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Take a look at the photo IJDMTOY has on their website of what the inside of these LED Fog Lights looks like. False advertisement if I ever seen it!
High Power 20W CREE LED Fog Light Replacement Lamps For BMW
https://store.ijdmtoy.com/urlrewrite...t-p/70-613.htm
Great werk Gary!
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Thanks John. [emoji2]
Today I worked on making room for the X5 LED's to fit inside the housing. Not fun and several Dremel cutting disks later.
Before
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After
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Here's what the X5 light looks like with the reflector removed.
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That looks like it will be a lot of work to get the fog enclosure prepped... looks good so far Gary! :thumbsupQuote:
Originally Posted by WOLFN8TR
It actually isn't a lot of work to get the fog enclosure itself prepped. If I remember correctly, most of the work was trimming the heat sink of the X5 portion. The fog housing just required a little bit of dremeling. I think there were two raised sections that had to be ground down. Stuart would know better as he did most of the work on mine.
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Um Ya. If I didn't already have a set of OE X5 LED Fog Lights I probably wouldn't of attempted this project. But I'm pretty determined to get this to work. I just went to Lowes and bought a bulk back if Dremel cutting disks. It's not hard cutting the raised area, just very time consuming. If you go to fast the disks break and they are $10 for 5 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by cakM3
BP I'm fitting these into the X5 EL CHEAPO LED Fog Lights I bought from IJDM that supposedly had the OE X5 fog lights already inside the metal housing. But if you look at the photos above you can see they weren't.
I have these. They are all aluminum housing, hence the grinding down the raised area to get the OE ones to fit. Way more work than I anticipated. If all goes as planned I will get these installed. Off to the garage to cut the heat sink fins down, wish me luck!
High Power 20W CREE LED Fog Light Replacement Lamps For BMW
https://store.ijdmtoy.com/urlrewrite...t-p/70-613.htm
Macgyver for the win!
Ha Ha...:thumbup
I put the fog light retrofit aside for now and started another project.
I decide to get ride of the Mechanical Fan and go Electric. I did this mod on my Auto ZHP which was pretty easy, just had to remove the Mechanical Fan and install a Electric Fan from a 6MT ZHP. On the M3 it's not that easy plus you are dealing with higher cooling needs.
Most go with the Mishimoto fan kit rated at 1950 CFM's or the Spal 16" fan with a CFM rating of 2040. The Mishimoto fan comes with a fan mounting bracket but you cannot use the stock fan shroud. The Spal fan doesn't and a bracket or mounting solution has to be fabricated and the stock fan shroud cannot be used as well. There's approx 4" of clearance from the radiator to the water pump shaft. So the fan has to be offset mounted to clear the water pump housing. If center mounted the water pump threads on the shaft has to be cut off.
Mishimoto Fan Kit
https://www.mishimoto.com/bmw-e46-m3...kit-01-06.html
Eurosonic's Center Mounted Aluminum Fan Bracket.
http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=528224
Spal 30102049 16" Fan
https://webstore.spalusa.com/en-us/p...-16-c-12v.aspx
Beings I live in the hot ass desert I need the highest CFM fan possible. I found a Derale 17" two speed Electric Fan, low is 1800 and high is 2400 CFM's. The plan is to mount it inside the stock fan shroud. This fan is only 2 1/2" wide and should clear the water pump shaft.
Derale 17" Electric Fan
http://derale.com/products/electric-...fitting-detail
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"From this"
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"To this"
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I'm going to go with a Auto Cool PWM 50 Fan Control. This has an adjustable Tstat and ramps up the fan from 0-100% based on the engine coolant temps. It has an AC control, override switch, cool down mode and internal 50 amp resettable circuit breaker.
By keeping the radiator temperature below the engine temperature, it keeps the engine temperature rock solid. The Auto Cool controllers sense the temperature at the outflow port of your radiator.
Auto Cool PWM 50 Fan Control
http://www.autocoolguy.com/home
Stay Tuned!! [emoji41]