ZHPizza's red car

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Originally Posted by ZHPizza

Looks like 10mm was on the money. Good looking out!

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looks good, but i'm betting that will rub on large compressions... it's reeeeally close. if you had stock-size rubber back there it would be even pokier!

Nice! 15mm would have worked as well if yo had stretched tires but overall i think its a much better look now.

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Originally Posted by slater

looks good, but i'm betting that will rub on large compressions... it's reeeeally close. if you had stock-size rubber back there it would be even pokier!

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Obviously the solution here is to live the stance life.

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Originally Posted by 704sw

So you're basically 9" ET32 at this point?

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Yup

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Originally Posted by slater

looks good, but i'm betting that will rub on large compressions... it's reeeeally close. if you had stock-size rubber back there it would be even pokier!

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It'll be close! Hopefully I'll get a chance to plow into some corners this week to check. I'll bring a clipboard with me to explain to the officer that it's for science.

Oh I forgot to post this pic showing how wide the tread is on these 235's. Here's the loose tires stacked next to some 255's on 8.5w wheels. Definitely not 80mm difference there. More like 20-30.

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Originally Posted by nextelbuddy

Nice! 15mm would have worked as well if yo had stretched tires but overall i think its a much better look now.

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Yeah I'm not big on the mega stretch thing. These have just a bit of stretch for sidewall stability and I can still lay them face down [carefully].

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Originally Posted by ZHPizza

Hopefully I'll get a chance to plow into some corners this week to check. I'll bring a clipboard with me to explain to the officer that it's for science.

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Well overdue for an update to this train wreck.

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Originally Posted by BMWCurves

Well don't just sit there, go out and be the stereotypical BMW driver and rev that shit out to redline everywhere on your morning commute.

For science.

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I couldn't get a good gauge on the difference since the car was running kind of shitty with the leaky injectors, but after replacing those and doing some light hooning, I can honestly say that there is maybe an improvement overall power. Clear as mud?

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Originally Posted by slater

bummer.... i assume you noted which bolts went where, and were mindful of correct torque specs?

perhaps the new gasket popped out of the housing slightly and got pinched when you torqued it down? i always use a tiny bit of PFTE lube to hold the gasket in place before i put the housing in place.

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I went back with a torque wrench and put the hurt on them suckers to the tune of like 20 ft lbs. The middle bolts were a little looser than the rest, so I gave the top four (where the gasket is) a little extra to be sure. I'm 90% sure it's not leaking anymore, but I may have a leak at the rear main seal. Still hard to tell.

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Originally Posted by slater

looks good, but i'm betting that will rub on large compressions... it's reeeeally close. if you had stock-size rubber back there it would be even pokier!

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No rubbing yet, but hooning has been light since the install. I will, without a doubt, be hitting the mountains at some point this weekend and seeing how these Coopers really perform.

This week's project was playing with LED bulbs for the front corners to match every other light on this car. Shame that BMW left those, but ya know... dollars.

So here's the little cheapo LEDs that I wanted to try. Had to flip the contact wires around but they fit fine in the limited space of the housing.

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And look how clean the corner lens is without that egg yolk!

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And they match the sidemarkers perfectly!

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But there's just one issue....

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THEY'RE WIMPY

I still wanted to test them out and spent a lot of time in PA Soft trying to adjust PWM values to keep them from tripping an error. No luck. Gonna find some brighter bulbs and keep playing with PA Soft before I go down the janky road of load resistors.

SAD

Ugh, I struggled with that same issue for the front turn signal bulbs. I have yet to find a solution. The ones I bought on eBay were bright but just too large/long (link to the post in my project thread). Let me know if you find a solution. I need to find LED bulbs for the front turn signals and bulbs for the reverse lights.

Keep us posted. I too am looking for amber LEDs for the front and rear but haven't found a suitable solution yet.

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Originally Posted by BMWCurves

Ugh, I struggled with that same issue for the front turn signal bulbs. I have yet to find a solution. The ones I bought on eBay were bright but just too large/long (link to the post in my project thread). Let me know if you find a solution. I need to find LED bulbs for the front turn signals

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Ah I see what you mean. Looks like those were plenty bright and would be fine without the projector type lens on the end. Did you happen test them with just the turn signal input to check for hyperflash?

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Originally Posted by BMWCurves

and bulbs for the reverse lights.

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JDM ASTAR Extremely Bright Max 50W High Power 1156 1141 1073 7506 LED Bulbs ,Xenon White https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MC6799K..._dOd8yb3HVSMG9

These is the bitties that I went with after testing a few others

They bright af