*Official Ohio Chat Thread*

BobKingerman · 04-13-2012, 06:09 PM

Thanks SPK, I am really am trying to turn this situation into something awesome.

Parts are ordered for the conversion just waiting on a headlight I'm trying to get through ebay.

SpeedBuggy · 04-13-2012, 10:05 PM

Hey, I see Cars and Coffee mentioned, when and where this year?

BobKingerman · 04-13-2012, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SpeedBuggy

Hey, I see Cars and Coffee mentioned, when and where this year?

First one is next Saturday the 21st from 830-1030am at the Starbucks parking lot in Garfield Heights, 9791 Vista Way. Then they will be every 1st and 3rd Saturday until October rain or shine.

Chewy734 · 04-13-2012, 10:12 PM

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First C&C of the year will be Saturday, April 21st
Starbucks, 9791 Vista Way, Garfield Heights, OH
(This is the complex right off 480 at Transportation Blvd - one exit East of the 480/77 interchange).

We will be meeting the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of May-October, Rain or Shine, at Starbucks @ City View

~ 830am-1030am - come and leave whenever you want!

Cleveland Cars & Coffee is an informal, not-for-profit, fun gathering of exotic/sports/classic car owners and respectful enthusiasts.
-Doug & Jon

I'll be there.

spkcadet · 04-13-2012, 10:38 PM

Hey bob, do you have film on your tail lights? If so what darkness? I was thinking of doing the mid range one on mine. I dont want to make them too dark, but do want to darken them a little bit.

SpeedBuggy · 04-13-2012, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by BobKingerman

First one is next Saturday the 21st from 830-1030am at the Starbucks parking lot in Garfield Heights, 9791 Vista Way. Then they will be every 1st and 3rd Saturday until October rain or shine.

Cool!! We will try to make it............

BobKingerman · 04-14-2012, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by spkcadet

Hey bob, do you have film on your tail lights? If so what darkness? I was thinking of doing the mid range one on mine. I dont want to make them too dark, but do want to darken them a little bit.

My tail lights are Smoked Depo Blacklines, the factory smoke is that dark but I think it is perfect for dark paint.

fastaction · 04-14-2012, 09:15 AM

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Cool!! We will try to make it............

e90ish takeover! lets do it

Chewy734 · 04-14-2012, 09:19 AM

fastaction · 04-14-2012, 09:31 AM

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He just told us that 2 weeks ago at Hilarities downtown!

woot335woot · 04-14-2012, 12:42 PM

I'll most likely be at C&C as well. The CLE variety brings out some pretty cool supercars!

SpeedBuggy · 04-14-2012, 03:49 PM

I recall reading somewhere last year that maybe the cops

handing out tickets last year on I-480 for various offenses. Planning on going over, guess I will have to watch the speed.

Chewy734 · 04-14-2012, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by fastaction

He just told us that 2 weeks ago at Hilarities downtown!

you saw him? how was the show?

I live literally 4 buildings down from there...

fastaction · 04-14-2012, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Chewy734

you saw him? how was the show?

I live literally 4 buildings down from there...

yeah got some free tickets, great place, great show!

JaSSon · 04-16-2012, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by spkcadet

How did those bulbs work out for you?

They worked great, thanks again. BMW still has my car, but I have a 3,000 mile old 528xi.

cyniclaus · 04-16-2012, 02:04 PM

It'd be really nice to have a list of trusted shops in Ohio for serious mods. I'm looking for a place to get a lot of work done (FMIC, DPs, CAI, OCC, Charge Pipe, Intake carbon cleaning, Meth Injection, shocks/springs, camber plates, bushings, sway bar, and possibly RB turbos). I don't want to get ripped off or--even worse--get a shoddy install. I wouldn't mind traveling a reasonable distance, but would like someone as close as possible to the SE Cleveland area where I can easily go back for follow-up if there are problems or needed tweaks.

