1985 BMW 318i + M42 engine swap = Prepping for Season 2 in MR Rally-X - Page 2

A1337STI · 10-05-2011, 03:40 PM

Check what the rules are for fans / switches . If the rules allow it, you should wire up the "AC fan" onto a switch. so if the car starts running hot you can kick it on. my car (impreza) was running hot at my last rallyX and a little switch to the 2nd fan would have helped a bunch.

irish44j · 10-05-2011, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A1337STI

Check what the rules are for fans / switches . If the rules allow it, you should wire up the "AC fan" onto a switch. so if the car starts running hot you can kick it on. my car (impreza) was running hot at my last rallyX and a little switch to the 2nd fan would have helped a bunch.

will look into it, thanks. If I go M2 I'll probably convert the main fan to electric too, to get a couple HP that the crank-driven fan is currently stealing. Actually this weekend I'll test and see if the AC fan actually works, and go from there.

irish44j · 10-07-2011, 03:02 PM

Today not much on the car since I was working.

Did cancel the order for the 45mm front Bils. I'm going to source up full later e30 suspension with the better rear trailing arms, better brakes, and 51mm struts. Easier to find parts for, more stout, and better stopping are all good things for rallycross.

So goodbye to PR, hello to M2

Having basically no restrictions on what I do will make it more fun anyways....

The P/O (who only had the car for a few months) also got in touch with the owner before him to check on some maintenance items. The P/O2 said (though had no documentation) that the water pump was replaced "about a year ago" (so I'll assume 2 years ago) and that he "thinks" the timing chain was done at the same time, but he didn't do the work himself apparently, he just paid a shop/dealer to do it....so who knows.

I have a water pump on the way anyhow, so will probably do it just to be safe. If the old one is still good I'll just keep it as a spare.

Today's quick project was to rip out the drivers-side carpeting. more shattered glass (someone must not have been happy with a previous owner since it's just glass and no sign of any panel replacements or anything). I really should get an autocheck/carfax done but I'm too cheap (anyone out there have an account?)

The good news on the driver's side is that the rear floor is perfect, not a sign of rust anywhere. The front floor has some surface rust, but does have a small hole just below the gas pedal. Should be an easy cut-out-and-fiberglass fix, especially since there is a reinforcing bar there anyways where the pedal bottom mounts. Also one stud for the seat mount apparently fell out of the chassis, so there's a hole there from it (will just push a new one through, it's not rusted or anything). So all in all I have 3 smallish rust holes in the entire floor pan to fix. Pretty pleased with that.

For seats I've been thinking about what I want to do. The thought of some Sparco Evos is in my mind (they can be found used fairly cheap), but I kind of want something that will be a bit more comfortable and adjustable for regular driving, especially since the local rallycrosses are a good ~2 hour drive from here.

I'm leaning toward looking for some Porsche or possibly Miata seats. There is a pair of black leather 944 seats local for cheap, so might go check that out and take some measurements. I've always like sitting in Porsches and felt the seats were pretty supportive and comfortable at the same time. If I get the leather ones, I'll get them recovered in cloth probably. Not a big fan of the e30 "sport" seats, and M3 seats are usually beat to hell, or if they're decent they're $$$.

A few quick pics:

irish44j · 10-09-2011, 04:59 PM

Today was planning to attack the floors and some other things, but got hung up for longer than expected helping a friend do a battery relocate in his car so only did a few quick things to the e30.

1. pulled out the rear seats. major accomplishment

2. did the front bumper reduction mod....taking the diving board there and compressing it about 5" in. This required drilling out the hydraulic pistons mounts and getting the oil inside all over the place (even though I thought I had prepped sufficiently to avoid a major mess). Then compressed them with a vise and re-installed. Reinstallation is a bit tougher since with the bumper pressed in it's pretty tight accessing the mount bolts. Will likely get rid of the rubberized "spats" that go around the bumper edges to cover the gap that is no longer there..

moments before oil-mageddon

compressed vs. uncompressed

finished product (see earlier pics in this thread for comparison)

irish44j · 10-13-2011, 07:58 PM

Decided tonight to go out and check the shrader valves on the AC lines and lo and behold....no freon in there. Which means....I had a project for the evening:
goodbye A/C! (still have to do the AC radiator and the stuff under the dash, but cleared out the compressor, mount bracket, and lines underhood tonight)

Also pulled the battery to check out the pan, after I noticed that my passenger-side water leak was coming down near the firewall/box junction there. Sure enough, some rust-through on the pan and on the side lip. I did some test drainage through the air intake vents with the car on level ground.....and whatever German designed that drainage path was a moron.....water pools nicely exactly where all the rust is. Oh well, nothing some fiberglass won't be able to fix...

