Ms Red - CamWh0ring...

 As they say... a picture paints a thousand words. Here's a million for you....

Credits to Alvin and Tiang. These guys knocked all 56 pictures in 15 minutes. Very impressed! According to them, all I need now is some tire polish and a hot candy to pose with it. I have tire polish lar....

More Miscellaneous Pic

Kaniz e38

T-minus 48 hours and counting....

If I'm lucky, I'll get her back in 48 hours or less.
48 hours = 2880 minutes
2880 minutes = 172,800 seconds...


It's like the clock is moving backwards! Anyways, here's a few interesting sites and videos I stumbled upon over the Internet.


1) Turn up your speakers, sit back and enjoy! Mad props to European Auto Source (eAs) dyno beast

2) 37 pages (and counting) of eAs customerascar. I went through all 37 pages in 1 sitting ... American's really love using Volks on their bimmers. (Warning: 56k killer)
http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=685667&page=1


3) VF Engineering 700hp (575 at the wheel) M3 Monsta!

4) MFest 2010 
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=376700

Paintshop - Update 4

All the trims and pieces are now painted. Yippie!! 

M5 colour coordinated bumper & door moldings + handles

Folding side mirrors and petrol tank cover

M5 front and rear bumpers

I'm also happy about the chrome on windows have been painted black. Have to be careful as there is not much "rough surface" for the black paint to catch onto the chrome. Well, if it starts to peal, then the next option is to wrap them

Yesterday - Chrome window liners

Today - Flat black window liners

Love how the red, black and beige interior looks in this pic... 

If you have been keeping count (I have!!), today was Day-10, the day I collected the complete car. However,  I'll have to wait a couple of days for the paintshop to piece back the whole jigsaw of what is to hopefully end up as .... my car.

Paintshop - Update 3

The main shell has been painted. First impression looks good...

However, the shop is 2 days behind schedule already and they just started prepping the bumpers. The rest of the car is still pending to be painted - bumpers, side mirrors, reverse sensors, engine bay, door side moldings  and the chrome window trims (black). Definitely not getting the car back during the weekend. Just have to wait another 2-3 more days! 

Paintshop - Update 2

The car was supposed to go into the paint booth on Monday.... then Tuesday... now the plan is to go in tomorrow.

Well, judging from the pictures that was delivered by my trusted paparazzi, it looks like the car is now all scruffed up and if it's anything to go by, it's parked right in front of the paint booth door!

You gotta love the stock rims, right?

Just push the car in the booth and paint it lar!

Puurrrr..... lease lar!!!!

Paintshop - Update 1

Went down this morning to Jalan Ipoh to buy a few needed items for my car to complete the transformation. The price for the rear window rubber and fender blinkers (smoked) is considerable cheaper than getting the workshops to do it for me. Since I was there, I also bought the number plate holder and rear break pads. For the price, it was worth the long drive there....

The "crew" then drove down to our workshop to leave Black Beauty's angle eye and black kidney grill update. As the guys were working on her, we proceeded to the PaintShop to check on the progress.

The paint slingers should be throwing paint by Monday if all goes smooth.... no pun intended. : )

Rebirth of an Eagle...

You've probably seen this motivational powerpoint slide circulated about how an eagle will have to make a difficult decision in it's 40th year to either do nothing and die OR to go into exile, go through a painful tranformation of CHANGE where it knocks it's beak out on a rock, pulls it's talons out, pluck all it's old feathers out.... and when all is complete, transform into a more magnificant eagle and an extra 30 years of life!

Well, according to the wildlife experts, it's a hoax. A great motivational video for us to embrace change and go through transformation... but a hoax nonetheless.

But what is NOT a hoax is the transformation my E39 will have to go through to become a magnificant beast of itself.

I knew that there were a couple of problem spots on her, but when I saw the spy pics I got, I was really surprised me how much work was actually needed...

 ps. Thanks a lot to the paparazzi who went there to check up on my car while I had to work...