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      03-13-2021, 09:56 PM   #89
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Another small teaser! My good buddy works at a bmw dealer. Conveniently his new car needs some of my services and we're doing a little trade deal. He's going to be buying the m performance electronic wheel and giving it to me. Upon ordering, the parts manager said we were lucky. The one we bought is the last one available from a dealer in the US! They are getting rare!
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I can confirm that the m performance electronic wheel works with the Arwron gauge. Man this thing is a masterpiece!
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Pretty surprised this thread isn't getting more love LOL. Oh well. More bad ass mods to come! KW clubsports have been ordered. SPL front endlinks are coming this weekend.

Also going to do a set of square wheels for the track!
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Pretty surprised this thread isn't getting more love LOL. Oh well. More bad ass mods to come! KW clubsports have been ordered. SPL front endlinks are coming this weekend.

Also going to do a set of square wheels for the track!
dw I'm here haha
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      04-12-2021, 10:19 PM   #94
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Pretty surprised this thread isn't getting more love LOL. Oh well. More bad ass mods to come! KW clubsports have been ordered. SPL front endlinks are coming this weekend.

Also going to do a set of square wheels for the track!
dw I'm here haha
Much love man. I just can't believe not many other people have chimed in. Not much love.

I'm just a hard ass working dude that loves his car lol
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Apex ec7 18x10et33 square set up of wheels has been ordered! I'm sick of destroying tires and hammering my BBS's on track.

Also grabbed the autotecnik m mirror conversion from IND with a gift card I had lingering around. Definitely can't wait to have sweet carbon mirrors again. IND probably has some of the best customer support in the industry. IND-Distribution thank you for selling top quality parts with amazing service!
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Turbosmart diverter valve, PS2 install kit, PS2 turbo and Do88 auxiliary radiator are all in!

Next stop....stage 2 turbo time! Cannot wait to get this stuff bolted on and see if the beast hits 500whp!
That's the goal!

Honestly people ask me when it'll be done...NEVER! It'll never be done! This car will be with me for a very long time and I plan on building it non stop!

It's the one thing that makes all my hard work feel worth it.
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Great progress dodder! I love do88 and will be ordering their stuff once it's available which will be quite soon.
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Great progress dodder! I love do88 and will be ordering their stuff once it's available which will be quite soon.
Need to get slicer to stock it. Seems like pretty high quality at a really nice price point
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Great progress dodder! I love do88 and will be ordering their stuff once it's available which will be quite soon.
Need to get slicer to stock it. Seems like pretty high quality at a really nice price point
It's solid stuff. I had their full setup on my e92 with Harrop. It will definitely be the best setup out there IMO. Close second is Wagner. CSF literally HOT garbage.
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Awesome build! Love seeing the pictures!

Where in CA are you?
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      04-28-2021, 09:02 PM   #101
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Great progress dodder! I love do88 and will be ordering their stuff once it's available which will be quite soon.
Need to get slicer to stock it. Seems like pretty high quality at a really nice price point
It's solid stuff. I had their full setup on my e92 with Harrop. It will definitely be the best setup out there IMO. Close second is Wagner. CSF literally HOT garbage.
Haha wish I knew that before I bought the CSF oil cooler.

What can you do lol
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Awesome build! Love seeing the pictures!

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This week after a longgggggg anticipated few months I got my KW clubsport 3 ways.

Today I had the chance to install them along with my SPL front sway bar end links. With the endlinks I was finally able to zero out my sway bar.

I'm really helping with the new setup the car will be the best yet!!

Next weekend the pure stage 2 and blow off is going in!
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Also! Beat part! After a year wait my custom plates came!
As a 9x international PPF installation champion I felt this plate was fitting.
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      05-30-2021, 01:31 AM   #105
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Well guys after many years of having a high horse power fast car, after working on thousands of customers nice cars. I feel very proud to say that I have built myself one bad ass M2 and it'll keep getting sweeter with time.

I absolutely love this car and plan to keep it forever. One day it will be converted to a full track car like the Schimir cars or Tyspeed TT car. It won't be a copy cat of theirs but my own vision.

With out further ado Id like to announce that my Pure Stage 2 turbo is in the car! I didn't take many photos because I just get to working and don't care to take photos lol. The photo that will matter is my dyno graph once I hit the rollers! So below I just want to share the experience with you guys to possibly help any other DIY'r that wants to do this.

Tools I'd recommend: sockets deep and short, a plethora of extensions, wobbles and swivels, a Milwaukee electric ratchet, PATIENCE. This job took me 13 hours start to finish.

Hold ups- a few of the manifold bolts are blind and tricky to get at. If you follow the Kies Motorsport tutorial on YouTube it does a great job at walking you through everything. The old manifold gaskets get stuck in the head. It was messy to get them out. Flakes of crap raining on my face. I used a harbor freight body panel pry tool to dig out the majority. Then a small flat head to scrap the aluminum clean.

A few of the manifold bolts are blind, you can access them pretty well from the top and bottom. On the hard to see ones I stuck the Torx in first then connected the ratchet.

If you live in a salted road place I'd highly suggest just buying all new coolant and oil lines for the turbo. In socal I never drive in the rain so all my bolts and lines looked almost new. I did replace the o rings with the ones supplied in the pure turbos install kit. If I had to do it again I would just piece together my own kit because the o rings in their kit are not OEM bmw. And some of them were wrong. So I had to reuse my coolant line o rings.

Drain the coolant from the aux radiator first and then the water pump. You will get less of a coolant shower this way. Man that craps sticky lol upon completion turn the heater on high and the fan on low immediately after turning the ignition on. Then hold the gas pedal to the floor for 10-15 seconds. Leave the coolant cap off and top off the expansion tank as needed. Lastly I used a Schwaben vacuum coolant filler tool to test for leaks in the coolant system after I had the car bleed it for me twice. I put 11.5lbs of vacuum on it and it held it for over a minute. Coolant hood to go!

While I had everything apart I did the Do88 auxiliary radiator. It's massive compared to stock and install was easy. Just follow the supplied directions.

If your car has corrosion I would maybe not recommend this unless you are a very very proficient diy guy. If my car had corrosion I would have been soooo pissed off fighting the bolts and lines. So maybe think twice if that's you!

Hope this helps! Lmk if you have any questions!
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I've been lurking this build for a while and absolutely love seeing the passion and the progress you put into this mini beast.

And the new plate is perfect

Thanks for letting us follow you on your journey!
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I've been lurking this build for a while and absolutely love seeing the passion and the progress you put into this mini beast.

And the new plate is perfect

Thanks for letting us follow you on your journey!
Thanks man! It's all about the passion for me. I've loved cars for my entire life.
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Well guys the day has come that I am going to a custom ECUTEK tune with the man himself cookiesowns

Today I installed the Bend Calibration ultimate flex fuel kit and wired in the ethanol content sensor. The fuel filter kit is top of the line! Super high quality, very easy to install. Everything fit great!

Before we tune the car I will also be installing the bosche EU5 injectors from the n20/older n55. Joseph tells me they flow 20% more fuel and we can keep cylinder temps down. With the addition of the pure stage 2 I definitely think This will be a worthwhile addition.

On the BM3 stage 2+ e30 map I have timing pull in cylinder 3/4. Before the PS2 timing was consistent all the way. So I think something is going on.

All this recent work and decision to go with a custom tune is coming with a hefty price tag. But I didn't want to come as far as I have with my build and then cheap out on the most critical piece…tuning! I want this car to run like a top so I can continue to slap her ass hard for years to come!
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