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Well, stumbled across this page thanks to [mention=3693]SteelBlue[/mention] and [mention=2832]suspenceful[/mention], and quite honestly don’t know how I haven’t found it sooner! Currently have a 2009 M3 family hauler/grocery getter/autoX machine and 2017 i3 with range extender (weird car, right?) Been wrenching on BMW’s for 9 years now in a couple different dealerships between AL and WI. Grew up here in the 920 and hope to stick around for a while! A couple people on here may know me if I’ve worked on your cars, and if I haven’t then maybe some day! Hope to see some of you fellow BMW drivers on the road!

Here’s a couple pics of some of my current and previous BMWs

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Hey it was me

Well it’s about that time for me to start on another time consuming adventure and something to actually post about, so here it is.

I will try my best to take pictures of progress in case anyone is interested. Should be a pretty fun car all said and done!

Well, finally made some progress! Been a busy summer but we’re moving along.

snap said:

name 3 BMWs you would never own due to their lack of reliability/cost to repair/general PITA nature

Anything with a twin turbo V8 N63 and over 50k miles, E65/66 745’s and also M57 diesels (unless you remove all the emissions junk) All expensive to repair and generally have multiple issues

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Christmas came early

i_love_cars said:

right? we must be something like 2/10 for newcomers actually sticking around. I'll take part of the blame because I attack people about their poor financial decisions. 
OP Welcome to the group. 

But if we all have BMW’s, haven’t we all made poor financial choices already? [emoji848]

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So you’re the mysterious 335 buyer!? That’s awesome! So now this makes sense, that was me following you in the i3 the other day. I saw a silver e90 (with wheels that looked just like yours) and figured it was you in your 328, but then I saw it was a 335 and got all sorts of confused.

*delayed light bulb turning on over here [emoji362]

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@suspenceful wins! I’ve driven it a couple times but I never actually got on it enough to compare to a stock e46 M3....I’m always afraid of breaking other people’s cars on a test drive

But I imagine it moves pretty well!

suspenceful said:

Ben is messing with you. His diesel swap has been a can of worms to say the least.
Either way, glad to see you on here! Don't flake away like 90% of the newcomers. There are a variety of builds going on here, at completely different ends of the spectrum.

Hah I suppose I don’t know enough about Bens car but since I’ve never seen it on the road, I should’ve been able to put that together ‍️[emoji23]

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SteelBlue said:

I really want to get out to one of the auto x events at this track next year, I think E30 should be pretty well suited for it. I believe @MPW3RLee was there as well.

I was there, and I did see the E36 out there, looked good! @SteelBlue yes you should make an event, the E30 would do great out there, I used to track/autoX my E30 and it handled like a dream! (Although I did upgraded suspension, Bilstein shocks, Eibach lowering springs, and ST sway bars) My E90 is cool and all but the E30 was so much more predictable and controllable.

P_Roloff said:

Welcome to here! What are your impressions on the i3? Love the M3's and the e30!

The i3 is actually pretty fun to drive, it’s surprisingly quick and the employee lease deal on it is dirt cheap!

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Nice work, looks good in there! Almost like these cars should’ve came with it....[emoji848]It was certainly pretty cool when they made the Alpina E65 with a SC, minus the fact that it was still on the E65 chassis.

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GunMetalGrey said:

I got beat by an n55 135 that was only utilizing JB4 and the stock fuel system, with a bit of corn.

Time to make this go faster.

Just let me know when your ready to go single turbo, that’ll take care of that problem [emoji23]

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Looking good, your first two mods are the same first two things I did to mine! Good taste! I didn’t even make it back from my 30 hour trip and I had to make a quick stop at work to throw my grilles in, in the middle of a snow storm

snap said:

Its been a while since ive seen a red E36 M3 and its very appealing

Thats a great car you have there!

Unfortunately it’s not mine, I’m just the one putting all the go fast parts on it

SteelBlue said:

This should be pretty tasty.

Style 5s?

I think they’re some knockoff wheel but I honestly haven’t looked close enough at them. Either way I think they look pretty nice on it!