My Z4 CS Supercharged, Summary

[billygilly]

I bloody love this car but its still got an //M, theres no need IMO its great car in its own right

 

[bmwZ]

I bloody love this car but its still got an //M, theres no need IMO its great car in its own right

Thanks again
Yes, thats right. But the E46 Clubsport has an M badge, and its still has a M54 engine, so I think its right for this car. The M is also coloured as my car: Grey as the exterior, Black as my Interior and wheels, White as my interior stitching.

A picture of E46 M Clubsport:

 

[kipperonabike]

Absolutely Superb......

Now you've just about done everything you can do (!tho I suspect you've still got plans!) hows about swapping and you can start working up my vanilla '07 2.0i......? :roll:

Are you by any chance a fellow Statoil employee ?

 

[bmwZ]

Absolutely Superb......

Now you've just about done everything you can do (!tho I suspect you've still got plans!) hows about swapping and you can start working up my vanilla '07 2.0i......? :roll:

Are you by any chance a fellow Statoil employee ?

Thank you
Yes, a 2.0 would be a bigger challenge But vanilla? Is that the colour?
No, but my friend with the grey M3 CSL in the background on the pics is a Statoil employee
I work with Ferrari and Maserati

 

[JDM]

Fanntastic... Those badges look really good in orange. I love this car

 

[Beedub]

Really nice car, imo definatly one of the best z4's period, whether ///M or not imo..... very very nice and the CS badges not only look better, they actually work much better than the ///M badges you had before

car looks Great.... have you seen the new KW competiton coilover kits, they look pretty special

throw on a smaller supercharger pulley bmwz, pooowwwweerrrr!!!

 

[bmwZ]

Fanntastic... Those badges look really good in orange. I love this car

Thanks
It turned out the way I wanted with the orange

 

[bmwZ]

Really nice car, imo definatly one of the best z4's period, whether ///M or not imo..... very very nice and the CS badges not only look better, they actually work much better than the ///M badges you had before

car looks Great.... have you seen the new KW competiton coilover kits, they look pretty special

throw on a smaller supercharger pulley bmwz, pooowwwweerrrr!!!

Thanks alot Beedub
I`m very happy with my KWv3s, but no haven`t seen them
Do you want me to post another picture like this:

 

[r1andy]

sweet
love the badges , love the car
well done (as usual)

 

[bmwZ]

sweet
love the badges , love the car
well done (as usual)

Thanks, I liked as usual
I see you own a Alfa 159, some of my previous cars has been Alfas
Owned a Spider 2.0, GTV 3.0 Engstler Supercharged, GT 3.2 and a 166 3.0 I was actually happy with all of them. The 1999 GTV was the most speciall one, over 300hp at the frontwheels. Impossible to drive in the wet

 

[billygilly]

I bloody love this car but its still got an //M, theres no need IMO its great car in its own right

Thanks again
Yes, thats right. But the E46 Clubsport has an M badge, and its still has a M54 engine, so I think its right for this car. The M is also coloured as my car: Grey as the exterior, Black as my Interior and wheels, White as my interior stitching.

A picture of E46 M Clubsport:

Agreed, comment withdrawn.. my favourite zed which I'm embarrased to say is my screensaver

 

[r1andy]

sweet
love the badges , love the car
well done (as usual)

Thanks, I liked as usual
I see you own a Alfa 159, some of my previous cars has been Alfas
Owned a Spider 2.0, GTV 3.0 Engstler Supercharged, GT 3.2 and a 166 3.0 I was actually happy with all of them. The 1999 GTV was the most speciall one, over 300hp at the frontwheels. Impossible to drive in the wet

Yes, the alfa is my day to day car, its a good car but i would not do anything special to it.

Thats a lot of hp from a front wheel motor.

tell me this, you got 300 bhp from your 2.2, what sort of hp would be possible from a 2.0 without screwing up the engine.

my car is mint and i would like a bit more power but do not want to change the car

Thanks

 

[bmwZ]

Finally I got my M Instrument cluster working. I had to send it to a Zroadster member in Germany to get it fixed. They changed a chip/eprom and coded it to the car. Since I do not have the S54 engine, the rev lights from cold to warm do not work. Besides that everything works, included the oiltemp

Heres some pics:

I have also bought me genuine M seats and doorcards in extended walknappa leather from a Z4M roadster with just 1200km on it.
Bought them just to get the doorcards in extended leather
I think I will sell the seats, they are as new

 

[bmwZ]

sweet
love the badges , love the car
well done (as usual)

Thanks, I liked as usual
I see you own a Alfa 159, some of my previous cars has been Alfas
Owned a Spider 2.0, GTV 3.0 Engstler Supercharged, GT 3.2 and a 166 3.0 I was actually happy with all of them. The 1999 GTV was the most speciall one, over 300hp at the frontwheels. Impossible to drive in the wet

Yes, the alfa is my day to day car, its a good car but i would not do anything special to it.

Thats a lot of hp from a front wheel motor.

tell me this, you got 300 bhp from your 2.2, what sort of hp would be possible from a 2.0 without screwing up the engine.

my car is mint and i would like a bit more power but do not want to change the car

Thanks

Nice everyday car

Hard to say what you can do to get a decent boost of power. A chip will just give you like 10bhp and I do not know any company that sells supercharger/turbo kits to your engine. I really do not know of a cheap way to do this, sorry :|

 

[trottski101]

Just looking at this close-up, although you had mentioned that it had been 'Sanded & Polished', the orange peel is still very much apparent in this shot
So, it begs the question, how come the orange peel hasn't been eradicated from the lacquer?

Lovely car all the same

 

[bmwZ]

Just looking at this close-up, although you had mentioned that it had been 'Sanded & Polished', the orange peel is still very much apparent in this shot
So, it begs the question, how come the orange peel hasn't been eradicated from the lacquer?

Lovely car all the same

I see your point, but as my car mostly have paint from BMW(Original paintjob) its impossible to sand it down looking like a mirror. The original clearcoat is too thin
Had you seen my car before this job was done, you had seen a big difference The picture does not give justice to the paint either :?

Heres a picture from when I sanded the car down, as you can see half the hood is done Just 3 month later I changed the hood to a M-hood, all the work for nothing

 

[trottski101]

Im going to do the same when I can at least walk round my car

Im sure the clear coat would have been thick enough though. Good job otherwise.

 

[bmwZ]

Im going to do the same when I can at least walk round my car

Im sure the clear coat would have been thick enough though. Good job otherwise.

Possibly, but when you use coarse wool on the polish machine to get the shine back again, its really harsh on the paint. So if you go trough the clearcoat its really bad
I used a paintdepth Measurement device, and it wasen`t that much clearcoat to work with :?

Thanks for the commenting

 

[trottski101]

Im going to do the same when I can at least walk round my car

Im sure the clear coat would have been thick enough though. Good job otherwise.

Possibly, but when you use coarse wool on the polish machine to get the shine back again, its really harsh on the paint. So if you go trough the clearcoat its really bad
I used a paintdepth Measurement device, and it wasen`t that much clearcoat to work with :?

Thanks for the commenting

Actually, which paint depth gauge did you use? Has to be a good one to actually be able to measure the depth of the lacquer only!

 

[bmwZ]

I used this one Paint detective 8

This can measure the paint down to the steel. Usually the basecoat and colour is 50% of what you measure, the other 50% is clearcoating. This gives you an idea of the tichness of the paint and clearcoat layer. You cant do any good measurements on plastic