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Dr.AK
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I wish my driveway was flat enough to do a deep clean on jack stands, but it's all crooked and wobbly and I don't even like jacking up the car there lol. Kinda envious.
Love your Touring mate!
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Mar 31, 2023 21:42:59 GMT
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gorgeous, I have two E46s myself so have a fondness for them! What the eagle sticker on the front wings?
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MK3 Capri 2.0, Starion Widebody, Midget 16v, E46 Coupe, E46 Touring 330
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gorgeous, I have two E46s myself so have a fondness for them! What the eagle sticker on the front wings? That's the 'JustDeutsch' Screaming eagle, given the engine was rebuilt by the owner of the company, it denotes any car he's had a hand in.
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sonus
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That E46 looks superb 👍 I so regret buying a brand new Volvo V50 instead of a slightly used E46 back in 2007. Got my priorities straight after and have had a E91LCI 325d and now a Tanzanite blau F31LCI 340i. In truth the build quality of the E91 felt better than the F31. My ultimate car would be an Alpina B3 allrad touring in Alpina green. Looking forward to your updates!
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Current 1968 TVR VIXEN S1 V8 Prototype 2004 TVR T350C 2017 BMW 340i
Previous BMW 325d E91LCI - sold Alfa Romeo GTV - sold Citroen AX GT - at the breakers Ford Puma 1.7 - sold Volvo V50 2.0d - sold MGB GT - wrecked by fire MG ZT 1.8T - sold VW E-golf Electric - sold Mini Countryman 1.6D -sold Land Rover Discovery TD5 - sold
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Apr 15, 2023 13:49:33 GMT
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Thanks for all the compliments on the car so far. Small update, and probably the easiest fix to date. Broken off the leather strap used to lift the false floor up in the boot. Had some spare black webbing strap left over from securing the fire extinguisher so.. 15 mins later, one new strap all secured and ready to work.
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May 14, 2023 14:50:55 GMT
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Fossilfish
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May 20, 2023 17:22:17 GMT
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Saw this on track. Looking good my son
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Thank fossils for fuel!
1996 Jeep XJ Sport 2.5 Manual 1975 Scimitar 3.0 V6
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May 20, 2023 20:58:42 GMT
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Saw this on track. Looking good my son Any pictures or footage would be welcome,
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May 21, 2023 21:50:32 GMT
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![](https://i.imgur.com/YnopJPy.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/UMxfGbE.jpg) Only got 2 pics so far, but do have footage from in car, unfortunately the mic was muted! so have to put some music over it.
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May 21, 2023 22:29:34 GMT
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Last Edit: May 21, 2023 23:09:13 GMT by Sf_Manta
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Fossilfish
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Unfortunately I didn't. I recognised the car then saw you flinging it around.
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Thank fossils for fuel!
1996 Jeep XJ Sport 2.5 Manual 1975 Scimitar 3.0 V6
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Jun 17, 2023 18:07:31 GMT
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Well then, it's been an eventful few weeks for me here. Firstly back at the start of June, I prepped the car for a trip to the south of France to that 24 hour race many of us enjoy watching, and for some like my self had the oppitunity to work at in the past, and this year certainly didn't disappoint. The on track action being absolutely epic as well as getting my car on the PH stand at the Great British Welcome at the 2nd year i've visited as a spectator. Spent a few days prepping the car for the trip, including an oil change, new brake pads and a fluid flush on the brake system as i had a trackday the day after i got back from Le Mans to attend. This plus my rear washer pump deciding to fail and a quick trip to Euro's to get a replacement ![](https://i.imgur.com/DaCjLDf.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/Eqyx0v2.jpg) Day before the trip, car was all stickered up at a friend's place with another friend's chariot, a Jaguar XFR Le Mans edition if i recall? Aka 5.0 V8 and supercharged ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) . which made my 261bhp 330i look sluggish. Still both cars were loaded and driven out and back again with only one issue being the jag's washer pump decided to forgo living anymore. Once back from Le Mans, off i went to Donnington for a trackday there as I'd been invited for a well known Youtuber's birthday bash at the trackday which proved pretty fun. ![](https://i.imgur.com/HbPLBB5.jpg) Morning went well, got some good time in the car and was getting faster as the day wore on till right before lunch when i took someone out for a passenger ride when.. this happened. I caused a red flag for the first time ever in my time doing track days and had to suffer the tow back to the pits as I couldn't select any gears. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) ![](https://i.imgur.com/cJJEoV8.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/9tjWf1p.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/zsebE9O.jpg) This meant no more running for me that day and the slight issue of getting home from Donnington, easily a 70mile drive and no means to select gears. however, a suggestion of "This your tool box? got a big screwdriver handy?" resulted in some drilling of the remains (hence the hole) and this was the result :rofl: ![](https://i.imgur.com/sKzG2NS.jpg) Amazingly it worked reasonably well, and i got home without any further drama, though also made me think of it as a perfect anti theft device.. how can you drive a manual car if there's no gearstick? Still i needed to replace it and thankfully I'd kept ahold of my old shifter setup, which after a little tweeking and 2 hours rolling around under the car to wrestle it in means i've got at least something that's looking back to stock for now. I'm already talking to the vendors about a possible discount on a replacement as when I asked about it, turns out they'd had a design change post when i brought my kit likely due to failures of this nature. ![](https://i.imgur.com/lk9uHuI.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/N21QdNO.jpg) Least that's gonna work for now till i can look at a replacement, as I'm having to currently start over with my house hunting as I had to recind on an offer due to issuses and a vendor that refused to budge on price.
