William's 330Ci ZHP Maintenance and Project Thread

[BMWCurves]

I'm home and loving it!

Sadly though, I have to wait to remove my car from barn hibernation until this weekend.

[704sw]

[Cadeez]

Welcome home!! Looks like you brought that summer rain back with you, at least for a couple days. Supposed to be nice for the next couple weeks though stating on Sat, so you should have ample time to clean her up and get her roadworthy again. How's that project list looking these days? Moreover, what's first on the list?

I've got a few small things planned for this weekend while I'm up in Seattle visiting the old man. I figure I may as well put him, his lift and garage full of tools to work on Father's Day. I may even get him a burger and a beer for the trouble haha

[BMWCurves]

Welcome home!! Looks like you brought that summer rain back with you, at least for a couple days. Supposed to be nice for the next couple weeks though stating on Sat, so you should have ample time to clean her up and get her roadworthy again. How's that project list looking these days? Moreover, what's first on the list?

I've got a few small things planned for this weekend while I'm up in Seattle visiting the old man. I figure I may as well put him, his lift and garage full of tools to work on Father's Day. I may even get him a burger and a beer for the trouble haha

Thanks! I'm okay with the rain; it's typical June in Portland and I'm loving it.

I probably won't get all that much done this weekend, as I still have to go get the car out of storage and then I'll probably be spending a lot of time with friends and family, but the following week I'll get cracking on some items. I'll probably knock out the easy stuff first like LED front turn signal bulbs, M3 dead pedal, M3 front strut brace, etc. In the following weeks I'll hopefully get to more maintenance items like coolant, engine oil, brake fluid, fuel filter soft lines, M3 motor and transmission mounts, and installing the UUC TSE3 (so excite). Somewhere in there I need to wash the thing, and detail the engine bay for the first time in its life.

I'm also seriously considering getting my car prepped for CQuartz Finest coating so that I can be lazier about exterior cleaning of my car. Waiting to hear back from two places in town that can do it and maybe some paint correction.

What else do you have left for your car? I know you're doing your side mirrors and I don't think you've swapped your interior yet.

[BMWCurves]

As an aside, for those of you with a TSE3, can you take a quick look at the hanger on the muffler that is most inboard/most rearward of the two and tell me if it bends at all or if it is perfectly straight? It's hard for me to describe, but this one:



Which is correct, A or B? I have a feeling A is correct and the part out car the TSE3 comes from that was in a rear end accident probably bent the rear hanger a bit.


You can see the rubber mount is bent up (I believe):

[704sw]

If it's too loud I'll buy it. Just planting that seed.

[BMWCurves]

If it's too loud I'll buy it. Just planting that seed.

Spenser be like:

[BMWCurves]

Just purchased some stuff for the engine bay cleaning and other odds and ends:

• Microfiber towels
• Speed Master Jr. Wheel Brush
• Simple Green
• Extra spray bottles
• LED reverse bulbs: JDM ASTAR Extremely Bright Max 50W High Power 1156 1141 1073 7506 LED Bulbs ,Xenon White (gotta love that description)
• Adam's In and Out Spray

[Sreten]

I think you are fine, it's supposed to be like that.

Here's how mine looked:



I bet you can't wait to drive it and work on it!

[BMWCurves]

I think you are fine, it's supposed to be like that.

Here's how mine looked:



I bet you can't wait to drive it and work on it!

Oh nice! It does appear similar.

And yeah, I just want seat time in it haha. I'm driving around in the rain in my father's NA Miata right now.