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

[trancenation]

Crossed into the dark side with some performance grills.. Also installed my M dead pedal today.

[Vas]

Those look great.

[az3579]

Did a full exterior wash and interior vacuum. Still need to vacuum the headliner and parcel shelf though as I ran out of time.
Looks so minty fresh. Also made it home before it started raining, so that's another win!

[orange260z]

911 seats



I don't have the passenger installed because of autoX tomorrow

Ha, I remember those! They are mid-70s onward standard 911 seats!

I put a set of those in my car after the recline mechanism in my original 1970 sofa suddenly let go (think "auto-recline" when you hit a bump). Those very mint mid-70s seats are now for sale now since I replaced them with a set of Flofit sport seats (US made knockoff of the Recaro LS). It's funny, I was actually looking for a set of E21 BMW sport seats when I found the Flofits!

[orange260z]

I did a lot for my car this weekend (yeah, I know, it's about freakin' time).

(1) I wired in a Rockford Fosgate P3001 (150W@4ohms/300W@2ohms conservatively) mono amp - had to take the back seats and side panel off, and tap into the rear L&R speaker wires and remote on at the harness before the factory amp. It's mounted to a carpeted board, but I've left it "loose" in the trunk until I figure out my final install.

(2) I removed the factory HK subwoofer and my ski bag in prep for a potential armrest sub install - man that factory sub was hard to remove without breaking it, particularly the little "hump" of plastic that covers the connector. In case anyone else has trouble removing this, you squeeze and pull straight out (perpendicular to the driver).

(3) I temporarily popped in the subwoofer box from my winter vehicle (an Energy ENC10B ported box with 10" driver) to see how it sounds - it pounds pretty good when the truck is open, but probably only 1/4 of the sound escapes the closed trunk. Damn you German cars! I was considering a JL Audio 6.5" Microsub as it will fit standing on the front lip of the trunk floor up against the seats and take up very little space, but not so sure after my experience with the Energy box. Now I'm leaning back towards a custom enclosure in the armrest. If ANYONE has any templates for this, please share!!! Many have done this, but NONE have posted measurements of templates!

(4) ghetto-installed the whole system using the tie-downs and bungee cords until I figure out my final install.

(5) I cleaned the interior after climbing in and out a million times to re&re the backseat area

(6) I washed and waxed the exterior

(7) I sent out one of my sets of factory wheels to get "remanufactured" at P Jacques in Montreal - I actually found a hairline crack on the inside lip of two of them! I've asked them to be painted a slightly darker grey then original, to better hide the brake dust. When I get them back, I will transfer the new tires to that set of wheels and will install my old baldies on the current set for winter storage. I'll keep my good tires in the basement to protect them from the cold this winter.

(8) I took pictures of the car for the first time since I bought it in the spring!!!

[orange260z]

Oh, and I did a quick cleanup on the Porsche as well. It's been neglected this year - between a fuel leak (now fixed) and a front end shimmy (not yet fixed) I've only put about 300kms on it this year.

Freshly washed. It has next dibs on a wax job.


Flofit seats - very comfortable and very grippy.


Gratuitous engine shot - 2.7L of RS-spec goodness!

[Vas]

Drool at the white vert.

[Torxuvin]

Guess who's KBB has gone up 4k in the year and a half he's owned the car? This guy. Listed the corvette tonight. http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/4010689610.html
We'll see what bites. This is what I'm looking at. Vette sells for full price, I can almost pick it up with cash. I guess it's what I did for "my" bmw today.

[Hornung418]

Oh shit...lots of good looking cars on this page!

Love the 911. We need an update on that thread you made about it

GS3 + TT4

[JupiterBMW]

Guess who's KBB has gone up 4k in the year and a half he's owned the car? This guy. Listed the corvette tonight. http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/4010689610.html
We'll see what bites. This is what I'm looking at. Vette sells for full price, I can almost pick it up with cash. I guess it's what I did for "my" bmw today.

Ugh, dude you're killing me with this post! If you come down to FL and you have that car, I must take it for a drive.