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Sept 13, 2023 6:12:54 GMT
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Update time, has been a while since i've had to sort out anything on the car though having to deal with saying goodbye to an uncle for the final time last Friday, house buying shenangians and a heap of test work, things are finally calming down a bit. House move is due soon so finally might have a garage soon :bounce: and another project thread on something I've had in storage for a while now and getting parts for. As for the BMW, been having a few issues with the front brakes, and the last set of discs looked like this. :eek: ![](https://i.imgur.com/UUezCs7.jpg) After some discussion with a friend who's regularly working on older BMWs, the likely culprit was the pistons sticking in the front brakes. Thusly I've ordered up some parts this week and supplies to sort things out. New piston kit arrived today, hopefully I've got the right size. ![](https://i.imgur.com/YwS863o.jpg) Shall post more this weekend once the job's hopefully been completed. Meanwhile got a supercar experience last weekend so got to thrash a Aston Martin round Silverstone
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So the last week or so has been a bit of fun in trying to refresh the brake calipers. What started out as hopefully a routine refresh ended up being a complete replacement. When stripping the caliper off the car, unfortunately one bleed nipple decided to sheer off despite my efforts. After this, it ended up being a removeal job which proved quite difficult with the caliper seized on the mounting which got complicated when getting the brake line removed. I ended up stripping that too as well as the banjo :censored: ![](https://i.imgur.com/b8oDvvk.jpg) So i was left with the delema of how to resolve this. Some investigation into options involoveed the following, either getting a pair of 2nd hand replacements and waiting 2 weeks to get them referbished by Big Red, or given it was just the front right caliper being faulty purchasing a new one from a Porsche parts specialist which had a lead time of 3-5 days. It was either £850 or £1010 and no chance of return if i got it wrong. Some double checking of the part numbers before I made the choice. Given I needed the car back pronto.. and £200 difference I opted for the latter and got a new replacement, which turned up last Tuesday. Thankfully the research paid off and I was able to get the correct replacement. ![](https://i.imgur.com/S987jYD.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/oA1aDXn.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/tydJnjc.jpg) I do plan to get another replacement for the left side and pull the old one off when i can afford to and rebuild that one. However this will have to wait till I've got the final pieces of paperwork for the house move as this is due to happen in the next few weeks, and I've got 2 weeks off work to move myself up to my new place. Once I've had some time to settle in, this should mean i can start a project i've had in the wings for a while and plan to do a youtube diary on it.
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Update of 2024.. now 10 years with this car as of the end of this year. which is crazy :eek: Still, the car had been running pretty well, bar the LH headlight decided to stop functioning just before Christmas. Given I'd already swapped out the bulb and ignitor for the xenon system, and i was having no life out of it, the 3rd part of the system being the ballast was the logical faulty part. Some checks online showed the price to be anything from £56 to over £400 :eek: with a complete headlight being the thick end of £986! I last replaced the RH headlight about 8 years ago for less than half that price! Still, a new ballast was ordered from Autodoc and landed a few days ago so today was fitting it. ![](https://i.imgur.com/HpiAZCM.jpg) Out came the headlight , swapped in the new ballast and dropped it back in. A quick test later and thankfully, it's all working. ![](https://i.imgur.com/eeIdQt8.jpg) Next big job on the BMW is a service, new wheel bearings, rear brake disc sheilds, front left caliper rebuild, headlight adjustment before the MOT is on the cards in May.
