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DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: LeeThompson on September 21, 2009, 10:09:37 AM
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In about 2 weeks my 91 318is will be ready to drive. I do not feel like taking the dash and center consol out to replace the carpets that are awful looking but I do plan to put some nice new floor mats in. I am still deciding whether to reupolster the seats or just buy seat covers.
But my biggest question is whether or not I should tent the windows and put in streetglow. I have always liked the look of lights under a car and I know the popularity of these have seriously declined. Should I put streetglow in the car and tint the windows or leave the car as it is? Thoughts? Also what type of rims should I put on the car?
I also want to put a supercharger in my 318 on a later date but I can not seem to find one for this car. Any help on this?
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In about 2 weeks my 91 318is will be ready to drive. I do not feel like taking the dash and center consol out to replace the carpets that are awful looking but I do plan to put some nice new floor mats in. I am still deciding whether to reupolster the seats or just buy seat covers.
But my biggest question is whether or not I should tent the windows and put in streetglow. I have always liked the look of lights under a car and I know the popularity of these have seriously declined. Should I put streetglow in the car and tint the windows or leave the car as it is? Thoughts? Also what type of rims should I put on the car?
I also want to put a supercharger in my 318 on a later date but I can not seem to find one for this car. Any help on this?
Forgive me as I'm a noob here, but I beg of you not to put a blower or street glow on one of these cars. First, the blower will take away from a neat little car and quickly destroy the motor. Second the street glow is akin to wearing MC Hammer pants and will further date a 19 year old car.
Personally, I think it will look absolutely short bus as well.
In terms of t(i)nt, fire it up, as I've always put it on my cars.
Finally, you don't have to take the dash out to get the carpet out- just the seats and both center consol(e) pieces. I believe you will have to make a couple small cuts for the evaporator and/or the heater core if memory serves.
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When you say "A blower" do you mean supercharger?
McHammer and street glow. Not the 2 things I compair lol.
Its also 18 years old :P
And about the carpets. Taking out that center consol is a pain and the carpet goes under the dash board. I mean I could cut it out right there. I don't know. A quick solution is putting new floormats down. No one will care.
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Street Glow? Really?..... IMHO that could possibly be the worst thing you could spend $$ on for your whip. Come on man. Its your car you do what you want, but if you do you have to post a pic....:confused:
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When you say "A blower" do you mean supercharger?
McHammer and street glow. Not the 2 things I compair lol.
Its also 18 years old :P
And about the carpets. Taking out that center consol is a pain and the carpet goes under the dash board. I mean I could cut it out right there. I don't know. A quick solution is putting new floormats down. No one will care.
Superchargers are commonly known as blowers; they "blow" more air into the engine...
McHammer, street glow, dubs, whobedapublicenema= all the same= FAIL!
I am absosmurfly positive you don't need remove the dash to get the carpet out. When you get it back, have a good look around and you will see what I mean. Again, I'm pretty sure the only cuts needed are at the evaporator and heater core.
And if it takes you more than 10 minutes to remove both parts of the center console, then I sure hope you are going to have a shop install the above stated "bling" into your car. What is it, 2 plastic nuts for the rear piece and 1 in the front with 2 or 4 more screws? Really, it is very simple.
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NO STREETGLOW!!! if you want street glow, sell your BMW immediately and buy a Honda Civic.
As for the superchargher (blower) there is no reason why not, by supercharging that engine you are taking away absolutely nothing from the car, but rather adding to it. google "Downing Atlanta" they make a supercharger kit for the M42 for $3500 that puts it up to 188 rwhp (as opposed to 127 or something). So that is more power than the E30 M3.
and as far as wheels, anything from a 15x7 to a 16x9 would be a good size, and don't even think about any wheel that is chrome.
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The Car was bought from a junk yard. It's being restored. We got a new paint job and cleaned the engine looks great. Just got to put the glass back in and send it back to the pant shop so they can buff it without getting paint dust every where.
So a no go on the neons.
3500 for a supercharger. Wow
But rims. What kind. The rims I have on it have to go.
I will see about changing out the interior. But I am positive you have to take out the dash
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Fake-Turbo-Blow-Off-BOV-Supercharger-Wastegate-Sound_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem4a9ade2ad9QQitemZ320425831129QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
I may buy this instead :P its 3495 dollars cheaper and I get that great sound. ;)
I do want a supercharger. I would love to track the car. Bring the e30 back to the tracks.
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They have brought the E30 back to the track; in the form
of the spec E30 series. It us what has driven up the prices on the E30.
It's cool you are saving one and st least doing some things correctly including not trying to make it look like a hover craft from Back to the Future.
