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Read the WELCOME ALL BMWFANATICS post.
2009 Z4 35i Let the DIY and slight cosmetic modding begin.
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General.Massacre
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The colour really did the trick here.
Besides needing a driver upgrade now, this has been the best mod to the car ever...
But in all seriousness, the car has come together beautifully. everything has just tied together now that the car is White. was quite something to see when we collected it.
Besides needing a driver upgrade now, this has been the best mod to the car ever...
But in all seriousness, the car has come together beautifully. everything has just tied together now that the car is White. was quite something to see when we collected it.
michael.joseph
Active member
From following this thread from the beginning- this Z4, to me, looked perfect in black...
Seeing it in now in white makes it look even better.
Well done.
Nice snaps there with that Gulfstream
Seeing it in now in white makes it look even better.
Well done.
Nice snaps there with that Gulfstream
BeemerFanatic
Events Organiser
This thread is so inspirational! Well done!
momo1
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osiris
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So As usual work has never stopped on this car so here is a small update.
Recently I decided to replace the front cross link bar and left and right support of that bar as mine was all scratched and ugly looking and triggered my OCD every time I opened my bonnet. 12 and 13 are the parts I am talking about.
This required a lot of work to get to the part 12, part 13 was easy to change. Anyways while changing that I also upgraded my old 5" intercooler with the 7.5" race stepped intercooler which was even worse of a job due to the outlet pipe to the charge pipe angle but I made a plan in the end that worked out so well.
So first I laid out rubber matting in my garage to work on so I don't damage tiles:
Here is part 12 that I wanted to replace:
Car being jacked up and getting everything ready:
Striping underway with the help of my buddy Justin ( General.Massacre on the forum):
More stripping, the more we stripped the more we realized we needed to strip to get to this part, Turned out to be a massive job.
Yea....at this point I did start panicking thinking we wouldn't get the car back together properly again lol
I cleaned all of this as it seriously triggered my OCD when I saw all this.
And finally the old part was out! What a mission!!!
Now onto the intercooler part of things...Nice thing about the Z4, absolutely no cutting was required to fit this unlike the E90/2 etc so that was lucky.
Recently I decided to replace the front cross link bar and left and right support of that bar as mine was all scratched and ugly looking and triggered my OCD every time I opened my bonnet. 12 and 13 are the parts I am talking about.
This required a lot of work to get to the part 12, part 13 was easy to change. Anyways while changing that I also upgraded my old 5" intercooler with the 7.5" race stepped intercooler which was even worse of a job due to the outlet pipe to the charge pipe angle but I made a plan in the end that worked out so well.
So first I laid out rubber matting in my garage to work on so I don't damage tiles:
Here is part 12 that I wanted to replace:
Car being jacked up and getting everything ready:
Striping underway with the help of my buddy Justin ( General.Massacre on the forum):
More stripping, the more we stripped the more we realized we needed to strip to get to this part, Turned out to be a massive job.
Yea....at this point I did start panicking thinking we wouldn't get the car back together properly again lol
I cleaned all of this as it seriously triggered my OCD when I saw all this.
And finally the old part was out! What a mission!!!
Now onto the intercooler part of things...Nice thing about the Z4, absolutely no cutting was required to fit this unlike the E90/2 etc so that was lucky.
osiris
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And here it is in all its glory before being connected.
And its up in there with zero cutting but the following pictures will show the issue with the Z4 and this intercooler, you win some you loose some lol.
So because my custom charge pipe was custom built by TMSS as a one piece it only fit with the previous intercooler and no chance with the new one which is based on stock spec inlet and outlet pipe angles, so off I went to Sanjeeve at power flow with the stock charge pipe and got him to cut my stainless steel charge pipe to the same length as the stock pipe.
Reason being is that the only pipe of pipe that will fit and clear the serpentine belt and other parts is this OEM part, so I drimeled the perma clamps off.
This grove and the angle of this pipe is the only thing that fits perfectly from intercooler to CP, and no one in SA makes a silicon pipe this shape so it is what it is. I tried to put a 45 degree bend silicon pipe but it didn't work as it had a massive fold in it when I forced it to fit which obviously isn't ideal.
This was the outcome and its beautiful and so easy to remove, its like it came from the factory like this, everything just clears and fits like a glove.
While I was at it I replaced the silicon join from CP to Throttle body as the old one was Kaput.
All put back together and looking beautiful.
Oh yes, I also replaced the expansion bottle cap with the upgraded one as I like the decals on it and well...preventative maintenance.
And its up in there with zero cutting but the following pictures will show the issue with the Z4 and this intercooler, you win some you loose some lol.
So because my custom charge pipe was custom built by TMSS as a one piece it only fit with the previous intercooler and no chance with the new one which is based on stock spec inlet and outlet pipe angles, so off I went to Sanjeeve at power flow with the stock charge pipe and got him to cut my stainless steel charge pipe to the same length as the stock pipe.
Reason being is that the only pipe of pipe that will fit and clear the serpentine belt and other parts is this OEM part, so I drimeled the perma clamps off.
This grove and the angle of this pipe is the only thing that fits perfectly from intercooler to CP, and no one in SA makes a silicon pipe this shape so it is what it is. I tried to put a 45 degree bend silicon pipe but it didn't work as it had a massive fold in it when I forced it to fit which obviously isn't ideal.
This was the outcome and its beautiful and so easy to remove, its like it came from the factory like this, everything just clears and fits like a glove.
While I was at it I replaced the silicon join from CP to Throttle body as the old one was Kaput.
All put back together and looking beautiful.
