sweetm3

Let the fun begin

17 hours ago, M3AN said:

"If you thrash it or track it "

I take umbrage, David at the above.

I would hope you mean "If the car is driven to its full potential the use of 10w-60 maybe required"

Brad, I do maybe 5-6 "driver trainings" a year.  After every second training day, I do a oil and filter change.

10W-60, Have been for the last 15yrs

Dropped the car off at the panelbeaters.

?  guess I'm in Minnie me for the coffee meet .

Hey Brad

Found the rear rotors on ebay, they were custom ordered from Reyland Motorsport for a E46 cost $280gbp.

But they recieve E36 ones. RM didn't want them back, so they were on EB for $140gbp + $20 for shipping.

Still have to install

Ye not cheap $190nz shipped, but new doors ................. That's why I have also brought  (hopefully)  all new clips, fasteners and grommets.

And I'll  be wearing a Schiedmann  tee at the next coffee meeting  

29 minutes ago, sweetm3 said:

When I found oil in plenum, I replaced CCV ( oil separator) and associated parts. I even added a catch can inline. 

When I last removed the air intake boot, there still was a small amount of oil sitting in my plenum. With nothing showing on the catch can dipstick.

Jonathan, there was a noticeable difference in the amount of oil after the new parts were installed. 

When I found oil in plenum, I replaced CCV ( oil separator) and associated parts. I even added a catch can inline. 

When I last removed the air intake boot, there still was a small amount of oil sitting in my plenum. With nothing showing on the catch can dipstick.

Aluminium Door 13.3kgs with Window regulator attached.

Arrived today,

Clips, fasteners and fuel flap.

Turtle Laboratories door card repair brackets 

And a free tee shirt  ☺️

55 minutes ago, 325_driver said:

Everyone should own one of these $3 things from Ali Express. I only bought it for the backpass valve included.

 

Mine seized after the first use. Sprayed brake fluid every where ? took a bit to clean up, lucky I wear glasses.

Once freed up, it makes bleeding the brakes easy (for mr no friends) ?

10 minutes ago, M3AN said:

What do you have to remove from the alu doors? And then it's just the indicator and two trim pieces per side, 5 mins work.

 

Not a thing mate, the window regulators are the only parts on the new doors. Both in working condition. ???.

I'd prefer they did the prep Dave so the finished product is their responsibility.

They quoted $500 for surface  prep, paint and feathering per side

I have to remove and re install all hardware on doors and fenders

What do you think

By Accident, want me to,

drop off the doors so they can be prepped 

Bring the car in a couple of days later,(with all trim on fenders removed) for a couple of days. They will paint the new doors and feather out the front and rear panels to match the doors.

"By Accident" ?

Made contact thanks Andrew

1 hour ago, aja540i said:

When I had the M5 bumper done I took it off and dropped it in, the guy used their little machine to get the colour from the rear quarter where it met the bumper so they could match it and it came out perfect. It will save them from having to mask the entire car to paint 2 doors!

Andrew, where did you go ?

2 hours ago, M3AN said:

Are the doors bare, primed or painted?

Painted silver (over Estoril blue ? )

a few scratches on one, but a cut and polish would remove them.

The other door has some .............. bubbles or small peaks sharp to the touch ?

No dents or ripples, that I can make out.

I was adviced to install the doors, so colour matching could be done.

Do you guys think that I could get away with just dropping the doors off ?

Bump, recommendations please

Two aluminum E36 coupe doors, Estoril Blue

You are right Dave,

Steve was a pleasure to deal with, really nice guy. I've sent him a link to here.

He's got an interesting build going on E36 M3 supercharged................ and more, hopefully he join and start a project page.

Richard they still have some hardware attached, once I remove my hardware change it over to the new doors then ill do a befoer and after.

First I need to figure out

1/  Paint them before I install any hardware

2/ Install them including hardware, (making sure everthing fits and works) strip them, then have them painted.

2/ seems the right way, for colour matching etc 

Looks like they were Estoril blue before being painted silver 

Car porn photo added, cheers Dave. 

Just have to work out who will paint them and the weight difference. 

Coolum Beach 

If they included a consignment number by pass FedEx and contact and send the documents straight to customs.

Custom J Hook Machined Reyland Motorsport Rear Discs arrived today.

Photo in the normal place (end of the first page)

Kelvin

"any reason other than bad driving (speeding) to use a radar detector. "

Didn't you mean                                 ( by others)

Morning James,

Message me your email, I'm picking if you take the driver(me) out of the equation. 

You car compared to mine, weight will be a major contributor.  I haven't had mine on the scales but I would guess it's around the 1480kgs min.

Nik was nice enough to send me one of his sessions (E46) and he was later on the brakes and had better corner speed, but also runs slicks.

A couple of years back I followed a stripped out, roll caged orange E36 328 with a slightly wild cam around HD, it was used in the targa as a lease car. I was very impressed with the speeds it carried through the corners. I was running 1.20 at that stage and couldn't get passed him. 

I'm still having heated discussions with my mates about removing weight eg spare wheel, jack, carpet protectors etc. They just don't get the idea that this whole project has been about how quick can a Daily Driver go............