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Agreed, I've been toying around the idea of doing an interior swap. Black carpets, dashboard and trim with grey seats and two tone black and grey door cars. Most likely won't happen unless I can source the big pieces locally.Originally Posted by Vas
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Big day for the zhp today. I got a package from ecs tuning, which included Chemical guys wax, Door card clips, Bentley manual, trunk handle gasket and sound deadening. Now I finally installed my bsw stage one!
The install went great and didn't have any hiccups, im fairly certain the new clips and sound deadening helped my rattles I was having.
I haven't really been able to drive around and listen to these bad boys, just a quick test to make sure they all worked and sounded good. I'll post a review once the break-in period is over!
Finally I replaced the trunk handle gasket, the old one was all sorts of kinked and bent and allowed water to get into my trunk handle burning out my ziza bulbs... Oh well, good as new now!
Capo
Nice work. Looks like you went with the foam door clips?
Also, what sound deadening did you buy? Did you get it to eliminate road noise or to enhance speaker sound?
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Yep, I ended up replacing every single clip with these foam ones, throughout the whole process I only found 2 broken clips and only a handful that had foam gaskets on them. Probably a little overkill but oh well
As for the sound deadening, I used Boommat. Came in pack with 8 sheets and I used nearly 2 sheets per door, I'm kind of wishing I used a little more on my front doors but it's no biggie. I did it to reduce vibrations in the cabin and help with sound quality. Drove to work this morning and enjoyed a nice drive with no creaks or rattles! The speakers sound great too!
Capo
Cool, sounds good
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Sweet! I checked out my speakers the other week through the trunk because the rear right speaker rattles look like one of those mats were installed don't think its the boommat though. I should check my doors too. How are you liking the mats so far?
Z4M FCAB's ,
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I believe that's just the factory sound deadening on the rear deck panel, the thought of adding some boom mat back there definitely crossed my mind, but I wasn't about to take off my deck panel just for that. Maybe one day!
As for the Boommat, so far so good! I've definitely noticed less rattles/vibrations inside the cabin. Id definitely recommend doing it anytime, especially if you are taking your door cards off in the first place.
Boss
Good stuff
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Randeaux/Rando/John/jr - '06 Cic ZHP; Southern California
"ZHP or not, I still like you"
ZHP Performance Package, Cold Weather Package, Leather, Jet Black/Black/BlackCube, NAV, Anthracite Black "my individual" interior trim
ESS Stage 1 Twin Screw Supercharger, Sprint Booster, BMW Perf Intake, Magnaflow Exhaust, Dinan TB & STEP S/W, UCC Sway Bars, Apex EC-7 18x8.5 ET38
Suspension: AST 44100 dampers, Bimmerworld front adjustable end links, Swift springs (8K front, 10K rear), Vorshlag camber plates
Dynavin D99+, Hardwire V1 (w/V1 Connection), BSW Stage 1 Speakers, Kicker Amp/Subwoofer
BMW Performance Strut Brace, Orion V2 Angel Eyes, No-holes License Plate, SMG Paddle Shift Mod, Besian VANOS, Gold DISA, Fan Delete, M3 Side Mirrors
Note: Actual car no longer resembles signature picture
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Finally got a chance to install my Z4M fcabs, steering coupler, and RTABS today.
First i changed out the steering coupler, Fairly straightforward to do, Got it completely installed in about 45 minutes. Definitely a noticeable difference! I couldn't tell how bad the old coupler actually was until i had it off the car. Steering feels nice and tight now!
Next i tackled the FCABs. Ive had a slight play in the front and I had a feeling it could of been the FCABs.I had Meyle HD on before and they were shot after only 15k. I highly advise to avoid meyle for FCABs! installed the new Z4M FCABs and everything feels nice and solid now.
Finally I decided to get under the rear end and check out how bad my RTABs actually where. I had some tramlining/bump steer issues and they were driving me crazy, so I went ahead and replaced them with UCC Poly bushings. Not completely desirable, but they will do until I can get the Bimmerworld spherical RTABs. The MIS tool worked excellent, i don't know how i could of done it without that tool. Got one side done in about an hour and the other side done in only 45 minutes.
After all was said and done, I took the car for a quick spin and the car feels so planted around corners and just in general. Im happy! Heres a few pictures from the day! :thumbs
Old coupler on the right, new on left
Z4M FCAB on the left Meyle on right
Old RTABs, This one was completely falling apart!
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