The Struggle is Real: A Roof Rack Adventure

As I stood there, staring at the broken bolt on my E46 roof rack, I couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration. The instructions had clearly stated that I needed to use a 10mm socket, and yet here I was, staring at a mangled mess that seemed to be saying "you're not welcome". The bolts were too long, the sockets didn't stay on, and all I could think was "why me?".

I remembered when I first got this car, and how excited I was to take it out for a spin. But now, as I gazed at this broken mess, I couldn't help but feel a sense of disappointment. This was one of those moments where I wanted to just throw my hands up in the air and say "I give up". Mike, who had kindly offered to help me with the installation, chuckled and said "let me grab a drill", which only made me laugh. It's days like these that make me feel like a freight train, barreling down on everything in its path.

As I looked at this broken roof rack, I couldn't help but think about how much I loved my E46. We'd shared some great times together, and I was determined to get it fixed and back on the road. But as I gazed at the bolts that had broken, I couldn't help but feel a sense of annoyance. This car may not be perfect, but it's mine, and I'm not about to let it break.

I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the task at hand. I remembered that the inserts were threaded and looked replaceable, which was a good thing because I didn't want to have to mess around with double nutting it. But as I began to work on it, I realized that I needed to be patient. This was going to take some time, and I wasn't going to rush through it.

As I worked on the roof rack, I couldn't help but think about my other projects. I had a '92 328i that I'd been working on for years, trying to get it just right. It was a labor of love, but it was starting to come together. And then there was my other E46, which was actually an e-92. I loved the way it looked, and I couldn't wait to get back behind the wheel.

But as I worked on the roof rack, I realized that it wasn't going to be easy. The fairing was from my e-92, but I'd cut it a bit too short. I needed to measure twice and cut once, which is easier said than done when you're in the middle of something. So I took a deep breath and started again.

As I worked on the roof rack, I couldn't help but think about how much I loved the design. It was clean and simple, with a great ergonomic feel to it. And when I finally got it installed, I felt a sense of satisfaction that I hadn't felt in a long time. It was one step closer to becoming what it used to be.

The roof rack may not have been the most exciting project, but it was a reminder that sometimes things need to be fixed and rebuilt. And as I looked at my E46, which was starting to take shape again, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. This car may not be perfect, but it's mine, and I'm going to make it great.

A Beer and a Roof Rack

As I installed the roof rack, I couldn't help but think about beer. Not just any beer, but a cold one on a hot day. It was the perfect companion for this project, and as I worked, I felt my thirst growing with each passing minute. Mike, who had kindly offered to help me, chuckled and said "don't show well", which only made me laugh.

But as we continued to work, I realized that there were a few things that needed to be taken into consideration. The roof rack was from an 'A90', which wasn't the same as my E46. And it seemed like it had been stolen from someone else at some point. But as I looked at the inserts and bolts, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. This could be a great opportunity to upgrade my car.

The Roof Rack Boy

As we continued to work on the roof rack, Mike said something that really struck me. He said that people would put universal roof racks on their cars, and then proceed to install them wrong. The result was often a big, ugly spoiler hanging off the side of the car. It made me think about how important it is to measure twice and cut once.

I realized that I wasn't just installing a roof rack, I was building something new. Something that would be part of my car for years to come. And as I looked at the finished product, I felt a sense of pride. This was what it meant to be a roof rack boy - to take something broken and make it whole again.

The Finished Product

As I finally installed the roof rack, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction. It was one step closer to becoming what it used to be. And as I looked at my E46, which was starting to take shape again, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. This car may not be perfect, but it's mine, and I'm going to make it great.

