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  • GunMetalGreyG
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    GunMetalGrey
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    That carpet cleaned up surprisingly well!
    What did you use to accomplish that?

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      straight6pwr said:

      despite their style difference, they look awful close dimensionally. check the distance between the mounting face and the trans and the PCD 

      I'll measure them just to know one way or the other, but I already pulled them both off and will put the one that came with the car on the new transmission. 

      GunMetalGrey said:

      That carpet cleaned up surprisingly well!
      What did you use to accomplish that?

      I uhhhhhhhh just bought some new carpet and made my own trunk panel. Haha. If you remember the spare tire panel didn't line up with the car's.

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        gilber33 said:

        I uhhhhhhhh just bought some new carpet and made my own trunk panel. Haha. If you remember the spare tire panel didn't line up with the car's. 

        I clearly didn't read enough
        That explains it though! 

        Looks nice!

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          Some yellow fogs from Gina. 

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          And the difference in the flanges. Tall one came on my car. 

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          • JdesignJ
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            gilber33 said:

            Some yellow fogs from Gina. 

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            And the difference in the flanges. Tall one came on my car. 

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            Whats up with the plastic tabs on that fog light?

            If the splines and bolt pattern on the flanges are the same, it shouldn't matter which one you use. The driveshaft should have enough adjustment in and out to allow you to use either one. I would consider using the one that best fits the motor at its furthest back position on the motor mounts. (likely the shorter one).

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            • straight6pwrS
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              Jdesign said:

              Whats up with the plastic tabs on that fog light?

              If the splines and bolt pattern on the flanges are the same, it shouldn't matter which one you use. The driveshaft should have enough adjustment in and out to allow you to use either one. I would consider using the one that best fits the motor at its furthest back position on the motor mounts. (likely the shorter one).

              i have the chinesium fogs too - the quality and moldings are awful.

              Dan
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                Jdesign said:

                Whats up with the plastic tabs on that fog light?

                If the splines and bolt pattern on the flanges are the same, it shouldn't matter which one you use. The driveshaft should have enough adjustment in and out to allow you to use either one. I would consider using the one that best fits the motor at its furthest back position on the motor mounts. (likely the shorter one).

                The taller one came with the car. I figured I’d just use that one. 

                straight6pwr said:

                i have the chinesium fogs too - the quality and moldings are awful.

                My car didn’t come with any fogs. They’re more or less just to fill the holes.

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                  Got some stuff back from Zach yesterday. 

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                    Got the rest of my stuff from @rampelsauce.

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                    Loving the new colors and his PC is top notch.

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                      Getting closer and closer. 

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                        I haven't really been around for a while. So this is a spare engine that you are cleaning up. Did you change the head gasket or do any internal refreshing? It would look just great sitting on the stand in the garage even if you never intended to use it! Engine dress-up is my favorite part of wrenching. You've done well@

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                          Boris3
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                          Beautiful powdercoating job!  Engine looks great.

                          1990 325i racecar (ITS, former Spec E30); 2004 330i ZHP

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                            snap said:

                            I haven't really been around for a while. So this is a spare engine that you are cleaning up. Did you change the head gasket or do any internal refreshing? It would look just great sitting on the stand in the garage even if you never intended to use it! Engine dress-up is my favorite part of wrenching. You've done well@

                            This is the engine I did some work to when I first got the car, but when I parked it for the winter I noticed the RMS was weeping a bit. So I pulled the engine out to replace that. I do have a spare engine that I plan on cleaning up and would like to do some internal refreshing on that one.

                            I was going to swap most of the stuff from this one over to the new engine rather than powder coating a second set of everything, but I agree with you that this engine would look really nice just sitting on a stand in the garage ultimately. haha

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                              Other than a couple small things to put on the engine is ready to go back in. 

                              Lightweight flywheel 

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                              All set 

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                                Looking good! The spare motor is the one that came with your car correct?

                                Chris Young
                                BMWCCA #458972
                                1986 528e/5  | 1994 530i/5 | 1995 540i/6 | 2013 X5 35d | 1998 C1500 Suburban | 1995 K2500 Suburban

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                                  YoungCR said:

                                  Looking good! The spare motor is the one that came with your car correct?

                                  Thank you! The spare motor is one I just picked up actually. The one with the PCing came with the car. I had it out last year and did a bunch of refreshing on it, but noticed the RMS leaking when I parked it for the winter. So, back out, redid a bunch of the powder coating from silver to wrinkle black, light weight flywheel, and a some other stuff.

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                                    A few beers later and with the assistance of @rampelsauce, the engine is back in. Zach left with a small Tupperware of brackets for PC. Loving the wrinkle black more and more. 

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                                      New steering wheel in and mocked the front up. Gotta take the bumper back off to hammer in the tow hook bumper support some more and make sure all the headlight adjusters spin. 

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                                        Got a little more of the engine back together. 

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                                        Also, working on putting in the M3/318is engine harness covers. The harness in the car was so stiff from 30 years of being in the same position so I had to pull out the harness and trim off the rubber coating. Will mock it up and then wrap it in the fabric harness tape. 

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                                          gilber33
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                                          This was way more difficult than it needed to be. 

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