Time to get some shuteye...

irish44j · 10-14-2011, 04:02 PM

so a couple quick things:
new fiberglass on the battery tray, after cleaning up/cutting out the small rust holes. I also built up the area on the left side lip up under the hood mechanism, since it sits low and allows water to pool....once it's fully dry I'll sand it down and paint

on to inspection of some of the vac hoses. Pretty clear that someone improv'd alot of these. The plan is going to be to replace all of it with whatever I can find locally. Would be nice if there was a Samco vac hose kit for the M10, but no dice. Guess I'll have to stick to rubber unless I feel like spending a day measuring and ordering custom pieces...

really nice....the brake booster hose. Way to keep it simple, lol.

adamthomas625 · 10-14-2011, 04:36 PM

You might think I'm crazy but I can help you get your subie paid off. I just got with a company and started out spare time. I have a free black BMW now that they give me 600 dollars a month for. Since they do that I now have a free daily driver and I'm going to build my subaru into a rally car.. They will give you 600$ a month as long as you have a black BMW. So what you can do is use that 600 to pay your subaru off!! This company has allowed me to make more money than I did at my full time job(plus drive a free car) and now I can use that money for rally!! www.adamthomas.bodybyvi.com watch the videos.

irish44j · 10-14-2011, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by adamthomas625

You might think I'm crazy but I can help you get your subie paid off. I just got with a company and started out spare time. I have a free black BMW now that they give me 600 dollars a month for. Since they do that I now have a free daily driver and I'm going to build my subaru into a rally car.. They will give you 600$ a month as long as you have a black BMW. So what you can do is use that 600 to pay your subaru off!! This company has allowed me to make more money than I did at my full time job(plus drive a free car) and now I can use that money for rally!! www.adamthomas.bodybyvi.com watch the videos.

interesting concept, ....IDK that it really applies to me though...not really in need of weight loss and (6'0, 165) marketing is defintely not my thing. Anyhow, the money isn't really the issue for me, I'm just doing this car on the cheap for the fun of doing it on the cheap (my other projects were definitely not done on the cheap). I didn't look at the BMW thing because it requires an email and phone number (which I do not give out). Thanks for the heads up though!

adamthomas625 · 10-14-2011, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by irish44j

interesting concept, ....IDK that it really applies to me though...not really in need of weight loss and (6'0, 165) marketing is defintely not my thing. Anyhow, the money isn't really the issue for me, I'm just doing this car on the cheap for the fun of doing it on the cheap (my other projects were definitely not done on the cheap). I didn't look at the BMW thing because it requires an email and phone number (which I do not give out). Thanks for the heads up though!

to see the bmw thing you can go to www.overview.visalus.com and it's not a weight loss product. it's a nutrition product. I've actually gained muscle from it. and that's fine man just thought I would offer and try and help!! I'm doing a ViSalus rally paint job and using my rally car a tax write off

irish44j · 10-14-2011, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by adamthomas625

to see the bmw thing you can go to www.overview.visalus.com and it's not a weight loss product. it's a nutrition product. I've actually gained muscle from it. and that's fine man just thought I would offer and try and help!! I'm doing a ViSalus rally paint job and using my rally car a tax write off

I do appreciate it, and thanks for the head's up. I definitely want to see the paint job!

irish44j · 10-14-2011, 08:04 PM

ok, so $15 worth of random hoses from the local auto parts store, a few reduction and elbow fittings, and for the price of one OEM formed hose all of the main induction hoses are now replaced and leak/crack-free....

that looks better than what was above, lol

re-oriented with a "modified" elbow/holder.....the p/o clearly liked long hoses going anywhere. I prefer more direct as well as I can do them without any kinks.

irish44j · 10-16-2011, 05:51 PM

not much work on the project today. Woke up at 530 am and trucked 200 miles down to Va.Beach (from DC) in a stellar 2 1/2 hours to pick up a buddy who called in a favor (was dropping off his Z06 for some engine work down there) and headed back up this way in another fast time. In time for football kickoff, though my Skins disappointed of course. Fine, more time to rake leaves, ugh.

