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Ladies and gents, this is the man who first introduced me to the Coupe! Welcome back Krish :thumbsup: I blame you for getting me in this :driving: On a serious note, I am wondering if one of the flanges that connect to the manifold has been rotated?

Hi Damo, great summary and pretty cool things planned. I got a few questions about your attemp at upgrading the front brakes: - Are you planning on using F series 340mm discs? - I guess on your picture you put the caliper on top of your original 325mm disc? How does it fit in there? Is it...

Happy new year all! Mine is off to a good start as I consider myself lucky to not have to spend money fixing bodywork :cry:

Intro: I guess most N52 owners will know about the ESS and a significant amount had to deal with a failing one. In my case I had a perfectly working OEM one which I replaced when doing a cam cover and gasket refresh as it was showing signs of oil in the plug. Did not feel like paying the...

I will keep an eye on this as I have been toying with the idea of doing this on my E86 (when time and money is no problem...), which will be a path no one seem to have taken (and I am not happy with what I have seen on E46s). My hope is to manage to go for 363*32mm front (Land Rover discs) and...

Did a couple of cool things this weekend. Started by filming the under side of the car with a GoPro as I was not sure whether my vibration at 70mph was wheels or driveline and also wanted to see if control arms were moving much under load and such. Good news is control arms seem fine, other news...

Shared the Z4 love by going to this month's edition of the Gaydon Gathering. The old girl felt lonely with only a couple of Z3's and no Z4 in sight but I had a good time walking around with my better half who seems to appreciate mini's and 40-50's cars. Make me think about eventually doing a...

Alright, it has been a long time coming but finally the write up and result of that front end chaving and some more :D I basically replaced the lower bumper grill with a honeycomb mesh, blanked the sides as per the OEM one and made my own fog light blanking plates until a potential brake...

Well, had enough of those bumper supports breaking about once a year and being expensive to replace SO did what I hope is a permanent fix. I cut off the tabs that hold them up in the quarter panels so that they would be easy to take off if I had to (and that made the rest of the job easier...

Takes time but progress on the front end refresh is there. Today was a relief, the whole concept got proven out now that I have the blanking plates on the end of the grill and am pretty much done one fog light blank. So satisfying to have managed a long bend on the first try, that hot wire...

Made some progress on front end, it is tricky as I had to weld together three pieces of honeycomb as I could not get a piece wide enough (everyone online sells up to 120cm, would have required 135 :( ). I used small strips of plastic to hide the weld and "enforce" the lines from the radiator...

Just been receiving parcel but here is a teaser of what's to come :evil:

Weekend started great until it turned to bad with family issues leading to my better half (or should I say safer, see pictures below) urgently going abroad for at least a week, the positive on that is I will have more time to work on my front end refresh, the negative is that I did bite a lot...

Finally got all 4 matching wheels and tyres: 18" MPS5 on CH Reps, stagerred, so much better that the 19" MPSS I had before :oops: More on my build thread :driving:

Woaw, pretty much a year of silcence on this thread but it was not without work on the car, I just wanted to finish the chapter started last summer with the rear end refurb which unexpectedly turned into a wheel and tyres refresh that took ages as I could not get a bloody wheel anywhere in...

Passed MOT with a bit of luck, just a minor advisory for license plate lights, tester had to give the bumper a "bump" to have one of the two to turn ON and pass :oops: As soon as I got home I diagnosed that the cheap LED bulbs I put on 18months ago had prett much burned so I took the...

Just came across this on Marketplace. Not sure what to think about it regarding quality/price/purpose but seems cool :thumbsup: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/706763127889995

Hi there, Not sure if it is allowed in this section, not mine, not sure if it is a scam. I came across this set of 108's which does not seem in terrible shape so seems a good set to refurb to keep or flip. If I had the time maybe I'd enquire...

Got the car aligned which means the end of the "rear end refresh" phase. (minus fitting new front wheels once I get the missing rim and a few touch ups but at least the car drives straight and well now! ) Was a faff for my poor small tyre shop with the alignment heads moving when they started...

Hello, I believe as long as I owned my Z4 I had a slight play in the steering, as a dead zone of +/- 5deg around the centre point, which gives a disconnected feeling when going straight until some camber or corner forces put some load on the steering. This has not been fixed when changing the...