi S6 Avant (utility/winter billetturbobattlewagen)
I got mine here https://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/pa...mrests-63.html
E85 fueled, Eaton m112 supercharged 4.5L M62TU, TTV racing flywheel, Spec stage 2+ clutch, 88c thermostat, eibach sway bars, wavetrac 3.15 lsd, m5 steering box, Quantum 340lph fuel pump, Dinan camber plates, some powerflex bushings, Supersprint headers, M5 cats, 2001 gas pedal upgrade and many other things done. all diy by me
did radio in college as well...i remember when the DR DEMENTO show came in on 33 1/3 lp's, had to sign a statement that they were destroyed after playing. i think they might have all been destroyed by me, but then again might not have been. it was all live then, youre listening to fm XX.X XXXX, XXX's only live alternative fm stereo source.
Looked at both 540/6s. One covered up for the winter, the other on the lift needing some work to the rear sway bar bracket before driving season starts. The sway bar bracket had broken off in an accident some time in the history of the car and the body shop that did the super poor job or repairing it never put the bracket on. They just removed the rear sway bar off the car. The silver 540/6 revival project has been interesting. Whatever "pimp" had the car before I picked it up at the repo auction just trashed and abused it. I chased a rotating (once per revolution) clunking in the front passenger side for 3 months until I finally noticed some dumbass put a 10" wide wheel with the clipped on balancing weight on the outside edge on the inner lip of the wheel and it was hitting the strut every rotation. Ugh.... Some people don't deserve to own these cars and should stay with their Cadillac or Pontiac.
Current toys in the stable:
1997 E39 540/6 see mods below
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/327503/1997-bmw-5-series/
2003 996.2 Carrera/6 cabriolet
2004 955 EVOMS Cayenne Twin Turbo, 650HP flying brick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZsHl-zKDg
2006 Nissan 350Z/6 cabriolet, enthusiast edition
1991 Corvette ZR1, LT5/6
2006 Ford F350 King Ranch, 6.0 Powerstroke
2000 E39 540/6 revival project
Not unusual to have the rear swaybar brackets and/or links break on these cars from a 'big hit'. BTDT more than once. For me it was links that busted, but often its the bracket too (maybe wagons are more succeptible to link vs bracket?)
2003 M3CicM6 TiAg
2002 540iT Sport Vortech S/C 6MT LSD TiAg
2008 Audi A3 2.0T DSG (the daily beater)
2014 BMW X1 xDrive28i (wifemobile)
Former:
1985 MB Euro graymarket 300SL
1995.5 Audi S6 Avant (utility/winter billetturbobattlewagen)
I was hoping to have the car ready for last years season but it was not meant to be. This is the last item the car needs to feel stable and solid in the turns. Have my son signed up for a HPDS in June at a local track and then we are both going to another one in August. The joy of listening to the tires screaming is almost here. I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait.
Current toys in the stable:
1997 E39 540/6 see mods below
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/327503/1997-bmw-5-series/
2003 996.2 Carrera/6 cabriolet
2004 955 EVOMS Cayenne Twin Turbo, 650HP flying brick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZsHl-zKDg
2006 Nissan 350Z/6 cabriolet, enthusiast edition
1991 Corvette ZR1, LT5/6
2006 Ford F350 King Ranch, 6.0 Powerstroke
2000 E39 540/6 revival project
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