As to the car, spend a little while stripping a few interior panels and insulation and pulled the cabin a/c lines. Also re-installed the intake air box and went to pull the car out of the garage to clean up the mess of tools and general **** all over the place.

of course...dead battery. Left the trunk open and I guess the light drained it, doh. Jumped it with the WRX (a bit more hassle now that it has a trunk-mounted/boxed battery) and ran it for a while in the driveway while I cleaned up. With the vac hoses replaced, the idle is now more around typical levels rather than the high idle it had before...though the tach doesn't work, so I'm just guessing at that since I'm too lazy to count....

oh, and a small package came in the other day...

once I do the suspension/brake swap from the 325, I'll install some wheel studs into the hubs and use lugnuts rather than the OEM lug stud setup, which is really annoying...

irish44j · 10-20-2011, 01:54 PM

Got around to patching up the small rust holes successfully and decided to clean out everything and do the bedliner interior. I was going to get Herculiner, but happened to come across some Rustoleum bedliner at walmart, which was less than half the price. Worth a try, since it's not like I need "the best" or for it to take massive abuse like a truck bed will.

Anyhow, did the entire floor pan and the accessible transmission/driveshaft tunnel area. Driver's side came out great (just scuff-sanded the original paint). Passenger side, which I had previously done with POR-15, not as good. Apparently this bedliner doesn't like POR-15, because I started getting the "crinkling" as it pulled up the POR-15. stellar.

In any case, still turned out ok and not going to worry about it for the moment. Passenger side will probably get a re-do at some point.
The Rustoleum stuff seems tough enough for my purposes, and does have good texture like any other bedliner (I used herculiner on my old XJ). For $35, not bad. The whole interior took only about 10% of the gallon can I got too, so plenty more to use

not the best pic, but here it is on the driver's side

this should confuse some people driving behind me....

irish44j · 10-21-2011, 02:50 PM

Had the afternoon free today, so decided to do some minor projects. I know that these aren't terribly interesting to look at or read about, but I'm trying to keep track of even the small stuff - first so I know what I've done, and second because who knows which of these small things might be of interest to other people....especially with me doing it on the cheap and improvising alot.

This car had hit a small deer previously, so the front of the hood has a dent (looking for a replacement hood), the grilles were broken, and the lower grille support bar was bent and the paint cracked off, with rust starting.

Basically, several small projects at once today. Took the grilles and support beam off, and that made it easier to take the A/C pusher fan and the A/C radiator out. I'll eventually put the fan back in (as an auxiliary) but I need to fab up some kind of mount for it. Also need to check to see if it actually works.

Nice to get some junk out of the nose of the car, even if it's not all that heavy.

also straightened, sanded down, and repainted the support bar. very exciting I know...

Since I had previously tucked the front bumpers, now the rubber "spats" that covered the gap when the bumpers were out were pretty much covering the entire top of the bumper. Looked fine, but why not do a little project. I took the entire pieces off, marked some cut lines, and trimmed them back about 2-3" all the way down, and around the sides (using metal shears, an angle grinder to bevel the edge a bit, and a palm sander to smooth it out. Also repainted them with rubberized bumper coating leftover from doing a buddy's pickup truck a while back. Anyhow, minor thing, but looks better IMO, and was free so why not...

before trimming:

irish44j · 10-21-2011, 07:54 PM

so, a few evening projects since the kid and wife are in bed.

First, tucked the rear bumper. Since it's damn near impossible to get the rear pistons out of the chassis had to do this one on the car. Knowing from the front how messy it was going to be, I put together an "anti-mess" setup that worked not too badly. Consisting of a milk crate with a garbage bag in it, and some cardboard cut and taped to basically deflect all the piston oil spray into it rather than all over the garage. And a small hole for the drill.