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Mar 14, 2024 18:02:22 GMT
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Update time.. kinda? Been gathering some parts for some work in April , specifically wheel bearings all need doing and a general service and MOT. So sorting that next month as I'll be getting it to Carpetsoiler for him to work his magic. As for lately, the car's been to Caffine and Machine a few times at the Bowl near Ampthill as it's not that far away for me. Been to the German night which is growing in popularity, and this tuesday just gone was a good one. Even had Taylor Hetherington of Taylor made cars and AutoAlex fame, drop by with his Z3 Supercharged 1.8. Had a good chaff about cars, good food, and found out Taylor was a fan of my Touring. There was a brand new M3 Touring in a deep green (maybe a colour choice for the manta.. hmm) there as well and the owner admited my E46 sounded better than his car :hehe: ![](https://i.imgur.com/kAOL3WZ.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/b33pVkM.jpeg)
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Update time this week, I've been off work for the past week though mainly focusing on sorting the house out and knocking off a number of jobs that have been needed doing since i moved in. One job on the BMW was fresh front tyres as the MOT's due next month and the camber had finally worn the fronts down on the corners. So a fresh set of PS5's went on for the trip end of May to Nords for the N24 and a few laps of the tourist evening after the race. ![](https://i.imgur.com/2HQQ5WP.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/jCdBtYO.jpeg) Car's going for a major service with Carpetsoiler , involving new wheel bearings, the front left caliper getting serviced, oil service and filters and having the MOT done. Hopefully some pictures to follow. I'd do the work myself but with the drive being gravel still, its not a safe surface to jack the car up on. That's going to be solved this year after the nords trip.
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Apr 27, 2024 16:52:34 GMT
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Ok update time finally, MOT all done but man.. it was a rough one this year. The car went up for a major service which included new wheel bearings all round, which started badly as I'd inadvently got the wrong bearings.. not a good start, but a deal was struck with Sam and he got ahold of SKF replacements in the correct size. ![](https://i.imgur.com/Iy55iSo.jpeg) Arms were removed, old ones pressed out and new bearings pressed in, before they were put back on with a rebuild of the handbrake mech on both sides and sliders greased. ![](https://i.imgur.com/T8DBcM5.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/9XjuUQu.jpeg) The camber arms were seized but did come loose with not much persuasion and re-greased ready for alignment with the front tie rods. Before that though.. we found rust.. seems E46's have a habit of the floor bungs in the rear foot wheels holding water and results in the floor pan rusting out... So Sam had to get his fabrication guy in for some work. I've since painted and undersealed the areas up, so hopefully no issues for a few years. We also discovered someone's tried lifting the car on the floor pan putting some dents in it! I know it's not me or Sam, though that's annoying. ![](https://i.imgur.com/k3qA8am.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/ZcY6cuo.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/EtwBDy9.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/Gpye0v9.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/at8WRL6.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/YFzt77r.jpeg) The car's since been string boxed and aligned. though one of the damper adjusters was found to be missing, and the other's stuck. Given the KW's have been on the car since 2017, the adjuster knobs have just begun to disolve, but the dampers are fine. A few calls to KW and parts were dispatched. So far 1's been replaced, the other side needs replacing but my wallet was decidedly well beaten up by the work so far. ![](https://i.imgur.com/2dWaCNz.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/UDUzoCC.jpeg) I've also had to do a few jobs once the car came back including the painting of the welded parts and underselaing them. The front drop links were looking decidedly second hand , and the missing adjuster was replaced. Also picked up some new bungs for the missing one in the floor under the seat. ![](https://i.imgur.com/2CxOluf.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/jZPiFoS.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/Rl15J4A.jpeg) Only need to wait on the paint to cure then putting the interior back together once it cures. Also need to get new front brake sheilds and get those changed out those are looking very 2nd hand, get a new adjuster for the front left damper and change that out and then it should be good for my holiday out to Germany end of May. I'd admit this car's been testing me lately and I had considered maybe getting it sorted out and then putting it up for sale, but it gives me a smile everytime I fire it up and I don't know what I'd replace it with or if it'd sell given it's quite a unique build and wouldn't appeal to most people.
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Lately I've just got back from a trip to Nords, to watch what i hoped was the 24 hour race there... as many know it ended up being 7.5 hours and ended early. Which was a downer. Upside though was Monday was open for tourist drives, as well as Tuesday. I got 2 more laps in on monday and the car was flawless. drove well. Tuesday night, I let my friend run the car for a lap, given he'd let me crash at his place for the week. Compliments came back on the car being balanced and very very capable. Then i got a message back to head over and get a lap with a youtuber at the wheel, Hopefully the video's coming soon and i'll link it here. Also managed to bump into another youtuber who's videos helped me fix an issue with the car, namely the hot start one with faulty injectors. Still, have some pictures below ![](https://i.imgur.com/EcRKrOL.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/9X61IGV.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/R6R5iyQ.jpeg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/CI6nV64.jpeg) More pictures to follow end of this month, but overall the car did near enough 1500 miles over a week and half , travelling from Nords to Alemlo in Holland to see a friend there, and got me all the way home without an issue, and back to work yesterday
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Last Edit: Jun 11, 2024 9:50:11 GMT by Sf_Manta
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