What have you done with or to your M3 today?

[spammysammich]

Temporary repair to under body panel and removed side skirts to clean the dirt out from under and seal the paint beneath them. Never fails. As careful as I alway am, I can never seem to hang on th the center dowel for the push rivets. I always misplace one. When you order spares. Buy two at a time. Two is one, one is none.

[askme]

Throttle actuators. Followed the FCP video. Easy Peasy (well, I’ll start another post on what went wrong). 3 hrs taking it slowly.

[GinTonic]

Originally Posted by CamasM3e93

I would count becoming a member of the BMW CCA as one of the most important stages of my life.

Paying a $60 fee was an important stage of your life?
Cant tell if this post is serious or not. What did you get out of being a BMW CCA member, except for the literature they send you once every blue moon?

[DRLane]

Originally Posted by GinTonic

Paying a $60 fee was an important stage of your life?
Cant tell if this post is serious or not. What did you get out of being a BMW CCA member, except for the literature they send you once every blue moon?

CCA was the intro to my track life. Which has been a pretty significant development of new friends, skills, and a large loss of personal savings…

[CamasM3e93]

Originally Posted by GinTonic

Paying a $60 fee was an important stage of your life?
Cant tell if this post is serious or not. What did you get out of being a BMW CCA member, except for the literature they send you once every blue moon?

The club is very active in my area. Car shows, club drives, coffee events. 37 drivers at today’s event, fairly common here.

[shimmy23]

Originally Posted by F80_Katz

Went on a spontaneous road trip the other night to pick up an RKP catless resonated mid pipe. Purchased from a very nice gentleman on here. Couldn’t be happier with the sound paired to my MPE. It’s incredible. Very clean sound and zero drone even at highway speeds. Also had my buddy make some reinforcement plates so I could install a Pom performance rear Gts wing. Looks good but not happy with the fitment overall.

lovely reinforcement plates but the way that's chopped would just drive me nuts. clean up those cuts! lol

[ronniem3]

Finally got my throttle actuator .
Also Replaced spark plugs, fuel injector. (Had two that was stuck open ) and Fuel breather valve.

Now I wait for new valve cover . Cause the i really really need to replace them gasket .


Until than I’ll just take my time and clean up the engine bay from all the oil build up

[DanMpower]

I took her to work, and she hit 17k miles. Gotta love that MPG.

[Helmsman]

Originally Posted by ronniem3

Finally got my throttle actuator .
Also Replaced spark plugs, fuel injector. (Had two that was stuck open ) and Fuel breather valve.

Now I wait for new valve cover . Cause the i really really need to replace them gasket .


Until than I’ll just take my time and clean up the engine bay from all the oil build up

Good work!

How did you notice that the injectors where stuck open mate?

[ronniem3]

Originally Posted by Helmsman

Good work!

How did you notice that the injectors where stuck open mate?

I could smell it , car was burning gas alot faster, also it would only run if I had my foot on the gas , plus seen gas coming out the exhaust .


It was a nightmare

[exVtekGuy]

First bath in a long time ..

[spammysammich]

Originally Posted by ronniem3

I could smell it , car was burning gas alot faster, also it would only run if I had my foot on the gas , plus seen gas coming out the exhaust .


It was a nightmare

You might want to consider inspecting your cylinders with a bore scope to ensure your cylinder walls are not scored from being washed with that much fuel. Bore scoring has been demonstrated to cause loss of compression in a few members engines recently. It’s a problem for the S85 powered community too. As is the risk of hydrolock depending on how much fuel leaked in.

[jvictormp]

Originally Posted by ronniem3

I could smell it , car was burning gas alot faster, also it would only run if I had my foot on the gas , plus seen gas coming out the exhaust .


It was a nightmare

wow, that's dangerous!! I would definitely follow that suggestion below.

I lost an s65 engine due to fuel hydrolock.

Originally Posted by spammysammich

You might want to consider inspecting your cylinders with a bore scope to ensure your cylinder walls are not scored from being washed with that much fuel. Bore scoring has been demonstrated to cause loss of compression in a few members engines recently. It’s a problem for the S85 powered community too. As is the risk of hydrolock depending on how much fuel leaked in.

