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So...still don't have my rear bumper. But my car is drivable. We switched gears and started on JR's manual swap. Been a month, we're only at the 50% mark cause of all of those "while we're here" stuff.
So yesterday, I dropped my car off at EAS to get the TS2 installed. Will be getting tires at the same time. The guys there didn't believe it would show until my car actually made it there in the sad state it's currently in. To me it drives great, except for the bad alignment, horrible suspension, and weak AC lol
I'll just do the VANOS shit and the rest of the stuff after lol I still need new suspension, rear bumper, and fix some little knick knacks on the car. Then detail.
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As I previously stated, I dropped the car off at EAS like 2 weeks ago. No deadline, so they can do it whenever.
So it's there for:
- ESS TS2
- New tires, and will put my ARC-8s on the car
- M3 motor mounts
Whenever they get the tires and wheels on. We're going to figure how large of a spacer I need. I think if it's going to be like 20mm, I'm just going to buy new wheels. Maybe I can run et22 square.
Anyhow, yesterday, I dropped by because I wanted to do some things while the bumper was going to be off the car. I needed to look for my fog light wiring on the passenger side. It was missing last time. Turns out that it was lodged behind the brake duct. I had to remove it in order to get it out. I also took off the wiring harness that I had for the HID fogs that I never used. Last thing I did was take off the HID kits that I mounted on the bumper reinforcement bar. Seriously, in my quest for clean install, I always make shit harder for myself later lol
They told me when they were doing the baseline dyno, the power was surging because of the DISA. Pretty sure that was our fault lol I was like screw the o-ring cause I won't have a DISA after this.
Here's some pictures I took while I was there.
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They are doing a lot more Tesla stuff now. So maybe suspension for my Tesla, after my E46 is done? Lol
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So…I'm currently on a remote project and a project at a local hospital. I have been working double shifts for the last 3 weeks. I'm so tired of this shit :crying The consequences of my actions lol I still have the rest of the month to go. So there's not much updates. I don't even drive the car, I'm pretty sure my battery is dying/dead.
Anyways, to catch up on what happened from last time.
Got Nick@EAS to take some pictures for me. I'll have to come back to get some more when I have the rest of my car back together.
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Installed
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It's looking all pretty in black. Now I just need to do the TB. I feel like I should get a BBTB while I'm at it. I'll deal with that later.
Anyhow, after they installed it. PS died. WTF. Why? I had the LF-20. So I just took the time to do the LF-30 upgrade while I was at it. This is a whole debacle in itself. Bought the needed HP line. Then I bought a rebuilt LF-30 pump. The problem is the pump didn't come with brackets, so I bought a used LF-30 to get the brackets as seen here:
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They installed it, then this happened.
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So it turns out the rebuilt one I bought didn't fit the HP line that was meant for it. Why? Dunno :facepalm Went to back and forth for awhile and they ordered 2 more units with the same problem. So I decided to do a refund and then just rebuild the used that I bought.
The seals were cheap. I bought it from this guy that's on bimmerforums. The guy, he is a total :asshat. Seriously. I hit him up to meet up so that I could get it faster. Then his dumbass doesn't understand how to use email, gets angry at me because he keeps replying to the same message multiple times. Blames me, then cancels the meet and tells me to pay over PayPal. I bought the seals online, took like 3 days to get to me. When I could have just picked it up locally.
Then the shop that I got the rebuilt unit from tells me that they found a rebuilt one that fits the HP line. Since I didn't receive the refund yet, I was like why not. Picked it up and gave it to EAS. Faster than me rebuilding the LF-30 I have.
So now I have a used OE LF-30 with rebuild seals possibly for sale. I might rebuild it and clean it up before selling it. Figure that out later when I have more time.
During that whole time, I was bored. Posted this on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BMW/comment...lloween_heres/
Then I made some for my friend and SamBam's car.
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I didn't really like how the triangles looked with my friend's m240, so I made different teeth for SamBam lol
Which you can see at this link:
https://www.2addicts.com/forums/show...8&postcount=11
Then I dressed up the model 3 while I was at it.
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Fast forward iono 2 weeks ago? Car is done yay
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I literally only had time to pick it up and drive it home :(
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I feel like I need to do something to cover up this hole I now have right here where the brake fluid is. There used to be some carpet covering.
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All nice and stealth looking. I just got to paint the TB.
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This is where she's been sitting for the last couple of weeks.
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The 265s look good. I guess I don't really need to space it out as much as I thought I would.
Driving home, car felt nice power wise. Other than just pushing it going straight on the freeway. That's about all I could do because the suspension I'm on is shit lol I have no sway bar endlinks and all of the shocks are shot. But I am working on that.
I'm working with EAS to get the MCS 2WNR.
Rich (ItsRichieRich) helped me secure new end links. I got some Whiteline ones this time around. Thanks Rich :thumbsup
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I still need to go get my rear bumper lol Maybe next month. I don't have time. I don't get much sleep nowadays. And I'm doing this post while "working" lol
Until next time..
Damn, what a journey. Also I feel you on work... also why I haven't been on much. I need to update my thread as well lol