Snap said: Awesome! I hope to visit there some day was it a big let-down that it rained? or was that kind of a good thing to keep you from going too fast and becoming an Armco consumer? It was a little bit of a let down, but we still got to drive it. It was more of just increasing the fear of crashing haha. One of the RSR cars actually did crash. I'm not sure what kind of damage happened, but it didn't look too bad. We went to the track early and watched the factory cars go around before it was open to the public. Took some sweet videos of an M4 GTS, camo Aston Martin, and Mercedes GT. It was an awesome day haha.

I'd be interested. Sent from my SM-G900R4 using Tapatalk

And this is my ticket to move back west. Ive always wanted to live near a bmw factory AND meth heads. Spartanburg cant offer me that right now

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The Full Banana said: S38 built by VAC motorsport. :drool: Dry sump and high comp :drool: hope it has a sequential box. Sounds like a beautiful dream.

m42b32 said: Currently dying laughing at the first post haha Make sure to put the pieces of your AAA card down the hole labelled "OIL"  Wait how do you know about that hiding spot???? I thought I was clever by putting all my drill shavings there instead of lugging them all the way to the trash. Nobody has time for that shit... I guess great minds really do think alike.

Snap said: Wally, I appreciate your insight and perspective, very valid points which I can agree with. The ride height thing is something I was not aware of and makes a lot of sense for the stock ride height of an e21.  I hope the fact that some on here see the e21 as a dud doesn't anger you as much as it may seem like from reading your post. If I had a valve for everytime someone crapped on an M20, i'd have an M50 swap.  Snap, I don't know for an absolute fact they were doing that on the US e21's.  I do know there was such a requirement and other European manufacturers were raising ride height to meet the height.  I also know there was an article in Bimmer Magazine about how to make your 320i handle, one of the mods was to use euro 323i springs and it was noted that lowered the ride height ~3/4" with a stiffer rate.  The strut housings are different between the 320i and 323i, so take that FWIW. Thanks, Wally

https://m.imgur.com/a/G86m0#U7d8v7J Did anybody have this catalog/order anything from it? I had a copy back in the day, lots of fun to look through and a really big throwback when I saw these images posted on another forum [image: U7d8v7J.jpg]

If struts are original they're definitely done. I'd say just get new oem shock/struts. Springs will be fine to re-use.

ah nice - ran mine like that for a couple weeks while waiting for the new muffler to arrive. sounds awesome, a little too loud for daily driving and respecting my neighbors.

I have also heard of people using oven cleaner to remove cosmoline but I cant tell you if it works or not.

BMW was running 1-2 in gtlm until the 100 car went off and Turner is running 2nd in gtd! Way better than Daytona so far!

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patsbimmer1 said: I'd rather have a real Hakosuka. [image: Nissan\_Skyline\_GT-R\_KPGC10\_Hakosuka-7.jp] Agreed!

cool, didnt know this! special 100 year edition 3 1/2 series coming out?

i_love_cars said: Chris Welter said: Although I'm a bad example since mine went from oem to full retard in about 2 months. lolol truer words never spoken I will say after jumping into this turbo swap, I stand by my original statement that understanding how a car is put together and how things work together combined with diligence/patience will allow you to get through most things. However, it is astonishing just how much crap you have to remove to get at anything on newer BMWs. I spent about 6 hours just to clear the area to get to the turbo, and I spent probably 1.5 hours of that time just simply observing and taking stock of everything I was looking at because it's rare that I get an upclose look at the n-series this way.  It's fascinating, but I'm with you - preference still goes to like an E30 or something. I think back to the first car I ever worked on seriously when I was old enough to realize what I was doing (16), which was a 1956 Bel-Air with a 289 v8 that only ran on 7 out of 8 cylinders, and I could literally just stand inside the engine bay with my feet on the cement below.  Lol I am happy someone agrees with me [emoji3]. Yes it is overwhelming at times and you question why you are doing it over and over again in the process, but the end result is so sweet. Installing it is the first challenge, tuning it is the second. I came to a point that I was going to sell my car, then it was a 2jz swap with driveline changes, but after realizing it'd cost more for the same power and a more crappy powerband I decided to stay put in N54 land. Remember if you think about giving up just remember "at least it isn't an xdrive".. lol [emoji23] Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk

The last snow we had on Sunday I saw a clownshoe doing donuts in the rear lot of Miller park.

Cool! Can't blame him for selling for that kinda profit but that would be a sweet ride!

KaiserRolls said: That's ugly as hell. Looks like the seats came out of a bayliner Wish my bayliner had an engine like that though... Sent from my 831C using Tapatalk

Watched 20 out of the 24! Slept from 6-10am which from what I gathered didn't miss much. Great finish, top 5 for BMW was nice too.