E30 Zone

Hello All.

Heres a few pics of my 318is with a downing atlanta supercharger.

Some pics of how the car looked when i first purchased and how it is as present.

Alot of time and effort went in to bringing the colour back too life. Unfortunatley I do not have the pictures of when the car looked pinky white.




























enjoy.

superb !! how does it go with a supercharger ?

how much did it cost for parts and labour?

and was it worth it? or would it had been better spent on a engine conversion

Nice! That is a meaty charger you got there

What sort of power does it have?

Engine conversion would have been alot cheaper but it was worth it.

Everyone does engine conversions so I thought why not do something different.

I have not had it Dyno'd yet so at present I'm not sure what kinda bhp its at. Going to try and get it done before changing the cams and have it Dyno'd once again after the cam change to see what gains i get.

With regards to cost; it was just shy of £2000 incl parts and labour.
Its instant power when you want it and accelerates well.
I have still got to put a 3.73 LSD on it; which was purchased off Andyp.

This must be bags of fun to drive looks good too .

3.73diff will slow it down a fair bit on the acceleration front but make it more tolerable on the motorway. I'd have put at least a 3.9 if no 4.1's were available (which they generally aren't).

Looks good though, seen a few of these kits on E36's.

What did you have to do to the paint to get the shine back up? A few panels on my road car could do with some attention?

its fun to drive Mani.

so how does it drive ? does it drive like a normal 318is under say 3500rpm , then the charger kicks in when you give it some like the cams did as standard in the higher rev range ? whats she like on the juice

rix313 wrote:3.73diff will slow it down a fair bit on the acceleration front but make it more tolerable on the motorway. I'd have put at least a 3.9 if no 4.1's were available (which they generally aren't).

Looks good though, seen a few of these kits on E36's.

What did you have to do to the paint to get the shine back up? A few panels on my road car could do with some attention?

To get the body work looking good again;
I buffed it out with G3, Polished it with Autoglym SRP and waxed it with Autoglym HD Wax.
More recently I used Autofinesse Tripple and waxed it with Auto Finesse Desire

Heres a pic after i used Auto Finesse.. not the best of pics

polsta wrote:so how does it drive ? does it drive like a normal 318is under say 3500rpm , then the charger kicks in when you give it some like the cams did as standard in the higher rev range ? whats she like on the juice

It drives like normal when you want it to under 3500rpm.
Since the charger has been put on I have only used V power and its not that bad on juice if you drive sensibly. I put in bout £25 V power and i did 60 miles.

I've seen those DAS kits on the US forums, they look good. Did you buy it over here or from the US and ship it over?
I take it its still running the AFM? Was there any ECU changes needed?


The red certainly looks good That G3 stuff really does work well.

jmc330i wrote:I've seen those DAS kits on the US forums, they look good. Did you buy it over here or from the US and ship it over?
I take it its still running the AFM? Was there any ECU changes needed?


The red certainly looks good That G3 stuff really does work well.

Bought the kit from here about 6 months ago. It was actually advertised on the forum but he had a very vague advert with no pics and the he listed on ebay and i got hold of him through ebay. I bought the kit off him with the cams to match the charger.

No ECU changes are required and the AFM is still on.

The car looks ace to be fair and at £2000 I think that is potentially cheaper than a "good" M52 swap. I mean yeah they can be done for under a grand but if you change gaskets, water pumps and have manifolds done correctly etc it can mount up I know mine did!

Great effort, it is nice to see something different and not councilled up either.

Be cool if you are at some shows this year, wouldn't mind a look in the flesh

Duke137 wrote:The car looks ace to be fair and at £2000 I think that is potentially cheaper than a "good" M52 swap. I mean yeah they can be done for under a grand but if you change gaskets, water pumps and have manifolds done correctly etc it can mount up I know mine did!

Great effort, it is nice to see something different and not councilled up either.

Be cool if you are at some shows this year, wouldn't mind a look in the flesh

Thanks Mr Duke.

Let me know of any coming up and I can try and make arrangements to pop down.

Well I won't be doing any meets until April at least depending when I tax my E30 but I think the general consensus of the zone was to encourage more meets this year as last year was rubbish and everybody being unsociable. Keep your eye in the meets section dude if you are in Staffs the RAF Cosford one is coming up and Jim320i does his mini meets etc

You really should be taking that to a few meets, lovely car.

bilal-ali wrote:

polsta wrote:so how does it drive ? does it drive like a normal 318is under say 3500rpm , then the charger kicks in when you give it some like the cams did as standard in the higher rev range ? whats she like on the juice

It drives like normal when you want it to under 3500rpm.
Since the charger has been put on I have only used V power and its not that bad on juice if you drive sensibly. I put in bout £25 V power and i did 60 miles.

, so whats it like above that, ie when you give it some/put the super charger to use, does she fly ? what sort of difference compared to standard does it do/feel like ? does it make the car still feel like a revvy m42/is and just enhance or make it feel like a new beast ? , car looks super too, cant beat a nice shiny well detailed red paint job

Duke137 wrote:Well I won't be doing any meets until April at least depending when I tax my E30 but I think the general consensus of the zone was to encourage more meets this year as last year was rubbish and everybody being unsociable. Keep your eye in the meets section dude if you are in Staffs the RAF Cosford one is coming up and Jim320i does his mini meets etc

You really should be taking that to a few meets, lovely car.

