What did you do to/for your 1er today?

[low135]

Originally Posted by HyeWarrior

Sometimes I really hate that I have a boring silver E82

Wrap it!

[chris_flies]

Wrapped the sunroof delete gloss black. Well, I didn't... Matticus91 did. Payback for me driving him from Damascus to Silver Spring a couple weeks back. Thank you, sir, it looks SO much better! We also went Go-Karting and Axe Throwing with a friend of his. He beat my day's best time by just under 2 tenths of a second on our last race.

When I got home, my dad was finishing up his oil pan upgrade on his GTI. As stock, they are plastic and exposed to the elements, which is an interesting design decision... He upgraded to a finned Aluminum pan with another quart or two of capacity. After he was done, I replaced my rear brake pads with the same Akebono ceramics as last time. I also looked at fitting my F30 335i rear calipers. It looks like the only difference is the width of the mounting bolts, and the height of the pad. I can mount it up with the 128i bracket/carrier, and then all I'd need (maybe) is a larger diameter rotor to fit the extra height of the pad...has anyone fitted F30 335i single-piston calipers on the back of their 1'er? My main concern is the parking brake...

[Gangplank]

Originally Posted by HyeWarrior

Sometimes I really hate that I have a boring silver E82

Blasphemy. Space grey ftw.

[bmw1racer]

Wash and a wax with Collinite 476S paste.

[iminhell1]

Originally Posted by Gangplank

Blasphemy. Space grey ftw.

[HyeWarrior]

Originally Posted by Gangplank

Blasphemy. Space grey ftw.

I have titanium silver tho. I like it, but you better believe I would've rather gone with Le Mans blue at the time if possible

[Rmtt]

I installed my 3 Stage Intake and BPC tune on Saturday. Pretty straightforward....maybe 3 hours as I was taking my time and did some cleaning once the intake was out.

But I didn't get started until late in the day, so didn't get to take the car out until today.

Put up a "general impressions" thread in the N52 engine section.

[Gray_Panther]

Went for a very fun drive on some empty, curvy and winding roads. One of which was dirt and I got to practice the Scandinavian flick a lot!! It was fun making the 1er go sideways so easily!!
Then we went onto Watkins Glen track for a couple laps and 48k miles right on there!
A lot of fun was had today with friends.

[dandandan]

Replica 18" set on and clean

[chris_flies]

Originally Posted by Gray_Panther

Went for a very fun drive on some empty, curvy and winding roads. One of which was dirt and I got to practice the Scandinavian flick a lot!! It was fun making the 1er go sideways so easily!!
Then we went onto Watkins Glen track for a couple laps and 48k miles right on there!
A lot of fun was had today with friends.

Low traction situations are always fun! It makes winter so gre-oh...wait...you don't do the winter thing in your car . JK! Your car looks very nice (and probably less grimey than mine underneath), and it looks like you guys had fun, and that is what's important after all.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by dandandan

Replica 18" set on and clean

Car looks good with those wheels.

Goes well with the black paint and chrome colored window trim.

PS - AND with the black and chrome grilles.

[xQx]

Today I reinstalled my JB4 for Gauges-only operation.

I've been running MHD only for about a month, but I really missed the auto DTC disable on startup the AVG Ign gauge and 'my oil's up to temperature' indicator flash ... so it went back in.

[swunder]

Originally Posted by 0nePutt

Looks absolutely perfect. I am pained everyday for not pulling the trigger on a replica of your car about a month ago. 1 of the 45 Lemans Blue, Blk/Blue stitched 6PD IS'. 49K miles. I should have done it. What's your price?

How much did they want for it? Hardly ever see actual is's with 6 speeds on sale -- 9/10 times they are auto's or not an is.

Drove 3 hours to get mine last year, wasn't even really shopping for an is specifically but the car has been amazing (albeit overpriced).

[low135]

Originally Posted by Gray_Panther

Yeah, LCI eyebrows.

The message feature on here won't let me send you a picture. My guy is asking if you have any of these other parts you'd be willing to sell. We can work without them but he said it would be a ton easier. Let me know!

[Gray_Panther]

Originally Posted by low135

The message feature on here won't let me send you a picture. My guy is asking if you have any of these other parts you'd be willing to sell. We can work without them but he said it would be a ton easier. Let me know!

I don't think I do. Last year I sold a lot of headlight equipment. But let me check today and make sure.

[Soterios]

Ripped off the front plate and mount. Front plates are hideous haha.

Taking it to the body shop today to have all the little imperfections corrected and the front bumper holes fixed

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ZHdGz41

[mfindigital]

Went for a drive in Angeles Crest with two buddies yesterday. I tried to set up a little LA cruise, but we ended up changing the time repeatedly, so glad no one from here committed. Friend #1 has the M2C, friend #2 has the AMG GTS.


