The Adventures of Meintii, The "NO CUT" M20 Swap

[Meintii]

The tii ran great and didnt have any problems running to and from school. I had alot of spare time so I took lots of pics around town. Here are some of the best ones I took.

The Mill

Major photoshoot at a abandoned local mill that we just happen to have a key to, LOTS of cool pics taken here.

My moms fav-

My fav, which was in roundel magazine, if I find the hard copy ill scan it.

[Meintii]

Took the tii to my first car show which was a HUGE european car show called EuroFest at the BMW Zentrum in South Carolina.

Met alot of great people including Bill Williams and his wife (and beautiful touring)

Well deserved First place!

The line up..

My car

The drive on Sunday, in which a wild boar almost ran into my car from the ditch..

[Meintii]

Had a free day one weekend in december, and decided that dad and I should go to the blue ridge mountains for a drive!

By the river and local (to the mountains) pottery shop

Further down the road.

SNOW!

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Had the privilege to take my car on the Peachtree BMW CCA street survival teen driving school and I had a Great time!

The "high speed" autox type course for car control:

Wet braking test:

Another wet shot:

The part where I was supposed to be sliding out of control, but she would break her grip

[Meintii]

Got some spare cash so it was time for upgrades!

IE stage 1 lowering spring all around

Stainless Steel Brake lines all around, also from IE.

Hella H500's on custom front bumper bracket type mounts

Also got Protronix, flame thrower coil, and 8mm racing ignition wires, new dist cap, ALL also from IE... apparently Im addicted to them.

I need to take pic's of ^^

[Meintii]

Another year has past and now its time for another Eurofest at the Zentrum.

Looking better as time goes by!

[Deutschman]

nice car man! i wish i had as much room to work on my car as you do! good job

[Meintii]

nice car man! i wish i had as much room to work on my car as you do! good job

LOL.. I wish I had as much room to work on it as I used to, or at least a covered area! Now she sits out in my dads drive way, and I drive her through the mud into the backyard to sit in the grass outside the basement where my tools are.. that where I work on it. at least theres alot of open space right ?!

[craaaazzy]

great background story of you and your car zac. enjoyed the read. mind me asking u what happened w/ the rear bumper?

[Meintii]

great background story of you and your car zac. enjoyed the read. mind me asking u what happened w/ the rear bumper?

I was going to use it, but since I put the turbo flares on, it wouldn't fit. Ive been saving my money afford one of Ardvark center sections (and I actually have them sending me one right now.. more on that later)

EDIT: Esty got the old one!

[Meintii]

Its now the end of 2007, and I wanted to try and give the tii a break from its dailey driving. I found a guy that had a 1988 Nissan Stanza Wagon, it had a blown engine, and was in nearly perfect condition other than that. I slapped an engine in that and start driving when I didnt feel like driving the tii.

The car and I both moved to my dads house in Winder at the beginning of 2008. Not much else was done to the car, I kept driving the tii as much as I could.

More pics of the tii around town. Most of these are in Downtown athens.

[Meintii]

I decided it would be fun to start doing some BMW CCA autocrosses.

Had an awesome time, and smoked my dads m3 run after run.

It was all fun and games until I burned out my clutch.. and then she got parked for about 4 months.. More on that in the next post.

My step-dad in his MG, kept up with me! (although he used to race scca so no shock)

The Gezon's ti KILLER autox car... they smoked corvettes, NEW m3's, and porsches!

Heres a video!

[Meintii]

I dont want to dwell on this subject because it brings back alot of memory's that I do not miss. Long story short... It took me over three month to complete, mostly from lack of free time due to being so exhausted after work. I was having alot of trouble getting the pilot bearing out, so Bill Williams let me borough his snap-on tool, it took it out instantly, and I was on the way to recovery. Harrison and chris from the forum came over one day and helped me put everything back together, and she was back on the road.

[Meintii]

Picked up some headers (stahl) from Russ Gezon (see orange ti above)

My car officially sounds like a BEAST, much more vintage sounding, and much less highway drone believe it or not.

Check THIS out. Sound good eh?

Painted my tail light centers red as well with stained glass paint.. turned out pretty good i think!

Also I got my Vintage Euro plate from Germany today. LOVE the way it looks, so the meintii tag gets to be in the rear window to keep the popo's happy.

ALSO

I got some cheapo adhesive trim from autozone. it looks great! did all the belt line trim, the gutter trim, and the piece between the tail lights.

[Meintii]

High school graduation! I used some of my graduation money to do one of my long awaiting upgrades, 15" Alpina (replica) wheels! They are 15x6 ET 12, wrapped in 195/50/15 Kumho's. SWEET!

And now for some shots from a drive I took JUST so I could have some pics of them! BTW: its now July 2009

At lake lanier..

Alittle photo enhancing!

My future house and garage

At chateu elan

[Meintii]

My best friend Michelle and I decided to take a random spuratic trip down to savannah for a long weekend in the tii. It was awesome, the best three day weekend ive had in a long time.

I left my camera at home , but Michelle had her 35mm with black and white film.

On the strip

We also took an amazing motion shot, which I have framed in my room!