MY e36 and how it has changed :)

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Post Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:23 pm

I bought it in march 2005 looking completely standard:
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before i could get insured on it i had to wait until i had sold my 316 and had to wait until i had 1yrs NCB at 18 to get insured,

whilst it sat on the drive i did afew mods from joe and ben so it didnt look so unhappy,

fitted E39 umnitza angel eyes, HID's, afew chrome goodies inside, clear indicators upfront and sides, full xenon look interior light kit, a set of 18'' lenso RS5's wrapped in kuhmo rubber. FItted My ice that i removed from my 316, nothing special just a pheonix gold sub and kicker amp.

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shortly after i started driving it , i lowered her, fitted uprated RTAB's to stiffen up the rear end, bought some crystal rear clusters and some black grills all from joe, and bought a pioneer dvd player touchscreen Headunit for the longer trips ;)
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Ran out of cash for a while as i fancied a speedboat, but early this year i turned my head towards performance and
bought and fitted myself an M50 manifold & BBTB from Ian, A dave.F induction kit, an E-maps remap and a supersprint exhaust from ben.

Not th cleanest engine bay i know, but not dirty by any means
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Coilovers were about to be purchased when my boat engine decided to give up so out the window went the coilovers lol - still on the list though ;)


Back in october 2005 i bought a reiger bumper from beck and a splitter but didnt get round to having it fitted until recently, so off the car went for a week to have the bumper fitted the nosecone, bonnet, front wings, roof and new mirrors sprayed as they were stonechipped.

got her back from the spray shop (LS designs) on friday afternoon, and i cant stop smiling since!!

it looks awesome and the job that steve did for me is faultless, very good sprayer. i can only find 1 very ,inor detail i need to speak to steve about and thats that the gap between the bumper and the nosecone isnt the same all the way round.

the list of things he did for me is:
spray and fit new front bumper, respray nosecone, bonnet, both front wings, roof and paint new mirrors :D all the spraying is excellent and like i said earlier i cant fault it :D :D

im well chuffed, anyway ill let the pics do the rest of the talking



anyway, this is what she looks like now and i am well chuffed, just want to get an m-tec rear bumper and colour coded m-tec rub strips then ill be sorted for the putside, but im kinda skint now lol



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FItted my new splitter on sat afternoon :D :D

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Last edited by timbob on Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:28 pm

schweet ride fella, quite a transformation
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Post Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:40 pm

timbob wrote:bought and fitted myself an M52 manifold


Its the M50 manifold you need on the 323i
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Post Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:07 pm

its the M50 hes got on there looking at the picture ;)
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Post Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:16 pm

Decent car to have at 18 mate. The ladies love a young guy in a bm dont they :D
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Post Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:40 pm

Dunx wrote:its the M50 hes got on there looking at the picture ;)
nope, its an m52 def from the pics and it would be an m50 manifold he bought off 'pina (ian).
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Post Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:43 pm

True, Im looking to get the BBTB, and I asked about the manifold and he told me I had the right one already!
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Post Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:20 am

eeek, yeah my bad, typo error, it is an m50 manifold not an m52, i removed the m52 and fitted the modified m50 manifold lol which was supplied by Ian, (alpina527) along with the bbtb lol
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Post Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:22 am

tim_s wrote:
Dunx wrote:its the M50 hes got on there looking at the picture ;)
nope, its an m52 def from the pics and it would be an m50 manifold he bought off 'pina (ian).
fraid not mate, thats an m50 manifold in the pic shown...
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Post Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:05 pm

Looks good, Are you a member of e36coupe.com ?
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Post Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:32 pm

certainly am mate, im timbob on there aswell.
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Post Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:06 am

timbob wrote:
tim_s wrote:
Dunx wrote:its the M50 hes got on there looking at the picture ;)
nope, its an m52 def from the pics and it would be an m50 manifold he bought off 'pina (ian).
fraid not mate, thats an m50 manifold in the pic shown...
yeah, you misunderstand me mate, im saying its an m52 engine (plastic oil filter housing etc) with an m50 manifold.
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Post Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:35 pm

ahh, yes i see what you mean now, yes ypu would be correct then :D
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