Hornung's ZHP Adventure

[fredo]

I've seen some dealers offer to beat Carmax for 500 to 1,000 dollars. All they ask is to see the estimate from Carmax. Is that an option for you ?

[Hornung418]

Possibly...but my dealer knows my car very well...and everything I did to it lol.

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[Hornung418]

So what I was able to save were the performance grilles (glossy black) OEM, swapped out the custom Bixenon headlights for some stock halogens and got my long tube intake. I just wish I could have more time, but this car needs to be out of my life...its along the lines of sleeping with your ex while you are married to your wife.

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[Hornung418]

All better :-)

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[Vas]

More more more pictures right meow

But soo far

[derbo]

Need bigger pictures

[Hornung418]

Gloss black grilles going on tomorrow hopefully. Then bigger pictures.

Need to shoot with my camera. Been a while since I've picked it up.

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[Hornung418]

No pictures this update but I managed to swap my power pullies to the ZHP. However, in classic Hornung fashion, this job was not without a setback.

Slept in til 10 and decided to play some ACIII before I had to do anything labor intensive. At noon, mom suggested I should get moving on anything I wanted to do to the 328 before we sell it on Tuesday. So I decided to tackle the pullies. For $200, you're damn right I'm keeping them.

Started with the 328i. I got everything out of the way in a few minutes and the pullies loosened. Pull the belt off and take the bolts off the pullies. The power steering pump always gives a struggle so I spend a good half hour trying to wiggle it off and eventually it frees itself.

Good. Now onto the ZHP. Everything went smoothly. The plastic pullies didn't break and the PS pulley came off without having to lift the car. Put the power pullies on and go to slip the belt on... come to find out that the tensioner doesn't have enough travel to slip the belt back on. I check with the 328i and it has full travel. Try again on the ZHP... no dice. It's sized.
Great. So I pull the unit and take it to the basement to take it apart. Comes apart and I couldn't get the spring mechanism apart... I was partially afraid and not strong enough. Go and get the other unit off the 328i and take it apart. The spring explodes out of the unit. "Oh fuck... What did I do?"

Start trying to press it together and it takes me a while and the assistance of my saint of a mother to get the clean base and the working spring unit back together. Bolt that shit down and get everything torqued down and give a test fire. She runs great! Job done.

Celebrating with a Chimay Blue. I still have to put the 328i back together but that is for tomorrow. CSLs are going to the storage unit tomorrow, and will hibernate til spring.

Hornung signing off.

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[kayger12]

Lol, it really always is something.

Glad you got it all worked out.

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[derbo]

Good job man.