The pursuit of Zen... My journey toward automotive perfection

[DER E30]

Sub'd! Nice ride. I will be watch the progress.

Thanks!

Today was a beautiful day(first one in FOREVER!), so I washed her and snapped some pics! First time the white plastidipped wheels, 10 mm spacers on the rear, and front blinker bulbs with electrical tape over the "low" filament (off with the running lights but flash with blinker) have seen a lens. I wanted to wait until the sunset but had places to go and people to see...

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I caught myself with the flashers blinking in both pics under the RR bridge.

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[DER E30]

THis weekend I installed courtesy lamps in my doors, like an e90 or other modern BMW.
Enter e70 LED lights.

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Tools for surgery.
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Cut INSIDE the tape. I put them about 12.5 inches from the outside end of the door.

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I put in some more fatmat stuff.
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All back together again. Wiring them in was the hardest part. They are triggered by the dome light wiring, so they come on and go out with the dome lights.

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Glamor shots.

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[DER E30]

Hello my friends, it is Der E30 again. Today I have this update for you. I bought a headlight retrofit kit from Squared Motorwerks Thread about them here

I also bought a set of Morimoto mini H1 6.0 projectors and xb 35 5k bulbs from the retrofit source.

Getting started.

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Wow, there was a picture gap here. Already built!
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This is a bare stock projector (no housing) with a bid bulb of unknown origin of 6 or 8 k versus my new H1 6.0 and Squared adapter, fully installed in my euro smily housing with a clear lamin x film over the top and morimoto 5k bulb.

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They went together very easily and seem well made. The light output is INSANE. I didn't think it would be that big of a difference as I already had a set of xenon lights in the stock projectors that the P.O. did. My xenon fogs are unneeded now, and I drove with them on religiously before the retrofit as the lows never impressed me... It is like driving with a daylight generator when I hit the brights as I have the bixenon function working, as well as the stock H1 center halogens running for a quad highbeam. My mom had an e46 with factory xenons and currently has a e90 with the active steering xenon lights. I've also driven an F20 5 series, this is all of that and more!




And as always.... Have a nice day.

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[itskingsteelo]

Nice car
Real clean actually. And I like the truck

[kwseattle]

Just got to reading this thread, man you have some good ideas! I think I need to find some more guys who know what they're doing! My car has so many little things I need to take care of... A dent here (everywhere?), a misaligned panel there, a cut wire here, a crack there... not to mention almost none of my swappable body panels are original. If only I had a workshop, darn engineering degree taking 110% of my time.

[DER E30]

Nice car
Real clean actually. And I like the truck

Thanks!

Just got to reading this thread, man you have some good ideas! I think I need to find some more guys who know what they're doing! My car has so many little things I need to take care of... A dent here (everywhere?), a misaligned panel there, a cut wire here, a crack there... not to mention almost none of my swappable body panels are original. If only I had a workshop, darn engineering degree taking 110% of my time.

I hear ya on the degree eating up time! Mine too!
My car is pretty much the same, a few dents, stupid PO alarm wiring job, stuff like that. If you ever want to go for a drive or whatever I'd be down.

Last Tuesday marked the one year anniversary for my ownership! So I went back to the same dead end road I took one of the pics in the opening post and took a crappy Iphone pic!

Edit: Here's the original...
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[kwseattle]

If you ever want to go for a drive or whatever I'd be down.

Let's do it! Just got my suspension done and I'd love to get some better pictures of my car after I've done all of the little cosmetic things to it. It'd be cool to do a double white e30 photo shoot!

Here's what the front used to look like:

Here's a crappy cell phone pic of what it looks like now:

[dude8383]

Dude I really love the courtesy lamps!!! What a nice modern touch that is.

Keep it up :up:

[OOMPH!]

Dude I really love the courtesy lamps!!! What a nice modern touch that is.

Keep it up :up:

+1 that's an awesome mod!

[DER E30]

[QUOTE=kwseattle;4183891]Let's do it! Just got my suspension done and I'd love to get some better pictures of my car after I've done all of the little cosmetic things to it. It'd be cool to do a double white e30 photo shoot!
[QUOTE]

That'd be sweet! Love your M wheels!

Dude I really love the courtesy lamps!!! What a nice modern touch that is.
Keep it up :up:

+1 that's an awesome mod!

Thanks guys!

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Car is looking really good and Im really jealous of your truck you should turbo it.....

[DER E30]

Car is looking really good and Im really jealous of your truck you should turbo it.....

Don't do that! I don't need any more ideas!!!

Why are all things neat, awesome and generally badass really expensive?!?

[MPLFoster]

i like this.

[TeXJ]

sweet build! subbing for sure!

[TimeMachinE30]

Courtesy lights are a grand addition.