[bmw335ie90]

Transmission Maintenance:

• Luk Dual Mass Flywheel
• Luk 335is/550i Clutch
• Brass Pivot Bearing
• Throwout Bearing

Rear main seal looked good so I didn't touch it, seals on transmission also looked okay:



Flywheel and the pressure plate had a lot of hot spots on them. The dual mass flywheel had very little play, I think there was a lot of life left on it if someone is able to machine the contact surface. I might try to send it out to be machines to keep as a spare.





Had to shorten the plastic clutch alignment tool that was provided in the kit:



Flywheel and PP mounted, transmission was a pain in the ass to get back in:

[bmw335ie90]

Some additional mods:

• Color Matched Kidney Surrounds
• Color Matched Front Reflectors
• Rogue Transmission Bushings
• Whiteline Rear Subframe Inserts
• 5mm Rear Spacers
• Lux v5 Angel Eyes

Wetsanded with 600 Grit and sprayed with adheasion promoter:



Primer applied. Tons of dust everywhere, had to wipe down pieces before base coats:



Base and clear sprayed, needs wet sanding for the orange peel:

[bmw335ie90]

Some interior mods:

• 3D Design E Brake
• Dinan Pedals
• M3 Cluster Needles
• White Cluster LEDs

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Removed sport suspension and upgraded the springs and shocks:

• M Performance Springs
• Koni Yellow Shocks
• E36 M3 Front and Z4 Rear Bump Stops
• Dinan Rear Upper Shock Mount

Threw in some Osram CBIs.

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Brake Job and Steering Wheel Upgrade

• Re-trimmed M3 Steering Wheel
• New M3 Wheel Trim
• VHT Silver Caliper Paint
• Brakes Guides Cleaned/Polished
• Z4 sDrive35is Two-Piece Front Rotors
• Akebono Euro Pads
• Stoptech Stainless Brake Lines

[bmw335ie90]

Base Stereo sound system upgrade using a combination of used components from an E91 Musicar setup and adding in some rear speakers and a TechnicPnP Base Harness:

Full thread here:
https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1787884

Equipment for Install

Used Musicar Stage 3 from a E91:

• Morel Hybrid 402 Front
• Jehnert XE 200 Underseat
• Arc Audio XDi 1200.6 Amp
• Match DSP
• RCA Cables from DSP to Amp
• Amp Mount

Added in components:

• Audiofrog GS42 Rear Speakers
• HiFi Tweeter Sails
• Technic PnP Base 4/6 Harness with RCA Termination
• Individual Audio Front Speaker Covers
• Female RCA for DSP connections
• New Carpeted Floor Mats

[Mosaud1998]

Originally Posted by bmw335ie90

Did some maintenance stuff:

• Cabin Air Filter
• Intake Filter
• Engine Oil
• Transmission Oil
• Diff Oil
• Power Steering Fluid

Removed these ugly lower deflector things:

If only I had a lift. I'd do everything myself. But, at the age of 23 and still in college. A lift wouldn't be a smart financial decision right now

[bmw335ie90]

Originally Posted by Mosaud1998

If only I had a lift. I'd do everything myself. But, at the age of 23 and still in college. A lift wouldn't be a smart financial decision right now

Yeah the lift is super clutch, its not mine but I use it like it is! Probably have spent hundreds of hours with my e39 on it, now I'm starting to rack up time with the e90.

[Mosaud1998]

Originally Posted by bmw335ie90

Yeah the lift is super clutch, its not mine but I use it like it is! Probably have spent hundreds of hours with my e39 on it, now I'm starting to rack up time with the e90.

I wonder how much it would cost to get a garage built out back and have a lift installed? Probably around $50k roughy?

[whyzee125]

This is clean af! Love the mods, exactly what I would've done as well!

[bmw335ie90]

Originally Posted by whyzee125

This is clean af! Love the mods, exactly what I would've done as well!

Appreciate it! Other than some small things here and there, not much left I want to do. Now thats it heating up its time to knock out my OFHG and pray to the car gods I don't seize my shit when I start it up.

