[note: this post, like an air-cooled 911, is back-dated to when these events occurred]
Yesterday I hosted an M3 gathering for the locals, it was a great time. You can see photos of that here:
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While we were there, Ted did a live throttle body check with his fancy flow tool. My car looks pretty even! I didn't have any particular reason to suspect anything was amiss, but I still had the original tamper caps so we were curious.
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After a nice group drive, I came home and installed my euro smileys. I have a detailed post prepared describing the installation, but I have a knack for ordering the wrong parts and I still don't have everything squared away and ready to share. So my main and high beams are functional and the city lights are 'pending.'
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Interestingly the low beams stay on with the highs on. I know that wasn't the case on my 88 halogen-light car, I can't recall if the US ellipsoids do this or if someone has futzed with the wiring before me. I didn't do anything to achieve this (wire in a relay, bridge those two particular relays in the fuse box) but I'm not complaining. Overall it's incredible how bright and clean brand new headlamps look.
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Next up: euro grilles arrive this week, maybe the wiring to finish off the headlamps, and fire extinguisher bracket.
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