What did you do for your ZHP/ BMW / MINI today? #2

Brake day, all day. Preston installed S&D d rotors with ceramic pads. He wanted yellow calipers & carriers so took those off of my coupe. He touched up the paint for time sensitivity (paint takes a long time to dry in humid weather, we had rain here today). On my coupe, the S&D rotors remained, as did the ceramic pads, but took the calipers & carriers originally from Preston's car and painted them BMW Roundel blue. They look amazing! Slapped everything back together and then took each one out to bed the brakes. Next attended to my wagon and installed the new front rotors that didn't show up 2-3 weeks ago. Finally took mama & kids out to dinner for Mother's Day, will go bed the brakes on my wagon in the morning.

Charlie stopped by today as did Adolfo, both were great support to have around & talk with but Preston kept keeping me on track because after all, it's all about him and he had to go out & drive his car tonight, lol.

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Originally Posted by Dave_B

Picked up a CF lip for the car from another member (Thanks Steve!)

Now to run to the store to pick up mounting hardware and some more 3M double sided tape.

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Looks bauce

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Car sat in the garage all day yesterday as we had a birthday party for baby... Today she will sit again, that is, after going for a covert morning run to the store for a Mothers Day card.... :shifty

Monday starts the reunion drive prep work... :)

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Originally Posted by midlandtech

Looks bauce

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Thanks again!

Install solo is a PITA, but it's done.

Finished up around 1 AM this morning. Set my alarm to get up for my wifes breakfast... I set it for Saturday. Doh!

Luckily, she didn't give me too much grief.

I need to wash it and get some better pics soon.

Next up for visual mods will be light smoke corners and side markers, RCR tails and either black or gunmetal on the rims.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...psb25e8b08.jpg

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Originally Posted by Rovert

I might be in Vegas then! I haven't registered though. What does that mean? I'm not allowed to meet you boys? LOL

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I honestly don't know what it means, probably just that you can display your car. I'll be there in Carl's M5, let me know if you are in town that weekend and I'll meet up with you

While I was swapping out my diff, I noticed that one of my rear Konis was leaking. Replaced them with Bilsteins today. Still gotta do the struts... I was kinda disappointed that they were leaking even though they have 70k on them, then I saw that the shafts were corroded and severly pitted. They went right to the scrap metal pile. No rebuilding them.

Also, Got my new splitters on... finally. I used SS screws and fender washers on the bottom and double sided tape on the top. I used a stepped drill bit to drill the holes and supported the back with a block of wood. This kept the holes nice and clean. I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out. Like Jupiter said, the fit isn't perfect but I think they look damn good...With my car lowered, I only have a few inches of clearance though.

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps0200e59a.jpg

For comparison, here are my old CF ones from a few years back. My car isn't lowered in this pic.

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/p...3/DSC_0072.jpg

Ugh that looks so hot.

From a GS3, this was sent.

@Rob: I like the new splitters a lot better. Much nicer overall shape.

I've been sanding on your old ones, but they're not done yet. Do you still want to me to refinish them?

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Originally Posted by Hornung418

Ugh that looks so hot.

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Thanks for setting up the group buy Horny!!

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Originally Posted by Ryans323i

@Rob: I like the new splitters a lot better. Much nicer overall shape.

I've been sanding on your old ones, but they're not done yet. Do you still want to me to refinish them?

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Yea that would be great.... the car is so low now that I might take the new ones off, save them foe special occasions and run the old ones for daily use...

Rob-

Splitters look great! I had to use an extra fastener as well to ensure they were secure, but yes, love the look of them, very aggressive... :thumbsup