Obligatory New Member Post [With Pictures]

[Brett_A]

Hello everyone, just found this forum so I figured I'd join and introduce myself. I've been into BMW's for 6 years now, and am becoming increasingly passionate (read: obsessed) about cars. It started with enjoying driving, moving from maintenance to modifications, and on to some autocross and track time/racing. I live in downtown Milwaukee, I work as an engineer and will be finishing up grad school soon.

On to the cars...In winter I drive a 96 328iS, but whenever I can it's my 1999 M Coupe:

I trailered the car here from Kentucky with a ripped up rear floor/diff mount that I needed to repair:

Aside from repairs, my only real modifications so far are urethane bushings, a tighter steering rack, and Stromung exhaust. In the next few months though, I plan on swapping this s54b32 in:

Not BMW content, but I've also gotten involved in Lemons racing this last season, so much fun:

Glad to be part of the Wisconsin BMW community, hope to see some of you around at meets!

[need4speed1299]

Welcome to the forum. The m coupe looks real nice. Any pictures of the 328is?

[mystere30]

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[Ryan...]

Very nice!!

There's a meet on Jan 21st not too far from MKE, you should most definitely come on out to meet everyone

[Brett_A]

need4speed1299 said:

Welcome to the forum. The m coupe looks real nice. Any pictures of the 328is?

Hmm, This is all I can find at the moment, I'll have to take more this winter. I might be able to make the meet next week.

[AvusHatesCones]

Love it!! I want an S54 clown shoe someday!

[Ryan...]

There's a caravan of members meeting in Milwaukee, then driving to the meet. I'm sure they'd be more than willing to add another car to their convoy

[need4speed1299]

Niceee, Schwartz too.

[camarok]

I LOOOOOVE z3 M-coupes

[kalib0y]

very nice. How is the progress on the motor swap?

[Brett_A]

kalib0y said:

very nice. How is the progress on the motor swap?

Still gathering all the random parts needed. I'll hopefully change the rod and main bearings in the next couple weeks, then start on swapping.

Nice M3 by the way, I'm a fan of the LS1 swaps too.

[Earl]

Any updates?

[Brett_A]

Project went a bit backwards when I found out I had a bad connecting rod, meaning I basically took the whole engine apart. It's mostly reassembled now, just needs to be timed.

[wasnt m3]

Sorry to hear about the bad rod. Looking forward to seeing this one come together!