Project: Demo Car (e36 content)

[Majend]

few shots from tonight, my friend kelsey had her camera with her so there are better pics coming and maybe a video eventually but we'll see. There are still a number of small things to sort out. First my 20mm spacers didn't get here today. We tested everything up front with the 25mm just to make sure but i wanted to say something before a bunch of people said i needed spacers up front. Right now there are just a pair of 5mm on the front wheels. Second i need to roll/pull the rear fenders more and max out the camber on the stock arms. Hopefully both of those things will be sorted out tomorrow and then i have an alignment scheduled for monday after work so if nothing else the rear camber with be taken care of then.


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i am a happy camper right now

[Majend]

20mm came in the mail this morning so i put them up front, this is as low as i can go right now and still be able to turn the wheel without the tread catching the fender in the front


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[Majend]

took the car out to my dad's house for dinner


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[womensecks]

Those fake Recaros woulda killed me, too, for that long of a drive.

Progress looks good. Dump the seats ASAP!

[Majend]

my friend Jarad wanted to shoot the car so we went out on sunday and took a few photos, the rest will be up as soon as i get them from him

[Majend]

I decided to finally do the airbox on the BMW. When I bought the car it just had a cone filter on a 45 degree elbow. it sounds great but it looks REALLY cheap in the engine bay. I want to go with a more OEM+ look in the engine bay so i wanted to grab a stock airbox. Luckily my friend Travis had one but i still wanted a bit more volume than the stock box. I am pretty sure what I am doing is going to harm the performance over the stock airbox but given that the setup I have right now doesn't have a heat shield I would have to imagine that it at least wont be worse than the current setup.

So here is the stock box on my messy coffee table


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and here is the section I wanted to remove


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I wanted to get a clean line so I put some yellow tape down so I could draw out where I wanted to cut, Nora approves


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then I went downstairs and cut the section out with a dremel


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and then I finished off the edge with some sandpaper just to clean it up. You won't really be able to see this when it is in the car but I felt it was important.


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I'm going to put it in the car sometime this week but it is a bit cold and dark out to do it right now hehe.

[Majend]

just got the shots from sunday, here are my favorites

[244Brick]

I see you love the driver side haha Looks good man!

[Majend]

I see you love the driver side haha Looks good man!

a shelf fell on the passenger side under the PO's care so there are some small dents. they are all coming out in the spring

[jrad4real]

Second pic..... <3

[Majend]

some shots from this weekend, had a little GTG at an awesome local business blunttech and there was some awesome color at my father's house so i couldn't help myself with taking a few pictures. I really need to get a better camera...




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[Majend]

[Majend]

windows stopped working in the car today and i'm at a bit of a loss since my DMM was stollen out of my garage a while ago.

I did want to do something today so i decided to sort my airbox out. I went to ACE and found a plug that fit into the hole that is in the OBD1 box and put the airbox in the car. SOOOOOO happy with how it looks now, i really ***** the old "intake"

ugh so cheap looking....


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mmmmmmm OEM goodness


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[Majend]

went down to my friend Craig's place after work today to try one his spare amps. Since i bought the car none of the front speakers have worked. i figured it was either the headunit or the amp and i was right, the amp was bad. bought craig's working spare and now i finally have sound from all four corners.

that being said the speakers themselves have seen better days and need to be replaced. i want to keep everything as OEM looking as possible so i am looking to order this speaker upgrade package from BSW

This weekend my father and i are going to modify the OEM headunit so i have an AUX cable. Currently i have a tapedeck adaptor but i really don't like the audio quality from it so i am going to follow this DIY. My dad is a far more competent with a soldering iron and we have been looking for projects to do together so this will do quite nicely.

[Majend]

had my brother design my new Tumblr page

http://thatwheelguy.tumblr.com