[jacbo]

Looks super nice. very tasteful mods.

Wish my e90 looked this clean but it's on more than double the miles yours is and lived through many salty roads ahahah.

How did you find the osram cool blue bulbs and how much gearbox oil did you use for the change?

[bmw335ie90]

Originally Posted by jacbo

Looks super nice. very tasteful mods.

Wish my e90 looked this clean but it's on more than double the miles yours is and lived through many salty roads ahahah.

How did you find the osram cool blue bulbs and how much gearbox oil did you use for the change?

I love the osram CBI bulbs, pure white output and brighter than OEM. The transmission took just under 2 Quarts of oil.

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Installed Revshift trailing arms and cleaned up the wheels. Took off the old wheel weight adhesive and put on some Gloss Coat I had left over. Need to buy some black model paint and touch up the barrels where the tire shop buckered the paint. Continental DWS06 all season tires replaced with Michelin Pilot Super Sport summer tires.

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Some maintenance at 65k miles. Engine bay was cleaned before removing the oil filter housing in an attempt to keep anything from falling into the exposed oil system.

• Oil Filter Housing Gasket
• Oil Cooler Gasket
• Oil Cooler Line O-Rings
• Serpentine Belt
• Intake Manifold Gaskets
• Aluminum Mickey Mouse Coolant Flange
• Replaced Coolant
• Oil Change

[S4NoMore]

Awesome. Where did you go for the steering wheel? Are you pleased with the result from the rear subframe inserts?

[bmw335ie90]

Originally Posted by S4NoMore

Awesome. Where did you go for the steering wheel? Are you pleased with the result from the rear subframe inserts?

Steering wheel was re-trimmed by Royal steering wheels in the UK, even with shipping it was like $100 cheaper than anyone in the US.

Rear subframe inserts helped a lot with the floaty rear end feel over bumps but thats really it. I want to go solid aluminum bushings at some point but not ready to make that leap quite yet.

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Tried to clean up the VRSF charge pipe by tig welding the top meth bung and swapping out the horrid looking t-clamps for black oxide screw clamps. Also painted the ends of the VRSF intercooler black to make it look a bit more OEM.

Front bumper is looking pretty rough. When I purchased the car, Carfax had a "damage to front - It hit an object - airbags did not deploy" report on it. Pretty obvious that the front bumper was poorly repainted as rock chips easily take the paint off all the way down to the primer/plastic.

[KKevin]

Beautiful, I wish I was smart enough to work on my E90. Lacking some maint stuff on mines.

[timnkoo]

Simply amazing job mate. I'm sure most of us are suffering serious envy with just how clean that car is!

What's left on the list?

[bmw335ie90]

Originally Posted by timnkoo

Simply amazing job mate. I'm sure most of us are suffering serious envy with just how clean that car is!

What's left on the list?

Thanks! I've been daily driving it for the last 3 months and its just killing me seeing it so dirty all the time

The only thing for sure I'll do soon is install the lightly used Dinan fixed front camber plates I just purchased from a forum member. Been looking for a long time for a used e93 m3 front sway bar but they are pretty uncommon to find used.

Would like to do a few more items in future but cannot justify at the moment: Replace headlight lenses, replace front bumper with a Euro one, and replace windshield with a "climate comfort" version.

[timnkoo]

Originally Posted by bmw335ie90

Thanks! I've been daily driving it for the last 3 months and its just killing me seeing it so dirty all the time

The only thing for sure I'll do soon is install the lightly used Dinan fixed front camber plates I just purchased from a forum member. Been looking for a long time for a used e93 m3 front sway bar but they are pretty uncommon to find used.

Would like to do a few more items in future but cannot justify at the moment: Replace headlight lenses, replace front bumper with a Euro one, and replace windshield with a "climate comfort" version.

Nice. My headlight lenses drive me nuts. They look horrible and a full treatment (wet sand, Polish etc) didn't provide much improvement. The micro-cracking/yellowing appears to be on the inside of the lens. My LCI means no simple lens removal. New assembly appears to be the only, very expensive option 😢