What have you done with or to your M3 today?

JJH wrote

DrFerry wrote

Stunning Interlogos Blue.. Show us more, show us more...

Thank you. And here you go ...

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Gorgeous. Love the stance and the meaty tire fitment. I'm guessing you're running a 295/35R18 on an 11 inch wide wheel with about a 30mm offset in the rear. And maybe a 265/35R18 on a 10 inch wide front? Great photo with the clouds and camera ground placement. Thanks.

Gave myself a flat tire pulling it in between the houses only to have Ian skirt us, still windy AF.

Hopefully I can repair it quick, tires only have about 7k on them.

Finally got around to installing some spacers. 15mm front and 12mm in the back
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After

DrFerry wrote

Gorgeous. Love the stance and the meaty tire fitment. I'm guessing you're running a 295/35R18 on an 11 inch wide wheel with about a 30mm offset in the rear. And maybe a 265/35R18 on a 10 inch wide front? Great photo with the clouds and camera ground placement. Thanks.

Too kind and I do appreciate it. The wheel specs are 18 x 9.5 ET23 (with PSS 265/35X18) and 18 x 10.5 ET25 (with PSS 285/35X18). Pretty standard BBS RI-A fare, so perhaps my camera angles give the impression of a wider fitment. That said, I’ve been very tempted to move to 275/35 & 295/35 front/rear on the next change, theoretically giving me the closest to the stock rolling distance.

Nice to see some new faces here. I had to replace my rear driver side window regulator cause it shit itself

Made a power steering over flow / catch can set up for track days. Should get the job done all for the whopping cost of about $4. I'll put it to the test on Watkins Glenn next month!

JustanotherF80 wrote

Made a power steering over flow / catch can set up for track days. Should get the job done all for the whopping cost of about $4. I'll put it to the test on Watkins Glenn next month!

Make sure the overflow catch tank has a hole for venting or else you're gonna end up making your power steering pump whine after hard use. Speaking from experience here. I just poked a hole in the lid of the catch tank and it doesn't leak out.

Tommysalami wrote

JustanotherF80 wrote

Made a power steering over flow / catch can set up for track days. Should get the job done all for the whopping cost of about $4. I'll put it to the test on Watkins Glenn next month!

Make sure the overflow catch tank has a hole for venting or else you're gonna end up making your power steering pump whine after hard use. Speaking from experience here. I just poked a hole in the lid of the catch tank and it doesn't leak out.

Thank you! Much appreciated.

Dream exhaust setup achieved! Although less hollow sounding (and louder), the tone actually reminds me a lot of the MPE which I've always been a fan of.

Joined the Oregon chapter BMW CCA for a 140 mile fall drive through the foothills of the Columbia River Gorge. The Harrop e90 performed well in a line of an e36 M3, an interloper Cobra gt350, an M Z3, and a long line of e46 M3s.

I can't believe I've never been out to the Dalles. One of these days...

kcdedric wrote

Dream exhaust setup achieved! Although less hollow sounding (and louder), the tone actually reminds me a lot of the MPE which I've always been a fan of.

Sounds great!

DRLane wrote

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Been collecting parts lately to spend a few days really knocking out some work. Be replacing almost every bushing under the car including subframe etc… carbon drive shaft, and finally got the rears powder coated and assembled. Waiting on pads and rotors. Then I guess the work begins!

Those engine and transmission mounts look stiff. Let us know how they feel.

They are the 95a mounts. They say street/track use. I've always have done poly bushings in the past so looking to see how these come out. Not worried about noise vibration etc. it's my fun car

You're in for a surprise with 95a trans mounts.

Do tell

They're loud You'll have to let us know how you make out. I think I made it like 3 days and had to drop back to 80A. Now that car is 99% track if consider going back, but driving 80 miles to / from track would still be frustrating.

Took me a minute to work out the bugs in the f8x rear brake conversion but got it aligned this am and it's points straight once again. In the 20 or so miles I put on her after the alignment I have to say I would do it this way over 100 times again. It's solid, planted, makes a bit more noise, but overall I was expecting much worse after the replies to my earlier post.

It's not my daily and just a weekend fun car so I'm happy with the turn out. The carbon DS was a bit tight to install but is a nice touch to the refresh.

2 👍 in my book

Vedubin01 wrote

DRLane wrote

Vedubin01 wrote

DRLane wrote

Vedubin01 wrote

Redd wrote

Those engine and transmission mounts look stiff. Let us know how they feel.

They are the 95a mounts. They say street/track use. I've always have done poly bushings in the past so looking to see how these come out. Not worried about noise vibration etc. it's my fun car

You're in for a surprise with 95a trans mounts.

