What did you do for your ZHP/BMW today?

[webster]

^ your sig photo is awesome.

[T.Bird]

I finally finished refinishing my wheels! They had been painted before (from the previous owner) and a lot of the paint was starting to flake off on the edges, not mention they been curbed to hell and back. A fair amount of cleaning, sanding, a touch of body filler and primer, paint, clear later:they are done! I think they look pretty good, they aren't perfect as new wheels would be...but MUCH better than before. I'm no longer embarrassed about curb rash ("I'm not a bad driver, the P/O was!", etc....)

When I had my tires put on the shop told me about how gunky the threads on the bolts on the right rear wheel were. They were out of bolts, so they ended up putting my bolts back in. They said I might have problems when taking them off, one of the bolts broke off in the hub on the way out. So I bought 5 new bolts, cleaned up the threads in the hub with a die, and then spent 2 hours working on getting the broken bolt out. I cut a slot with a dremel, no luck with a big screwdriver OR impact screwdriver. That bolt was IN there! I ended up drilling it out and busting up the outside shell of threads with a screwdriver. Then cleaned up the threads with the die, and all good!

Before on left, after on right.

[az3579]

Mmmm, fresh wheels!


Is it me or is the red-out of your turn signals fading?

[T.Bird]

That is mostly the light playing off of it on the right side, it looks decent in person. The left side doesn't look quite as good though, I tried wetsanding and buffing it but the paint just faded the color a bit instead of doing what I had hoped. ....It's not enough to bug me yet, I'll redo them in a year or two probably when they actually do start fading.

[brettbimmer]

Nice work! The wheels look great!

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[Crickett]

I finally finished refinishing my wheels! [ . . . ]

Holy beautiful new wheels, Batman! Schexy!

got my VANOS gasket today while taking a break from work. Now I have everything needed to do the VANOS rebuild w/ anti-rattle kit

Saving this for the Mafia meet. Looking forward to doing this with everyone's help

[ . . . ] within 2 weeks, my ZHP will have a new cooling system w/ Stewart WP [ . . . ]

Looks like it's that time of year! I started my pre-100k maintenance today; I'm taking my time as this is my first time DIYing anything with an engine's internals – I know not by much, but if there're oiled surfaces out in the open, it's serious bidness! By the end of the week I should have done VANOS seals & anti-rattle, VCG, spark plugs, coolant system (expansion tank, coolant hoses, Stewart pump, etc.), Turner Power Pulleys, fuel filter, & diff flush! Whew!

Opened up & ready to pull the VANOS:


Looking pretty good for 92k+:


Kinda proud of my valve cover bolt management system:


To be continued . . .

[zj96sc]

Not sure if you meant to, but you painted over your M emblems on your wheels. I'd knock those loose and get some new ones on there to round it out:

http://www.turnermotorsport.com/p-11...mm-x-10mm.aspx

Beyond that, many thumbs up for that kind of effort. I hope they hold up for you.

[johnrando]

Nice!

[UdubBadger]

cool

[Hornung418]

I should probably make a mental note of that idea...