Worked like a charm, with minimal mess!

the contained mess

tucked. will probably trim back the black gaiter like I did in the front, but it reeks of hydraulic oil back there at the moment so I'm going inside....

Once inside, time for a nice easy project watching tv and sitting on the couch. With the wife eying me to make sure I am not doing anything that will make a mess, lol.
So of course there is the tail light bulb blank where the euro models get the rear fog light. I was originally going to get this all wired up and functional, but dont' really feel like it at the moment. So for the time being I just set it up spliced into the brake light line, so when the brakes are applied I'll have two sections of the tail light light up rather than just one. Got the extra spring clips from a spare/beat-up set of tail lights sitting in one of my parts boxes....

I'd get a pic of them lit up, but the car battery is dead. I'm not sure why, it's been dead every day this week and have had to jump it. Car has a new alternator and the battery is less than a year old, so my guess is that I have a drain someplace, which is going to be an epic pain in the ass to figure out. A project for a really boring winter day....until then I'll just pull the negative terminal to keep the juice alive...

10-05-2011, 03:40 PM	#16
A1337STI Senior Dirty Member Car: blue 05 STI & 93 RS Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Reno,NV Thanks: 104 Thanked 148 Times in 121 Posts	Check what the rules are for fans / switches . If the rules allow it, you should wire up the "AC fan" onto a switch. so if the car starts running hot you can kick it on. my car (impreza) was running hot at my last rallyX and a little switch to the 2nd fan would have helped a bunch. __________________ Alex Rademacher 2006 to now: 14 championships (Stage Rally, RallyX, AutoX, Club Trials) and counting ... Rally Betsy Member Journal! I rally with products from gorillaoffroadcompany.com

10-20-2011, 01:54 PM	#28
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	Got around to patching up the small rust holes successfully and decided to clean out everything and do the bedliner interior. I was going to get Herculiner, but happened to come across some Rustoleum bedliner at walmart, which was less than half the price. Worth a try, since it's not like I need "the best" or for it to take massive abuse like a truck bed will. Anyhow, did the entire floor pan and the accessible transmission/driveshaft tunnel area. Driver's side came out great (just scuff-sanded the original paint). Passenger side, which I had previously done with POR-15, not as good. Apparently this bedliner doesn't like POR-15, because I started getting the "crinkling" as it pulled up the POR-15. stellar. In any case, still turned out ok and not going to worry about it for the moment. Passenger side will probably get a re-do at some point. The Rustoleum stuff seems tough enough for my purposes, and does have good texture like any other bedliner (I used herculiner on my old XJ). For $35, not bad. The whole interior took only about 10% of the gallon can I got too, so plenty more to use not the best pic, but here it is on the driver's side this should confuse some people driving behind me.... Last edited by irish44j; 10-20-2011 at 05:53 PM.

10-07-2011, 03:02 PM	#18
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	Today not much on the car since I was working. Did cancel the order for the 45mm front Bils. I'm going to source up full later e30 suspension with the better rear trailing arms, better brakes, and 51mm struts. Easier to find parts for, more stout, and better stopping are all good things for rallycross. So goodbye to PR, hello to M2 Having basically no restrictions on what I do will make it more fun anyways.... The P/O (who only had the car for a few months) also got in touch with the owner before him to check on some maintenance items. The P/O2 said (though had no documentation) that the water pump was replaced "about a year ago" (so I'll assume 2 years ago) and that he "thinks" the timing chain was done at the same time, but he didn't do the work himself apparently, he just paid a shop/dealer to do it....so who knows. I have a water pump on the way anyhow, so will probably do it just to be safe. If the old one is still good I'll just keep it as a spare. Today's quick project was to rip out the drivers-side carpeting. more shattered glass (someone must not have been happy with a previous owner since it's just glass and no sign of any panel replacements or anything). I really should get an autocheck/carfax done but I'm too cheap (anyone out there have an account?) The good news on the driver's side is that the rear floor is perfect, not a sign of rust anywhere. The front floor has some surface rust, but does have a small hole just below the gas pedal. Should be an easy cut-out-and-fiberglass fix, especially since there is a reinforcing bar there anyways where the pedal bottom mounts. Also one stud for the seat mount apparently fell out of the chassis, so there's a hole there from it (will just push a new one through, it's not rusted or anything). So all in all I have 3 smallish rust holes in the entire floor pan to fix. Pretty pleased with that. For seats I've been thinking about what I want to do. The thought of some Sparco Evos is in my mind (they can be found used fairly cheap), but I kind of want something that will be a bit more comfortable and adjustable for regular driving, especially since the local rallycrosses are a good ~2 hour drive from here. I'm leaning toward looking for some Porsche or possibly Miata seats. There is a pair of black leather 944 seats local for cheap, so might go check that out and take some measurements. I've always like sitting in Porsches and felt the seats were pretty supportive and comfortable at the same time. If I get the leather ones, I'll get them recovered in cloth probably. Not a big fan of the e30 "sport" seats, and M3 seats are usually beat to hell, or if they're decent they're $$$. A few quick pics:

