Restoring My First Car to Its Original Look!

Welcome to today's video guys .

We are back .

Holy crap , Mike .

Were you coming out in the rain ?

Your lens is looking awfully dirty guys .

If there's water spots on this video , I apologize .

Please make sure you don't not hit the like button because of it .

Listen , E 46 we're diving into today .

We're gonna start to do some of the fun stuff that I'm super excited for .

It's gonna look like my first car at the end of this video .

Everything's all buttoned up on end .

Listen how this thing runs now back when I had it , it never rev that good from a cold start .

I would like try to red light it and it would always do weird stuff .

So this is sick .

Let's dive in .

I always tell you guys to do this whenever you have your car in the air , whether you're just changing the wheel or whatever , always give her one of these up and down side to side .

See if you have any play .

It's a really good chance to catch like a bad tire rod or a bad bushing before it potentially makes you crash or kills your alignment .

That didn't work .

I always see them do it on NASCAR .

Ready .

Yo , yo , yo , hold on , hold on .

I don't want to take a strip boat out of the car .

I was just trying to have fun .

I'm trying to like , so I would , I wouldn't have done this back when I worked on my car .

I , yo , when I changed my wheels on this car , I kid you not .

I use one of those like cross hatch bars .

My mom had it in her , in her avalanche .

I remember I got my first harbor freight jack when I got my , my style five oh memories dude , it's not strip your ho this is why I hate BMW S log studs feel like such an idiot way more aggressive than the other one .

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It's a fun one .

I'm trying not to waste money on like frivolous things in this build and do like what I would have done back when I had this as my first car .

So I'm gonna show you guys a cool trick to clean up your old brake rotors .

I've got a 80 sanding wheel and you can take it and you can get the full life out of your rotor instead of having to , like , go and buy them .

Look , it looks brand new again .

Didn't you get brand new stuff ?

But I thought this would be faster .

You never did this back in the day .

No , actually , I never did that back in the day .

I used the smaller one , the angle grinder .

The thing don't ever do that .

I , I , I had Cuban coffee this morning .

So it's , it's a little different .

I do know people though that I've heard that would literally paint their brakes like with the rotor on here and just say , oh , it's fine .

The , the brake pad will just take the paint off .

Ok .

Like didn't tape off anything literally sprayed the caliper with the rotor and everything .

This is better than when you took that clutch off the S R 20 and then grind it on the floor .

Hey , we did have an F D so just , you know , a flywheel on some concrete .

You gotta do what you gotta do to keep racing .

I fuck up because I should have really cleaned this car before he started working on it .

Massey cleaned it a little bit when he brought it to me , but you could tell he missed some spots like you really gotta clean your lens .

It's bad .

It looks perfectly fine .

Look at , look at this , I'm well aware that it has the dust camera .

I could see it .

Jeez .

What were you doing ?

I am so spoiled by , oh , race cars .

I just saw this .

What is it ?

This was you ?

Maybe .

So this bulb doesn't go here .

So he stole the housing .

This was my friend's shop .

They happened to be L C shop .

This was my friend's H ID installer .

He's a good friend .

We don't .

Oh , sorry .

H ID installer friend .

This is super stressed right now .

This is gonna suck .

Dude .

I've got on my calendar , 30 minutes break job .

I was oh my legs crapping .

Think I got it .

It doesn't help that this floor is like slippery as from all the water on the floor .

So I'm like trying to put my body in it around .

We're looking for a highly skilled BMW tech here at the L Z M F G shop to work on the highest end BMW performance cars .

Jesus .

Like I need you to insert this sound bite right here .

Got the lube juice out and it's been a while since you had to use that .

So fun fact , this smell makes me think of my mom's dining room because I rebuilt a set of B BS style fives in her dining room and I had to PB blast all the old hardware to break them loose .

So her dining room smelled like PV blaster .

That's the story .

Half the video .

Just the same boat .

It is still the same bolt .

Wow .

That happen .

You can't do it .

Adam in 2012 .

I don't think so .

Yeah , I'm about to just abandon the sky completely .

Ah , I got a little bit hard truth for you guys .

Some of y'all might judge me .

Some of y'all might not .

It's like a rule of thumb that you're never supposed to hang the caliper from the brake line .

There's many times I've done it and I'm openly admitting to , to you guys because you know what , I put a zip tie on it in almost every clip .

Not because I think it needs it because I know that someone in the comment section is gonna say you can't hang the from the brake line .

Let's see what happens .

Let's find out this is a perfect scenario for that .

Of course , they make that a now you Alan Alan , if you're watching this , why , what if he's watching this , Alan ?