Do tell

They're loud You'll have to let us know how you make out. I think I made it like 3 days and had to drop back to 80A. Now that car is 99% track if consider going back, but driving 80 miles to / from track would still be frustrating.

Took me a minute to work out the bugs in the f8x rear brake conversion but got it aligned this am and it's points straight once again. In the 20 or so miles I put on her after the alignment I have to say I would do it this way over 100 times again. It's solid, planted, makes a bit more noise, but overall I was expecting much worse after the replies to my earlier post.

It's not my daily and just a weekend fun car so I'm happy with the turn out. The carbon DS was a bit tight to install but is a nice touch to the refresh.

2 👍 in my book

Is this the 95A trans mounts?

DRLane wrote

Vedubin01 wrote

DRLane wrote

Vedubin01 wrote

DRLane wrote

Vedubin01 wrote

They are the 95a mounts. They say street/track use. I've always have done poly bushings in the past so looking to see how these come out. Not worried about noise vibration etc. it's my fun car

You're in for a surprise with 95a trans mounts.

Do tell

They're loud You'll have to let us know how you make out. I think I made it like 3 days and had to drop back to 80A. Now that car is 99% track if consider going back, but driving 80 miles to / from track would still be frustrating.

Took me a minute to work out the bugs in the f8x rear brake conversion but got it aligned this am and it's points straight once again. In the 20 or so miles I put on her after the alignment I have to say I would do it this way over 100 times again. It's solid, planted, makes a bit more noise, but overall I was expecting much worse after the replies to my earlier post.

It's not my daily and just a weekend fun car so I'm happy with the turn out. The carbon DS was a bit tight to install but is a nice touch to the refresh.

2 👍 in my book

Is this the 95A trans mounts?

Yes sir

Vedubin01 wrote

DRLane wrote

Vedubin01 wrote

DRLane wrote

Vedubin01 wrote

DRLane wrote

You're in for a surprise with 95a trans mounts.

Do tell

They're loud You'll have to let us know how you make out. I think I made it like 3 days and had to drop back to 80A. Now that car is 99% track if consider going back, but driving 80 miles to / from track would still be frustrating.

Took me a minute to work out the bugs in the f8x rear brake conversion but got it aligned this am and it's points straight once again. In the 20 or so miles I put on her after the alignment I have to say I would do it this way over 100 times again. It's solid, planted, makes a bit more noise, but overall I was expecting much worse after the replies to my earlier post.

It's not my daily and just a weekend fun car so I'm happy with the turn out. The carbon DS was a bit tight to install but is a nice touch to the refresh.

2 👍 in my book

Is this the 95A trans mounts?

Yes sir

Awesome. Again, I lasted 3 days. Please keep us posted and know this isn't a "told you so" situation. So you can be honest if it doesn't work out. 😝

kcdedric wrote

Dream exhaust setup achieved! Although less hollow sounding (and louder), the tone actually reminds me a lot of the MPE which I've always been a fan of.

Okay this sounds incredible. Zero rasp. You might have found the golden ticket.

Yeah I am happy with my exhaust that is stock with just test pipes since I really dislike the sound of nearly every exhaust. That one is good though. Nice job.

Took Meg in for a lot of work before the track day coming up on October 23rd at Laguna Seca.
* New brake pads and rotors
* test pipes on stock X-pipe (already had a 2-pipe modded box)
* Alpine Stage 2 tune
* Eventuri Plenum

I truly appreciate this forum because the test pipes, stock X pipe, and Plenum were all purchased from forum members.

Now, I've realized just how dirty my engine bay is.

spent 3 days on a one hour job. new rotors and pads all around (went with hawk hps 5 for street). spent 2 evenings unfusing spacers off the rear wheels and then fighting with the rear rotors. goes without saying that i went to town on the hubs with a wire brush afterwards.

everything's finally back together, now I just gotta bleed it and start driving again.

Great to see some new 'faces' bringing content to the forum!

Dropped Rocky off at the shop yesterday - Bavarian House in PDX - to get my Autosolutions short shift kit installed, front control arms replaced, transmission mounts, exhaust hangers, and diff work. Each of which I can do on my own but needed help on an AC issue so figured to treat myself to some clearing of the list on someone else's labor.

Only the second time I've allowed another hand to work on him. Can't stop worrying - Do you think Rocky's ok, all by himself at the shop???? So far nobody in my home will commit to an answer.

Pictured below, Rocky in between washes. Most people give their cars a female name but this Harrop supercharged, high strung 6MT car exudes a male persona with a name like Rocky demonstrating just how much pepper this car has.

Saw another e90 M3 (silverstone) in the wild a mile from the shop. I think that's my first other e90 spotted since moving from the e93, including a handful of BMW CCA events.