More Seafoam action recently performed as well! I have been busy on lots of small projects. I am thinking of setting up my camera over at my buddies place to film some of these little things to bring the “LIVE” aspect back to this page! A fellow SVT owner was by the other day to get some help with some maintenance on his 2003 SVT Cobra! As most of you will know these are bad ass Mustangs! Very minimal mods gets these cars running numbers in the 1/4 mile. Shown below in the Youtube vid, you can see we gave it some Seafoam treatment!
Also the car received, new plugs and fuel filter change, and air filter cleaning! Didn’t snap any pics of this project but did get the vid of the Seafoam coming out! Again, I do plan to start filming all these little projects again and will follow up with more info.
Before coming to Austin TX we sold my Wife’s e36 back in Canada as we could get more $$$ for it there. Once we arrived here I found a great deal on this Steel Blue 330ci with premium and executive package. She absolutely loves this car and now that she is in an e46 she won’t look back. Unfortunately, not too long after getting the car, the fender had a small encounter with a concrete pillar due to the horrid parking areas in which we live.
It could have been much worse but no biggie. Jacked the car up, took off the wheel and removed the inner fender. Then some patience with a hammer and an old connecting rod (pics to come) was used to bring the fenders shape back to life! Sometimes you have to make the tools you have around you work right? So about 45 mins of shaping and hammering almost no filler was needed at all. Not bad considering the body line of the wheel well was affected.
Some follow up pictures to follow with paint of course I am just glad the dent is gone. Oh and after I was done, my buddy and I had a bit of a tailgate party down in the garage.. mmmmmm Barbecue!
So a good friend of mine recently picked up this amazingly clean 1994 325i. The car has 180k miles but sure doesn’t look like it! Luckily the previous owner was a painter for BMW here in Austin. Car has the complete M3 aesthetics package and lowered on some Eibach Sportline springs. The car did need a little bit of TLC so we quickly got to work to check things over.
First off was the cabin filter! To do this you remove the glove box and the panel underneath and squeeze your hand behind the center console. The old filter came out in a few pieces and was just disgusting. You will see in the pictures below the old vs the new.
Next was the repair to the intake boot. This boot is notorious for cracking on e36′s and creates lovely vacuum leaks and idle surges. For now, a good cleaning to the area, some automotive GOOP and good as new!
The car seemed like it was lacking a bit of power for a 325 despite the mileage. So some seafoam was in order. Seafoam is a product that continues to grow in popularity and I swear by it. It can be added to your oil, fuel or directly sucked in through your vacuum system. In this case we removed the Vac line to the brake booster and sucked in about 3/4 of the can. You want to be careful and keep the car running be giving it good throttle until you get the desired amount into the engine. Then you turn the car off and wait 5-10 minutes. Put your Vac line back on then drive it like you stole it! Lots of smoke will come out of your exhaust and I mean lots! So drive it until no more smoke appears
This made a significant different in the way this car drove. We also performed and oil change and changed the struts, shocks and lower control arm bushings! More work to come as this car continues to get upgraded.
So in preparation for a HUGE Ford SVT Lightning cruise to take place in February 2011. It is in Old Town (just outside of Orlando Florida). I have a huge list of things I want to do to get the truck ready, one of them being the modification of my taillights. I will be doing another post on how I open up the lenses and paint all the chrome body color to match the truck. However, in order to get this task done and the truck being my daily driver I needed a set of temporary taillights!
A good friend of mine here in Austin had an old set that he failed at using VHT Nightshades to smoke out the lenses. Let’s just say they were as black as the darkest night you have ever seen! I appreciated the donation but thought this would be asking to get pulled over by the popo. I figured I would try to remove the spray and see if i couldn’t salvage them!
As you can see in the pictures below, the results were phenomenal!
wet sanded the lenses with 400 grit until all the spray tint was no longer visible
proceeded with 800, 1000, 1500 grit papers
used a buffing wheel with some medium scratch remover (turtle wax)
voila! brand new looking lenses.
To my surprise these lenses had the carbon fiber look on the insides which I wasn’t even able to see prior to beginning this project. Was the time spent worth it? Hell yes, it only took my an hour from start to finish including installation on my truck!
Check back for the full update on how I modify my old ones!
I am just glad the dent is gone. Oh and after I was done, my buddy and I had a bit of a tailgate party down in the garage.. mmmmmm Barbecue!
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