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I want the better balance of the 318is, as I want the car for handling over power. Looks like it's a pretty simple case of sorting the suspension and breaks then, and stripping it out is I want to take it that far.

I've currently got a M40 powered 318i, which is great as a daily run around, but I'm looking to start doing 7 or 8 trackdays a year. I'm thinking of selling the the 318i and buying a 318is to use as my daily drive and for doing trackdays. What modifications would you guys suggest making to a 318is f...

They are about at that sort of money. My tidy 78,000, mile 1988 318i auto I bought for Ãƒ”šÃ‚£300. It only had 2 months MOT left, but it passed that very easily. My mum recently bought a 1990 316i Manual with 12 months MOT for Ãƒ”šÃ‚£250, but it has done 140,000 miles.

BIG thumbs up for DanThe. Went to see him and his mate (sorry, didnt catch his name) to collect two passenger side doors. Dan and said mate fitted them for me, including demoving the door glass, electric window mechanism, central locking etc. All done in about 40 mins. Thanks a million guys!!!!!!!!!

All nice and straight now thanks to 'DanThe' and his mate (sorry didnt catch your name).

Thanks a million!!

I bought some paint in a spray can for my mums Schwarz Black 316i from my local paint factors. I just told them it was BMW Schwarz Black, and they mixed it up and put it in a spray can. The colour match is spot on and the finish is very good too.

Looks like i'll have to take some tools with me then and swap the doors there.

I need to pick up two passenger side doors for my 4 door E30. Does anyone know if they will fit inside the car to bring them home. I thinking of putting the rear door in the boot and the front door on the back seat. But will they fit?

All sorted now :D The MOT tast station sorted the idle mixture, so theres nothing wrong with the AFM :D The reading before were: CO% = 5.165 HCppm = 283 The are now: CO% = 1.529 HCppm = 173 So the CO is now just about spot on, and the Hydrocarbons are also 30% lower :D Thanks for all the help guys :...

I've just had a look at the AFM on my mums 316i M40, and it's exactly the same as the AFM on my car, i.e. Brass flat head screw.

I just home the garage can sort the CO tomorrow to get it through the MOT.

Scratch that last post, i got it arse up :mad: If there brown it's normal, If there white it's running hot. Oh fuk it ! look in the haynes book :D After messing about with many a turbo charged engine, I can spot a happy spark plug (and plugs that have melted 8O ) :D The plugs on the E30 are perfect.

It's going in tomorrow to have the CO adjusted and a MOT issued. The plugs are spot on and the car runs PERFECTLY, and the MPG is good too. Also when I did turn this screw a GOOD few times, the running on the engine remained exactly the same.

Thats what I've read on here about it being an allen screw, not a flat head. Mine has a red plastic cap, covering a brass flathead screw. I did wonder if the brass screw was another tamper proof cap, and under that is an allen screw for the adjustment.

Seems a very poor design if by over adjusting the screw you can damage the afm.

Well to conflicting anwers there.

If you keep winding this screw in it will over stretch the coil spring inside the AFM! As i told you before, get it done on a CO metre otherwise you will be looking at getting another AFM for it because you did'nt take advise! Thats exactly what I am doing! I'm trying to find out if the AFM could b...

No one got a clue then

Anyone?

Also, are the 1.6 M40 and 1.8 M40 AFM's the same part, as I have access to a 1.6 M40 AFM if I need a new AFM.

I know the idle mixture is adjusted by the screw on the AFM, but I have a couple of questions about the screw itself. Firstly, I take it, it is the brass flat head screw which is covered by a red plastic cap (about 9mm in dimeter)? Secondly, does it reach a stop when fully screwed in or out. As mine...

OK just to update, I didnt get round to having the mixture looked at because the car has been running so well, and the plugs look great. However, today I took the car for the MOT, and yep you guessed it, it failed on High CO :mad: The reading for CO was 5.165, and should be less than 3.5 to pass the...

Well it passed on the handbrake

Thanks for the help guys.

It did fail on one thing though, but I'll start another thread for that one

Bob_S wrote:take your door cards off and just push the door with your foot or hand and see what shape it goes back into ;) put it this way the doors are goosed so you cant really do anymore damage!!!

Thats one of the jobs to be done tomorrow

No it's 'Bronzit Beige' and it's booked in for the MOT on Tuseday.

Karans got mint doors for this job mate - their in Brill Red but, if your spraying anyway????Only down the road in Cheshunt-Herts. Hope this helps out, Neil. He's got no money to fix it at the moment :( Is Karan breaking another car apart from the tourer then? :? That depends on how much it need fo...

No doubt it's been asked a zillion times before, but what sort of power increase would I expect to gain by fitting an E30Zone Chip to my standard M40 powered 318i auto?

It really annoys me how someone can do damage and just feck off without leaving a note or anything. I guess they thought, "It's not my car, why should I give a sh1t!" :x :x :x :x If it happened in the past few days then they were pissed! Simple as they thought it was a wall or sumit! Yeah, more tha...

Ahhh fair enough!

Surely you can get to it if you take the disc off?

I've just pulled the handbrake gator off, and both cables are adjusted the same, with about 3/4'' of thread showing. Looks like both cables are moving freely too. I'll check inside the discs tomorrow.

Thanks guys. I take it the handbrake shoes should last ages, as they are not used to stop the car, just to hold it still (unless it's been owned by a handbreak turn junkie, which I dont think is the case). Tomorrow I'll have both discs off, check everything is moving freely, and change the shoes if ...

I'm going to be checking my 318i over for the MOT over the weekend. As far as I know (at the moment) the only problem is the hand brake is not very powerful, and if you pull the handbrake on while the car is rolling, the car pulls slightly to one side. Is there a common problem with the handbrake me...

It really annoys me how someone can do damage and just feck off without leaving a note or anything. I guess they thought, "It's not my car, why should I give a sh1t!"

Just taken some pics of the damage: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/jerem_rsv_uk24/2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/jerem_rsv_uk24/1.jpg And how it should look: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/jerem_rsv_uk24/3.jpg As you can see, on the whole it's pretty clean for it's age,...

Has anyone in North Cambridgeshire, West Norfolk or South Lincolnshire got a large garage/workshop/barn I could borrow for a week to to 10 days to respray my E30, in exchange for some beer tokens?

Well decided tonight to get it back on the road, dents or not

The dents, although bad, are only cosmetic, so i'll keep it for the time being. Not decided if it's worth replacing the two nearside doors yet though.

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318is modifications for the track (and a road car)

DanThe

Will two E30 doors fit INSIDE an E30?

Help please, anyone :(

E30Zone Chip

Hand Brake, Common problem??

Anyone in North Cambs, West Norfolk or South Lincs got......