Tech 1 or 2, what's the diffrence?

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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:21 am

Ok Guys, already did a search on this but millions of possible outcomes. I know I should be ashamed, but what's the diff between a tech 1 and a tech 2 car?. Heard about a facelift change in the E30's lifetime but never really sure what this change involved. Also, which car is mine?

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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:21 am

Tech 1s were higher compression which means there faster. i know that much.
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:27 am

Yours is a facelift car. Tech-1 & Tech-2 refer to the bodykits, or to the 325i sports that came with the body kits on them. Tech-1 was the sport bodykit for a pre-facelift car, Tech-2 for the facelift.

Other differences for the facelift were indeed lower compression (& slightly different management) on the 325i, as well as bodywork changes, the most noticable being the swap from chrome to plastic bumpers.

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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:39 am

engine compression, interior, gearing, diff ratio, lights, ecu and loom, body kit
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front pannel rear pannel window trims, tow eyes !!!

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radiators, where battery goes, but that depends on engine aswell, headlight adjustment, i forgot bout tow eyes.
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:59 am

header tanks, exhausts...............................any more??
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:23 am

reddevil wrote:Ok Guys, already did a search on this but millions of possible outcomes. I know I should be ashamed, but what's the diff between a tech 1 and a tech 2 car?. Heard about a facelift change in the E30's lifetime but never really sure what this change involved. Also, which car is mine?

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Thanks in advance.

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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:06 am

header tanks, exhausts...............................any more??
fuel tank, rear seat foam, (front seat backs on very early pre lift models)
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:13 am

Yep, it's an Is......LOVE IT

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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:38 am

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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:19 pm

steering wheel, window tints?, headlights, fog lights and shocks
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:25 pm

Paint options? There were no red tech one sports, but you can get the tech 2's in brilliantrot.
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:28 pm

the main difference engine wise is that later engines were CAT, meaning they were slower essentially
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Post Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:41 pm

reddevil wrote:
but what's the diff between a tech 1 and a tech 2 car?. Also, which car is mine?
Yours is neither. Tech 1 and 2 refer to the M-Tech bodykit for the 325i sport. Tech 1 is the kit on the early (prefacelift) sports and Tech 2 for the later (postfacelift) sports.

Yours is a Post facelift car. :wink:
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