The roof rack adventure had been a long one, but it was worth it in the end. It reminded me that sometimes things need to be fixed and rebuilt, and that with patience and determination, anything is possible. And as I looked at my E46, which was finally starting to come together, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement for what the future held.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to today's video guys we are back holy crap mike were you filming out on 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 e46 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 in engine bay let's see how sick this thing runs now back when i had it it never revved that good from a cold start i would like try to redline it and it would always like do weird stuff so this is sick let's dive in i always tell you guys do this whenever you have your car in the air whether you're just changing a wheel 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 didn't work i always see them do it on nascar ready yo yo hold on what i don't want to take a strip out of the car i just try to have fun i'm trying to like so i would i wouldn't have done this back when i worked on my car actually yo when i change my wheels on this car i kid you not i used one of those like cross hatch bars my mom had it i used to too in an avalanche i remember i got my first harbor freight jack when i got my my style five oh memories dude it's not stripped yohan scott this is why i hate bmws log studs i feel like such an idiot i'm way more aggressive than the other one that time of the purpose today's video is brought to you guys by shipstation if you guys are running an ecommerce business right now you know the strain that inflation can have on your bottom line one thing that can save you a lot of money and a lot of time is ship station it's going to give you the same discounts that are usually reserved for fortune 500 companies saving you money 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adam lz and start saving with every shipment that's two whole months of discounts absolutely free just go to shipstation.com forward slash adam lz with shipstation you can make ship happen i won't even massive thank you to them for responding this video 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 grit 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 yes you never did this back in the day no actually i never didn't have candy i use the smaller one the angle grinder i like the dye grinder thing don't ever do that i had cuban coffee this morning so it's it's hitting 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 brake pad will just take the paint off okay 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 sr20 and then grind it on the floor hey we did have an fd so yeah well just you know resurfacing a flywheel on some concrete you got to do what you got to do to keep racing i up because i should have really cleaned this car before we started working on it mike massey cleaned it a little bit when he brought it to me but you could tell he missed some spots like you really got to clean your lens it's bad it looks perfectly fine look at it right yo look at this i'm well aware that it has a little bit of camera like a screen i could see it jesus mike what are you doing i am so spoiled bye 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 no no this this was my friend's shop they happened to be lc this was my friend's hid installer he's a good friend we don't oh sorry hd installer friend this is super stressed right now this is gonna suck dude i've got on my calendar 30 minutes break job imagine oh my legs i think i got it it doesn't help that this floor is like slippery from all the water on the floor so i'm like trying to put my body in it just flip it around we're looking for a highly skilled bmw tech here at the lzmfg shop to work on the highest end bmw performance cars like i need you to insert this sound bite right here it's just one of those days where you don't want to wake up 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 bbs 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 bolt it's still the same wow even the half inch can't do it adam in 2012. i don't think so yeah i'm about to just abandon this car completely i got a little bit hard truth for you guys some of y'all might judge me some meow 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 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 going to say you can't hang the caliper 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 allen you ellen allen if you're watching this why bro what if he's watching this allen yeah you know i know very few people named alan i don't think i know a single person named ready go to spinny winnie wow alan you came through courtesy of fcp 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 e46 m3 brakes but that's probably going to be down the road i understand now why it has the allen it's because of the lug bolts well the caliper would also hold it on there no but it could spin because when you take the lug nuts out yeah yeah you're right pounds aren't all that bad freaking johann science class over here i guess i could just turn the signals on right wow yeah that thing's not built for 18 volts bro i do want to add a disclaimer that this wasn't i like i wasn't even supposed to spend any time doing the brakes in this video but i'm trying to force myself to do the annoying stuff before the fun stuff that is putting coilovers 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 i've got some stories to tell as we dive into these shocks so i actually had coilovers on this car so at some point someone put stock suspension back on it so hopefully all these bolts will be nice and loose they have a slot hey you want to trade jobs so i'm really stoked uh bc had a set of ds series on the shelf for my e46 so that's what i'm going to be running on this car highly recommend them over the brs but brs are good too good reminder if you want to get entered for a