Oh yes, I also replaced the expansion bottle cap with the upgraded one as I like the decals on it and well...preventative maintenance.
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osiris
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And now recently I decided its time to get my rims fixed and sprayed the correct colour especially now that the car is white! I got this done at Shaheen at the wheel shop who did a superb job. I will let the pictures do the talking.
All in all I am really happy with the look of the car now. The 7.5" intercooler made a monumental difference in intake temps, allot more than I was expecting, the strut bar I replaced makes the engine bay look so neat.
I did allot of other things recently on the car too like had the convertible roof repaired as two of the wires where they bend broke with age, I replaced front brakes and serviced the car twice once before my trip to Durban two months ago and then again when I got back.
Next on the list is coil overs as my left front shock has blown out and is leaking oil all over the garage floor so I am just getting quotes from all over and will replace soon as I think the car will look great with a slight drop too. Nothing overboard maybe 15mm or so.
One thing I would like to say is that I bought this car in 2017 for my birthday. It has been one of the most epic journeys of my life, I have learned so much, learned how to change turbos myself, radiators, high pressure fuel pumps and all sorts of parts...Things I never thought I would tackle in my life. Owning this car has been such a pleasure, absolutely love this car and I am always excited to drive it. Its has cost allot of time and money to get it to where it is today but I couldn't be happier it really is an amazing car to drive.
All in all I am really happy with the look of the car now. The 7.5" intercooler made a monumental difference in intake temps, allot more than I was expecting, the strut bar I replaced makes the engine bay look so neat.
I did allot of other things recently on the car too like had the convertible roof repaired as two of the wires where they bend broke with age, I replaced front brakes and serviced the car twice once before my trip to Durban two months ago and then again when I got back.
Next on the list is coil overs as my left front shock has blown out and is leaking oil all over the garage floor so I am just getting quotes from all over and will replace soon as I think the car will look great with a slight drop too. Nothing overboard maybe 15mm or so.
One thing I would like to say is that I bought this car in 2017 for my birthday. It has been one of the most epic journeys of my life, I have learned so much, learned how to change turbos myself, radiators, high pressure fuel pumps and all sorts of parts...Things I never thought I would tackle in my life. Owning this car has been such a pleasure, absolutely love this car and I am always excited to drive it. Its has cost allot of time and money to get it to where it is today but I couldn't be happier it really is an amazing car to drive.
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osiris
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Oh yes, sorry for the backwards posts, I am just remembering stuff as I post and finding pics so these are not in order, The rim repair and spray was the latest update but here is the port methanol injection install I did last year, the car was still black at the time and front strut thing wasn't replaced yet.
Wiring done partly by me and partly by Coolboost, Pipes all done by me and fittings etc all by me with some help from General.Massacre, We usually do work on each others cars together.
Very nice neat install here. I didn't want to drill into my floor board to mount the tank, I have since cut the carpet to the shape of the bottle and put extremely strong valcro, I went and purchased a new piece of carpet from BMW incase I ever decide to remove this one day. I also put a joiner on the pipe here for easy removal of the tank if extra boot space is required.
with the tire repair kit the pipe is basically invisible.
Intake manifold removed, valves were surprisingly clean due to the charge pipe injection I have been running all this time. I had them cleaned last in 2017. as you can see the blue silicon pipe for the cp to TB in its very sad frayed state which is why it was replaced recently in the above post.
Nice stealth install of the distribution block underneath the intake manifold as opposed to having it on top looking all mess as is the norm.
Brendan at CoolBoost drilled and tapped my spare intake manifold to fit the meth nozzles, I redid all the piping to make it neat like this and all run the same direction, I wasn't happy with how I got it so now the result looks like this
As per the above post I removed the DCI and put the stock airbox back with K&N flat filter and the intake temps seem allot more happy since doing that and I much prefer the look of the engine bay with the stock airbox.
Wiring done partly by me and partly by Coolboost, Pipes all done by me and fittings etc all by me with some help from General.Massacre, We usually do work on each others cars together.
Very nice neat install here. I didn't want to drill into my floor board to mount the tank, I have since cut the carpet to the shape of the bottle and put extremely strong valcro, I went and purchased a new piece of carpet from BMW incase I ever decide to remove this one day. I also put a joiner on the pipe here for easy removal of the tank if extra boot space is required.
with the tire repair kit the pipe is basically invisible.
Intake manifold removed, valves were surprisingly clean due to the charge pipe injection I have been running all this time. I had them cleaned last in 2017. as you can see the blue silicon pipe for the cp to TB in its very sad frayed state which is why it was replaced recently in the above post.
Nice stealth install of the distribution block underneath the intake manifold as opposed to having it on top looking all mess as is the norm.
Brendan at CoolBoost drilled and tapped my spare intake manifold to fit the meth nozzles, I redid all the piping to make it neat like this and all run the same direction, I wasn't happy with how I got it so now the result looks like this
As per the above post I removed the DCI and put the stock airbox back with K&N flat filter and the intake temps seem allot more happy since doing that and I much prefer the look of the engine bay with the stock airbox.
Crash_Nemesis
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Oooh... Those rims look amazing.
Been looking to get my Vorsteiners refurbed. Think I will pay Shaheen & The Wheel shop a visit.
Been looking to get my Vorsteiners refurbed. Think I will pay Shaheen & The Wheel shop a visit.
General.Massacre
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Nice buddy, yea its been a power build over the years, and the car has truly transformed.
This car is a dream to work on. always enjoyable.
This car is a dream to work on. always enjoyable.