KMS is out for much of this because they won't do work that affects emissions and, besides, I had kind of a bad experience with my clutch install there.

Anyone have opinions on the following or better ideas? These are shops I found on the Internet, roughly in order from closest to farthest away:

Millenium Motorsports, Hudson

Smokey's Dyno, Stow

Bigshot Dyno, Stow

Buschur Racing, Wakeman: Know they're good, but they are so Evo-centric

IPS Motorsports, North Columbus: Seem to have a good rep, but it's over 2 hours away

Tom Hatem Automotive, Columbus

P3 Automotive, Dayton: Even further away, and Porche-centric

I'm going to have to drive 400 miles to VAC in Philly to get my Quaife put on (they're building it now), but it's too far away to get everything else done there... if I had problems with the install it would be a nightmare

fastaction · 04-16-2012, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by cyniclaus

It'd be really nice to have a list of trusted shops in Ohio for serious mods. I'm looking for a place to get a lot of work done (FMIC, DPs, CAI, OCC, Charge Pipe, Intake carbon cleaning, Meth Injection, shocks/springs, camber plates, bushings, sway bar, and possibly RB turbos). I don't want to get ripped off or--even worse--get a shoddy install. I wouldn't mind traveling a reasonable distance, but would like someone as close as possible to the SE Cleveland area where I can easily go back for follow-up if there are problems or needed tweaks.

KMS is out for much of this because they won't do work that affects emissions and, besides, I had kind of a bad experience with my clutch install there.

Anyone have opinions on the following or better ideas? These are shops I found on the Internet, roughly in order from closest to farthest away:

Millenium Motorsports, Hudson

Smokey's Dyno, Stow

Bigshot Dyno, Stow

Buschur Racing, Wakeman: Know they're good, but they are so Evo-centric

IPS Motorsports, North Columbus: Seem to have a good rep, but it's over 2 hours away

Tom Hatem Automotive, Columbus

P3 Automotive, Dayton: Even further away, and Porche-centric

I'm going to have to drive 400 miles to VAC in Philly to get my Quaife put on (they're building it now), but it's too far away to get everything else done there... if I had problems with the install it would be a nightmare

Matt@ Swedish Solutions in Orange has down all my 335i work (dps ,intercooler, intakes) he is doing my charge pipe,OCC , steering wheel this week. Highly recommend him.

Supra98 · 04-16-2012, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by cyniclaus

It'd be really nice to have a list of trusted shops in Ohio for serious mods. I'm looking for a place to get a lot of work done (FMIC, DPs, CAI, OCC, Charge Pipe, Intake carbon cleaning, Meth Injection, shocks/springs, camber plates, bushings, sway bar, and possibly RB turbos). I don't want to get ripped off or--even worse--get a shoddy install. I wouldn't mind traveling a reasonable distance, but would like someone as close as possible to the SE Cleveland area where I can easily go back for follow-up if there are problems or needed tweaks.

KMS is out for much of this because they won't do work that affects emissions and, besides, I had kind of a bad experience with my clutch install there.

Anyone have opinions on the following or better ideas? These are shops I found on the Internet, roughly in order from closest to farthest away:

Millenium Motorsports, Hudson

Smokey's Dyno, Stow

Bigshot Dyno, Stow

Buschur Racing, Wakeman: Know they're good, but they are so Evo-centric

IPS Motorsports, North Columbus: Seem to have a good rep, but it's over 2 hours away

Tom Hatem Automotive, Columbus

P3 Automotive, Dayton: Even further away, and Porche-centric

I'm going to have to drive 400 miles to VAC in Philly to get my Quaife put on (they're building it now), but it's too far away to get everything else done there... if I had problems with the install it would be a nightmare

IPS Motorsports has installed numerous parts on my car. Always do a good job and have good prices as well!

cyniclaus · 04-17-2012, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by fastaction

Matt@ Swedish Solutions in Orange has down all my 335i work (dps ,intercooler, intakes) he is doing my charge pipe,OCC , steering wheel this week. Highly recommend him.

