Maurits' progress thread: '03 E85 3.0i (now) supercharged & '08 E86 3.0si

[Tommy_hf]

Welcome from another Dutchie here!
M54B30 is the better engine if you're planning to mod it

[mrlozzer]

Good work on the debadge...

[sars]

Hello and welcome, lovely cars, particularly like the rear light clusters on the 3.0

[Mau]

Done quite a few mods this winter. To mention just a few:

De-gingered headlights (all the way, including de-gingering the indicator bulbs):





Eibach pro kit:





Seats from a 2008 3.0si Coupe and numerous other interior bits:





Next might be a swap of the beige leather bits in the beige door panels I got with the seats to my own black door panels. Would be creating some sort of "Individual Ausstattung" effect. I know it is difficult, but not undoable. However, I also pretty much like the completely black interior with just the beige seats ...

Well I guess the modding life of ain't easy.

[ZermattV]

Beautiful cars, especially the 2nd one


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+1 one of the nicest pre facelift modded cars I've seen - and answers a question I had about whether the rear diffuser could be modded to accept a quad

[si-forks]

+2 very nice looking pre-facelift keep up the good work

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[Bad_Pritt]

looking good! I'll have my aero front soon as well

[Mau]

As a minor update: this is what Z4 modditis does to one:

Original:



At least 12 visible mods with OEM BMW parts later (whereby two knobs obviously count as just one mod, same goes for the knee pads, etc.):



And it never stops: facelift AC panel is cuurrently on its way from Germany and I am still considering doing something with the doorcards / aluminium panels ...

[Mau]

And if anyone wonders: you can easily take apart the center vents and swap the fronts, thus having the facelift chrome bit with the pre facelift grey front (I have not yet been able to source a black facelift radio for a decent price):

Before:



During:



After:

[Big Red Cat]

Welcome, lovely cars. Looks like you could be adding some how-tos to this forum.

[paulgs1000]

Welcome to the Forum - nice work - impressive!

[Mau]

Almost done facelifting the interior ( ), recently acquired the deluxe heater controls with chrome knobs:




Install is fairly easy (removal of center vents, radio, two screws and a bit of wiggling and pushing on the panel as it clicks into its place) and then it is plug and play and building back the pieces you just unbolted.

In my case for testing purposes I had to actually fire the car up, the position of the ignition just before you start the engine which I mostly use or testing electronics did not do the trick.

[aquazi]

Love the contrasting silver grey and cream interior


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[Mau]

More than 2,5 years into the ownership of this Z4: Time for some new wheels. Partially to celebrate its 100,000th travelled kilometer. Partially because of the psychological effect, the previous deep dish wheels were the last bit of bling applied by the previous owner which according to my more modest taste had to be unblinged.

Without further ado:

[monkadill]

nice work