chance to win the red chaser and ten thousand dollars cash we do sell bc racing coilovers on the lz site and that will get you a bunch of entries we've got other auto parts on there 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 fd orlando but afterwards we're going to drop the drivetrain because we're going to end up painting 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 knew it i can find it okay back to the coilovers oh so this is this is the funny thing that i wanted to tell you guys about what i messed up when i first did my coilovers ever so the first time i ever did a set of coilovers 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 lands 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 strut 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 reuse the factory swept tops but that's not a problem with the pcs because they come and they're pillow ball let's go bc's come with some fresh end links racelands 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 bmws 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 subframes bmws are made to be slammed so much so that we aren't even going to use this we're just going to let her rip right like this and i bet i'll still want to make it even lower so we're going to put this in pre-load it a little bit then adjust this to bolt up to the knuckle drop around the ground with new wheels that y'all are about to see and check her out now over really close i could technically take this out too and get a little extra millimeters of low but uh yeah so i'll do that oh 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 guys asked why my hat is all trashed can't find another one by the way it's from this car i kept it pretty clean working on this car it's just constantly just getting absorbed by dirt the vents might not work but when they do they're gonna breathe 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 where a set of bbs style fives and the way that i got them my buddy alec norkowski actually had them laying around in his garage he got him for next to nothing i traded him a bmx frame that i think i paid like 50 or 100 for 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 refinished them in my mom's dining room and i wound up selling them for i think like 300 bucks when all said and done with tires just because the fact i had to have the car way too low to be drivable 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-piece 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 mount into them too i think it's a 215 40 17. dude 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 whole life left in that tire right now dude suspense is killing it ready these are in really good shape yeah he said the only sign of like any sort of pitting so he you 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 it wasn't tommy but i had him zing 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 of the factory clear or whatever on it yeah yeah yeah so it didn't work out and i was doing it all by hand i didn't have any machines or anything so literally in there with sandpaper ruined my mom's floors i wonder if they're still ruined um there's like aluminum dust everywhere but it was cool it's 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 these got the center caps these are like oem i think e39 five series wheels they weren't on m5s 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 yo i remember when i got these tires on i thought it was the craziest stretch i look at this now and i'm like damn cause it was like it was pretty tight fitment for not knowing what i was doing like i had to have a decent amount of camber it's gonna be interesting to see uh was i a real stance boy 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 i didn't do hub-centric rings when i first got these and my car vibrated like crazy i don't have hubspot triggering so we're gonna have to put those in later very important when you put these wheels on because the m5s or the five series have a bigger bore 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 though it should be pretty good if you have the tapered lugs see this that's what you need a little ring for so okay i predict rear is going to be tits front i don't know i think it might actually be pretty good ready so rear i feel like it needs a spacer maybe a little camera pulled out of it front definitely needs to come down what are you thinking mike yeah i agree yo 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 yeah but i might need to um see if dorte has a like a spacer and like extended lugs is this a slim spacer that's what like a 10mm maybe yeah front fitment though looks seems pretty good let's go lower it yeah literally 30 seconds i called the audio 15. 15 seconds that's it walked over from drift ice cubes and spacers and lugs there we go it's add a better spacer i think you're good i think you're good on fitment yeah it definitely has all seven vibes definitely 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 is that i notice your camera lens is cleaner now from here i don't see spots i know well now you have a lot of editing to take those spots out no that's called low aperture you can't see them can't see it we don't like low wattage we see no red no no no we don't nope what are you framing on right now what do you mean what kind of frame rate frame rate 15 i'll kill you that's it spicy the last step and 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'd seen on like my friends 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 it was a good thing or a bad thing but my car got broken into and 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 going to leave this car so i can put my bike on it apart from having some mismatched 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 his prime tully is actually based out of seymour connecticut yet another company like fcp euro connecticut base cool going on a connecticut car i gotta find the connecticut plate for this car that would be extra cool just broke the ball