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      12-01-2018, 05:31 PM   #1
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Rhodonite Silver G30 530e

Just took delivery a couple of days ago. Had the car modified with a KW V3, mounted 20" Vossen CV3-R for summer (pictures below - ran it for 24h as a test), and went to 19" winter-wheels for now. Also had a custom-build exhaust system mounted and a diffuser that I've ordered following advise from others here on the forum (thanks !). Pictures are not all that great and the car is not completely clean - more and better to follow. Modifications were performed by Heinz Performance (Belgium) - extremely happy with their work and service.
The car was also sitting in the sun for a short period of time (no pictures) - this Rhodonite individual is one hell of a colour (but I understand that's a personal opinion) !
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      12-02-2018, 08:33 AM   #2
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Beautiful G30!

Congrats.
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      12-04-2018, 02:44 PM   #3
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Just took delivery a couple of days ago. Had the car modified with a KW V3, mounted 20" Vossen CV3-R for summer (pictures below - ran it for 24h as a test), and went to 19" winter-wheels for now. Also had a custom-build exhaust system mounted and a diffuser that I've ordered following advise from others here on the forum (thanks !). Pictures are not all that great and the car is not completely clean - more and better to follow. Modifications were performed by Heinz Performance (Belgium) - extremely happy with their work and service.
The car was also sitting in the sun for a short period of time (no pictures) - this Rhodonite individual is one hell of a colour (but I understand that's a personal opinion) !
Did you lower it?
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      12-04-2018, 07:58 PM   #4
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Yes - it has a KW V3 adjustable suspension. The hybrid (530e) comes without any lowering - even with the M-pack (at least over here). The very first picture in the garage (delivery) shows the car with the factory-suspension. The other pictures are indeed after the lowering.
Probably will lower it a bit more in the summer but for winter and with the 19" wheels this looks OK to me.
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Yes - it has a KW V3 adjustable suspension. The hybrid (530e) comes without any lowering - even with the M-pack (at least over here). The very first picture in the garage (delivery) shows the car with the factory-suspension. The other pictures are indeed after the lowering.
Probably will lower it a bit more in the summer but for winter and with the 19" wheels this looks OK to me.
Ok, thanks, looks good. I am putting on the H&R springs on mine.
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holy crap, people are modifying the hybrids?? have you done any gasoline engine mods? what sort of exhaust did you go with here and how do you like the sound?
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Yes - it has a KW V3 adjustable suspension. The hybrid (530e) comes without any lowering - even with the M-pack (at least over here). The very first picture in the garage (delivery) shows the car with the factory-suspension. The other pictures are indeed after the lowering.
Probably will lower it a bit more in the summer but for winter and with the 19" wheels this looks OK to me.
What size(width/offset) are those CV3s?
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These CV3 are 9x20 ET25 for the front, and 10,5x20 ET30 in the back.

@Gti6cyl: I think it sounds great (I heard it on a 530i which is the same block before ordering) - will see if I can make/post a short video. The exhaust is custom-made for my car - not something one could buy off the shelf. And yes - engine is modified, why not
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What did you do to the exhaust? I have a 530e that I did a muffler delete on, but it became almost too loud for my taste. Did you do anything different than me?
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Ok, now you got me thinking here.
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Beautiful car. How did you configure it?
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Had the car modified with a KW V3
I did the same....Great choice
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@brokeboi - they replaced the muffler with a customer-build one. It's not my area of expertise - but I heard it on another car and it was a great sound. I actually have a short video with the sound but it's only a good representation of reality if you listed to it via external (on a laptop or mobile device it doesn't sound anything like reality, can't play the low frequencies - also recorded w/ a mobile device).

@Dobie Dog - looks awesome! What's the actual right-height (between street and body) behind the front-wheels w/ the M-performance side-skirt (it's about 3 inch for me over there without the M-performance parts) ?
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@Dobie Dog - looks awesome! What's the actual right-height (between street and body) behind the front-wheels w/ the M-performance side-skirt (it's about 3 inch for me over there without the M-performance parts) ?
Thank you sir I am just at 3 1/2 inches ride height behind the front wheels.
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