Yeah .

You know , I , I know very few people named Alan .

I don't think I know a single person named Alan .

Where you go to Spinny Win .

Wow , Alan , you came through courtesy of F C P Euro .

We have some brand new brake rotors for this Johnny .

Just reminder , they've got a lifetime replacement so you guys can always send back your rotors when they're done .

All you got to pay is return shipping and they'll get you new ones , send back your used oil craziest thing ever .

But it's real .

And that's why everybody loves them .

So I will say this is going to be part of the stage one version of this build .

I do want to put upgraded brakes on this , probably like E 46 M three brakes , but that's probably going to be down the road .

I understand now why it has the allen .

It's because the lug vaults , well , the caliber would also hold it on there .

No , but it could spin because when you take the lug nuts out .

Yeah .

Yeah , you're right .

I see .

You s aren't all that bad Johan Science class over here .

I guess I could have just turned the signals on .

Right .

Wow .

Yeah , that thing is not built for 18 bolts , bro .

I do wanna add a disclaimer that this wasn't like it wasn't even supposed to spend any time doing the breaks in this video , but I'm trying to force myself to do the annoying stuff before the fun stuff that is putting coil lovers in the car and it's just a little bit more involved than I anticipated .

All right , brakes are done now , it's time for the fun part and I've got some stories to tell as we dive into these shocks .

So I actually had coil overs on this car .

So at some point someone put sock suspension back on it .

So hopefully all these bolts will be nice and loose .

Sure .

You have this thing , I'm positive .

No , no , they have a , hey , you wanna trade jobs So I'm really stoked BC had a set of DS series on the shelf for my E 46 .

So that's what I'm going to be running on this car .

Highly recommend them over the V R s .

But B R s are good , too good reminder if you want to get entered for a chance to win the red chaser in $10,000 cash , we do sell BC racing coil overs on the L Z site and that will get you a bunch of entries .

We've got other auto parts on the as well .

Led kits , harnesses , steering wheels , make sure you go check it out this car .

The reason why there hasn't been any updates as of recently .

We want to leave it together so we can drive to F D Orlando .

But afterwards we're gonna drop the drive train because we're gonna end up in the bay .

You put like some funny like meme sound over that .

That's like , like , I don't know , something like , like some meme that's like we knew you were gonna do it and you did , I know it .

I can find this .

Ok , back to the coil .

Oh , so this is the , this is the funny thing that I wanted to tell you guys about what I messed up when I first did my coil overs ever .

So the first time I ever did a set of coil overs on this car pretty embarrassing , but I have to put this out there that Jimmy did help me and Jimmy didn't know that we messed this up either .

The race lines that I originally bought were intended to reuse the factory strut tops .

So I didn't use the factory strut tops and I don't know how we ended up mounting them .

If I didn't take the factory strutt tops .

Basically , it was like a spring sitting on the perch with no rotation up top .

So when I would turn , you would just hear the springs popping and it wasn't until afterwards , I realized that you were supposed to use the factory strep tops .

That's not a problem with the PC because they come and they're pillow ball .

Let's go .

B CS come with some fresh end links .

Race lines ain't coming with these .

Tell you what .

So this is , this is the cool part , right ?

I had this car , what I thought was low when I owned it and looking back at photos , it was pretty low .

The cool thing is on BMW S .

Everything's tucked up so high that you can be dummy low .

Unlike Mike who needed to cut a bunch of stuff out of his chassis .

Relocate .

Sub frames .

BMW .

S are made to be slammed so much so that we aren't even going to use this .

We're just gonna let her rip right like this .

And I bet I'll still want to make it even lower .

So we're gonna put this in , preload it a little bit and then adjust this to bolt up to the knuckle , drop her on the ground with new wheels that y'all are about to see and check her out .

Now , if we're really close , I could technically take out to and get a little extra millimeters of low .

But uh yeah , so I'll do that .

A girl up in there always make sure you have the number out too .

So when I buy your car , I can see what spring rate you have in it and I don't need to turn your spring around .

I hate when I have to do that .

You that why my hat is all trashed .

Can't find another one .

By the way , it's from this car .

I kept it pretty clean but working on this car , it's just constantly just getting absorbed by dirt , the vent might not work , but when they do , they're gonna breed .

We got one of these , but we're still waiting on that one .

All right .

The final , well , not the final , but the most exciting piece of the puzzle , the wheels , the wheels that I originally had in my car .

And I'll have Mike put a photo on the screen right here were a set of B BS style fives and the way that I got them , my buddy Alec Noski actually had them running around in his garage .

He got them for next to nothing .