Thats not far from myself, about 35 miles or so.
Thanks for the comments

polsta wrote:

bilal-ali wrote:

polsta wrote:so how does it drive ? does it drive like a normal 318is under say 3500rpm , then the charger kicks in when you give it some like the cams did as standard in the higher rev range ? whats she like on the juice

It drives like normal when you want it to under 3500rpm.
Since the charger has been put on I have only used V power and its not that bad on juice if you drive sensibly. I put in bout £25 V power and i did 60 miles.

, so whats it like above that, ie when you give it some/put the super charger to use, does she fly ? what sort of difference compared to standard does it do/feel like ? does it make the car still feel like a revvy m42/is and just enhance or make it feel like a new beast ? , car looks super too, cant beat a nice shiny well detailed red paint job

Mr Polsta when you " Give it some" it just wants to keep going going; it flys. Its a different kinda buzz but still as smooth. 1st gear runs out real quick.
its still a revvy 4 pot but when you put your foot down a new beast is unleashed.
Thanks for the compliments on the car.
I really need to book it for a dyno before a cam change and once after; so I know what bhp has been produced.

I think I remember reading on E36coupe that DA don't make the kit any more so they're quite hard to come by.

rix313 wrote:I think I remember reading on E36coupe that the don't make the kit any more so they're quite hard to come by.

Its true; they are hard to come by and if any one is selling one they go for around £2500 +

This is way cooler than a 24v swap and at £2000 that is a bargain. This is what I always wanted to do to my old iS but I think the kit was £4000+ new.

I've had a ride in Appletree's home made suercharged iS one it's first incarnation when it was running about 205bhp, Andyboy summed it up best, it felt more like a 3.0l engine due to the linear power delivery, I'd imagine this would be similar.

Be great if you could get to some of the meets/shows in the Midlands this year as I'd like to see this in the flesh

It's always good to see something different and this certainly is different. The conversion itself looks spot on and very well done
Reminds me of mine, about 10 years ago without the supercharger tho
Paintwork looks spot on too. I have some of that G3 too and its good sh1t, if used properly

Keep up the good work Bilal

I would like to see the grills returned to standard personally, other than that. Spot on!

Kedge wrote:This is way cooler than a 24v swap and at £2000 that is a bargain. This is what I always wanted to do to my old iS but I think the kit was £4000+ new.

I've had a ride in Appletree's home made suercharged iS one it's first incarnation when it was running about 205bhp, Andyboy summed it up best, it felt more like a 3.0l engine due to the linear power delivery, I'd imagine this would be similar.

Be great if you could get to some of the meets/shows in the Midlands this year as I'd like to see this in the flesh

I will try and get down to some meets. Not been to any before.

Pal318is wrote:It's always good to see something different and this certainly is different. The conversion itself looks spot on and very well done
Reminds me of mine, about 10 years ago without the supercharger tho
Paintwork looks spot on too. I have some of that G3 too and its good sh1t, if used properly

Keep up the good work Bilal

Thanks Mr Pal. Paintwork is not quite spot yet. Might go in for a respray soon.

I have still not put them MHW lights that I bought off you yet.

Duke137 wrote:I would like to see the grills returned to standard personally, other than that. Spot on!

Thanks.
I understand but what you mean about the grills mate; but its like marmite you either love it or hate it.

bilal-ali wrote:

Pal318is wrote:It's always good to see something different and this certainly is different. The conversion itself looks spot on and very well done
Reminds me of mine, about 10 years ago without the supercharger tho
Paintwork looks spot on too. I have some of that G3 too and its good sh1t, if used properly

Keep up the good work Bilal

Thanks Mr Pal. Paintwork is not quite spot yet. Might go in for a respray soon.

I have still not put them MHW lights that I bought off you yet.

The lights will look the nuts

Pal318is wrote:

bilal-ali wrote:

Pal318is wrote:It's always good to see something different and this certainly is different. The conversion itself looks spot on and very well done
Reminds me of mine, about 10 years ago without the supercharger tho
Paintwork looks spot on too. I have some of that G3 too and its good sh1t, if used properly

Keep up the good work Bilal

Thanks Mr Pal. Paintwork is not quite spot yet. Might go in for a respray soon.

I have still not put them MHW lights that I bought off you yet.

The lights will look the nuts

hopefully they will. iv also got a heckblende to put on aswell

but its like marmite you either love it or hate it

THIS.!!

nice motor that mate, i like the charger kit lots. kudo's for thinking outside the box as everyone is doing conversions nowadays,

cheers for pm'ing me the link, cant believe ive not seen this before.

p.s,,,, my interior would look awesome in here

e30-dk wrote:

but its like marmite you either love it or hate it

THIS.!!

nice motor that mate, i like the charger kit lots. kudo's for thinking outside the box as everyone is doing conversions nowadays,

cheers for pm'ing me the link, cant believe ive not seen this before.

p.s,,,, my interior would look awesome in here

thanks.

Donations are welcome lol

lol, to you.... 300

Like you conversion alot

blackrs2000custom wrote:Like you conversion alot

Thanks mate.

Install looks quite neat, also love the paintwork, looks so glossy.