My car!

rare · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:43

I know its not in the same league as some new cars posted recently

But done a lot of work to my car recently, and today this morning just gave it a quick clean. Thought I would post up a few pictures, though having resized them they are a bit blury!

In the past 6 weeks its had, clutch, water pump (didnt really need doing but did it any way, cars got 100k) viscous fan and belt, rear trailing arm bushes, all new suspension made up of Bilstein shocks, springs, new front and rear top mounts, gaskets and all new bolts and nuts from BMW also serviced it at the same time. Also brand new headlamp lenses, really smartens the front up. Drives really tight now, but still not 100% to me. Going to get a x-brace underneath of the M3 cabs, and eibach do a front and rear ARB kit which is on the list of things to buy!

Yesterday I changed the rear window rubbers, and I have a new ingition barrel and switch on order from BMW as i ts starting to just turn and turn!

I dont plan on doing anything to the outside of it, I just want to get all the little bits done so that it drives as well as it can and get it as clean as my E30 was. Its had the larger Throttle body and Manifold on it which I did last year, could probably do with a remap at some point to get it all working together.

Any comments are well welcome.

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rare · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:58

That looks great! What model is it?

Cheers for all the comments guys. Its a 328i sport manual. Runs really well with the additions now, pulls strong, should be about 220BHP judging from other peoples experience with the same parts. Its a very clean car, never was a huge E36 fan, but the sports are still nice.

rare · 8 Jul 2007 at 23:20

Thanks fox, always good to get your opinion

Im thinking of changing the M badges for some clubsport ones.

rare · 8 Jul 2007 at 23:31

hellrot?

Sure is, nightmare to keep looking good but hey! Not so keen on a rear spoiler, I am actually really starting to like the clean look of it without. Want to keep it looking like it came out the factory on the outside. But a bit harder where it matters underneath

rare · 8 Jul 2007 at 23:53

The E30 sport was sold on to a friend of mine. Unfortunatly it was later involved in an accident and has never really been the same since. It was a really gorgeous car when I had it, spent an absoloute fortune on it, literally the majority of the main components had either been replaced or fixed.

I do miss it ! it used to get a lot of praise but they are old cars now. Trying to use it as a daily and keeping it how I wanted wasnt working out and it was frustrating me. As I am sure a lot of people on here can relate to , other peoples lack of respect for other cars on the road and the fact that it got keyd up majorly a number of times left me pretty dissapointed! I know it wasnt an expensive car but when you spend so much time on something to see other people have no regard it can be quite crushing! So at that point I just decided to buy something a bit newer and more reliable but to try and keep it clean like I managed with the E30.

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rare · 9 Jul 2007 at 00:06

Its not easy, I know it aggrivates my girlfriend a little

Its a real pain, I hate it around here, they recently re-surfaced a load of the roads but only with stones and then painted over the top. This kind of thing makes me so mad! Cant even drive down some of these roads without the front of my car getting canned by half the road flying up, so I know how you feel fox! I have a few tiny marks, but theres not a lot you can do about it. Its worse becuase we know they are there where as most people would never notice them.

I generally tend to wash it one to twice a week and then just keep on top of waxing. Theres nothing really special Im doing, its just a case of when I see something needs doing I do it, be it wash it, or replace a part etc. Red isnt to bad to keep clean, its just keeping it red thats the nightmare. I dont think Im doing anything most people are not, just a case of keeping on top of it.

To me it does not matter what car you own or how much its worth, I always like seeing well kept cars.

rare · 9 Jul 2007 at 00:17

Tell me about it. I do know you can get the clear coating applied but I have never looked in to expenses. Its probably well out of Proportion in relation to the value of my car. In reality there isnt much you can do about it.

Sometimes I wish I didnt really care about the condition of it then it wouldnt bother me like the majority of people out there!