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About 2 more weeks and It will be road ready. Probably 3 weeks before I can actualy start driving it instead of my 740 Turbo :P hmmmmmm I wonder. Could I take the Turbo from my volvo and put it into the bmw?
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did they not mask off the interior of the car when they painted or what?
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We took the glass out because some idiot cut a square out of the head liner and it has to be replaced. Well I sanded the car down which got crap in the car and what I did not do the paint shop did.
The car is cleaned up now. Only red dust is on the driver side which I can steam clean out and we are putting in new floor mates so it wont mater. Oh and theres red dust where the radio is supposed to go but because I am getting a new radio for it we will yank that out and clean it before we put in the new one.
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Car is looking great. Got to get the front window in. Me and my stepdad roped the back window and the two side window on the 4th. We wanted the front done because thats a harder window but we now decided to put it in ourselves because we do not want it sealed. We got the driver seat redone. Looks awsome. Still have to get it buffed and a few other odds and ends. The pictures are not great. I had it in sports mode and the pics came out crap.
The back seat looked bad. I was suprised that it came out looking new. Its all about the chemicals right?
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It's lookin GOOD!
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Looks real good. Hey how much did that cost? I have been planning a new paint job. I have some dents on the drivers door and in the front and rear. I would like the original paint removed and a new coat put on. Did you remove your bumpers and such yourself? Also how long did the restoration take? It looks like you replaced the carpet as well. Any info would help. Thanks.
Tony.
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your car is starting to look pretty good. please do not put neon lights under this car.
Downing Atlanta, as far as i know, doesnt make a kit for the e30 m42. I think it may be due to the lack of knock sensors in our cars. There are a few people that have built custom supercharger kits for their cars here on the forum. (Appletree and Vision...)
What did you pay for the paint work?
and stay away from the fake BOV. That is ridiculous.
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I need to get pictures of it now. We have it on the road. Its in the test driving stage now. The CAT was brand new and already went bad. Blew up yesterday. We ordered a new one before it blew so the warranty will pay for it. We only had it sense the begging of the year.
Question an Answer
Q: How much was the paint Job
A: Because the paint job was a tradeoff I do not know the exact figure. Work will be traded out and or cash will be given. From what I understand the paint job could cost $2000 dollars. We did not do an ultra Fine Buff which would have been about 500$ more and would make the car shine.
A little about the paint job
Because the restoration was supposed to be done as cheap as possible. We told the paint company that they could let one of their new guys do it if they wanted. He still did an awesome job but it’s not show room. There are still minor problems like fish eyes and one little scratch I found in florescent lights.
Also They forgot to get the trunk lips which is not a big deal kind of pissed us off because we took off the gasket so they would paint it and make it shine. But you can’t see it unless you open the trunk so it’s not that big of a deal.
We did do as much as we could before sending it off. We did sand it ourselves (Not all the way down) and we did pull out the glass, side molding, and anything what would otherwise need to be taped up. We wanted a good paint job done right.
We repainted the grill and anything black ourselves. We used Matt Black paint color and look good. Because the rear spoiler was messed up we did not paint it red because it would show so we painted it black and looks awesome. No scratches really show. We did these ourselves to.
Also I forgot to mention that we took of the window cleaner nozzles to.
Q: How much did the carpet cost?
A: We did not replace the carpet. We just covered it up with carpet. If I'm not mistaken it’s called a carpet cover that you just put right on top. I think it cost $300. My stepdad told me he did it and spent my 300$ check I earned from him on it :P. Still looks good you just need to put mats down because you can rub through it.
Q: Did we remove the bumpers ourselves?
A: If I’m not mistaken I explained this above. Yes we did. Also I’m not 100% sure but the original front bumper was messed up so he replaced it. The paint shop just repainted it. I know the front quarter panel we ruined and we did replace that. We did take off the front bumper ourselves also.
Q: How long did the restoration take?
A: It took a year and a half. My stepdad does have a job and the car was not priority. He also has a 2002 caberlay that he has been working on for 15 years and all he has is a rolling body. So a project takes him a while.
Overall the project was about 100 or more hours. I am not sure because the car was supposed to be a graduation present and it’s about 5 months later and it’s just now drivable.
If you have anymore questions I will try to find them out.
Also I am not putting in neons or a fake BOV.
And remember we did a full restoration as cheap as possable. Remember that my stepdad can get parts at whole sale. So things will get more expesive. And we roped the three back windows in ourselves. The front was done professionally.
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May I ask what did you repair the dash with:confused:
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I have no Idea. It was done by a professional my stepdad knew. It’s actually supposed to stop the cracks in its tracks as well. Also it’s supposed to be smooth but because we wanted it done cheap we let him son who needed practice do it. It still looks good though
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Looks good. Thanks for the info. I was not reading in detail what you had done. Thats why I asked those questions.