10-09-2011, 04:59 PM	#19
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	Today was planning to attack the floors and some other things, but got hung up for longer than expected helping a friend do a battery relocate in his car so only did a few quick things to the e30. 1. pulled out the rear seats. major accomplishment 2. did the front bumper reduction mod....taking the diving board there and compressing it about 5" in. This required drilling out the hydraulic pistons mounts and getting the oil inside all over the place (even though I thought I had prepped sufficiently to avoid a major mess). Then compressed them with a vise and re-installed. Reinstallation is a bit tougher since with the bumper pressed in it's pretty tight accessing the mount bolts. Will likely get rid of the rubberized "spats" that go around the bumper edges to cover the gap that is no longer there.. moments before oil-mageddon compressed vs. uncompressed finished product (see earlier pics in this thread for comparison)

10-13-2011, 07:58 PM	#20
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	Decided tonight to go out and check the shrader valves on the AC lines and lo and behold....no freon in there. Which means....I had a project for the evening: goodbye A/C! (still have to do the AC radiator and the stuff under the dash, but cleared out the compressor, mount bracket, and lines underhood tonight) Also pulled the battery to check out the pan, after I noticed that my passenger-side water leak was coming down near the firewall/box junction there. Sure enough, some rust-through on the pan and on the side lip. I did some test drainage through the air intake vents with the car on level ground.....and whatever German designed that drainage path was a moron.....water pools nicely exactly where all the rust is. Oh well, nothing some fiberglass won't be able to fix... Time to get some shuteye...

10-14-2011, 04:02 PM	#21
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	so a couple quick things: new fiberglass on the battery tray, after cleaning up/cutting out the small rust holes. I also built up the area on the left side lip up under the hood mechanism, since it sits low and allows water to pool....once it's fully dry I'll sand it down and paint on to inspection of some of the vac hoses. Pretty clear that someone improv'd alot of these. The plan is going to be to replace all of it with whatever I can find locally. Would be nice if there was a Samco vac hose kit for the M10, but no dice. Guess I'll have to stick to rubber unless I feel like spending a day measuring and ordering custom pieces... really nice....the brake booster hose. Way to keep it simple, lol.

10-14-2011, 04:36 PM	#22
adamthomas625 Registered Member Silver 03 WRX sedan Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Ashland, KY On the tristate of WV,OH, and KY Thanks: 4 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	You might think I'm crazy but I can help you get your subie paid off. I just got with a company and started out spare time. I have a free black BMW now that they give me 600 dollars a month for. Since they do that I now have a free daily driver and I'm going to build my subaru into a rally car.. They will give you 600$ a month as long as you have a black BMW. So what you can do is use that 600 to pay your subaru off!! This company has allowed me to make more money than I did at my full time job(plus drive a free car) and now I can use that money for rally!! www.adamthomas.bodybyvi.com watch the videos.

10-14-2011, 08:04 PM	#26
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	ok, so $15 worth of random hoses from the local auto parts store, a few reduction and elbow fittings, and for the price of one OEM formed hose all of the main induction hoses are now replaced and leak/crack-free.... that looks better than what was above, lol re-oriented with a "modified" elbow/holder.....the p/o clearly liked long hoses going anywhere. I prefer more direct as well as I can do them without any kinks.

