E36 328i Sport - thoughts?

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Loads of short journeys for Giles and short stays with all the women winkeye
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Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:57 pm

Well wear on the E36 Geeman, 328 sports are particularly fine.

One anorak point though - someone says earlier that a 1995 328 will have an M50 engine. Not true.

320s and 325s are M50, 323s and 328s are M52 (hence ally block and nikasil liners)

Your car will be Nikasil lined... so Join the club! (Although mine's only a 2.5 it's still a stonker of an engine!)
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Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:08 am

deflected to the darkside G ...now we can have a mini-meet again lol winkeye
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Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:07 am

So... here it is at last. Not a bad bus... kinda liking it.

Anyone who wants to swap the tinted crystal rear lights for some red / clear M3 units, then you're more than welcome to them!

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Hap... Mini-meet away dude. Would love to come over and see your new beast!
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Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:29 am

Nice swap there mate, fancy letting me have the engine!! :wink:
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Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:50 am

Nice car man. You should feel good about that swap.

I would defintley change the rear lights to OEM's and are those headlights orriginal?

Those wheels are one of the best on an E36 I think.

No brainer on that deal.
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Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:52 am

Royal... front Angels are not OEM units... £400 Hella ones! :mad:

Will do a deal on the front and rears if anyone's got genuine clear units for trade...
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Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:51 pm

yeah g git rid of front and rear lights, yeah let me know when you want to pop down the M180, i need to clean mine its flithy
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Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:48 pm

looks nice Geeman.

Looks like mine!
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Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:34 pm

Looks nice Giles - looks like you did alright mate. I like those 328s :D
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Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:36 pm

Cheer Mark.

Trying to source some replacement rear lamps as we speak... then I'll be happier! 8)
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Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:05 pm

I was in your town yesterday Giles,

Those rears go well in some of the council areas I visited!.

What do your clients think?. winkeye
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Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:13 pm

And you never said... tut tut. I guess now that I own an E36, you don't want to be associated with me! :P

Not just me that's got tinted rears! Pot... kettle... black!
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Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:18 pm

I love E36's, perhaps you should join the e36coupe site and be a Uber-God on there!

Pot... kettle... E30!.
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Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:23 pm

Already done dude... just a Newbie on there though. :(

Don't know anyone well enough on there to bully them into giving my God-like status just yet!
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Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:25 pm

Geeman,

The lights are offensive, as you know! hehe! Just kidding. That looks like a really nice tidy car. I have an '95 E36, albeit a 316i SE! It's a very nice one owner FSH car, and it's very nice, just a bit slow.

I happen to have found out that BMW do a 'clear lighting kit' which consists of; Rear lamps, side repeaters and front indicator lenses, which will help with all bar the headlights. It works out way cheaper than buying them individually. I did it on mine, and it makes it look smarter/more modern. It will retail at about £135 + vat. If you can get discount, all the better. Just tell them it's a couple, what year it is, and if it has check control which I guess it will.

Enjoy! :D
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:21 pm

looks nice Geeman, dump the front headlights and rear tails. :rasta:
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I meant coupe, not couple. It's the crack!
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Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:54 pm

nice wheels there Geeman all it needs is an M3 front bumper, oh guess what i have one lying in the shed hows that for a coincidence :cool:
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Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:03 pm

good looking car, I sold my e30 325i sport to get one of these and can't fault it
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Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:28 am

diz325 wrote:good looking car, I sold my e30 325i sport to get one of these and can't fault it
and what a nice car your sport was

dolphin grey, 17 alpina reps etc

i remember having that as my desktop background for a lo :cool: ng time
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Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:06 am

Kev... that is an M3 front bumper (save for the horizontal slats in the lower air intake)... but is yours in Hell Red already? winkeye

Had loads planned to do to it this weekend, but was laid up with a second bout of sickness and toilet troubles in 3 weeks. Next weekend it is then... :wink:

Already got the E36 M3 bug now. 8)
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billgatese30 wrote:
diz325 wrote:good looking car, I sold my e30 325i sport to get one of these and can't fault it
and what a nice car your sport was

dolphin grey, 17 alpina reps etc

i remember having that as my desktop background for a lo :cool: ng time
cheers fella was sad to see it go :cry: but could'nt afford to keep two at the same time, its hard to see someone drive off in your car but was glad that it was'nt someone local who bought it so would'nt have to see it driving about if you know what i mean
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Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:29 am

Gee there is a 328i auto blue breaking on ebay, clear rears 30 squid the pair and some othe bits to correct the wrongness with the lights
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Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:45 am

Got it Hap.

Got rears coming already... but seen the gearbox for £500...? That's a joke right?
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