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WTB/WTT / WTB M3 Fender, '87 325is Foglights

« on: April 15, 2010, 11:08:33 PM »

I forgot, i also need a black perforated vinyl rear seat bottom, black/dark grey carpet, black/dark grey rear package tray carpet piece.

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WTB/WTT / WTB M3 Fender, '87 325is Foglights

« on: April 15, 2010, 08:48:44 PM »

I know this is kind of a longshot, but im looking for a left e30 M3 fender, I work in a body shop and ended up getting a right M3 front fender that was kinda beat up for free, i fixed it and put it on my car and have been searching for a drivers side fender ever since with no luck.  I can get a new one my cost for around 200 bucks but was wondering if anybody had a used one cheaper?

My car is kind of a frankenstein of parts i have gotten at work and round in the local junkyard, its a plastic bumpered '91 318is but i ditched the stock front valance and have an '87 325is front airdam below my plastic front bumper (the one with the big + or 4 rectangular holes in the middle)  I havent been able to find any aftermarket fogs that fit the is airdam, only the ones that mount below the aluminum bumpers.  If anyone has a used set of fogs that will fit or know a good aftermarket source please let me know.  Im in colorado springs CO and willing to drive to surrounding areas for parts, and also willing to pay to ship.  thanks

seth

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Some questions for my budget turbo build??

« on: September 13, 2009, 07:35:07 PM »

The afm should actually go in front of the turbo but most people don't feel like lengthening the harness to move it and since you're just upping the fuel pressure it doesn't matter if the afm can read pressurized air or not.

 

....thats one qestion answered in another post....anybody have help on anything else for me?

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Some questions for my budget turbo build??

« on: September 13, 2009, 04:46:35 PM »

So i already have a 12b off a conquest, 325 ebay manifold, an ebay fmic, and a rrfpr...i have a couple questions i wanna get cleared up before i start on my project.  First off...the afm, where to put it?  I have seen pics on here of it in the upper ic pipe basically in the factory location but i dont understand how it can function under boost.  Im not gonna run ms or anything like that for a while so keeping the stock afm is a must,  what do i need to do to run it in the ic track, or should i relocate it to the other side of the engine bay before the turbo?  Also to those of you that have upgraded to bigger injectors did you tighten the flapper inside the afm to keep afr's close to stock at idle and off boost?  Also i have not been able to find a definitive answer on any of the posts ive read about what to do with the icv, i have read that it doesnt work out to well when routed the factory way...so what do i do about routing that too?  thanks


seth

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General Topics / couple quick questions and an introduction (lots of pics)

« on: August 26, 2009, 08:15:48 AM »

I'm probably wrong, but it was my understanding that you wanted your afm upstream and as far away from the turbo as practical becase you don't want it measuring the compressed air or being affected by intak pulses. Maybe it doesn't matter with this type of afm.

Do they make a rising rate FPR that will fit the M42's rail?

Well if you put it anywhere in the piping other than before the turbo it will me measuring boost instead of vacuum which i dont think it can do, but danny and a few others ran theirs that way.  When i messed with mitsubishi's the mas had to be relocated away from the tb to in front of the turbo to read how much air the turbo was sucking in.

and you just can run a universal RRFPR in the return line after the fuel rail.

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General Topics / couple quick questions and an introduction (lots of pics)

« on: August 24, 2009, 10:09:58 PM »

i almost forgot the pics of my strut bar i made....





and i the questions i had....
1. i see everyone using 12b's in budget turbo builds, and im interested to know if anyone has tried a 14b as they are plentiful and cheap pretty much everywhere.

2.  i have turbo'd a couple cars(both mitsubishi mirages) and was wondering how the afm can work as a blow through setup like a lot of you guys are doing....or would a draw through setup before the turbo work better?

If you hadnt guessed im planning on going FI this winter and im gathering parts now

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General Topics / couple quick turbo (afm) questions and an introduction (lots of pics)

« on: August 24, 2009, 10:04:03 PM »

First off hello to everyone, I have been reading posts on here and r3vlimited for the last year or so and finally decided to really start working on my 318is and now seemed like a good time to join.  I work at the body shop of a bmw dealership out here in colorado and did the same job for the last 3 years back in Michigan at a different bmw dealership, anyways after 3 years of working on bmw's and everyone asking where mine is i finally got one!

Thats how i bought it, i tore it down and the insurance company ended up totalling it, so i was able to buy it for $600 from the owner.  The car needed a hood, fender, headlight, core support pulled, fan shroud/blade/clutch, and a few misc. things

did a few things here and there while fixing it in my spare time

Its nice working in a body shop






Thats the short version of the process, i have tons of pics of everything i did.  Tinted the taillights and added a filler panel, ebay smoked bumper lights, vis carbon fiber hood(that fits terrible), ebay headlights, taurus sideskirts, and a few other little things.  Now i know you guys will hate the headlights but it needed some from the crash and those were cheap and i like the angel eyes.  I would like to get different lights someday though because the black housing doesnt reflect the light out for the high beams and they basically do nothing.  I drove the car for the better part of a year with no right grille around the headlights and no bumpstrip on the bumper but finally got that stuff plus did some other things not too long ago...if its nice tomorrow ill take more recent pics of the car.