My 1997 M3 (That I'm not going to part out anymore)
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The e30 or two that is there is pretty picked over depending on what you're looking for.
Source : It's 7 min from my shop, I get there frequentishI can vouch for that, I get over there quite a bit as well and the e30's that are out there are pretty much just shells now. All though, the e36/e34 selection is very good indeed and I have seen a few fresh ones sitting out there (from auctions) with a tag dating from only a couple weeks ago hardly touched.
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Got a decent amount done today
Took my vaders out and vacuumed the carpet/deep cleaned interior
New E-brake boot in
The little things
Unfortunately I came across some rust under the rear seat and a mouse nest behind the outer rear seat cushion
On the underside of the car, this is where the brake line bracket is mounted up by the gas tank, looks like a small crack was coming off the rusted area as well.
filled the hole and crack with welds
Mouse nest:
I cant find any signs of mice anywhere else in the car, and none of the nest was made of wire insulation.
Cleaned up:
Took the mouse piss insulation out and the rest under the rear seat
about 10 lbs worth in weight savings
Took the headliner and rear parcel shelf out. The rear shelf I re-wrapped a few years ago in black alcantara, and from the pictures you can see what it's become. The headliner has been sagging forever and when I had my windows down the airflow would make headliner glue blow all over the back of my interior. I cleaned up all of that glue/foam today too. Headliner and rear deck re-wrap later this week
Put the LTW seats in. I love them way more then my vaders already
And now I'm about to go out to the garage to deal with this from the previous owner:
I wanted to throw in a OEM radio, but I remembered I have my brothers new JVC radio that I pulled from his car before he scrapped it. It has Bluetooth and stuff, and doesn't look outrageous. It also weighs like 2 lbs less then the ugly pioneer super tuner that's been in the car since I got it.
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Those new seats look stellar!
Sucks finding mouse nests in various places, I'm surprised they made it inside the cabin lol. -
I love that fabric!
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Took another trip down to Milwaukee today, the same guy I bought the LTW seats from offered to sell me a set of his rather rare wheels so I bought em
3 piece 17x8.5/17x9 +37 Fikse Mach V with 245/40r17 Bridgestone G-Force tires
Rear needs to come up a bit
The front wheels require spacers to not rub on my coilovers, and all I had laying around was a 20mm set. I'm thinking 5-8mm will be perfect up front when I'm actually going to drive the car.
The car already looks way different and is about 2 1/2 inches higher in the front! I'm starting to like this look way more then being slammed on stretched tires... Might drop down to a 235/40 because these tires are really beefy
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Nice. Dan Frodl had those on his Alpine E36 M3, I'm guessing that's who you got them from.
How'd his M5 look? Lol.
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Nice. Dan Frodl had those on his Alpine E36 M3, I'm guessing that's who you got them from.
How'd his M5 look? Lol.
I did get them from Dan haha.
He has a very nice collection of cars
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This happened today trying to put the helper springs back in my coilovers...
Basically the top hat nut would always loosen itself after a few hundred miles of driving even with Loctite Blue.
I put Loctite Red on last fall and it is some strong stuff. I got the passenger side loose but I should have heated the drivers side
Now just the front driver side of my car is slammed and I have a broken lower strut mount bolt and a coilover that I'm gonna have to take a cutoff wheel to so I can reuse my camber plates. Not too big of a deal, they were blown Raceland coilovers that never should have made it onto a M3
I have to park the car all lopsided and broken for the next month and a half now, new coilovers and entire rear end next. Back to school on Sunday so this thread wont be updated until mid May.
I'm not going to use the Vaico pads in the pic above also haha
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Its been a good run!
UNTIL MAY!!
see you at the E30 Picnic perhaps?I feel like I'm pretty lucky to have gotten as much as I did done!
When and where is the E30 picnic?
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Back home from school, just ordered BC coilovers and some other stuff for the M3 thanks to Pat
It was beautiful out so I washed the car
I decided to test out one of my new jack pad adapters that I was going to use to put the car up on jack stands so I could do all my rear end work. I bought them because the rear jack pads had rusted at the base, so I didn't trust jacking on them from the bottom of the car. I thought that because I was lifting above the rusted section with the "e36 jack hole" it would be fine
Well it wasn't fine and when the car was about 2 inches off the ground I heard a bang and it gave out.
The whole jack pad/hole thing in the body has crumpled upwards and torn from the body/ bowed the body out above the skirt cover.
I was going to be doing basically the whole rear end soon (subframe bushings, rtabs, axels, control arms, etc.) and I literally have no way to support the car unless I'm jacking by the diff, and that wouldn't allow me to get the subframe out or even move the diff to put my new control arms in.
With the prices of clean M3's these days I doubt I can afford to get another M3 without selling all of my parts I have for this one, unless I save for the next few years. I'm probably going to end up with a stock M of some sort hopefully by the end of this summer. I'm selling everything e36 I have and a detailed for sale ad for the car will be posted soon for whoever wants to part it.
RIP
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Sucks that you have to call it quits on this, would you like to sell me the LTWs (hopefully for the same price you got them)? I have back problems from shoveling & the vaders are killing me.
They will be going on a 99 m3 with 103k miles, very clean.
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Sucks that you have to call it quits on this, would you like to sell me the LTWs (hopefully for the same price you got them)? I have back problems from shoveling & the vaders are killing me.
They will be going on a 99 m3 with 103k miles, very clean.
I'm trying to figure out if I can keep them first
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Might as well pick up from here.
Got my dad to drive me down to Chicago at 8:00pm last night to check out a "rebuilt" SMG e46 M3 coupe that was $5900. The guy told me it was a rebuilt title, until he sent a pic of the title and I saw that progressive total loss insurance was the last title holder. One $39 carfax later I found out the car hasn't been registered for 3 years because it's still a salvage title. This dude had it registered with plates on it and everything and it was still a salvage title car that progressive had only signed off on. Sketchy. Once I confronted him he told me that he knows a guy who will brand the title anything I wanted for $100 lmfao. Told my dad to turn around.
Literally 5 minutes after turning around I found a 98 M3 coupe 5-speed with 153k miles in Chicago on Autotrader. The car was at a dealer and was just shipped here from Georgia. Was titled in California and Washington from the day it was sold until 2015. Not a spec of rust
We turned around, got to Chicago at 1am, and by 11am this morning I was on my way back in my new car, running late to work by 2 hours.
Looks pretty familiar. Cosmosschwartz and Mulberry 🤨
Will have a back interior soon
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