The snow and rain in LA destroyed the roads in Angeles Crest, they were closed maybe 8 miles up, we only got 1/3rd of the way to Newcombs. We're doing Malibu next, I'll post details for anyone interested in joining. We didn't have enough time for pictures, too much traffic killed the majority of our drive, I'll bring the GoPro and DSLR next time.

For anyone curious, the GTS friend has had the following:
1st gen nsx, r35 gtr, 2 911's, a boxster, M5, S4 and the AMG. Says he prefers the 911's by far, is thinking of swapping cars with the high end car sales company he works with.

[mfindigital]

Oh, and I also got a dyno, and the numbers were a bummer. I'll start another thread for the dyno, hoping others start dyno'ing more often (n55 guys) so we can get more data on the best combos. I had a MASSIVE brain fart and forgot my monitoring tool, and EAS doesn't monitor anything other than whp/torque/rpm. I almost went home when I realized I forgot it, but it was a 45 minute drive. I basically set 125$ on fire, but I had my two year old daughter with me and she had a GREAT time, brought her Cars toys and was mimicking my car on the dyno. I have a couple videos and pics of the day.

I made 316whp and 391 ft/lbs. I think there may be some small issues to look at, I blame our CAN gas for part of this. I went to SPEEDLOGIC right after just to chat about some other unrelated stuff since I was in the area. Rob said he'd expect to see about 330whp with my setup, but there are a ton of variables when running on a dyno. I'm going to log sometime this week and see what's what, I have a feeling I'm pulling timing in 4th gear. I'd expect peak whp to be a bit higher than 4850 rpm, but the n55 is an odd motor.

In short, CAN gas is worse than ebola and it's time for Methanol!!!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by mfindigital

Went for a drive in Angeles Crest with two buddies yesterday. I tried to set up a little LA cruise, but we ended up changing the time repeatedly, so glad no one from here committed. Friend #1 has the M2C, friend #2 has the AMG GTS.


The snow and rain in LA destroyed the roads in Angeles Crest, they were closed maybe 8 miles up, we only got 1/3rd of the way to Newcombs. We're doing Malibu next, I'll post details for anyone interested in joining. We didn't have enough time for pictures, too much traffic killed the majority of our drive, I'll bring the GoPro and DSLR next time.

For anyone curious, the GTS friend has had the following:
1st gen nsx, r35 gtr, 2 911's, a boxster, M5, S4 and the AMG. Says he prefers the 911's by far, is thinking of swapping cars with the high end car sales company he works with.

Too bad about the roads. Yeah, I think all the rain has really done a thing out here. But we needed it, though. Think we're officially out of the drought, for now. lol

Your friend (friend #2) has had some fun cars. Would love to try out a 1st gen NSX one day. Have to look in to that sometime. Maybe a company like Turo.

[desertman123]

Swapped in a 135i gauge cluster to get an oil temp gauge and higher redline (since I have mine set to 7200, might bump that to 7500). Soldered the 128i cluster's EEPROM to the 135i one because it was the same model #. Programmed it with PerfektToolbox and it works perfectly!

No one told me I'd actually be able to see which tire was low now! Before I only saw a big TPMS logo

[Soterios]

Originally Posted by mfindigital

Oh, and I also got a dyno, and the numbers were a bummer. I'll start another thread for the dyno, hoping others start dyno'ing more often (n55 guys) so we can get more data on the best combos. I had a MASSIVE brain fart and forgot my monitoring tool, and EAS doesn't monitor anything other than whp/torque/rpm. I almost went home when I realized I forgot it, but it was a 45 minute drive. I basically set 125$ on fire, but I had my two year old daughter with me and she had a GREAT time, brought her Cars toys and was mimicking my car on the dyno. I have a couple videos and pics of the day.

I made 316whp and 391 ft/lbs. I think there may be some small issues to look at, I blame our CAN gas for part of this. I went to SPEEDLOGIC right after just to chat about some other unrelated stuff since I was in the area. Rob said he'd expect to see about 330whp with my setup, but there are a ton of variables when running on a dyno. I'm going to log sometime this week and see what's what, I have a feeling I'm pulling timing in 4th gear. I'd expect peak whp to be a bit higher than 4850 rpm, but the n55 is an odd motor.

In short, CAN gas is worse than ebola and it's time for Methanol!!!

I'll hopefully be hopping on the dyno soon. I'm similarly modded. The HP looks a little low, but the torque seems right? I'm Cobb stage 2 with the same bolt ons and I was hoping for 330/380

[mfindigital]

Originally Posted by Soterios

I'll hopefully be hopping on the dyno soon. I'm similarly modded. The HP looks a little low, but the torque seems right? I'm Cobb stage 2 with the same bolt ons and I was hoping for 330/380

Don't forget to log like some other dummy I know