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It's a pleasure Rowen, I know without me and my inspiring you, this wouldn't be what it is today :roflol:
Love the car man.
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Love the car man.
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Read the WELCOME ALL BMWFANATICS post.
BSM 1M build thread
- Thread starter RowenS
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SP33DYV
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Rowen said:
Does it still have the "OEM look", or is it that typical Alpine Green?
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Acheron
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SP33DYV said:
http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=505654
Pretty much stock looking barring the Alpine branded tweeter housings. The retrofit kit consists of the Alpine amp, tweeters, new front mids and necessary wiring.
Rowen said:
Thanks buddy,
The Gruppe is amazing but it only arrived on Saturday and was ordered on the first week of August.
Car is going in sometime this week for the parts. Will get pics up after! :thumbs:
Maybe a meet is required to compare mods
P.S. sorry for the thread Hi-Jack
RowenS
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Cool, I'm in the Fourways area, let me know
notionza said:Rowen said:
Thanks buddy,
The Gruppe is amazing but it only arrived on Saturday and was ordered on the first week of August.
Car is going in sometime this week for the parts. Will get pics up after! :thumbs:
Maybe a meet is required to compare mods
P.S. sorry for the thread Hi-Jack
Dean ///M
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notionza said:
+1
Not sure, not too many options available. Javbrat on the forum has one on his black 135i and it looks amazing. I will let you know...BTW post some pictures of the Gruppe M intake...that is just pure porn!
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I have never seen this Gruppe M intake for N54, just hope it make power as the one I had on my Z4M had a nast dip at around 2500rpm, sound was amazing close to CSL at certain rpm but went I went back to stock the car was smoother and felt better. Post sone pic's..
RowenS
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With the Bemmer Fest a couple of weeks away, I’d thought it will be a good idea to dust off the cobwebs from my detailing kit and try get 1M ready. Although the last detail was done around 6 months ago, the car does see its fair share of drag / TLGP’s and the odd track day. Trying to have the best of both world’s requires you to take extra care.
I was planning to start with the wheels / arches and engine today, but the SO’s car is at the dealership and very unlikely it will out soon, I may only get it back late next week, so this mean’s she will be using my car and I will need to use the 1M as a daily for the next coming week, so no point in doing the engine or arches at this stage, but the wheels would be start point as I slapped on the standard wheels for now.
Products Used:
- Sonax Foam APC
- Steamer
- Blower
- MF Wash Mitt and various MF clothes
- Pressure Washer
- Sonax Lube and Clay
- Auto Finesse Iron Out
- BlackFire Gloss Enhancing Polish
- Wheel Wax
With the wheels off and no pre wash, I sprayed the surface area with Sonax APC to help soften loosen the grime and dirt, great product and spreads really well. PH Neutral so safe to use on the wheels
A proper rinse down to remove the dirt
Once it the wheels were risen I used a steamer at 25 C to get to corners / grime that was harder to get off
Washed down again
Then using Maxi Studs and the foam lance, the wheels were sprayed and left for a couple mins
Using a blower, most of the surface water was removed
MMM, looking good
Next up was to remove contamination, product for the job was...
Surprised to find there was too much contamination on the wheel, so if there was, it was removed!
Washed down again
Sonax Clay was used to further clean up the surface
Not much to report
Getting to the tighter spots
2 layers of BF Polish / 2 layers of Wheel Wax with 30 mins between each pass
End Result
I was planning to start with the wheels / arches and engine today, but the SO’s car is at the dealership and very unlikely it will out soon, I may only get it back late next week, so this mean’s she will be using my car and I will need to use the 1M as a daily for the next coming week, so no point in doing the engine or arches at this stage, but the wheels would be start point as I slapped on the standard wheels for now.
Products Used:
- Sonax Foam APC
- Steamer
- Blower
- MF Wash Mitt and various MF clothes
- Pressure Washer
- Sonax Lube and Clay
- Auto Finesse Iron Out
- BlackFire Gloss Enhancing Polish
- Wheel Wax
With the wheels off and no pre wash, I sprayed the surface area with Sonax APC to help soften loosen the grime and dirt, great product and spreads really well. PH Neutral so safe to use on the wheels
A proper rinse down to remove the dirt
Once it the wheels were risen I used a steamer at 25 C to get to corners / grime that was harder to get off
Washed down again
Then using Maxi Studs and the foam lance, the wheels were sprayed and left for a couple mins
Using a blower, most of the surface water was removed
MMM, looking good
Next up was to remove contamination, product for the job was...
Surprised to find there was too much contamination on the wheel, so if there was, it was removed!
Washed down again
Sonax Clay was used to further clean up the surface
Not much to report
Getting to the tighter spots
2 layers of BF Polish / 2 layers of Wheel Wax with 30 mins between each pass
End Result
abharoochi
Member
:drool::drool::drool:
Awesome job!!
Awesome job!!
Crash_Nemesis
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I need to do this to my Vorsteiners....
And here I thought im spending much more time cleaning and looking after my car since joining this forum.
Will have to rethink that after reading this last post...You are True fanatic Rowen...rims look awesome, cant wait to see the car
Will have to rethink that after reading this last post...You are True fanatic Rowen...rims look awesome, cant wait to see the car
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