MY Imola red ZHP Build Thread!

I have decided to make this a build thread because I am doing various mods to the vehicle including paint correction and plan to continually add more pictures day by day or as often as possible. You might have to skip to the second page to start seeing the pictures. Enjoy

As most of you may know, I'm that crazy dude that was trying to find a zhp for under or at $10,000 and i was finally successul. Anyways I'm a very sincere person and I will say that i bought the car for $8700 out the door. No accidents or anything and clean and clear title. It's a 2004 6spd IR 330i zhp and the car came with a AFE stage 1 intake and also just found out that the previous owner had a sprint booster installed as well. Overall the car is in great shape except for the steering wheel which i already ordered from coby, soon to be here. I plan on making a build thread after all of my parts get here in the next week, Including a full paint correction that im doing myself right now with my PC 7424xp. heres the only two pics i have so far. Will update more pictures when the mods get here.

Nice! How many miles? And order new headlight lenses.. Literally a night and day difference for the front!

Originally Posted by HyeWarrior

Nice! How many miles? And order new headlight lenses.. Literally a night and day difference for the front!

It has 117,000 and yeah I just ordered New lenses, clear corners, a coby wheel wrap, coby armrest wrap, license plate delete, angel eyes, sidemarkers, floormats, UUC RK6 shift knob, RCR tail lights, Bav Auto euro tray, and some clear bulbs as well.

Great price. Salvage?

Great car but keep your priorities in line. Don't get too caught up in modding before you do basic maintenance; get a new cooling system in there, change the fluids, etc.

Originally Posted by Wh33lhop

Great price. Salvage?

Great car but keep your priorities in line. Don't get too caught up in modding before you do basic maintenance; get a new cooling system in there, change the fluids, etc.

Nope clean title and i have a year before i can drive again so i have plenty of time to do all the maintenance. Thanks for the tip though.

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Originally Posted by dinan19

Nope clean title and i have a year before i can drive again so i have plenty of time to do all the maintenance. Thanks for the tip though.

Not sure where to start here so I won't start at all. Just don't forget to maintain it before you try and be cool.

Originally Posted by Wh33lhop

Not sure where to start here so I won't start at all. Just don't forget to maintain it before you try and be cool.

You should probably start because i would like to hear. I already said i have a year to do the maintenance and there is nothing wrong with the car mechanically at all right now. So what is the harm in buying mods that i like when the car is running correctly?

so you purchased a car you can't use for another year???

You should pick up a book about investments... that car will loose 2K in value by next year... $9k in cash and you put it into a depreciating item... a big NO NO

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Originally Posted by pawelgawel

so you purchased a car you can't use for another year???

You should pick up a book about investments... that car will loose 2K in value by next year... $9k in cash and you put it into a depreciating item... a big NO NO

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Oh boy nothing but positive vibes from you guys hah. Yes i did buy that book but i dont understand it yet. Cmon man i love bimmers and they are my passion. I could give a rats **ss about the depreciating right now im just excited and enjoying it. Also yes i bought it and i cant drive because im on probation so hell why not. Oh and by the way im not like these other people on here that just let people bash on em ill tell you whats up.

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not trying to bash you.. congrats on a nice car.
Just speaking from experience, a lot of things can happen over the course of one year.

You could have saved up a little more and got a better one next year with less miles and less item to replace.

Enjoy your car... learn to DIY.

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Lets skip all of the bad decision stuff, and get to the story behind the inability to drive.

Why do you have a year till you can drive again?

Haha ok well the story is i was drifting at night in an empy fairgrounds parking lot on my z4 and there was a cop staked out behind a building so i got reckless driving. My license wad suspended for awile and then i got it back. Im on probation until the end of the year and my lawyer advised me not to drive just until the end of the year to be safe. So thats the good old story and thats why i have plenty of time to work on the car. Lol

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Originally Posted by pawelgawel

not trying to bash you.. congrats on a nice car.
Just speaking from experience, a lot of things can happen over the course of one year.

You could have saved up a little more and got a better one next year with less miles and less item to replace.

Enjoy your car... learn to DIY.

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yeah np man i got nothin but time so im gonna do it all myself and im doing the paint correction right now as well.

Originally Posted by Gottalovethexi

Why do you have a year till you can drive again?

The popcorn made me lol.

Reckless driving revokes a license? Anything else you got? DUI?

Originally Posted by ZHPinthe103

Reckless driving revokes a license? Anything else you got? DUI?

Bingo. That's what I'm thinking as well.

Originally Posted by nike001

Bingo. That's what I'm thinking as well.

Yup i have numerous racing and more reckless driving citations from the past. But its the past and ive learned my lesson thats why i sold my z4 and decided to get a 4 door.

Nice ZHP! Imola FTW

By next year, your car will not depreciate $2000...

The fact that it's a ZHP that you found for under $9000 is impressive enough. Assuming it's well maintained, you can easily sell it again to the right person looking for that car.

Before you drive it, I'd consider restoring that thing to the best shape possible. I.e, repairing/replacing mechanical parts, as well as cosmetics such as a good buffing + paint correction etc.