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How good are cold n flu tablets now with the extra special sauce in them. Got a bit of energy on the weekend at night after kids went down to make progress Front shocks all done. Was expecting this to be a dick but all went really smoothly. Yet to get the car on the ground to check toe. Old Monroe fronts, look to be the standard suspension variant as the new b4s’s are considerably shorter. Got the revshift 80A poly gbox mounts in. Started the car up on stands and went through the gears, no vibrations or sequential race box sounds, verdict when on the road and track. Waiting for the other koni rear ‘additional damper’ to show up so not quite done with the rear end. Someone loved this car over the years as the rear shocks were AC Schnitzers paired with AC springs. Old vs new rear bumpstops, significantly shorter. I will likely do rear subframe inserts after next trackday on 31st as I’m keen to feel the incremental improvements all these treats will make, plus they’ll probably turn up when I just cbf putting them in the day before the track.

Started adding the treats with the hardest corner, the rest should go lots quicker once I’ve learned the tricks. Nice little surprise, now I know why it’s sitting about 30mm lower in front. Confirmed rears are AC Schnitzer too. Needed a bit of encouragement to get the M3 arm in. Might do a bit more so it doesn’t need as much hitting to get home. Have to adjust toe a bit for the new arms. This will be deciding factor if I’m delayed by another week or so. Some high gloss black wrap and squeegee tools arrived from ali so had a go at wrapping the door pillar trims. Better than expected

Is Golf tee mod really needed? Have just unplugged it in the boot.

Needed a couple of gen bits so schmiedmann with their summer sale worked out best.

For being such a good car have a treat. The Koni rear “Additional damper” I assumed came as a pair. Well for $115 you’d think so 🙄 Ordered a set of rear subframe inserts as well so should be a nice little transformation. Prepping the pillar trims for wrap. Nice n easy epoxy fill. Unfortunately my beloved bbs’s are throwaways. Hopefully getting a refund shortly. What I thought were 3 paint cracks confirmed worse by 3 repair shops. I was ok with the bend as I intended to refurb them. IMG_4984.mov

Would be my ideal trackday car the 125i. Nice work! (Not on binning the 135i). So engine in this has all the goodies bar the 3 stage intake manifold and tune to give it 190kw?

Small list of jobs to do then up for sale. Had a go at vinyl wrapping the outer pillar door trims. Turned out great! didn’t even have to remove the piece the 2nd time round, but front lhs one was cracked and needed repairs before hiding all the ugly. After the wrap has cured i’ll try some plastic X on the DA to get rid of all the marks i’ve made on them. Cheers @Jacko for the seats! Couldn’t find an e87 undertray as this one’s went walkies. Found one for an e90 being used as a bridge at Pickapart. Mainly in-tact but needed to trim the front and drill a couple of holes for the fastens going in to the subframe. Hasn’t flown off at speed so calling that task done. Didn’t grab any pictures and hopefully won’t have to

Decent improvement over the stock units ?

Check the vent gasket in that area…. IMG_4611.mov

Made it to HD, did 3x15 sessions and drove it home. 20 next year and with 224k kms. Good car, think i’ll keep it for a while. A little de-brief while it’s fresh on mind.… Likes: - Easy to drive, didn’t miss-shift and heel n toe is a breeze. - Heaps of grip and adjustability - Torque delivery. Coming from a cammed sr20ve that made noting until 5-9k rpm this was brilliant on corner exit. - When both rear tyres hooked getting on it early on corner exit Next time I’ll see how a set of b4s’s, m3 fr ctrl arms and better bushes for the gbox and rear subframe go and setup an in-car camera to catch a few laps. Small clip of some peg-legging on the up and over. 9e14946f-a840-4c96-a120-a37c88056b88.mov

Slapped in a set of front pads. Nothing fancy but better than what was in there. Also got some 7.6Kg BBS RK001’s in 17x8 et35 flavour. Might be a touch too much tyre so will try 225/45/17.

For redundancy there are a couple of bungs below the Taillight gaskets you can put some holes in to let water drain out, there's probably a piece of moulded polystyrene covering them. The vents in that area can also leak from the gaskets.

Nothing conclusive to what the ticking noise is at idle. Cylinder leakdown was all in the “Green” showing 20% leakage on all 6. Re-did the comp test, this time with throttle plate open.. Cyl 1 - 260 Cyl 2 - 260 Cyl 3 - 260 Cyl 4 - 240 Cyl 5 - 240 Cyl 6 - 250 All within spec. Calling this a healthy engine, just with a bit of a tick on idle.

Ah k, the solid one I got from a 330 was manufactured in late 2004. I was thinking maybe hollow cams were exclusive to 130i N52’s. Who knows…I’ve seen alot of cross-over of parts changing over the years messing with bimmers.

Keen.