Awesome! I'll definitely give them a call. Would've never looked at them without this forum.

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Originally Posted by Supra98

IPS Motorsports has installed numerous parts on my car. Always do a good job and have good prices as well!

Thanks! Hopefully fastaction's guy can hook me up for most of my stuff, but if I go with RBs, I may want to go with a performance-dedicated shop and IPS would be on the short list.

fastaction · 04-17-2012, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by cyniclaus

Awesome! I'll definitely give them a call. Would've never looked at them without this forum.

Thanks! Hopefully fastaction's guy can hook me up for most of my stuff, but if I go with RBs, I may want to go with a performance-dedicated shop and IPS would be on the short list.

Matt does it on the side for me , he's usually busy working on turbo Saabs/Volvos during the day. I will talk to him today about it. He usually has a bunch of boring side work, but LOVES to "mod" cool cars. I can pm his # later.

buckeyeB · 04-17-2012, 12:43 PM

Anyone know where I can some curb rash fixed near Columbus, OH?

Supra98 · 04-17-2012, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by buckeyeB

Anyone know where I can some curb rash fixed near Columbus, OH?

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spkcadet Private First Class 13 Rep 131 Posts Drives: 2014 JGC Summit Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio iTrader: (0)	Hey bob, do you have film on your tail lights? If so what darkness? I was thinking of doing the mid range one on mine. I dont want to make them too dark, but do want to darken them a little bit.
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SpeedBuggy Comfortably Numb 883 Rep 655 Posts Drives: '18 x1/'13 X3/'06 330i Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cortland, Ohio iTrader: (0) Garage List 2006 BMW 330i [0.00]	I recall reading somewhere last year that maybe the cops handing out tickets last year on I-480 for various offenses. Planning on going over, guess I will have to watch the speed. __________________ 06 e90 330i/Alpine White/Terra Dakota 13 F25 X3 xDrive 35i/Black Sapphire Metallic/Oyster Nevada 18 F48 X1 xDrive 28i/Black Sapphire Metallic/Black SensaTec Last edited by SpeedBuggy; 04-14-2012 at 03:54 PM..
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cyniclaus Lifelong Cynic 11 Rep 167 Posts Drives: 2013 Golf R Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Atlanta, GA iTrader: (1)	It'd be really nice to have a list of trusted shops in Ohio for serious mods. I'm looking for a place to get a lot of work done (FMIC, DPs, CAI, OCC, Charge Pipe, Intake carbon cleaning, Meth Injection, shocks/springs, camber plates, bushings, sway bar, and possibly RB turbos). I don't want to get ripped off or--even worse--get a shoddy install. I wouldn't mind traveling a reasonable distance, but would like someone as close as possible to the SE Cleveland area where I can easily go back for follow-up if there are problems or needed tweaks. KMS is out for much of this because they won't do work that affects emissions and, besides, I had kind of a bad experience with my clutch install there. Anyone have opinions on the following or better ideas? These are shops I found on the Internet, roughly in order from closest to farthest away: Millenium Motorsports, Hudson Smokey's Dyno, Stow Bigshot Dyno, Stow Buschur Racing, Wakeman: Know they're good, but they are so Evo-centric IPS Motorsports, North Columbus: Seem to have a good rep, but it's over 2 hours away Tom Hatem Automotive, Columbus P3 Automotive, Dayton: Even further away, and Porche-centric I'm going to have to drive 400 miles to VAC in Philly to get my Quaife put on (they're building it now), but it's too far away to get everything else done there... if I had problems with the install it would be a nightmare __________________ RIP 08 E92 335xi 500whp
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buckeyeB Private 2 Rep 81 Posts Drives: '07 335xi Join Date: May 2011 Location: Columbus, OH iTrader: (0)	Anyone know where I can some curb rash fixed near Columbus, OH?
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