What did you do to your car today?

[tiFreak]

I think it is judging by my butt dyno first impression, it definitely looks really cool when you pop the hood at least

[jae_rex]

I'm about to clay-bar, buff, and polish the Ti. I've never done this since buying it back in Summer of 09. Paint still shines though.

[kuleinc]

Finally put the new hellrot fender on the red car, still need a good nose panel...

[zoner]

Originally Posted by tiFreak

yesterday I installed my Mason Engineering strut bar and removed all my neons and most of my stickers

Yeah, I've been on the fence about one of those Mason strut bars as well... I think I'm going to install my x-brace first to try and see if I can feel a difference, then maybe get the bar and see what the incremental difference is.

Please tell me that you kept the pedobear sticker... LOL.

[tiFreak]

pedobear stayed, as well as a couple of other ones the Save the Manuals one in the corner is new



today I installed my DDM Tuning gauge rings and did the red Sharpie mod on the needles



it went pretty smoothly until it came time to plug the cluster back in, I ended up breaking part of the latch off one of the plugs luckily I managed to break it in the locked position so it won't be a problem unless I have to pull the cluster again

does anyone know what the small black plug on the far left goes to? just curious so I can know how big a deal it is if the plug needs to come out again

[trikzta]

washed my car and admire the drop in progress... missin the front.. just waiting on the new strut hats and control arms refresh kit



i kno the brakes are rusty but hey thats what happens specially when it rained the night before

[familytruckster]

Motor and trans mounts tonight


I gotta get some gauge rings. Those look great freak. I prolly should have gotten them to put on when I pulled the cluster for bulbs the other day.

[jca]

The Riken Raptor tires I had picked out couldn't be ordered by my retailer, so instead I had Uniroyal Tiger Paw Tourings mounted on my 98 base model. I chose them because they have performed well on my son's Matrix. They feel great on the highway, and I don't drive aggressively enough to miss having a performance tire on the car. I would be curious to know if anyone has had Raptors on their ti. How did you like the tire?

[tiFreak]

Originally Posted by familytruckster

I gotta get some gauge rings. Those look great freak. I prolly should have gotten them to put on when I pulled the cluster for bulbs the other day.

thanks, I'd highly recommend the DDM Tuning ones, they snapped in perfectly without any of the headaches that I read about on some other forums

also, just a warning to anyone considering the red Sharpie needle mod. I was driving with sunglasses on earlier today because I was driving into the sun and I could barely see the needles, wasn't a huge deal but definitely something to consider

[wolferj-RIP]

Originally Posted by jca

The Riken Raptor tires I had picked out couldn't be ordered by my retailer, so instead I had Uniroyal Tiger Paw Tourings mounted on my 98 base model. I chose them because they have performed well on my son's Matrix. They feel great on the highway, and I don't drive aggressively enough to miss having a performance tire on the car. I would be curious to know if anyone has had Raptors on their ti. How did you like the tire?

I have these (the Rikens) on my touring and they are nice, but i can't speak for any performance qualities of the tires, as I do not drive the wagon as "enthusiastically" as the ti...

[eurohb]

Since I am in the process of finding a new job and had sometime around friday night, I took off my LTW and HD Tuning paint the thing along with my Mtech mirrors

Somethings missing hmmm


Mtech mirrors


Long shot of the LTW (sorry no fitment pics)

[jca]

What did you use to modify the rear valence to accept the dual exhaust pipes? The job looks neatly done in the picture.

[00Smurf]

Got the m3 body harness fitted in place in the ti shell, and grafted on the wires needed to adapt the ti's non "Check control" sytems to work with the m3 18 button obc. Added the wiring needed to gain proper control of the rear wiper, added ti wiper stalk to the rest of the m3 stalk's. Dash supports mounted, steering column, pedals, dash, and started to put the euro cluster in before the night was called.

Originally Posted by tiFreak

pedobear stayed, as well as a couple of other ones the Save the Manuals one in the corner is new

today I installed my DDM Tuning gauge rings and did the red Sharpie mod on the needles


it went pretty smoothly until it came time to plug the cluster back in, I ended up breaking part of the latch off one of the plugs luckily I managed to break it in the locked position so it won't be a problem unless I have to pull the cluster again

does anyone know what the small black plug on the far left goes to? just curious so I can know how big a deal it is if the plug needs to come out again

Yes all of the wires in the black connector go to the various obd2 and fuel emission equipment.

Originally Posted by jca

The Riken Raptor tires I had picked out couldn't be ordered by my retailer, so instead I had Uniroyal Tiger Paw Tourings mounted on my 98 base model. I chose them because they have performed well on my son's Matrix. They feel great on the highway, and I don't drive aggressively enough to miss having a performance tire on the car. I would be curious to know if anyone has had Raptors on their ti. How did you like the tire?

i have a set of 245/45 18's mounted on my acs type II's. Snagged em for $200 figured i'd try em out. I'll report back once the car is together though.

[kuleinc]

How did u figure out the rear wiper wiring? No one that is good with this stuff seems to live close to me... My blinkers don't even auto cancel, I guess I need to look for new column stuff...

[00Smurf]

Originally Posted by kuleinc

How did u figure out the rear wiper wiring? No one that is good with this stuff seems to live close to me... My blinkers don't even auto cancel, I guess I need to look for new column stuff...

Printed out the entire ETS Manual for both my 98 318ti and my 97 m3. What i did mostly though was just compare both wiring harness to each other to figure out which wires were not included in the m3 harness. It helped that i had the full harnesses for both cars.

I can Send you the the info on what wires are needed. the wires to add for it are not that hard once you figure out where they go.

Would you be willing to snap some pictures of your rear brake light areas? Specifically where the rear brakes plug into the harness. I'm curious to see how they wired your car at the bake lights to work with the m3 harness.