100$ 7 Series build thread yo

[Stupid Kid]

lol now take a rip of the weed and your living life pal! PS fuck name brand chain shops.

Dog weed is lame I'm straightedge.

The only reason I went there is that the discount tire out by my parents place is chill and they stretch tires and replace valve stems for free there. I went to this place cuz I thought they'd do it for free and free is the best number.

[Stupid Kid]

Hi everybody!
Special things are happening!
I'm going to share some of them with y'all so you can feel special too!

I found this:


Hilliux classic JDM mini camper.
I didn't know these existed but now that I do I feel a little bit better about the world.
I would definitely live in/drift this.


Ok now there will be a list with some words and after that some pictures. Read the fucking words they are important ok.

- I'm not cutting the springs. The shocks have less than 50k miles on them and its too blasphemous for my tastes to destroy them by cutting the springs. Furthermore this car rides incredibly well and handles decently too, which I have really come to enjoy. There's this thing called ride comfort and its pretty cool I hear.
If I want to make it low(which I still do, I haven't gone insane) I'm grabbing a pair of shorter shocks and springs and swapping them in, so I don't destroy perfectly good parts in the name of being trendy and I can put the car back in the clouds to appease middle aged men with hairy chubby bellies when I eventually try to sell the car.

-us bumpers are gorgeous.

-The cat is full of holes. No amount of muffler clay, jb weld, and dove semisweet chocolate can repair it and make it an emotionally stable and properly functioning part of my exhaust system. Which means=

-I can't get inspected because carbon monxide is bad for me and other living things. Which means=

-I can't drive it really because that is illegal and bad. As I'm sure anyone who who has had their car beached on a driveway by paperwork can attest to, this is incredibly fucking frustrating.
This car never fails to bring a massive shit eating grin to my face when i drive it and the government is depriving me of my shit.

I'm having a go at fixing it tomorrow and its going to be moderately ignorant (if it works which it will not) so stay tuned.

Ok picture time of things I have done.



Best way I've found to drop my exhaust. I spent... a significantly long time, as well as autozone's finest under the car trying to patch it up.




I found kidney grilles and 1(one) roundel for the front of the car. What a handsome young man.


Dented my kidney grilles the day I put them on. Yeah buddy.



The plam mats I had in there were mad okay but they were in the process of evolving from mats to a lot of stiff little free floating bristles that went bump in the night so they had to go.


E39 floor mats fit sorta okay in these cars. Valuable information for the 0(zero) e23 owners who are reading this.



These pictures don't do it justice but my windshield spray resivior was full of dead fire ants. I dumped a small mountain of them onto the pavement and there's another one by the engine mount.

I remember when i was riding home in the car being towed, I wasn't having a ball because it was over an hundred degrees out and because there was no batter in the car all the windows were shut and I had no power steering or power breaks and all the sudden fire ants just started crawling all over the seats and dashboard and I found that a bit unpleasant. Never found where they came from until now.


I hope you enjoyed reading this and sorry for any errors as I typed this up on my phone.

Oh and a couple shots of my e39, slammed on the only choice of coilover for show quality, budgetless, unworldly builds, jom bluelines:






The front has has come down a lot more since these pictures have been taken, the back has too. The car is back on style 42's until I get the alignment sorted out and then I'll put my 95's on. Weird as it sounds I actually haven't had them on since I've lowered it, maybe a test fit is in order.

Also yes, the turn signals on my tail lights (the top parts) are blacked out. All I'm going to say is I wouldn't even have considered doing it if my car wasn't black and I am genuinely very interested in hearing what you guys have to think about it.

Thanks,
-Kid

[milano_red]

That hilux=ballerness.

Oh and so does your 7.

[los02]

Ok now there will be a list with some words and after that some pictures. Read the fucking words they are important ok.

[Stupid Kid]

Broke a spacer today :/...


Which means I can't run my 95s on my e39 until a get a new one... I'm still going to put two on one side. That way I will see how cool it looks and be more mad that my spacer broke.




Took the exhaust of the 7. Its pretty impressive, 2 2 1/4 inch pipes that run all the way from the downpipes to the end. It also weighs at least 80 pounds. Just look at how big that muffler is :/

The muffler was replaced by the po but the rest of it is pretty rotten, it was leaking at the downpipes, cat, and the link between the resonator and the muffler. I might try to get it welded back to life in the future but for now I have a better(worse) plan.


BMW's e24 six series is widely regarded to be one of the best looking cars of the 80's.
This stunning example sprouted up as a eBay special has been growing into a full grown parts tree ever since. Every once and a while I prune it when I need parts to sell (anyone need any e24 parts?) and use one other cars.

It has a shitty little muffler shop special one piece exhaust system that was welded up on the car. Basically I'm going to take the exhaust off this car, downpipes and all, and stick it on the 7.
That's going to work right?

[fivefourzero]

looking forward to reading more of this thread as it goes on, one of the more entertaining builds for sure

[JFarhanbod]

you should send me that e24 trunk spoiler if you still have it.. jus sayin

edit: also what year is your e24? i might need some ac controls

[Stupid Kid]

you should send me that e24 trunk spoiler if you still have it.. jus sayin

Ha, good eye man. Yes I still have it, its a zender style spoiler (I'm pretty sure its a replica). The finish is a little weathered but if you sanded it I'm sure it would look great
I'm probably willing to let it go for cheap, just pm me if you're interested

looking forward to reading more of this thread as it goes on, one of the more entertaining builds for sure

Thanks!
Its pretty much zero budget but I'm definitely having fun doing it

[Stupid Kid]

6 series exhaust fits.

Bolts up to the headers and everything.
Its gorgeous. I really wish I would have gotten a picture of it sitting by the other one :/

Its also not long enough (obviously) so the muffler exit pipe sits on the strap the held the old muffler. Nbd. I just need to put another pipe at the end and I'll be golden.



Doesn't quite line up with the tunnel for the old one, haha



muffler and the cat vs my hand. There is no resonator because fuck it man. They are so tiny that I doubt they will save the whales or keep our neighbourhoods quiet. Good thing my car is 26 years old and doesn't need to pass emissions
Oh, and the existing muffler is going to be cut off and replaced with a 20$ summit racing glass pack and some stupid exhaust tip once I pass inspection.

I am happy about these things!

[JFarhanbod]

Pm sent

[jordy_wd]

Love this build

[brandn3w]

Loving the build...love your stories almost as much.

[jrc]

Loving the build...love your stories almost as much.

Same here haha, I just love they way you put the words onto the screen. It's just lovely to read, as your car is to look at.

[bennkishh]

This is basically the exact same way I regard my Jag. Dope shit

"Fuck this car, let's do [insert poor decision here] to it!" Is the name of the game.

[keeton]

Same here haha, I just love they way you put the words onto the screen. It's just lovely to read, as your car is to look at.

Freakin this man. Sub'd.