Anyone in the H-burg area have a dremel I could possibly borrow this week to trim my rear bumper? Need to shave a little plastic down to avoid some crucial rubbing when I put my new wheels on.
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My girlfriend's dad decided it was time to get rid of his DD for something a little newer so his 1997 BMW 328i Convertible is up for sale. I told him I would post this here for all the BMW fanboiiis. Asking price is $3,200 but all offers will be considered. You can email me at <!-- e --><a href="mailto:jpolen01@gmail.com">jpolen01@gmail.com</a><!-- e --> or call 443 803 7017. I'll answer questions to the best of my ability and will forward serious buyers to the sell. Here goes nothing.

Garage kept 1997 Silver BMW 328i Convertible with Grey leather interior, black top. Body is in excellent condition ! Sport suspension package with traction control, 5 speed manual transmission. 202,000 miles. Original clutch will need to be replaced soon. Convertible top is in great condition, although the top will not go all the way down and will need to be adjusted. Driver seat leather will need to be repaired or slip cover may need to be installed, see photo. Synthetic oil changes only.

The 3 series BMW's are some of the best cars on the road ! This has been a very dependable car and with a little TLC it will offer many years of fun driving with the top down. They really are the "Ultimate Driving Machines "

Style bar for a 90-2005 Miata off of my new beater Miata. Has some surface rust on the corners where the "chrome plating" has come off. Make me an offer (I like beer.....)







This is not a roll bar, it does not provide any roll over protection. Do not go to the track and expect this to pass tech inspection for any organization.

I need a check for probably between 2-3 numbers if anyone has access. PM me please.

Looking for a set of 31x10.5R15 All/Mud terrains for the jeep.. If you see any or know of someone I'd be much obliged!

Okay, so as many of you know, I picked myself up a hell of a deal on a '90 Miata, which I plan to use as a mostly track/autox toy. You can read all about its saga here, http://www.mmsports.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9922. My ideal goal is to have the car "prepared" for the track by the beginning of next season, around March. I have a project list as long as my arm, and a shopping list even longer.

As many alumni know, and current students will soon find out, money isn't *that* much easier to come by when you've got to pay rent and a million friggin bills every month. I'm scraping together as much as I can, but doing the math, it just isn't going to cut it. So now I'm looking for projects on the side to supplement my income, to save exclusively for building the car. Anyway, that's my sob story, let me get down to the important stuff.

I graduated with a degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communcations: Online Publications, which is academic gibberish for web design and development. My skill set sits more on the user experience, design and content side of things, as opposed to the nuts and bolts coding. At work I manage a large, multi-platform knowledge management system, and I also develop requirements for new web-based systems. On the side, I really enjoy developing sites for small businesses and individuals. Check out my portfolio here, http://jklimchuk.net/. If you'd like you can see the latest project I did for a non-profit charity here, http://test.jklimchuk.net/, BUT you have to promise to remember it's still in a pre-launch phase, so not all things are functioning properly, and don't look at it in IE (or anything in IE for that matter), I still need to resolve the cross-browser issues.

I build all of my sites in WordPress, which provides a framework for much more dynamic content, and gives the owner the ability to personally log in to update and manage content without an ounce of web experience. If they can make a post on Facebook, then they are more than qualified to manage their own site. The biggest benefit of this to the site owner, is being able to make frequent updates without paying some snot-nosed developer (me) a monthly fee to do it for them. Because I'm not a professional web design firm, I can't promise to increase traffic by X% or bring back X% percent in additional revenue. However, I'm not going to charge them $4500 for a 10 page site.

What I can do is give them a current, modern, attractive and inviting website, that will give online visitors the same professional experience when walking through the front door of their shop or restaurant. In today's world of smartphones and tablets, people don't leave the house without googling where they are going first, and having a great website is how to get their foot in the door so to speak.

I can't really say how much I charge, because it's different for each and every project. The number of pages, functionality, amount of content, whether or not the content needs to be redeveloped and the cost themes/plug-ins/stock media are just some of the factors. I can say it'll be more than $1, and less than $2000, probably somewhere in the middle third for projects I'd be interested in. There is usually some sticker shock for people outside the web industry, but if you take a look here, http://blog.folyo.me/post/10723370923/ho...bsite-cost, you'll see that I'm really on the bottom end of the industry average (especially because we're talking about a living breathing site, not a non functional design). I believe I charge fairly for my experience level, my goal is to provide people with an excellent, affordable product that I get good experience out of and ultimately, monies so I can be a regular installation in the paddock next year.

If you know anyone that might be interested, I'd love to talk to them and learn what their needs are, and see if I can provide the product they want.

Ethical question here:

I've got a budget goal to turn my Miata from a cheap rusty street car into a cheap rusty track car. My goal is have it ready for the beginning of next season, but saving enough to have it in a state like Jake's (with pretty much everything but seats/harnesses) is going to be pretty tough.

So I've been looking hard for work on the side, specifically web work, but I've used up all of my possible leads and connections and my responses to CL ads are going unanswered (big surprise). I was thinking of making a thread in the Lounge to ask if anyone had any dads, moms, uncles, co-workers etc that run a small business, or for some reason have a website they need redesigned. However, I'm concerned that it would come off as self-promotion or advertising and make some people unhappy.

I feel like I'd just be making a post to hopefully take advantage of some connections, and, if it worked out, somebody would get a website for a pretty awesome price, and I could finance my race car fetish. Its not like I would be repeatedly posting advertisements or doing anything else that would hinder or clutter the forums.

However, I can also see the flipside of the coin, where I'm taking advantage of the club's discussion forum for my own personal financial benefit. So I decided to take it here, thoughts, kosher, not kosher?

After sitting around VIR this weekend, not having an affordable car to put through multiple HPDE weekends I've come to the conclusion I wantz one. This is a want (not a need) so I'm looking around the $800-$1,500 range. 93-95 325is that I could slowly turn into Spec way down the road or wdaFeva. I feel that E30s are a little too much for me to deal with and having a slightly newer car e36 gen will pay off in the long run. I'm not looking to rush a purchase in anyway, in fact I'll be trying the sit back and wait for the exact car I want and price to pop up (takes some time but well worth it end the end). I'm looking for a 93-95 5 speed black or silver exterior 325is 130,000ish miles or less for $800-1,500. If you see any in the Nova, Hburg, or Hampton Roads area keep me posted and maybe I'll let you drives it.

Disclaimer: You may be thinking cool bro, another BMW :lol: or :vomit: maybe even :oops: I don't care :thumbup: and am stoked to pursue a car to track

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I hope I can go!

As the title states, I'm really just curious what VANOS is and what makes it different from systems on other cars or non-VANOS cars. Does BMW use it in all their cars or just older ones. So who wants to learn me some knowledge about VANOS.

Also if you know the leading causes of failures of VANOS systems, I would like to know that as well. Does it require regular service maintenance and should it be checked or is it like an ignition coil meaning it just goes when it goes, and then you replace it.