in there note to self don't use power tools when trying to bolt on a roof rack because the bolts will probably break it'll definitely break i wanted to give up but 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 e46 sucks out of all the cars for me to be annoyed with this is the one that i'm okay with being annoyed with because this car we've shared some annoyances together i tell you impact where the bolts the sockets don't stay on it because it doesn't have the nub 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 2jz 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 bolt was too long so it said i'm out and it broke but the cool thing is these inserts are threaded and look 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 uh out by dark but unfortunately mike picked 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 e46 i have an e46 i don't want to call it a parks car because it's actually like a pretty cool caged car that would be a great build someone stole an lz logo oh wow just wow hyper fest not really working the best for me a lot a lot of things going missing but anyway yeah i traded johan that a90 for this e46 m3 oh i guess there's oh no it did come with a bit it's just not in it right now but what's more important is a roof rack piece so we're going to 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 okay okay gotta make sure you get 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 yo this cage is actually pretty floyd dude yo you know what's kind of crazy what that it would be so much nicer to build a car out of this than my stupid sedan kill easy as okay dude 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 like here it looks like you got four spoilers on your car so what i always do is i'll take them and i'll measure 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 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 doing the old roof rack install so this fairing is actually from my e-92 uh i don't remember you can still buy them or not 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 got to watch out for but i like this because it's a nice clean simple design very ergonomic yeah i'm gonna clamp her 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 well you can show them this side i cut the rear too short so measure twice cut once we filming mhm cut that out cut that out we're going to redo it just a reminder you can catch this car at the fcp eurobooth at fd orlando i'm super thankful for all their help on this uh more info in the description fcp euro for all of your european parts needs and this thing is one step closer to becoming what it used to be when i had it last i always see them do it on nascar ready what i don't want to take a strip out of itwelcome to today's video guys we are back holy crap mike were you filming out on 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 e46 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 in engine bay let's see how sick this thing runs now back when i had it it never revved that good from a cold start i would like try to redline it and it would always like do weird stuff so this is sick let's dive in i always tell you guys do this whenever you have your car in the air whether you're just changing a wheel 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 didn't work i always see them do it on nascar ready yo yo hold on what i don't want to take a strip out of the car i just try to have fun i'm trying to like so i would i wouldn't have done this back when i worked on my car actually yo when i change my wheels on this car i kid you not i used one of those like cross hatch bars my mom had it i used to too in an avalanche i remember i got my first harbor freight jack when i got my my style five oh memories dude it's not stripped yohan scott this is why i hate bmws log studs i feel like such an idiot i'm way more aggressive than the other one that time of the purpose today's video is brought to you guys by shipstation if you guys are running an ecommerce business right now you know the strain that inflation can have on your bottom line one thing that can save you a lot of money and a lot of time is ship station it's going to give you the same discounts that are usually reserved for fortune 500 companies saving you money and it's going to make international shipping a breeze so you can scale anywhere your heart desires ship station is trusted by over a hundred thousand sellers worldwide uk us canada australia we've been using shipstation forever you guys know we're in the peak of the giveaway right now and our suppliers were a little bit behind at first but we are all stocked up now and with shipstation that guys were able to rip through hundreds of orders as little as hours with all the money you're gonna save by switching to ship station you could do cool things you could scale your business more get some equipment maybe get another project car it works with over 300 platforms amazon etsy ebay compares rates from over 45 different carriers it makes sense why 98 of the companies using shipstation never stop using it you got to do whatever it takes to protect your bottom line and ship station is a great place to start you can sign up for a free 60-day trial by going to shipstation.com forward slash adam lz and start saving with every shipment that's two whole months of discounts absolutely free just go to shipstation.com forward slash adam lz with shipstation you can make ship happen i won't even massive thank you to them for responding this video 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 grit 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 yes you never did this back in the day no actually i never didn't have candy i use the smaller one the angle grinder i like the dye grinder thing don't ever do that i had cuban coffee this morning so it's it's hitting 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 brake pad will just take the paint off okay 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 sr20 and then grind it