New to the 745LI Scene

Just bought my first BMW, a 2003 745LI with 24's (yes 24s, and selling them to get 22's by spring) picked it up for $10,000 with the rims, stock wheels and 142,000 miles. I love this car and look forward to modding it some more! Let me know your thoughts!

Best luck with your new find. It's a fun car.

I love it, I own an audio shop so going to start modding the stereo soon!

Surprisingly not too bad for 24's Any ideas on which 22's you're going to rock?

Idk yet I like Lucky#7s VIP Modulars but yeah for 24's they actually are not bad.

I got pulled over twice in 8 hours 2nd day I had it for some bull**** reasons probably cuz they thought I was a "thug" but then they get to window and its a clean white boy and theyre probably like WTF? So next mod, Beltronics custom installed radar detector and quad laser interceptors

LoL! uh yeah, cuz thugs dont come in the white variety right?...






*sarcasm

Well not here lol. But yes they do come in any skin color. And I dont have a problem with them, I was simply stating what I believe they thought.

Whatever wheels I get will probably be black with chrome lips. Will also lower the car.

Lowered for sure...makes the world of difference with these cars.....LOTS of Audison Amps too!!!


And Leave the mind reading and comedy up to the professionals. Wouldnt want to start off on the wrong foot here....

Originally Posted by DriftGirl

Lowered for sure...makes the world of difference with these cars.....LOTS of Audison Amps too!!!


And Leave the mind reading and comedy up to the professionals. Wouldnt want to start off on the wrong foot here....

Lol. GOT IT.

Welcome and Congrats on the purchase.

I forgot to say "Welcome"!

What are your thoughts on the Audio portion? Ive been on the fence about scrapping the entire OEM setup ...just weighing the pro's n con's of what will be lost and gained. Im pretty fed up with the stock stuffs

I'm going to run a 3-way setup in front with custom pods in the doors for the woofer, I think subs under seats will be scrapped and then probably 2-12's in the trunk ported through the rear deck and a 2-way setup in rear. I want good sq but will still use rears when passengers in the car. I haven't put a lot of thought in yet because I'm really swamped right now...

And an audison bit one sound processor.

Originally Posted by DriftGirl

And Leave the mind reading and comedy up to the professionals. Wouldnt want to start off on the wrong foot here....

No worries! I've been here for a while and seen a lot of obnoxious/disrespectful new members, but FinishLine is definitely not one of them

Good luck with the mods man. The VIP brand is nice for wheels - but looks great if on coilovers or a cup kit. Lookup the member pelonx1st and you'll see what I mean. He is running one of the best setups on bimmerfest.

Originally Posted by FinishLine

I'm going to run a 3-way setup in front with custom pods in the doors for the woofer, I think subs under seats will be scrapped and then probably 2-12's in the trunk ported through the rear deck and a 2-way setup in rear. I want good sq but will still use rears when passengers in the car. I haven't put a lot of thought in yet because I'm really swamped right now...

If you have the Logic 7 (with the underseat subs), don't scrap the subs. Get a harness from the member "Technic" which allows you to add an amp to the Logic 7 and run subs in the trunk.

Why delete the subs when you could just add more in the trunk and make it great?

Paper

The only reason I was thinking of scrapping the under seat subs is I believe I am getting crackling from the drivers one sometimes.

Originally Posted by FinishLine

The only reason I was thinking of scrapping the under seat subs is I believe I am getting crackling from the drivers one sometimes.

That would be symptoms of your L7 AMP going out bro nothing wrong with your subs, My plan to upgrade the sound is to replace oem floor subs with two earthquake sws xi 8"subs, put a 12" sundown SD-2 sub in the ski pass and power all this using a Hifonics HFi1000.1D amplifier with the help of technics L7 harness. I'm not looking for heart stopping window shattering bass just a bit more solid punch so that would do it

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I'm glad we now have another Wisconsin member on board, looks like you're roughly 3hrs away from me dayamn!!

Im not necessarily looking for an obnoxious bass outside the car either, just a little bit more. What amp do guys use to replace the L7 amp?

Where are you located?

You can't replace the L7 AMP with an aftermarket amp, most features on your car wouldn't work hence the harness I posted. What it does is it allows you to..

- add a trunk sub and/or power the underseat woofers with a separate amp, no need to cut OEM wires or harness itself
- quick underseat woofers connectors with 12AWG wires labeled for easy connection to your aftermarket amp outputs

Read the sellers thread for more info on it. http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...433525&page=12

This might also give you a few ideas on how to go about your setup http://bmw745project.blogspot.com/p/sound.html

I'm in Sheboygan

Thanks and no kidding? Im from Sheboygan originally so all my family lives there. I grew up in GB though which is where my parents live now.

No Problem, we should organize a wisconsin 7 series meet next year. Do you also build custom boxes?

Yeah I'd be down that'd be pretty cool. Yeah we build custom boxes, we do them out of MDF< Fiberglass