98 alpine 3 328i

[Broche]

My friend and his WRX


Me, looking like a major awkward creep




Yes, I admit i need wider wheels.... But they work for now while I'm broke. I tucked my exhaust up another 2", installed rear mudguards, and removed the front lip.

Currently I need new motor and transmission mounts and a new steering guibo. Transmission mounts and steering guibo are on order and I am waiting on money for new motor mounts. Then I should be able to lift up the motor and transmission and sell my xbrace then go lower. Also test fitting my friends style 42s this weekend with my 20mm spacers to see how I can handle et0. If I can run them I will probably be picking up some 17x8 e0 throwing star reps.

[Broche]

Car is no longer track oriented that lasted about 5 days hahha

[meech]

lol still looks nice man

[My_156cm_pickle]

buy my buddies 17x8 bbs rc090's freshly refinished not a mile on them. 1300$

and i don't go on here. so shoot me a text if you're interested.
six zero nine six one zero five nine eight three.

[MrViicc]

real quality work man I'm digging the car a lot!

[Broche]

So, i snapped a transmission mount and got bolt through ones from UUC, then this happened:

https://vimeo.com/90820029

Shook like that all the time, so I figured the sold mounts must have amplified another problem in the car (possibly something off balance in the engine). I checked the harmonic balancer, but no luck. I did a lot of testing and nothing was hitting anything and there was no misfire on it or vacuum leak. I then read up on dual mass flywheel failures. I had the exact symptoms of a failing flywheel. So I bit the bullet and got my car on the lift (which was a task and a half) and dropped the transmission out:



The clutch, pressure plate, and flywheel were pretty messed up, which explains why my car smells like burning clutch whenever i park it. The pressure plate side of the clutch is litereally ripping apart



This most likely explains why my clutch has felt so shady for the 8,000 miles I have had the car. I cleaned everything so far and painted my tunnel and floor welds up again so they don't rust anymore.



Ordering all the parts tomorrow most likely. This should fix everything and hoping to get the car back on the road by next weekend. Breaking in a new clutch is going to suck though.

[Broche]

So everything should hopefully be here by Friday, lifting the motor up and going lower shortly after 😈 cleaned the transmission:

[hazelbeiz]

Get it on the road! Just got mine road legal not too long ago

[Broche]

98 alpine 3 328i

Get it on the road! Just got mine road legal not too long ago

It's been on the road for the last 6/7 months but this decided to break



And clutch won't come in until Monday 😡😡😡😡😡

[Broche]

Update: car is back together and everything is great. I **** this break in period thing I still have "500" miles to go until I start to open up on it. But I have been speeding up the process to get it moving along.

By, now my head gasket is seeping oil and so is my new rear main seal and oil pan and everything pretty much.

So now I am planning in pulling my motor and stroking it with the m54b30 rotating assembly. And fixing all the leaks.

[Broche]

So my phone broke and I lost a lot of random pictures I took. I have since lowered my car more to where it is now. I don't know how people say that racelands don't go low enough for them. I can still adjust down another and I still have 1.5" of shock travel downwards right now.

[Broche]

Well.... A LOT has happened since June.. I acquired an addiction to lowering it more...



And more...



And more...



Then I went on a cruise of the kangamangus where there was some construction on the road... I figured... I can totally make it... Well I didn't...





Got towed home and realized I ripped my FPR out and broke my 3/2 valve to pieces.. I ended up raising the car 3" to get it on the truck then kept it like that



I kinda liked being able to really drive my car so I did this





Which brings us to two weeks before h2o. I needed tires because my inner tie rods were bad up front and caused terrible toe wear, so since I was getting ready to build the car for something more than being low... I bought bigger tires



The no front bumper look was just to get by until I fixed the broken bumper mounts... A week before h2o I was on my way home from work and a statie thought I was being disrespectful and my exhaust was too loud... So he throws me a reckless op... Which was a bummer... So I took off my twin 2.25" straight pipes and umnitza catback and got a single 3" with a mag aglow muffler. Quieted it down for a while until I cracked my headers (onto that later).

So... Off to h2o... Anddddd problems.

First off... I blew my alternator...$350 later... It's running, h2o was great! Now to get home...



ANDDDDD my upper radiator hose splits somewhere in NJ... Fix it on the road with some duct tape, and bleed the system... Get another 40 miles down the road and my friends WRX dies... I brought everyone home and the WRX was towed to a distant relatives house so back to NJ it was the weekend after h2o



While in ocean city I made OCPD roll call in a buddies car



And gained some scene points in a another friends WRX



I figured... I want to drift... So that's what I'm going to do... I continued to do small things and buy parts. First was repair from h2o



With the new fan setup I haven't had anymore cooling issues... Then I laid format for a while just actually driving the car instead of fixing it.



I bought wheels shortly after that. 20mm spacers stayed on.







Then the snow came so it was back to stock wheels for winter, last picture before they were removed





Got a roller



I drove pretty stock throughout the winter until one night about 5 weeks ago I had a major electrical issue causing my DME not to turn on and after 4 weeks it ended up being my fusible link was putting out 2.54 Megohms of resistance. Got it to start finally then immediately pulled the motor, no throttle body gasket hence the terrible running...

https://vimeo.com/120554709

And the current state of the car finally







To do/waiting list before engine reinstall:
Still waiting on my shifter
Trying to get a broken stud out of the head
Run brake lines for hydro and fit them

My old wheel and z3m shifter setup are for sale if you one is interested

[DeMaroE46]

Looks good on the Kosei's! I had a set that I ran on my E46 and I loved them!

[TWM Performance]

Sweet ride man! Love the K-1s

Renato
Team TWM Performance

[_e90]

Woah, that steering wheel is awesome, what is it?

Looks like you've had some fun with the car so far. Keep it up! Sub'd.