I traded him a BMX frame and I think I paid like 50 or $100 for it and got this out of these wheels , which weren't worth a lot .

They're still not worth a crazy amount .

But it was kind of a cool come up for me because I , I refinished them in my mom's dining room and I wound up selling them for , I think , like 1300 bucks on all and done with tires just because of the fact I had to have the car way too low to be drive because they're 17 .

So a subscriber reached out to me , had these wheels and it was convenient because they've already been refinished .

I would have loved to refinish my own set and maybe I will at some point with three P US .

But for now these look like they're in really good shape and it's going to save a lot of time and they already have the tires that I need to mounted to them too .

I think it's a 2 15 , 47 deep , dude .

This , that's backwards .

They're not like the craziest wheels , but it's what I had .

Yeah .

Look at that tread , dude .

I got a good deal more life left in that car .

I know , dude , Spencer is killing me .

Ready .

Mhm .

These are in really good shape .

Yeah .

He said the only , the only sign of like any sort of pitting .

So he like rebuilt these by hand and the bolts weren't cleared .

I don't think so .

These bolts will end up tarnishing over time .

The right way to do it .

I actually think I had mine zinc plated by a guy .

Funny , zinc wasn't Tommy , but I had him zinc plated by a guy in like , New Jersey or something just to make them last forever .

But I , I made the mistake when I originally refinished mine .

I didn't go deep enough Mike .

I know you ran into this before to like , fully get rid , have the factory clear or whatever on it .

So it didn't work out and I was doing it all by hand .

I didn't have any machines or anything .

So I'm literally in there was sandpaper ruined my mom's floors .

I wonder if they're still ruined .

Um It was with like aluminum dust everywhere but it was cool .

It was a fun project that was like my first involved thing I ever did on a car , but I didn't have time to do it again .

He got the center caps .

These are like O E M I think E 39 5 series wheels .

They weren't on M fives , but I think they were .

How do I take this off ?

I don't remember .

Maybe I just hit them out from the back actually .

Not that .

So I remember when I got these tires on it , I thought it was the craziest stretch .

I look at this now and I'm like , damn , because it was like , it was pretty tight fitment for not knowing what I was doing .

Like I had to have a decent amount of camera .

It's gonna be interesting to see .

Uh , was I a real stand for or was I not find out soon ?

Yeah , these are like , pretty solid .

Yeah .

The cool thing is they'll hide my ugly lug nuts .

That was another reason why I chose these wheels .

Oh , I didn't do hub centric rings when I first got these and my car vibrated like crazy .

I don't have hub centric rings .

So we're gonna have to put those in later .

Very important when you put these wheels on because the M five S or the five series have a bigger board than this .

And the wheel will kind of walk around a little bit but come to think of it .

I wonder if it's also because I never aligned the car and maybe they didn't balance my tires .

It should be pretty good if you have the tapered bloggs .

See this , that's what you need the little ring for .

Yeah , I predict Rear is gonna be tits front .

Hm .

I don't know .

I think it might actually be pretty good already .

Uh , so rear , I feel like it needs a space or maybe a little camera pulled out of it front definitely needs to come down .

What are you thinking like ?

Yeah , I agree .

You know , I used to think that this fitment was sick .

Well , they have super thick quarter panels on the backs of these cars .

Yeah .

So that was , I think a part of the problem that is , but I might need to um , see if Dorte has uh like a spacer and like extended lugs .

Is this a slim space or ?

That's what , like a 10 mil maybe ?

Yeah .

Front fit men though .

Look seems pretty good .

Gotta lower it li literally 30 seconds .

I called the audio 15 , 15 seconds .

That's it .

Walked over from and space and loves .

Here we go .

It's better .

A little space .

I think you're , I think you're good on fitment .

Wait , do you see this thing on the ground ?

Bro .

Gonna slap hard , dude , gonna be like you got slapped for you .

I'm not gonna say continue my joke because you're filming .

Isn't that my job , sir ?

Is it ?

Yeah , I noticed the camera lens is cleaner now .

Now you have a lot of editing to take the spot that's called low aperture .

You can't see them .

No , no , no , no , no , we don't .

No .

What are you framing on right now ?

What do you mean ?

What frame rate ?

15 ?

I'll kill you .

Ok .

321 .

That's it spicy .

The last step in what to me is more iconic to this car than anything else is the roof rack .

Now , my original roof rack was actually wrong for this car and it was the type that clamped on the window jam here , I think just because that's all I had seen on my friend's Volkswagens .

I thought that's what I needed , but it turns out that this car actually has built in roof mounts here .

So I actually had the wrong style .