on the floor hey we did have an fd so yeah well just you know resurfacing a flywheel on some concrete you got to do what you got to do to keep racing i up because i should have really cleaned this car before we started working on it mike massey cleaned it a little bit when he brought it to me but you could tell he missed some spots like you really got to clean your lens it's bad it looks perfectly fine look at it right yo look at this i'm well aware that it has a little bit of camera like a screen i could see it jesus mike what are you doing i am so spoiled bye 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 no no this this was my friend's shop they happened to be lc this was my friend's hid installer he's a good friend we don't oh sorry hd installer friend this is super stressed right now this is gonna suck dude i've got on my calendar 30 minutes break job imagine oh my legs i think i got it it doesn't help that this floor is like slippery from all the water on the floor so i'm like trying to put my body in it just flip it around we're looking for a highly skilled bmw tech here at the lzmfg shop to work on the highest end bmw performance cars like i need you to insert this sound bite right here it's just one of those days where you don't want to wake up 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 bbs 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 bolt it's still the same wow even the half inch can't do it adam in 2012. i don't think so yeah i'm about to just abandon this car completely i got a little bit hard truth for you guys some of y'all might judge me some meow 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 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 going to say you can't hang the caliper 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 allen you ellen allen if you're watching this why bro what if he's watching this allen yeah you know i know very few people named alan i don't think i know a single person named ready go to spinny winnie wow alan you came through courtesy of fcp 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 e46 m3 brakes but that's probably going to be down the road i understand now why it has the allen it's because of the lug bolts well the caliper would also hold it on there no but it could spin because when you take the lug nuts out yeah yeah you're right pounds aren't all that bad freaking johann science class over here i guess i could just turn the signals on right wow yeah that thing's not built for 18 volts bro i do want to add a disclaimer that this wasn't i like i wasn't even supposed to spend any time doing the brakes in this video but i'm trying to force myself to do the annoying stuff before the fun stuff that is putting coilovers 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 i've got some stories to tell as we dive into these shocks so i actually had coilovers on this car so at some point someone put stock suspension back on it so hopefully all these bolts will be nice and loose they have a slot hey you want to trade jobs so i'm really stoked uh bc had a set of ds series on the shelf for my e46 so that's what i'm going to be running on this car highly recommend them over the brs but brs are good too good reminder if you want to get entered for a chance to win the red chaser and ten thousand dollars cash we do sell bc racing coilovers on the lz site and that will get you a bunch of entries we've got other auto parts on there 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 fd orlando but afterwards we're going to drop the drivetrain because we're going to end up painting 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 knew it i can find it okay back to the coilovers oh so this is this is the funny thing that i wanted to tell you guys about what i messed up when i first did my coilovers ever so the first time i ever did a set of coilovers 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 lands 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 strut 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 reuse the factory swept tops but that's not a problem with the pcs because they come and they're pillow ball let's go bc's come with some fresh end links racelands 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 bmws 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 subframes bmws are made to be slammed so much so that we aren't even going to use this we're just going to let her rip right like this and i bet i'll still want to make it even lower so we're going to put this in pre-load it a little bit then adjust this to bolt up to the knuckle drop around the ground with new wheels that y'all are about to see and check her out now over really close i could technically take this out too and get a little extra millimeters of low but uh yeah so i'll do that oh 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 guys asked why my hat is all trashed can't find another one by the way it's from this car i kept it pretty clean working on this car it's just constantly just getting absorbed by dirt the vents might not work but when they do they're gonna breathe 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 where a set of bbs style fives and the way that i got them my buddy alec norkowski actually had them laying around in his garage he got him for next to nothing i traded him a bmx frame that i think i paid like 50 or 100 for 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 refinished them in my mom's dining room and i wound up selling them for i think like 300 bucks when all said and done with tires just because the fact i had to have the car way too low to be drivable 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-piece 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 mount into them too i think it's a 215 40 17. dude 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 whole life left in that tire right now dude suspense is killing it ready these are in really good shape yeah he said the only sign of like any sort of pitting