Patted it on the back! Poor girl has to sleep outside all winter in the garage until I can get back to work on her in the spring! Sleep well =D
|| 1995 740i || M60B40 || DUDMD || ̶o̶r̶i̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶b̶l̶u̶e̶ Mercedes Brilliant Blue Metallic || Style 168 Wheels 1" Spacers ||
Ordered front/rear stealth amber bulbs from Bimmian, along with a 4" MAF and rear window spoiler. Goals for this year include new door speakers (likely from Bavsound), between a 40-50% tint, and a tune by DUDMD. Then she's done.
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"The Last Great e38" 2001 i Sport - Born'd on date 1/01 Cosmos/Grey - 32.8K miles - 2 1/2 " Custom Exhaust, Center “X”over , Modified OEM rear bumper, M5 style trunk spoiler, M6 OEM wheels, M3 Steering wheel with working paddle shift & CF trim, Bi-Xenon upgrade, 13mm Rear sway bar added, SS brake lines and bronze bushings, Cross drilled rotors and painted calipers, Akebono pads, Zionsville aluminum radiator & exp. tank with electric fan, Sprint Booster, BluTooth conversion, MKIV Nav., Custom wood cupholder, DUDMD Tune, Orien V2.5 LED Angel Eyes, Evans waterless. Recently added grey faced //M5 Cluster - all gauges functioning. Changed the grey carpet to black and topped off with GG Bailey front/rear mats[/SIZE]
Need to buy a 295/25/21 Michelin Sport tire....I have to find 1 used with at least 80 % tread.... Been on my Alpina front spare wheel on the back for 1 month now...It drives awkward
2000 740i Sport
Well it has been a long few days indeed. Started with what I thought was a coil died on me about 40 miles from my house, misfire and knock codes and the like, and naturally on cylinder 4. Get it home, swap a newer known good coil from my e39, problem persists. Pull the plug, had an absolutely massive gap, causing no spark whatsoever, which leads me to believe they are the original plugs in the engine, being that it has about 70k miles on it and coils are all dated December '96 (donor car for the engine/trans was a '97). Anyway, I have 8 NGK iridium plugs that I will swap in later tonight, at the moment I is on one of my e39 plugs.
I've had a 55-60 mph shake for a while, and kept putting it off because its cold outside and I work most days. Finally start doing it, Got the first bushing out and a new one in (I went powerflex) in about 45 minutes using a pulley puller borrowed from work, no issues at all. Jump forward 4 hours and the passenger side is still in the control arm, hasn't budged and is significantly more mangled. Well, I need to drive to work tomorrow so that had to go back into the car as is. Even with one bad bushing, there was a very noticeable improvement on how the car drives, and I'm looking forward to it feeling like a 7 series once again. Anyway, the grease boot was torn on that one anyway, so I think I will order a new one or pop by the scrap yard and see if a decent one is available, and then press the old bushing out correctly.
I also found out something fun with the brakes which pisses me off, but its hard to explain without seeing it, so I will once the video gets uploaded to youtube.
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Alright, here are the brakes, sorry for the shaky video. The hole where the retaining bolt goes has managed to shear itself of, so the rotor is just sitting there held on by the wheel bolts, which sucks because the rotors have a lot of life left in them.
Ice drifting!
That will not hurt anything - that bolt just hold the rotor in place while the wheel is off - once the wheel is back on it serves no purpose.
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"The Last Great e38" 2001 i Sport - Born'd on date 1/01 Cosmos/Grey - 32.8K miles - 2 1/2 " Custom Exhaust, Center “X”over , Modified OEM rear bumper, M5 style trunk spoiler, M6 OEM wheels, M3 Steering wheel with working paddle shift & CF trim, Bi-Xenon upgrade, 13mm Rear sway bar added, SS brake lines and bronze bushings, Cross drilled rotors and painted calipers, Akebono pads, Zionsville aluminum radiator & exp. tank with electric fan, Sprint Booster, BluTooth conversion, MKIV Nav., Custom wood cupholder, DUDMD Tune, Orien V2.5 LED Angel Eyes, Evans waterless. Recently added grey faced //M5 Cluster - all gauges functioning. Changed the grey carpet to black and topped off with GG Bailey front/rear mats[/SIZE]
Lubed up the seat belts with silicone spray, they fly back in now. Easy!
hate to tell you the truth why seat belts do NOT retract back...Its because of DIRT/ SWEAT... Try Cleaning the seat belts with warm soap and sponge...I noticed mine was getting stiffer why? I would play bball at gym and right after games take off home...I then realized the seat belts weren't retracting like they used to They were stiff like ...So I Cleaned them and now they are soft , flexible and retract like new...
2000 740i Sport
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"The Last Great e38" 2001 i Sport - Born'd on date 1/01 Cosmos/Grey - 32.8K miles - 2 1/2 " Custom Exhaust, Center “X”over , Modified OEM rear bumper, M5 style trunk spoiler, M6 OEM wheels, M3 Steering wheel with working paddle shift & CF trim, Bi-Xenon upgrade, 13mm Rear sway bar added, SS brake lines and bronze bushings, Cross drilled rotors and painted calipers, Akebono pads, Zionsville aluminum radiator & exp. tank with electric fan, Sprint Booster, BluTooth conversion, MKIV Nav., Custom wood cupholder, DUDMD Tune, Orien V2.5 LED Angel Eyes, Evans waterless. Recently added grey faced //M5 Cluster - all gauges functioning. Changed the grey carpet to black and topped off with GG Bailey front/rear mats[/SIZE]
Put the car cover on today after driving it with our unseasonably warm weather. Winter looks like it is on the way later this week, so the nap has begun.
Going to sticky this thread up top to avoid duplicates.
Parked the e38 outside to paint in the garage. It's a balmy 40 degrees here anyway.
The e38 was lucky and got a bath on Christmas day to wash all of the road salt and cinders off.
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1962 Austin Healey Sprite
Painted my valve covers wrinkle black, collected parts for a cooling system over haul, purchased valve cover gaskets which will be installed with the newly painted valve covers took her for a wash
Put on a pair of 275/35/19 Continental extreme contact DW tires in the rear. So far so good. I have a new alpina lip on the way to replace my current cracked one. Bought a new set of gloss black kidney grilles to replace my faded set, and I'm thinking about getting another set of headlight washers just to freshen up all of the front end.
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I was wondering if you saw the pics in here... http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...anual-with-LSD
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