Liam821's Phoenix Yellow

[12Gage333]

Doing a imola interior swap from dove. Have everything but the dash. Originally was going to just get a black one but I think I'm going to have my gray one wrapped in leather. Any chance you want to sell the imola wrapped dash. Great job on your project... I'll take an intake if u get that sorted out very cool to try and build that. Let me know thanks

[king-rb]

Looking good! Always love to see the early release colors of PY & LSB in action. 👍🏼

[Will]

Congrats on getting it road-ready, that's a big milestone. Car's looking great!

[liam821]

Looks great

. Thanks, Ian!

Let me know if you wanted to sell your staggered ZCP wheels, I'd come down from Seattle to pick them up 👍🏼

Car looks good.

I'll let you know for sure. They're actually not in the best condition, although they look pretty good in pictures freshly washed still "wet". The clear coat on the front driver side is peeling from brake fluid spilling all over it and has a big curb mark and the other three are a bit scratched here and there. I need to get new tires soon and was going to have them refinish at the same time.

[r4dr]

Let me know if you wanted to sell your staggered ZCP wheels, I'd come down from Seattle to pick them up 👍🏼

Car looks good.

[Obioban]

Looks great

[liam821]

I've been so insanely busy lately I haven't had time to do anything car related... But I did wash the car the other day - literally the first time I've ever washed the car since I've owned it... And yeah, I washed it in the middle of the night because its the only time I can find the time. ugh

[testliam821]

This is a test post liam821 .

[liam821]

Impressive work 3D printing the clip. Looks like you won't need it but for anyone else following this thread, you can buy a headlight repair kit from BMW for $30 that includes the clips.

Oh snap! I didn't know that. I guess I saved myself $30, but good to know. If anybody is looking for the STL for the headlight clip, just PM me and I'll be more than happy to give it to you.

BMW headlight repair kit: https://www.ecstuning.com/b-genuine-...h/63126904664/

[Titaniu//M]

Impressive work 3D printing the clip. Looks like you won't need it but for anyone else following this thread, you can buy a headlight repair kit from BMW for $30 that includes the clips.

[heinzboehmer]

Nice, looks so much better with the stock headlights.

[liam821]

Excellent work so far. Glad you went with all black interior. it flows much better than Imola. And the ZCP dash trim is a nice finishing touch.

It saddens me to see pix of the Lagos blue in that shape. Such a rare specimen. Any pics of the Imola beast?

Yeah, it saddens me too. It sucks having to see it in the garage. I'm hoping to get it out and scrapped - if I can ever find any free time to work on that. Ian might kill me if I don't find some free time (ha ha!) I'm really happy with the interior as well, it came out really good. Still a bunch more to do, but you know, time...

Imola? You mean my red e93m3? It's not super interesting, it's completely stock...but here is a snap of my wife and kids. We don't drive it much and keep threatening to sell it, but honestly, it's not really worth much and its paid for...but it's a 6MT and v8 sounds with the top-down is pretty amazing.



I did do a small project though. A friend of mine, he is also a forum member here and also has a PY e46m3, ended up having to replace his headlights so I bought his old stock headlight housings off him. You can see in the pictures above the headlight housings were painted black and had the angle-eyes installed. I wasn't really a fan of either. As I was swapping the housings though I noticed that the white plastic clip that holds the bottom of the housing in place so they can tilt/be adjusted was broken. So the housings wouldn't stay in place. ugh To make matters worse its not a part you can buy from BMW unless you buy a whole other headlight.

Here is the clip:


You can see the side that snaps into the headlight is broken


So before I tried to buy the cheapest headlight I could find just for a $0.14 clip, I figured I'd give it a go of modeling in Fusion 360 and 3d printing a new one!

Looks pretty good, lets print it.


3d printed using PETG on the left, original on the right


Right off the printer, I cleaned it up a bit before I tried to use it


I popped the piece into the back of the housing, it fit perfectly! Put the headlights back together and put them back on the car. My phone camera caught the light weird, but you get the idea. Our clone of Ian's i3 in the garage on the left.


I also replaced the smoked corner lights with OEM corners off my old blue car


Still have to do the alignment/suspension setup/bleed the brakes/blah blah. Hopefully, I can get a day to myself to catch up on things. More to come!

[Maxima SE]

Excellent work so far. Glad you went with all black interior. it flows much better than Imola. And the ZCP dash trim is a nice finishing touch.

It saddens me to see pix of the Lagos blue in that shape. Such a rare specimen. Any pics of the Imola beast?

[liam821]

Very impressive build!
What are your impressions on the Fortune Muller coilovers so far? out of curiosity, do you have experience with any other setups to compare them to?

I've had Bilstein PSS9s and KW V3s as well. I still need to do an alignment and adjust the suspension a bit before I give a proper review. And thanks!!

[big greasy taco]

Very impressive build!
What are your impressions on the Fortune Muller coilovers so far? out of curiosity, do you have experience with any other setups to compare them to?