10-16-2011, 05:51 PM	#27
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	not much work on the project today. Woke up at 530 am and trucked 200 miles down to Va.Beach (from DC) in a stellar 2 1/2 hours to pick up a buddy who called in a favor (was dropping off his Z06 for some engine work down there) and headed back up this way in another fast time. In time for football kickoff, though my Skins disappointed of course. Fine, more time to rake leaves, ugh. As to the car, spend a little while stripping a few interior panels and insulation and pulled the cabin a/c lines. Also re-installed the intake air box and went to pull the car out of the garage to clean up the mess of tools and general **** all over the place. of course...dead battery. Left the trunk open and I guess the light drained it, doh. Jumped it with the WRX (a bit more hassle now that it has a trunk-mounted/boxed battery) and ran it for a while in the driveway while I cleaned up. With the vac hoses replaced, the idle is now more around typical levels rather than the high idle it had before...though the tach doesn't work, so I'm just guessing at that since I'm too lazy to count.... oh, and a small package came in the other day... once I do the suspension/brake swap from the 325, I'll install some wheel studs into the hubs and use lugnuts rather than the OEM lug stud setup, which is really annoying...

10-21-2011, 02:50 PM	#29
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	Had the afternoon free today, so decided to do some minor projects. I know that these aren't terribly interesting to look at or read about, but I'm trying to keep track of even the small stuff - first so I know what I've done, and second because who knows which of these small things might be of interest to other people....especially with me doing it on the cheap and improvising alot. This car had hit a small deer previously, so the front of the hood has a dent (looking for a replacement hood), the grilles were broken, and the lower grille support bar was bent and the paint cracked off, with rust starting. Basically, several small projects at once today. Took the grilles and support beam off, and that made it easier to take the A/C pusher fan and the A/C radiator out. I'll eventually put the fan back in (as an auxiliary) but I need to fab up some kind of mount for it. Also need to check to see if it actually works. Nice to get some junk out of the nose of the car, even if it's not all that heavy. also straightened, sanded down, and repainted the support bar. very exciting I know... Since I had previously tucked the front bumpers, now the rubber "spats" that covered the gap when the bumpers were out were pretty much covering the entire top of the bumper. Looked fine, but why not do a little project. I took the entire pieces off, marked some cut lines, and trimmed them back about 2-3" all the way down, and around the sides (using metal shears, an angle grinder to bevel the edge a bit, and a palm sander to smooth it out. Also repainted them with rubberized bumper coating leftover from doing a buddy's pickup truck a while back. Anyhow, minor thing, but looks better IMO, and was free so why not... before trimming:

10-21-2011, 07:54 PM	#30
irish44j Regular Contributor Join Date: Aug 2010 Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	so, a few evening projects since the kid and wife are in bed. First, tucked the rear bumper. Since it's damn near impossible to get the rear pistons out of the chassis had to do this one on the car. Knowing from the front how messy it was going to be, I put together an "anti-mess" setup that worked not too badly. Consisting of a milk crate with a garbage bag in it, and some cardboard cut and taped to basically deflect all the piston oil spray into it rather than all over the garage. And a small hole for the drill. Worked like a charm, with minimal mess! the contained mess tucked. will probably trim back the black gaiter like I did in the front, but it reeks of hydraulic oil back there at the moment so I'm going inside.... Once inside, time for a nice easy project watching tv and sitting on the couch. With the wife eying me to make sure I am not doing anything that will make a mess, lol. So of course there is the tail light bulb blank where the euro models get the rear fog light. I was originally going to get this all wired up and functional, but dont' really feel like it at the moment. So for the time being I just set it up spliced into the brake light line, so when the brakes are applied I'll have two sections of the tail light light up rather than just one. Got the extra spring clips from a spare/beat-up set of tail lights sitting in one of my parts boxes.... I'd get a pic of them lit up, but the car battery is dead. I'm not sure why, it's been dead every day this week and have had to jump it. Car has a new alternator and the battery is less than a year old, so my guess is that I have a drain someplace, which is going to be an epic pain in the ass to figure out. A project for a really boring winter day....until then I'll just pull the negative terminal to keep the juice alive...