What have you done with or to your M3 today?

[Redd]

Originally Posted by chocstraw

Here's some other correspondence with another 3 letter tuner. I'm so tired of these glorified NCSExpert jockeys

You're cheesed off at a tuner who has an agreed $300 price and turned down your lowball $200 offer when he was already on the way to your place, and then politely asked to cancel? Am I missing something here? Trust goes both ways - if you don't trust him to do the job, why should he trust you to be good for the payment after he arrives?

[MLife614]

Originally Posted by Shrike360

FedEx dropped off a little something something, today. Or as I call it to friends, my third life crisis.

Install setup for Tuesday, want to thank Kevin @ EAS for putting up with my incessant bothering . Guess I got my last back road run in today as an NA car.

Very nice!!!
I will probably give in to a G1 ESS setup down the road...but for now I'M Content with my Eventuri CF setup on NA and if I need more power can jump in my
tuned X5M F85 for the Boosted side.

[Headhunter.M3]

I looked at it and smiled today

[Blindside_137]

I love my BPM tune that's all I have to say.

[VccE92m3]

finally got home after vacation haven't seen in in 5 days I got the keys turned it listened to it and smile then turned it off thats all

[chocstraw]

Originally Posted by Redd

You're cheesed off at a tuner who has an agreed $300 price and turned down your lowball $200 offer when he was already on the way to your place, and then politely asked to cancel? Am I missing something here? Trust goes both ways - if you don't trust him to do the job, why should he trust you to be good for the payment after he arrives?

I didn't lowball. That was the original price he offered, then when I said I didn't want to just zelle him money before he even arrived, he started telling me that he was doing me a favor by offering it to me at that price. I can go back and find the text where I was quoted $200, I didn't even lowball. Why the hell would anyone pay for a service before even arriving lmao ???

All of these tuners live like 5 minutes away from me anyways, not like I caused a massive inconvenience.

Enjoy the premature engine wear though ~~~!

[georgebmwM3]

Originally Posted by Redd

You're cheesed off at a tuner who has an agreed $300 price and turned down your lowball $200 offer when he was already on the way to your place, and then politely asked to cancel? Am I missing something here? Trust goes both ways - if you don't trust him to do the job, why should he trust you to be good for the payment after he arrives?

Why should you pay someone before the work is done? I can see a down payment and the rest after complete, but it's not routine to pay full price for anything until work is done.

[drwankel]

Went for a weekend adventure.

Got a few hundred miles of uncongested road and blasted 90+ for a few hours. The Harrop eats this up like its nothing. The Mr12volt running Waze alerting me where all the cops are hiding. Stayed at a hotel had a nice meal and kicked back some beers.

Doing the return on Sunday and was able to repeat it for the first 2/3, then became traffic armageddon. Waze diverted me off the freeway when there was no traffic around a dozen or so miles of windy backroads for no reason. Thanks waze! That was fun, but why? Eventually are told to rejoin the freeway, and immediate doom. Traffic for a good 40 miles.

Finally on the otherside of the freeway the reason why. Some semi truck trailer completely exploded or incinerated itself. There was nearly nothing left. Everyone on my side had been slowing down to gawk all day and created the traffic knot from hell, sending traffic to a standstill for miles before and after.

So what happened? Apparently the trailer was full of flour and caught fire. "So what?" says my ignorant self. Well apparently flour is highly flamable and explosive. Who knew?

"Is flour highly flammable? Yes, when flour is hanging in the air as dust, it will explode if ignited. Anything that's powdered and suspended in the air has far more surface area exposed to oxygen per unit weight, which can easily cause an explosion."

Only pic I could find of the carnage.

[Rochen_00]

I did a little change and rejuvenation of the plastic ring. I changed the button for a red one, and I sanded and painted the plastic ring that ends up peeling. Happy with the change

[wyatth]

Got caught checking out another lady in red. slcook54

[e90335e36m3]

Washed

[Shrike360]

Originally Posted by GotV8?

Very nice!!!
I will probably give in to a G1 ESS setup down the road...but for now I'M Content with my Eventuri CF setup on NA and if I need more power can jump in my
tuned X5M F85 for the Boosted side.

My daily is a tuned 958 CTT. It does provide some old school turbo fun. It also clearly realized the M3 was getting attention so decided to burst a coolant line the other week.

Have had an E9x M3 for over 5 years. Felt like time to either move on or boost it, because it's just feeling slow these days. And the drive of the F8x cars just do nothing for me, so boost it was.

[NiBe]

My diff was by far the ugliest thing on my car but luckily it started leaking so there was a reason to take it off and renovate it New seals, new mountings, new bolts. Btw the aluminium cooler has been water blasted.Btw drive shafts renovation will be the next step.

[Ubersmooth]

Missed the 160k mark getting coffee earlier. It's now retired from daily driver duties and gets to go full project mode soon while I get familiar with the newly acquired F82.

[DrFerry]

Originally Posted by NiBe

My diff was by far the ugliest thing on my car but luckily it started leaking so there was a reason to take it off and renovate it Btw drive shafts renovation will be the next step.

Well done. Looks like corrosion from EU salted roads had taken its toll. What specification did you set the ring and pinion gear backlash (engagement) too?
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https://www.randysworldwide.com/blogs/gear-backlash
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https://www.racingjunk.com/news/how-...ear-correctly/
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[NiBe]

Originally Posted by DrFerry

What specification did you set the ring and pinion gear backlash (engagement) too?

i can tell you but then i have to kill you

[SAMM3Y]

Originally Posted by DrFerry

I'll be on the couch waiting.. Between .08 - .12 mm is what I had.
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[NiBe]

Originally Posted by SAMM3Y

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Nope mate, it was a joke. The same with me. The truth is that the diff job has been done by a shop (actually by its external source). So I don't have all answers

[JustanotherF80]

Took her out and put some miles on her!

[SoCalRPM]

Been absent for a while - for no particular reason - but better late than never to dive back in with a pic of the new air filter, right?

[SAMM3Y]

Originally Posted by NiBe

Nope mate, it was a joke. The same with me. The truth is that the diff job has been done by a shop (actually by its external source). So I don't have all answers

Yep me too 👍 that was quite the collection!

[Shrike360]

Both cars back in the garage. Got a break-in weekend planned.

Will install the P3 Gauge tonight, while enjoying a few drinks. My other new toy, a Steam Deck, also arrived today. Play with that after