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

[BMWCurves]

Let's see. My car's still in the hands of my buddy, I hope to hear good things when I meet him for Super Bowl festivities tomorrow. The drive up to Seattle (Des Moines, actually) went smoothly. I borrowed his family's Land Rover Discovery II to pick up the M3 interior. That thing is like a brick on wheels in terms of aerodynamics and well...normal driving dynamics. It's ramming so much air at highway speed. Calculated fuel economy for the trip up and back: 17.1 mpg.

Anyways, met the seller of the interior, did an inspection, loaded it up, and drove back home. I now need to figure out what can be done about the minor blemishes on the rear seats and then I'll go about swapping it out!

Well, I've been a little absent, my bad... My M3 was down for a week or so with the interior transformation going on, and I've been extremely busy working on boosting my buddy's Exocet... But, both of those projects are done now, so time to catch up on here...

Also, X5 is at the dealer... yes I know, right!? There is a new service bulletin for faulty injectors, on the S63 engine... Finally, the X5M/X6M owners get a break! So, the X5 is there now, getting the service. Hopefully all new injectors result. Enjoying a 2016 5 series courtesy vehicle though, not a bad car, but damn is it big...

They've been yacht-status for two generations now, IMO. They're longer than your X5M I think, but not as wide.

Got the ZHP back today from the body shop. Ran errands to with girlfriend and stretched the girl's legs (the ZHP....LOL). Felt good to go fast!

No explicit statement on this one with whom you're referring to?

I had a nice chat with the folks at UUC yesterday about replacing my clutch and even got a chance to talk to the owner. Really nice folks and extremely helpful. I'll be purchasing the street organic performance clutch kit and a friction surface replacement kit from the within the next couple of weeks. The plan is to have the ZHP back on the road full time by March.

I plan to do a video review for the clutch kit and light weight flywheel with both pre/ post break in inputs. It'll be nice to start contributing again and be back in the seat of the ZHP.

Good luck, look forward to your review! Any reason you picked that particular clutch? Is that what they suggested?

I did not have the best experience with UUC when it came to their SSK. They refused to believe that my indy installed it right but finally gave in once he gave them measurements proving they sent the wrong part. The replacement part came and was backwards but they assured me it was fine. I still think I have the wrong DSSR, but not bothered enough to go through the hassle of getting in there to check.

[Fenrir]

Good luck, look forward to your review! Any reason you picked that particular clutch? Is that what they suggested?

I did not have the best experience with UUC when it came to their SSK. They refused to believe that my indy installed it right but finally gave in once he gave them measurements proving they sent the wrong part. The replacement part came and was backwards but they assured me it was fine. I still think I have the wrong DSSR, but not bothered enough to go through the hassle of getting in there to check.

I'm currently running their light weight flywheel and clutch combo. It came with the car and has been on there for over 80k miles. Between myself and the previous owner, the kit has seen time at The Ring, Silverstone, Virginia Motor Speedway, local tracks here and every back road along I-40 between here and VA lol. The kit has done all that without complaint plus gotten me to work and back as a daily.

UUC has caught flak over the years but their products haven't left me beside the road yet. And while I baby my car, I push it just as hard. I have their SSK as well but it's never given me problems. I can't speak for everyone though and every manufacturer makes mistakes. I hope my experiences with their company and products continue to be as pleasant as they have been so far.

TL;DR - I have their clutch kit already and I've loved it so I'm buying it again haha.

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[BMWCurves]

I'm currently running their light weight flywheel and clutch combo. It came with the car and has been on there for over 80k miles. Between myself and the previous owner, the kit has seen time at The Ring, Silverstone, Virginia Motor Speedway, local tracks here and every back road along I-40 between here and VA lol. The kit has done all that without complaint plus gotten me to work and back as a daily.

UUC has caught flak over the years but their products haven't left me beside the road yet. And while I baby my car, I push it just as hard. I have their SSK as well but it's never given me problems. I can't speak for everyone though and every manufacturer makes mistakes. I hope my experiences with their company and products continue to be as pleasant as they have been so far.

TL;DR - I have their clutch kit already and I've loved it so I'm buying it again haha.

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Well said. I'm not saying that their mistakes with me means they're a terrible company, just I had bad luck with them.

Your car's been to the Nurburgring? That's impressive, how did that come about?

[Fenrir]

Well said. I'm not saying that their mistakes with me means they're a terrible company, just I had bad luck with them.

Your car's been to the Nurburgring? That's impressive, how did that come about?

Oh I certainly didn't want to imply that haha. I certainly hope you have better luck with them.

And apparently it did well lol. I'm the second owner. The original owner ordered it when he was stationed in Germany and he was stationed in England afterwords. He moved here to NM and retired from the AF. I picked it up and picked up where he left off.

Many of the performance parts that are on the car were installed by the previous owner. So I was very fortunate when it came to building the car as a lot of the work was done.

It's been tracked off and on over the years by both myself and the original owner. I wouldn't mind going to the Ring myself one day and if possible, take the car as well. For now, I'm content with maintaining it and continuing the minor touches of the build .

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[330i ZHP]

I have been lucky to date with no noticeable yellowing on cf parts for wagon and x5. I had an aftermarket rear diffuser get a hazy grey look on my ZHP back in the day. Went to bmwp and never had a problem

[330i ZHP]

Good luck with that UUC clutch. Can't wait for the report saying UUC says the installer installed it wrong. That is their first response to everything

[3ZHP]

Time to test this thing.




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[Whammy]

Installed a pistol box in the trunk. And reattached the grey felt back on the ski pass-thru.

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Nice! How hard was this to install?

[johnrando]

Just glad I can help contribute to your projects Ray! It was nice meeting both you and "C" today! She's a trip in a very good way! I enjoyed watching both of you interact with each other

Pics or didn't happen.

[3ZHP]

A little TLC for the F30 today.




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