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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: ///M3 on February 24, 2009, 01:26:20 PM
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I am already dreaming of when I can pull my 318is out of storage. I was looking on http://www.incarparts.net and I found some good stuff i want to buy for my car. I was mostly looking at the French Euro Fogs.
Anyway, what is the first mod you are going to do when your car gets out of storage/spring starts?
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My E30s get driven year-round. :D
However, I do plan to do a timing case rebuild sometime this year, as well as some new shocks. I just installed a 13-button obc and rebuilt the driver door lock cylinder a couple weeks ago, and redid the front brakes last weekend. Rear brakes are next. I'm doing brake hoses too.
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I plan to sell mine this spring/summer. Most likely summer, as I doubt I'll get the other car(s) on the road beforehand!
Otherwise - main mod of this year is my humungous sumpguard. Mines an all year round daily driver too. And rusty to go with it :(
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1. A clutch.
2. A windsheild
3. Actually install the mustang injectors I bought last fall.
4. I may try a 17" wheel and tire set up. I've got 15" E30 M3 wheels on it now. I may slap the e36 M3 DSIIs in my garage on it. My only worry is that it is a cabby and the ride will be too harsh. Cabby's don't have the stiffest chassis and an overly firm suspension/tire set up makes them miserable.
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I should not buy anything else until i install all the crap I have sitting around:
4.10 LSD
E36 Steering rack
E36 M3 shift lever with shifter rebuild parts
Rear brake lines
Amp and 12" Sub in box
Check panel delete headliner panel
Rear E30 badge
Tint the windows
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New clutch
New brakes
3.73 lsd
Some kind of short shifter
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Install all the rear end bushings+crap i have sitting in my garage.
Buy:
- M3 antenna
- Sunroof panel (mine has some rust :()
- new exhaust from headers back
- 19# mustang injectors
- shocks + springs
- shifter bushings and add weight to the selector rod
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I already bought a whole new interior and am 90% installed, (dyed carpet too)
Going for body work and respray by mid spring/early summer.
Audio some time in there too.
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Mine's essentially good, but I need to get rid of the rust, install the M3 rear bar, weld on M3 swaybar tabs, get some better autoX tires, and fix up the exhaust. I also have a Zender spoiler that needs paint.
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4. I may try a 17" wheel and tire set up. I've got 15" E30 M3 wheels on it now. I may slap the e36 M3 DSIIs in my garage on it. My only worry is that it is a cabby and the ride will be too harsh. Cabby's don't have the stiffest chassis and an overly firm suspension/tire set up makes them miserable.
Don't - if you want bigger, get 16's. They'll ride a lot better, cheaper and easier to get tyres for, you can lower the car more and look better. Dishy 16's are a winner!
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Get my car painted is at the top of my list right now as the car is a very reliable and well handling car, then, all new urethane bushings front and rear, subframe reinforcements, trailing arm reinforcements, sparco front strut bar, custom rear shock tower bar, momo steering wheel, swap out my 3.73 lsd for a 3.91 lsd,
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mine is only driven when the weather is nice. the cabrio is gonna get a light massaging under the hood in the name of preventative maintenance.
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Fix rust on the rear valence, repaint front valence, reinstall pretty wheels (Ronal LS), replace sealed beams with H1/H4, replace left front fog lamp, perhaps replace the muffler with a Magnaflow unit, and change the brake fluid. The AC compressor may need to be changed.
Alot the mechanical stuff on the car was done in the last 12 months (clutch, rebuilt driveshaft, brakes, struts, shocks, bushings, head gasket, water pump, & all hoses - every single one) so I'm hopeful that this year will be a bit less expensive!
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You should all have Z3 steering racks on your lists.
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You should all have Z3 steering racks on your lists.
Nah - don't care enough about it. It's an airbag car and used as a DD on relatively straight roads.
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Nah - don't care enough about it. It's an airbag car and used as a DD on relatively straight roads.
I wouldn't have an E30 without one now. It's probably a personal choice thing, but to me, the steering is perfected by the Z3 'rack. It makes for better steering than I had in my 944, which is regarded by some (and by me until I got my E30) as the best steering car ever made.
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I wouldn't have an E30 without one now. It's probably a personal choice thing, but to me, the steering is perfected by the Z3 'rack. It makes for better steering than I had in my 944, which is regarded by some (and by me until I got my E30) as the best steering car ever made.
I'm sure it is great...and to be honest, I thought the slow ratio was rather odd considering the excellent chassis calibration otherwise. I've actually had two cars that I thought had better steering than the E30: My X1/9 (those little things have amazing reflexes), and my E34 535i. Oddly my preWW2 BMW has faster steering than the E30 as well...and it's R&P, too.
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Leakdown tester. Time to check the health of my 250K mile M42 to see if I can get away with a freshening or if I need a full rebuild. :D
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just bought a dinan chip (for 60$ FTW)
probably going re-do my exhuast to be more free flowing (straight pipe all the way back to a dynamax super turbo muffler)
probably a GC coil over kit, with some bilstein sports
and get all my body work done, the po got hit by some shrubs... ;)
and new falken azinas on my iX gun metal'd weaves
tint it all the way around to 15% (ftp)
consider it done....untill i finish gathering s52 swap parts atleast ;)