Thank you! I only will swap OE sect 2 for CSL green stamp sect 2 
(actually I may try a resonated X pipe just for fun sometime purely for sound reasons)
April 2020
Finally got around to installing some software and buying a license from Martyn for the binary tool. My car's already been coded by other people for almost everything I want, but my goal here is to play with the throttle settings and view flash counter (Martyn's most recent tool).
May 2020
Originally, I didn't do a great job routing my Turner IAT harness. I finally got around (I should name this thread "I finally...
) to cleaning the area up and I routed the IAT wiring along the same path as the factory wiring in the area for the cleanest look I can do I think:
June 2020
Interior work. I guess I should have bought a new set of carpets back at this point in time (hindsight, before they ran out), but I just wanted to refresh the look of the driver side one. I used soap and water to clean it, then I used my old E36 "back to black" trim dye to darken it to look newer.
Looks ok
July 2020 more interior work
Finally
decided to just rip out the tint. I've always liked tint, being in Socal, but as I've been making the car more OE/CSL looking, the tint is detracting from the look and just now looks cheap/ghetto to me. At first, I was thinking I'd have to pay someone, but it ended up being very easily actually, just using a heat gun (or hairdrier). Thanks to liam821 for tint removal info. Didn't need steam. I did use windex/water mixture to lube as I went. Almost all of it came out in whole sections, luckily. The tint is 3m, and was applied in 2010, so it's not like it was recent and that's why it came off super easily.
Used a razor blade to get the corners started (heat first)
Some little bits might get caught in the window trim. I used a razor to hold the trim off the glass, then pulled/dragged the little bits of film/adhesive with windex soaked Q-tips.
Clean
Driver side
The rear is the hardest. To make it easier (access), and because I've never cleaned/touched this area, I pulled the rear shelf.
OGs will know about the tennis balls
The good side effect of having tint for so long, for a car that was not always garaged, is that my interior is in good shape and this rear shelf isn't too faded. I was thinking of dying/spraying it, but....
After a good wash (water/drop of dish soap), it got a little darker and matches the other interior fabrics perfectly, so I don't want it black black.
Removed more weight. These are part of the child restraint sys. No car seat in this car lol
303'd the rear vent/trim
I had done this years prior, but got a picture of it now. I put some closed cell sound foam under the rear bench to quiet down the diff whine and overall road noise. I've said it before, but my goal for the car is that fine line between hardcore and BMW luxury/class. This doesn't add any weight.
Along the same lines, I added some sound deadening to the rear panel and the speaker cones.
Light weight sound blocking foam on top of the BMW foam
Rear Tint C pillars removed as well
Center shade cover has been cracked and warped a while, so finally got a new one
Pretty clean! I don't run rear headrests
Obligatory Nogaros shot. Tasty
FISHBOWL:
(actually I may try a resonated X pipe just for fun sometime purely for sound reasons)April 2020
Finally got around to installing some software and buying a license from Martyn for the binary tool. My car's already been coded by other people for almost everything I want, but my goal here is to play with the throttle settings and view flash counter (Martyn's most recent tool).
May 2020
Originally, I didn't do a great job routing my Turner IAT harness. I finally got around (I should name this thread "I finally...
) to cleaning the area up and I routed the IAT wiring along the same path as the factory wiring in the area for the cleanest look I can do I think:June 2020
Interior work. I guess I should have bought a new set of carpets back at this point in time (hindsight, before they ran out), but I just wanted to refresh the look of the driver side one. I used soap and water to clean it, then I used my old E36 "back to black" trim dye to darken it to look newer.
Looks ok
July 2020 more interior work
Finally
decided to just rip out the tint. I've always liked tint, being in Socal, but as I've been making the car more OE/CSL looking, the tint is detracting from the look and just now looks cheap/ghetto to me. At first, I was thinking I'd have to pay someone, but it ended up being very easily actually, just using a heat gun (or hairdrier). Thanks to liam821 for tint removal info. Didn't need steam. I did use windex/water mixture to lube as I went. Almost all of it came out in whole sections, luckily. The tint is 3m, and was applied in 2010, so it's not like it was recent and that's why it came off super easily.Used a razor blade to get the corners started (heat first)
Some little bits might get caught in the window trim. I used a razor to hold the trim off the glass, then pulled/dragged the little bits of film/adhesive with windex soaked Q-tips.
Clean
Driver side
The rear is the hardest. To make it easier (access), and because I've never cleaned/touched this area, I pulled the rear shelf.
OGs will know about the tennis balls
The good side effect of having tint for so long, for a car that was not always garaged, is that my interior is in good shape and this rear shelf isn't too faded. I was thinking of dying/spraying it, but....
After a good wash (water/drop of dish soap), it got a little darker and matches the other interior fabrics perfectly, so I don't want it black black.
Removed more weight. These are part of the child restraint sys. No car seat in this car lol
303'd the rear vent/trim
I had done this years prior, but got a picture of it now. I put some closed cell sound foam under the rear bench to quiet down the diff whine and overall road noise. I've said it before, but my goal for the car is that fine line between hardcore and BMW luxury/class. This doesn't add any weight.
Along the same lines, I added some sound deadening to the rear panel and the speaker cones.
Light weight sound blocking foam on top of the BMW foam
Rear Tint C pillars removed as well
Center shade cover has been cracked and warped a while, so finally
got a new onePretty clean! I don't run rear headrests
Obligatory Nogaros shot. Tasty
FISHBOWL:
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