I’ve posted several things on the car since I got it, but thought it’s time to put stuff in one place. Picked up the car with 61k on it in 2008. I’d been looking for a wagon for awhile when this popped up. They get snatched up quickly, and the timing was always wrong. The day this popped up I drove to this shady dealer on the IL/IN line to check it out.
Was expecting the worst, but not too bad. Car was clearly neglected, but miles were low. Every wheel had a different brand tire, covered in scratches, one fender was repainted and dull. Front seats broken, missing body clips, misfires with the slightest throttle input.
I spent the first 6 months doing all the maintenance. Brakes, tires, vanos solenoids, plugs, coils, fixed seats. Then full wet sand and buff and paint correction.
I wanted more power, but I’m lazy and didn’t want to go too deep into it. So I put in a the biggest FMIC I could fit in it, some cone filters and a canned MHD stage 1+ tune and went to the track. Ended up with a 12.4@111. Since then I’ve added a multiple spray progressive meth system, and replaced the mid pipe with mandrel and used Tunerpro to custom tune it on an E40 blend. Haven’t been back to the track since, but the car absolutely rips now.
I recently found a set of sport wheels for it with newer tires. Refinished them and did some other suspension work. I like corners but value my comfort, so nothing crazy. Stock BMW sport springs, Bilstein B4’s, stock front bar with polys, poly thrust arm bushes, rear M5 bar with polys. With the all wheel drive, 275/30 in back, and 245/35 in front it handles really well and still doesn’t beat me up.
Random pics from some projects
Was expecting the worst, but not too bad. Car was clearly neglected, but miles were low. Every wheel had a different brand tire, covered in scratches, one fender was repainted and dull. Front seats broken, missing body clips, misfires with the slightest throttle input.
I spent the first 6 months doing all the maintenance. Brakes, tires, vanos solenoids, plugs, coils, fixed seats. Then full wet sand and buff and paint correction.
I wanted more power, but I’m lazy and didn’t want to go too deep into it. So I put in a the biggest FMIC I could fit in it, some cone filters and a canned MHD stage 1+ tune and went to the track. Ended up with a 12.4@111. Since then I’ve added a multiple spray progressive meth system, and replaced the mid pipe with mandrel and used Tunerpro to custom tune it on an E40 blend. Haven’t been back to the track since, but the car absolutely rips now.
I recently found a set of sport wheels for it with newer tires. Refinished them and did some other suspension work. I like corners but value my comfort, so nothing crazy. Stock BMW sport springs, Bilstein B4’s, stock front bar with polys, poly thrust arm bushes, rear M5 bar with polys. With the all wheel drive, 275/30 in back, and 245/35 in front it handles really well and still doesn’t beat me up.
Random pics from some projects
really good work
