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Originally Posted by wpoll
That seems a good plan to me, workingonit - very sound thinking. 
And I applaud your "moral code".  |
I just replaced my MAF a few weeks ago with a Bosch unit from Pelican, I think it was. Wasn't too expensive...$70 maybe? The first one made it 20 years, so that's a pretty good investment if the second one does the same.
My X went into the upholstry shop finally this week to get the headline and a,b and c pillars redone. It was all getting pretty ratty. Best $550 I've spent on the car in a while...not counting the new motor, wheels/tires, lift, suspension parts...and all the rest! But man, its nice to spend some money on creature comfort stuff now after getting the new motor sorted out.
I bought "new" pillars and plastic bits in black off of ebay, and 5 yards of classic black M3-like headliner material from ASC/BMW Fabrics, who is active on this and BimmerForums. While the liner was out yesterday I went back over to the shop and ran RCA cables front to back on the left and right sides for the future sound system upgrade, part two. The left side of the ceiling doesnt have any existing cabling/wires, but the right side does. Hopefully there isn't a lot of juice running through these thin wires that will put static into my future powered sub in the right trunk cubbie. Other than that, just some sweat, a wire snake and lots of swearing later and I had them run and zip tied up.
Original tan:
headliner out:
New liner and pillars:
Makes me really want to do the seats now. I saw some pics of a beautiful E34 restomod that had some very cool cloth inserts in the middle of black leather seats. Got me thinking....Graham at BMW Fabrics has some very cool fabrics available, but I'd need to find something that matches tan as I like the tan leather. Also, I'm going to look for sport seats in good condition. I suspect they are hard to find a a decent price, but I like the thought of sport seats. I would imagine 5 series of the same model years would pop right in?