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

[straight6pwr]

some sun came through friday night after washing the car. got out the camera to document the only moment when this car might be perfectly clean from here on out. (don't forget I am daily driving this car)

[m42b32]

straight6pwr said:

Amazing

[YoungCR]

Love the apex everything decal. Great shots and beautiful car!

[B C]

Wow, very nice shots! 2nd one is my favorite. We really need to take more nice photos with the group.

[KaiserRolls]

Those look good. Daily as not in the winter though.....

[suspenceful]

Beautiful E30!

[straight6pwr]

thanks, dudes!

Snap said:

Wow, very nice shots! 2nd one is my favorite. We really need to take more nice photos with the group.

i agree. wish it had not been raining saturday so the camera could have come out.

KaiserRolls said:

Those look good. Daily as not in the winter though.....

no, not if I can help it. but i also don't have indoor storage, so that doesn't help the cause.

[Jdesign]

straight6pwr said:

Came*** here just for this shot. Very very nice man!

[straight6pwr]

CABs switch to solid lollipops today, as well as a new shifter bushing.

having the passenger side CAB not resting on my exhaust reduced some cabin noise as expected. i still do have an odd rattle when starting from a stop in that same area that I thought would have been the exhaust, but it did not go away. *shrug*

also, first road trip with the car this weekend. time for some backroad blasting

[B C]

Last time I touched the control arms was 7 years ago. Did you need a tool to get the old bushings off/new ones on?

I definitely had to make a tool from threaded rod to get the bushings on the last time

Coincidentally I ordered some from Garigistic today

[KaiserRolls]

What engine mounts do you have dan?

[straight6pwr]

I was just barely able to get the old bushings pulled from the arms with a 3-jaw gear puller. They were already offset bushings so I had to use unequal length arms on the puller and drill a hole in the end of the control arm to keep the threaded rod from traveling off.

Engine mounts are r3vshift

[straight6pwr]

did some work on both cars today.

scored a sweet e28 mtech I spoiler already in alpine from andy - thanks dude.

new holes drilled

the center 4 holes are close enough to the stock locations that access from inside the trunk lid is easy

however, the outside two are much wider, so cutting the openings inside the trunk lid is necessary to get the nuts on there.

and voila!

had the same setup on my last e30 and loved it. photo circa 2012

on my roadtrip up north last weekend, some dickweed trailering a boat left stuff in the boat (life jackets, fishing poles, etc) while traveling on the freeway, and they proceeded to jettison while I was driving behind him. it cost me a high beam lens and some scratches. ordered a replacement DEPO set to get parts off and installed them.

i also deactivated the bumper running lights and hooked up my amber LEDs that I installed into the low beams when doing my retrofit.  here is the result:

last step is to get the fogs working independently

[wasnt m3]

Glad to see that spoiler made it onto your car! Looks really good. Can't complain about the color match.

[B C]

Glad the jettisoned cargo didnt take out the fresh paint on the valence. I really like what you did with the amber lights. I remember the slick LED signal setup you did on your black car from long ago too.

[MattY]

that's a sweet rear look. i'm tempted to run an mtech ii wing on mine if i can source one, cause the price to paint an IS spoiler in alpine would probably be close enough where i wouldn't hate myself for shelling out for the mtech

[straight6pwr]

MattY said:

that's a sweet rear look. i'm tempted to run an mtech ii wing on mine if i can source one, cause the price to paint an IS spoiler in alpine would probably be close enough where i wouldn't hate myself for shelling out for the mtech

just paint it yourself. $40 for a BMW color-matched spray can and a little time on prep work. super easy.

i have a spare 'i' spoiler now that needs some sanding/scraping of old paint that you can just have.

[Jdesign]

Damn. All kinds of awesome in here. Looks great Dan!

[HipMF]

Somehow managed to get a couple months behind on this thread. Nice work. The "palamino"/alpine combo is awesome!

[MattY]

straight6pwr said:

i have a spare 'i' spoiler now that needs some sanding/scraping of old paint that you can just have.

that would be sweet! i'm gonna have to get my valance painted, so might as well redo the skirts and that spoiler as well.