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My pics are up on the Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/WiBimmers/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1252437421444255
I'll upload them on the photos section here as well (which will be untouched by facebook's rapey-esque compression quality)
Thanks to @i_love_cars for trusting me to not drop my camera out of his M3 at undisclosed speeds. Results weren't too bad.
Didn't have time to update until now!
The bushing swap finally happened, and we also ran brand new nickel brake lines while the subframe was dropped (we literally tried EVERY method, and ultimately ended up dropping the whole thing.)
Also got the interior back together Friday night for the picnic. Carpet still needs a little cleaning, but I did do some carpet cleaning a while ago and it cleaned up real nice.
The first test drive with everything back together ran great! We made it to Waukesha without a hitch.
Next on the list is fixing the minor lower coolant hose leak, speedo sensor in the diff, odo gears, obc clock swap (current obc screen is smashed), and looking into the bumper. I have a brand new bumper in green/teal, just gotta see how it mounts up and then i'll look into getting it painted.
Better late than never! I got this badass cutout vinyl clock from Jeff, with pez to seal the deal which always rules.
I'm curious to what the vinyl sounded like considering I have no idea what it says lol. Thanks Jeff!
What about @MattY? Him too, come back plz
Now that @MattYhas blown up in the world of videogames he's too cool for us.
I'm alive! Admittedly haven't had enough time to keep up with threads between work and school, but now that that deadlines aren't breathing down my neck i'll have time to work on my REAL car soon. too bad the picnic isn't happening to get my motivation going again 
in lieu of my absence, here's wip pics of my sub-d model 325i i've been working on for the game art portfolio. why build real cars when i can make fake ones? 
I've receieved some extremely fresh threads in the mail! The return label didnt have a name, so thanks very much to whoever sent these!
NZXT fuckin rules.
i7-6700k
GTX1080
32GB DDR4
512GB SSD
- Plz find me a 2002 in a similar fashion
Last pristine 2002 I saw ran for like 20 grand pretty sure. I'll just keep reminding my dad of that, since his 2002 was his first car and didn't hold onto it
Chris has a work conflict but I've been recruited as his merch bitch to hand out shirt orders tomorrow so count me in.
Hopefully I'll be showing up in this with a brand new slave cylinder (!!)
Devil's lake group pics would be awesome, especially rolling pics along S lake road with the cliffs.
This meet will definitely be my motivation to get my Weds / euro grilles / new bumper / valance lip slammed on
M50 swap it
the prophecy was set in stone and i am here to fufill it
Bit on a straight six shirt. Too clean to pass up
Received this awesome poster from Matt Young just now. The M colored Condor koozies were a nice touch!
Glad you like it!
Forgot to update.
Sunday we connected the steering column, and while attaching the driveshaft we impromptu decided to do shifter bushings while we were under there.
Still trying to figure out the fuel leak. Chris suspects its the fuel rail, which we have a spare so we'll swap it in next time and see what that does.
Other than that leak, just needs the interior put together before it's in a good state.
Considering I wasn't a licensed driver when this car was obtained, it should be nice being finally able to drive this thing for once while I work on the alpine swap. Funny that it all came together exactly a year after we dropped in the new motor
That came super quick! Fits great and the quality is awesome. Will definitely be picking up that E30 cutaway design when you put that up.
I'm very behind on this, but I opened my gift this morning! It got here around Christmas, but I had a family emergency that popped up shortly afterwards and the dust is finally settling. It didn't have a name on it, but thank you to whoever was my Santa!! It's a sweet IMSA poster and some BMW CCA cars and coffee magnets! I'll be getting a frame for the poster and the magnets are already on the fridge!
can't see the pics for some reason, but it was me— glad you like the goods!
I'm throwing my hat into the Alpine arena.
It's a CALIFORNIA (!!!) 1990 Alpine 325i Sedan. Automatic, and the M20 has about 260k miles on it + a leaking head gasket. But these are perfect conditions for a M50 5-speed swap.
We picked up this guy around the end of December before Christmas, however with the fact that we have two E34's to attend to and the calypso e30, my project schedule was pushed back a bit
The driver's side of the valance is forked pretty badly, so I'll be swapping that with a brand new one. Other than that, this body is pristine. I don't have any solid pictures of the interior but it has gray cloth seats, which the driver's seat is a little tattered but nothing horrible.
Let's get up to speed:
Dec. 20th, 2016
We found the car on a farm outside of Verona sitting under snow, which we had come to learn had been sitting for quite some time since the guy had a lot of other project cars. But to our disbelief, there is zero rust on the car and it started up immediately after wiping off the snow. Somehow this car sat on Madison Craigslist for two weeks without anyone even coming to check it out?? I swear I thought it was a scam, it was quite literally a Christmas miracle.
Chris survived the drive back on probably the baldest and rotted set of spare tires I've ever seen.
Cleaned it up to get rid of all the salt, cause it'll never be seeing a winter again.
Dec. 22nd, 2016
Since Ben was home from SC for the holidays, we pulled the M50 from a parts 95 E36 325i we had sourced a few weeks prior, which was put out of commission due to the hood flying up and smashing the windshield while driving. The motor was running a week before it was picked up, however it's believed the starter went out, which doesn't matter since I need a new one for the swap. Removing it was a breeze with four people and the core supports sawzalled off. that e36 is mega scrapped by now.
Feb. 19th, 2017
The E30 twins currently sit together. I took this the day we got the Calypso M20 running.
Forgot to mention around this time I scored some side skirts from Dan, which you can see leaning on the wall next to the E28.
Mar. 18th, 2017
The M20 pull has begun. Andy stopped by to drop off the set of 15'' Weds Bavaria 4x100 rims he no longer wanted. I think they look fresh as hell, and are a perfect fit for the Alpine.
I'll be looking into powder coating them in the future, but for now they're in perfectly acceptable condition to run. I found a thread on E9 Coupe that pointed out that 68mm BMW center caps fit these guys perfectly, so I ordered a set of them. Very excited to see how they look on the car.
I also picked up a pressure washer today. Hoping to get a good engine bay wash going once the motor is pulled.
Here's my WIP parts list so far if you're curious of my plans. I'd tell you that this is for you, but it's actually for me.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g5PsFmSzEas-rl7x8jwDGZs5WF2SzdOdVU6ErX8QxGI/edit?usp=sharing
i'm sad that i missed this
Are the campsites in a certain area best? I have never camped there before.
chris and i camped over by the johnsonville bridge for IMSA last august, was a pretty good spot by the track. the inside of the carousel is supposedly one of the more rowdy areas though
I think Chris' brother bought that white 4-door...
You bet I did. Shit is sooo clean, I winced seeing it under all the snow from last weekend. Only real issue is the front driver side lip has a little bit of a ding near the fog light but I'm hoping we can bend it back.
Heres a pic after a quick wash. Gotta get a build thread going soon
