Hello. My name is Dan, and today I doomsday prepped

[wasnt m3]

Great writeup. I completely agree with the idea of 3800k bulbs. I hate the look of typical hid bulbs in older cars.

[YoungCR]

Bravo on another great project completion!

[KaiserRolls]

Lighting stuff is always something that I have been curious about. But have no idea where to start

[Daggerty]

wasnt m3 said:

Great writeup. I completely agree with the idea of 3800k bulbs. I hate the look of typical hid bulbs in older cars.

No you want the 100000000000000k aimed all the way to the left.

[patsbimmer1]

The marker is going to look bad ass on the car!

[Jdesign]

Wow this looks awesome. Cant wait to see it on the car! Nice work.

[straight6pwr]

got a lot of stuff done with the warm weather.

1. install a euro clock wiring adapter, so now i can actually tell the time.

2. installed an o-ring on the dipstick, which was also missing when i bought the car. the car no longer spews oil or idles lumpy. yay!

3. i also bit the bullet and order an entire new carpet. the old one is stained and torn and smelly and it will be a pain to borrow a powerwasher to clean it up in the yard t of the apartment then dye it. its saveable but 'meh' not a job i want to do.

4. installed new rear springs plus the missing adjuster. i went with 10k (car had 6k) for a more proper 6k front/10k rear balance. also went with 20mm shorter springs to get the best range of height adjustment. with the stock spring pads in place, and about 1" of height with the adjusters, the car is about as high as I'd ever go with it. 

the other week I also got some stuff done
 

the previous owner (have I said out loud he was an idiot?) had a 'plug' in the antenna hole, and no antenna on the car at all.... it leaked water into the tray and also no radio stations, so needed a fix.

wtf is this shit.

new oem grommet

power antenna installed after i tracked down all the hardware on ebay

oh, but surprise, the power antenna is dead. well, for now i just pulled it up a bit and added some electrical tape for the 'stubby antenna' look.

i also got the battery tied down. the car came with the battery bouncing around back there.

new battery with no tie down

new oem hardware, yum.

mutha! battery too short for the stock mount...i guess modern batteries have shrunk with the same size rating?

a piece of steel to extend the mount seems to work, we will see if it will loosen up or not.

i also started undoing the mess of extra wires from an old audio system and some aftermarket security system which is inop and has no key fob.

all coming out.

one was tied to the trunk light as a sensor for the trunk opening i guess. i believe this is all lamp wiring and some sort of low voltage phone wiring LOL

however i did lose the radio by removing all this so i have to track down which one was grounding/powering it. (probably the fused one, but why would they bypass the factory power wiring??) they didnt wire new stuff to the speakers, which is good to know they didnt just rip all the factory stuff out and start from scratch)

[B C]

What springs are those? Im trying to find some rear adjusters for my H&R race

[straight6pwr]

I ordered from BC racing:  bcracing-na.com

springs part number: 62.140.010  (62mm ID, 140mm length, 10k rate)

the adjusters i ordered specific to the e30. here was my invoice for specific info

someone said:

Rear Height Adjuster (High Low Kit) BMW 3 Series/M3
Year: 1988-1992 (51mm); Orientation: Rear Left
on preorder (please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery)

 

I-07-HLK-RL

 

1

 

$42.50

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

BC Racing Spring 62-140-10kg-S

 

62-140-10-S

 

2

 

$50.00

[YoungCR]

I don't know much about batteries but the ones I've bought at farm and fleet are still the one size.

[patsbimmer1]

What's odd is East Penn makes Farm and Fleet's batteries and they also make Super Start for O'Reilly's.  What I notice is that's the wrong group size.  You need a 48 and you bought a 90.  The 48 is longer.

[straight6pwr]

patsbimmer1 said:

What's odd is East Penn makes Farm and Fleet's batteries and they also make Super Start for O'Reilly's.  What I notice is that's the wrong group size.  You need a 48 and you bought a 90.  The 48 is longer.

makes sense! When the battery died, I brought the battery that was in the car (literally carried it a couple miles to the store) and just asked them to replace it, didnt think twice that it might be wrong. thanks

[Daggerty]

That's what oriellys computer spews out to their certified key punchers. I have the same one in one of mine. It still cost 160 

[GunMetalGrey]

straight6pwr said:

oh, but surprise, the power antenna is dead. well, for now i just pulled it up a bit and added some electrical tape for the 'stubby antenna' look.

Is this the one you got from me? 
I sent you videos of it working! Do you have the little ground strap on it?

[patsbimmer1]

straight6pwr said:

makes sense! When the battery died, I brought the battery that was in the car (literally carried it a couple miles to the store) and just asked them to replace it, didnt think twice that it might be wrong. thanks

That's impressive, batteries aren't light!  I looked into when I got to work this morning and a 91 would probably work to.  It's about 1.5 inches longer than a 90 and the 48 is about 2.5 inches longer.

[andyhundley]

I have a complete trunk interior if you need it.

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[straight6pwr]

GunMetalGrey said:

Is this the one you got from me? 
I sent you videos of it working! Do you have the little ground strap on it?

yes. well it would go up and down just one of the antenna sections (one of the middle ones), but the others were all jammed. no big deal, I will just roll with it.

andyhundley said:

I have a complete trunk interior if you need it.

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thanks, but got it covered. pun intended.

[andyhundley]

I run a 318ti radio antenna (thanks Earl) and it works well because it's power and doesn't retract. I don't have any pics currently but looks nice.

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[GunMetalGrey]

straight6pwr said:

yes. well it would go up and down just one of the antenna sections (one of the middle ones), but the others were all jammed. no big deal, I will just roll with it.

I don't know why this bothers me more than it does you, but is this not all of the sections?
 

[straight6pwr]

well it certainly didn't work like that when I fired it up. i tried soaking it in penetrant and also prying the sections apart with no luck. maybe sitting for months not being used caused it all to get stuck. again, not worried!