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

[mfindigital]

Originally Posted by WrathOTM

SPORT SEAT RETROFIT BABY! Manual to Manual swap. Seats came from a junkyard 100 each. They were in OK condition but after cleaning them up they look great! You can see the uncleaned pass seat in the background. No more crappy hard-as-a-rock base seats for me.

Putting the e92 M3 seat in my car is maybe my favorite mod ever. Was impossible to have fun in those stock seats. Never installed my passenger but it's pristine, paid 180 total at a yard too. Enjoy.

[WrathOTM]

Did a couple things over the past two days. Finished wiring in my side-bolsters,
a set of new tires (Dunlop Direzza) and a car wash. Next up tonight or tomorrow: reset the seat-belt and airbag lights... and AKG bronze clutch pedal bushings and BMS clutch pedal stop. And the BMS CDV whenever I feel like crawling my ass back under the car.

[Afam28]

Chasing limp mode/no boost…
I can be driving and boost will just cut out with half engine icon
Turn the car off and back on and boost is back and it drives fine afterwards…
2AA2, 2A9E is what I'm seeing…
Vanos, boost solenoids and outlet camshaft sensors been changed…
Only thing left is the inlet camshaft sensor…

[Mike Whitney]

Sanded and polished the headlights on my fixer-upper 128i. Orbital sander worked far better than the drill as used in most kits for the 400 grit sanding of the very-hard factory UV outer coating. Rotary drill was just heating things up but the orbital took off material a lot more efficiently.

Took several hours but turned out great! 400, 800, 1500, 3000 all orbital, then rubbing compound on the drill, then hand wax. Next up is some love for the neglected race car

[WrathOTM]

Pic fail? Curious to see how yours came out. Just gonna replace mine at this point

[Mike Whitney]

Originally Posted by WrathOTM

Pic fail? Curious to see how yours came out. Just gonna replace mine at this point

Thanks - pic fixed now. I'd say they are a 9/10

[WrathOTM]

Did the AKG brass bushing install on clutch pedal. Major pain in the ass that was. I couldn't figure out how to get the pedal off the master cylinder so I unbolted that to get the wiggle room I needed. But jesus tap-dancing christ those two nut and bolt combos are bitch to loosen and tighten. All is done now so no more pedal shaking around when I hit the clutch. Did the pedal stop yesterday before work. So Billet BMS clutch delay valve is next at some point...

[Almuliman]

Installed the clutch stop from pickyeater on ebay—so much easier to shift smoothly now that the last bit of useless clutch travel is gone—and put in the left inside ("Brake Force Display") brake lamp that had been throwing an error since I purchased the car. Because it was missing; yes, missing. Entirely.

Up next: BMS CDV and Redline MT-LV transmission fluid. At 73K miles, there's no record of transmission fluid ever being replaced, so I figure if nothing else it's just good preventative maintenance as the car just recently came to me.

[xQx]

Originally Posted by WDE82

TSMC said this quarter actually.

Global Chip manufacturing has been stationary due to the combination of draught and COVID-19 in Taiwan.

The draught has broken (you might've seen major China mainland flooding on the news), which is good news for chip manufacturing, because the cleaning process that brings us new circuit boards uses lots of water...

But COVID-19 hasn't gone away, and Mainland China is making moves toward Taiwan and the USA is making moves to abandon the defense of Taiwan ... so the space is still very "interesting".

One of the moves the US Gov't has made is to throw money at anyone looking to move chip manufacturing out of Taiwan and back into the USA, which is a pretty smart first step (regardless of the long-term political strategy).

tl;dr: Maybe, but don't count on it.

[Papa Popov]

Originally Posted by WrathOTM

Did the AKG brass bushing install on clutch pedal. Major pain in the ass that was. I couldn't figure out how to get the pedal off the master cylinder so I unbolted that to get the wiggle room I needed. But jesus tap-dancing christ those two nut and bolt combos are bitch to loosen and tighten. All is done now so no more pedal shaking around when I hit the clutch. Did the pedal stop yesterday before work. So Billet BMS clutch delay valve is next at some point...

Don't waste your money on one of those BS aftermarket CDVs, just remove the thing entirely.

[Almuliman]

Originally Posted by Papa Popov

Don't waste your money on one of those BS aftermarket CDVs, just remove the thing entirely.

Thought about it. Briefly. I have an N51 with lots of SULEV warranty miles and years left, so I went with plausible deniability, I mean, "the stock look".

[WrathOTM]

Originally Posted by Papa Popov

Don't waste your money on one of those BS aftermarket CDVs, just remove the thing entirely.

Lol, well too late as I bought it right after I got the car and it's been chillin waiting for me to install it. A throttle controller may be next on my list.

[Papa Popov]

Originally Posted by WrathOTM

Lol, well too late as I bought it right after I got the car and it's been chillin waiting for me to install it. A throttle controller may be next on my list.

Wouldn't waste your money on a throttle controller either if you're planning on doing any mods that require a tune (MILVs, headers 3SIM if you don't want to use the BimmerLabs tune). Most tunes remap the throttle.