[jvictormp]

Originally Posted by ATLIEN

Good deal. I always wonder what folks are doing that take long journeys.

I’ve got a space saver spare (along with the goo) that works for the rear wheels but is too small to clear the rotors in the front. Would love a solution that would clear all four.

excuse me for flooding this page.

let me tell you my history.

first trip I made was luckful. I purchased the car about 1000 km from home. flew there, got the car, and came home driving. car was badly maintained, so it didn't have triangle sign, or spare tire, or jack, or puncture kit, tow hook, anything. i was a reckless youngster at that time. nothing happened, i got home happy and joyful.

second long trip I made, this time more conscious, about 800 km, had all tools in the car, but not a spare coil, guess what happened? cyl 5 coil's out with 120 km remaining to arrive at the destination. had to drive all that distance with cyl 5 shutdown where I got a replacement coil.

third long (not much) trip, 350 km, i ran over a dog on the highway, broke radiator lower bracket. Didn't figure it out at the moment (I stopped to see, dog walked out relatively good), followed the trip on, radiator hose made contact with the ac pulley, made a puncture on the hose, lost coolant fluid. PITA, silver tape on it, zip ties on the radiator bracket, finished the trip, and got home putting tap water in the reservoir each 50 or 100 km, because I didn't take coolant or distilled water with me.

fourth long trip, last week, had two spare coils , bottles of coolant and distilled water, broke a read right control arm bolt. discovered that the last owner put a helicoil due to damaging the M12 thread that holds the bolt, drilling and taping it to M14, and as it's got less threads than the knucle itself, it overcharged the bolt threads, and several years later, it broke in a long trip.

7 hours later I managed to extract the bolt, get another helicoil and M12 bolt on the road and took the trip ahead. that was a trackday trip, and I did not let that occurrance prevent me from racing. that's the video a posted one or two pages before this.

when I got home I removed the helicoil, and made use of the M14 thread, putting an M14 bolt, drilling the control arm bushing to 15mm. don't judge me, thanks, a new knucle will arrive in Brazil for about $2k, I won't do that for now.

so.

bad things happen - or not - in long trips. put some tools and items in the trunk.

[Pheonix]

Finally got a chance to swap the brakes

[Gossypiboma]

Originally Posted by spammysammich

Temporary repair to under body panel and removed side skirts to clean the dirt out from under and seal the paint beneath them. Never fails. As careful as I alway am, I can never seem to hang on th the center dowel for the push rivets. I always misplace one. When you order spares. Buy two at a time. Two is one, one is none.

Whats the part number for that retainer with the center pin?

[Ubersmooth]

Gave it a wash after sitting under a tree for far too long. Love ILB

[spammysammich]

Originally Posted by Gossypiboma

Whats the part number for that retainer with the center pin?

I think it is this:
https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/par...&q=51161881149

Luckily I found mine after sweeping my garage floor.

[kawstik]

Originally Posted by ronniem3

Finally got my throttle actuator

How long did it take EPM to get you your actuators? I bought mine on 4/9 and haven't heard a peep.

[DanMpower]

Originally Posted by F80_Katz

Went on a spontaneous road trip the other night to pick up an RKP catless resonated mid pipe. Purchased from a very nice gentleman on here. Couldn’t be happier with the sound paired to my MPE. It’s incredible. Very clean sound and zero drone even at highway speeds. Also had my buddy make some reinforcement plates so I could install a Pom performance rear Gts wing. Looks good but not happy with the fitment overall.

Do you have a lot of rasp in the upper revs with that setup combined with the MPE? Any video clips?

[Kingjames31]

Originally Posted by Ubersmooth

Gave it a wash after sitting under a tree for far too long. Love ILB

Mannn this looks too nice.

[F80_Katz]

Originally Posted by DanMpower

Do you have a lot of rasp in the upper revs with that setup combined with the MPE? Any video clips?

Not much rasp at all pretty clean sound. I have a little clip on my Instagram @justanothere90