Which is ironic .

I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing , but my car got broken into and I actually dented my roof around the roof racks because they stole my roof rack off of it .

But now I got the right one .

So it'll actually attach here .

It's going to look a little bit different than it used to before , but I won't have , I guess there's no marks .

There used to be like marks and indentations from where the roof rack was .

Uh But yeah , it's gonna leave this car so I can put my bike on it apart from having some mismatch bumpers and some messed up trim pieces and some dents and dings .

It'll be that much closer to feeling like it was when it was at its front .

Julie is actually based out of Seymour , Connecticut .

Yet another company like F C P Euro Connecticut based Cool .

Going on a Connecticut car .

I gotta find my Connecticut plate for this car .

That would be extra cool .

Oh , well , this is an just broke bowl in there .

Note to self don't use power tools when trying to bolt on a roof rack because the bolts will probably break .

They definitely break .

I wanted to give up and Mike was like , let me grab a drill .

Oh , let me help .

It's just one of those days feeling like a freight train .

My E 46 sucks out of all the cars for me to be annoyed with .

This is the one that I'm ok with being annoyed with because this car we've shared some annoyances together .

I tell you impact with the bolts , the sockets don't stay on it because it doesn't have a knob .

I'm gonna kill it .

At least for once .

I have a car that I don't care about putting a tool on the roof of it .

That's pretty cool until I repaint it and put a 3000 horsepower two J Z in it .

So what happened here was a prime example of a 27 year old man who doesn't like to read instructions to be fair .

There's a lot of languages .

I'm an American .

I don't have a high tolerance for a lot of languages .

I do .

That's a joke .

Uh The bull was too long .

So it said I'm out and it broke .

But the cool thing is these inserts are threaded and like replaceable .

The unfortunate thing is I'm impatient .

So I need to find a way to get this out of here without damaging the threads on this typically involved double nutting it .

I created a real pickle here .

Didn't I pal I wanted to have the car done and out by dark .

But unfortunately , Mike that up for me .

Just kidding .

We're going on an adventure , 10 millimeter beer and parts car .

You guys might forget as often as I do that .

Not only do I own that blue E 46 I have an E 46 .

I don't want to call it a parts car because it's actually like a pretty cool caged car .

That would be a great build .

It's still my L Z logo .

Just , wow , Piper is not really working the best for me .

A lot of , a lot of things going missing .

Um But anyway , yeah , I traded Johan that E 90 but that's E 46 M three .

Oh I guess it was .

Oh no , it did come up a bit .

It's just not in it right now .

But what's more important is a roof rack piece .

So we're gonna steal off it .

Oh yeah , we should really get some stairs .

People don't realize it's just like the perfect awkward length for this to be a thing .

Gotta make sure you got the beer in hand .

No beer on youtube .

That's like you're , you're like drunk friend at a party that falls like 12 times but never spills the beer .

That's definitely not me because I'd be asleep .

You know , this cave is actually pretty fucking yo , you know , it's kind of crazy what that , it would be so much nicer to build a car out of this than my stupid fucking sedan cut easy as OK , dude .

Fun .

This is a huge pet peeve of mine .

This actually isn't that bad right now , but a lot of times people will put a universal roof rack on a car and the roof bars will stick out to here and it looks like you got four spoilers on your car .

So , what I always do is I'll take them and I'll , I'll measure so I can cut it down and get it looking more like this .

Instead of having a big freaking spoiler hanging off the side of your car , it makes a big difference .

If you're a roof rack , boy , you get it .

If you're not a roof rack , boy , and you're trying to be a car show , roof rack , boy , take notes .

All right , the old roof rack install .

So this fairing is actually from my E 92 .

I don't remember if you can still buy them or not , but this roof or bike carrier thing right here was my favorite back in the day , it was called the Big Mouth and you can't get them anymore .

Probably because a lot of people were dumb and put their bikes on it the wrong way and their bikes flew off .

Uh , never happened to me , but I definitely did drive into a parking garage with it a few times .

So that's one thing you gotta watch out for .

But I like this because it's a nice clean , simple design .

Very ergonomic .

Yeah , I'm gonna clamber down , throw my bike on it and see what this thing looks like in its final form .

Oh , I up by the way , don't show him .

Well , you can show them this side .

I cut the rear too short .

So measure twice , cut once , move in , cut that up , cut that up .

We're gonna redo it a reminder you can catch this car at the F C C Euro booth at F D Orlando .

I'm super thankful for all their help on this .

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I always see them do it on NASCAR .

Right .

Yo , yo , hold on , hold on .

I don't want to take it stressful the when .