[BronkaidBrah]

Got my track tires thrown on and tried to get an alignment but apparently my tie rod ends are seized. I now have 4 days to source some before my hpde. Send halp!

[dtla1]

Originally Posted by BronkaidBrah

Got my track tires thrown on and tried to get an alignment but apparently my tie rod ends are seized. I now have 4 days to source some before my hpde. Send halp!

Cool looking slotting pattern on those rotors though.

[Almuliman]

Things I discovered today on my car:

• Wheel spacers are hub centric 15 mm front / 20 mm rear Acumste
• Front dampers are Koni – can't see which ones, only the very top of the Koni logo
• Front springs are TC Kline "0700 60 0350"
• Rear dampers are Koni 8242 1016SPTC2
• Rear springs are TC Kline "0700 250 1000"
• Square 225/45s

Need to call TC Kline and find out what I actually have. They have http://www.tcklineracing.com/webdocs...Details978.cfm, but the part numbers aren’t quite right. Maybe what I have is an older version of the kit?

Nice surprises. The seller didn't know what was on it other than coilovers and "something else in the rear".

[tjswarbrick]

Originally Posted by Almuliman

Things I discovered today on my car:

• Wheel spacers are hub centric 15 mm front / 20 mm rear Acumste
• Front dampers are Koni – can't see which ones, only the very top of the Koni logo
• Front springs are TC Kline "0700 60 0350"
• Rear dampers are Koni 8242 1016SPTC2
• Rear springs are TC Kline "0700 250 1000"
• Square 225/45s

Need to call TC Kline and find out what I actually have. They have http://www.tcklineracing.com/webdocs...Details978.cfm, but the part numbers aren’t quite right. Maybe what I have is an older version of the kit?

Nice surprises. The seller didn't know what was on it other than coilovers and "something else in the rear".

Sounds like a really nice score. Congrats!

[Gangplank]

Originally Posted by Almuliman

Things I discovered today on my car:

• Wheel spacers are hub centric 15 mm front / 20 mm rear Acumste
• Front dampers are Koni – can't see which ones, only the very top of the Koni logo
• Front springs are TC Kline "0700 60 0350"
• Rear dampers are Koni 8242 1016SPTC2
• Rear springs are TC Kline "0700 250 1000"
• Square 225/45s

Need to call TC Kline and find out what I actually have. They have http://www.tcklineracing.com/webdocs...Details978.cfm, but the part numbers aren't quite right. Maybe what I have is an older version of the kit?

Nice surprises. The seller didn't know what was on it other than coilovers and "something else in the rear".

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that "something else on the rear" means Rear Subframe Bushing - either full M3 bushings or inserts. If so that's a nice set up you have there.

[Almuliman]

Originally Posted by Gangplank

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that "something else on the rear" means Rear Subframe Bushing - either full M3 bushings or inserts. If so that's a nice set up you have there.

I meant that he didn't know what the rear suspension setup was, but yeah, the RSFB are on my "might do" list, so I'll be super happy if they're already done. Odds definitely went up given the other mods, I'm thinking.

[WDE82]

Originally Posted by Almuliman

I meant that he didn't know what the rear suspension setup was, but yeah, the RSFB are on my "might do" list, so I'll be super happy if they're already done. Odds definitely went up given the other mods, I'm thinking.

RSFB should be next on your list. It's my favorite upgrade I did to my E82 after the front control arms.

[Almuliman]

Originally Posted by WDE82

RSFB should be next on your list. It's my favorite upgrade I did to my E82 after the front control arms.

That's what they recommended at TC Kline just now.

I have the double adjustable kit . At least the springs and dampers, haven't checked on camber plates yet.

350 lbs front and 700 lbs rear, which explains why the rear pogos so badly (for those of you in / around Seattle, for an example: The low bridge on I90 eastbound over the Bellevue Slough is ... let's call it "amusement ride quality"). TC Kline recommends 600 lbs rears for street, but also upgrading the RSFB to M3 or solid (!) specifically to address the pogoing, so I guess that just moved up on my to-do list. Avoids having to spend $196 to change the rear springs to 600 lbs and I want the bushing upgrade anyway.

And so the to-do list grows...

[dtla1]

Originally Posted by Almuliman

That's what they recommended at TC Kline just now.

I have the double adjustable kit . At least the springs and dampers, haven't checked on camber plates yet.

350 lbs front and 700 lbs rear, which explains why the rear pogos so badly (for those of you in / around Seattle, for an example: The low bridge on I90 eastbound over the Bellevue Slough is ... let's call it "amusement ride quality"). TC Kline recommends 600 lbs rears for street, but also upgrading the RSFB to M3 or solid (!) specifically to address the pogoing, so I guess that just moved up on my to-do list. Avoids having to spend $196 to change the rear springs to 600 lbs and I want the bushing upgrade anyway.

And so the to-do list grows...

I got rid of some of the pogo'ing by adjusting the rebound in the rear. And I already had Whiteline two-piece RSFB.

I don't really remember what springs I have on there now, should probably check.