so he you 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 it wasn't tommy but i had him zing 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 of the factory clear or whatever on it yeah yeah yeah so it didn't work out and i was doing it all by hand i didn't have any machines or anything so literally in there with sandpaper ruined my mom's floors i wonder if they're still ruined um there's like aluminum dust everywhere but it was cool it's 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 these got the center caps these are like oem i think e39 five series wheels they weren't on m5s 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 yo i remember when i got these tires on i thought it was the craziest stretch i look at this now and i'm like damn cause it was like it was pretty tight fitment for not knowing what i was doing like i had to have a decent amount of camber it's gonna be interesting to see uh was i a real stance boy 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 i didn't do hub-centric rings when i first got these and my car vibrated like crazy i don't have hubspot triggering so we're gonna have to put those in later very important when you put these wheels on because the m5s or the five series have a bigger bore 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 though it should be pretty good if you have the tapered lugs see this that's what you need a little ring for so okay i predict rear is going to be tits front i don't know i think it might actually be pretty good ready so rear i feel like it needs a spacer maybe a little camera pulled out of it front definitely needs to come down what are you thinking mike yeah i agree yo 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 yeah but i might need to um see if dorte has a like a spacer and like extended lugs is this a slim spacer that's what like a 10mm maybe yeah front fitment though looks seems pretty good let's go lower it yeah literally 30 seconds i called the audio 15. 15 seconds that's it walked over from drift ice cubes and spacers and lugs there we go it's add a better spacer i think you're good i think you're good on fitment yeah it definitely has all seven vibes definitely 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 is that i notice your camera lens is cleaner now from here i don't see spots i know well now you have a lot of editing to take those spots out no that's called low aperture you can't see them can't see it we don't like low wattage we see no red no no no we don't nope what are you framing on right now what do you mean what kind of frame rate frame rate 15 i'll kill you that's it spicy the last step and 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'd seen on like my friends 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 it was a good thing or a bad thing but my car got broken into and 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 going to leave this car so i can put my bike on it apart from having some mismatched 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 his prime tully is actually based out of seymour connecticut yet another company like fcp euro connecticut base cool going on a connecticut car i gotta find the connecticut plate for this car that would be extra cool just broke the ball in there note to self don't use power tools when trying to bolt on a roof rack because the bolts will probably break it'll definitely break i wanted to give up but 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 e46 sucks out of all the cars for me to be annoyed with this is the one that i'm okay with being annoyed with because this car we've shared some annoyances together i tell you impact where the bolts the sockets don't stay on it because it doesn't have the nub 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 2jz 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 bolt was too long so it said i'm out and it broke but the cool thing is these inserts are threaded and look 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 uh out by dark but unfortunately mike picked 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 e46 i have an e46 i don't want to call it a parks car because it's actually like a pretty cool caged car that would be a great build someone stole an lz logo oh wow just wow hyper fest not really working the best for me a lot a lot of things going missing but anyway yeah i traded johan that a90 for this e46 m3 oh i guess there's oh no it did come with a bit it's just not in it right now but what's more important is a roof rack piece so we're going to 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 okay okay gotta make sure you get 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 yo this cage is actually pretty floyd dude yo you know what's kind of crazy what that it would be so much nicer to build a car out of this than my stupid sedan kill easy as okay dude 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 like here it looks like you got four spoilers on your car so what i always do is i'll take them and i'll measure 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 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 doing the old roof rack install so this fairing is actually from my e-92 uh i don't remember you can still buy them or not 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 got to watch out for but i like this because it's a nice clean simple design very ergonomic yeah i'm gonna clamp her 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 well you can show them this side i cut the rear too short so measure twice cut once we filming mhm cut that out cut that out we're going to redo it just a reminder you can catch this car at the fcp eurobooth at fd orlando i'm super thankful for all their help on this uh more info in the description fcp euro for all of your european parts needs and this thing is one step closer to becoming what it used to be when i had it last i always see them do it on nascar ready what i don't want to take a strip out of it\n"