Spec:
Brilliant/Bright Red 4 Door 318
318is M42 16v Engine, Gearbox & Differential All on about 90-95kk Now
Chain and guides done approximately 15k ago
325i Brake disc conversion all round.
Front and rear pagid pads
Brand new calipers all round
Tarox discs at front and textar discs at rear
325i Luxury Sport interior —a Near Mint. Rear Headrests and Arm rest
Infinity speakers on the rear shelf —a JBL 2 way at the front.
Sony Basic CD Player
Cat 1 alarm with remote central locking (have certificate)
Tech 1 Steering Wheel and Mtech Gear Knob
Approximately 15k Old Mtech Suspension
On front
BMW 318is springs
BMW 318is Sachs dampers
BMW 21mm ARB (stock 18mm)
On the rear
BMW 318is springs
BMW 318is Sachs dampers (with new top mounts and bump stops)
BMW 318is 14.5mm ARB (same as 325i sport)
Refurbed front control arms
Inner and out tie rods on both sides
CAB's are stock but are for AC equipped cars (slightly stiffer)
On the Rear
The subframe bushes were replaced by BMW 15k miles ago and the trailing arm bushes were replaced with eccentrics on the outer mounting points to help with camber and save on tires.
E46 top mounts fitted.
Map reading Mirror
Electric Sunroof
Electric Front Windows
15 Inch BBS with Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD2s at the rear approx 6mm
2 x New F1 GSD3s on the front.
Always run on FUCHS 5w40 Super fully synthetic oil (Fuchs make Silkolene) - changed 2k miles ago
Always run on premium petrol (optimax / ultima etc)
New Viscous Coupling
7 Months MOT
7 Months Tax
Modification:
Chipped UK off the shelf chip
Removed Heater Plate
Was told has had inlet cam angles adjusted by 5 degrees to match that of the E30 M3's
Eccentric Bushes
Delocked - with colour coded door handles.
Spares Included
Standard ECU chip
Spare Steering Couplings
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The bad points:
It has small patches of rust here and there, nothing major, that was all sorted by one of the previous owners, along with a major respray.
The shell has done 177k and the front and rear aprons haven't been resprayed, the front apron and splitter are chipped to fuck, the rear is showing signs of light rust by arches. Nothing to get MOT advisory for a few years to come though, all just surface rust, some a bit worse on sills.
Major oil leak from cam covers, has been like this for ages, last owner did no maintenance other than oil changes. There is oil in spark plug holes, all over plugs and leads and all down side of engine. Easy cheap fix.
Exhaust rattles when mincing it about, the 2nd silencer looks a bit battered, hopefully the cat is ok, not that it needs one.
Idle is a bit rough sometimes, better than most vts's though, revs drop when returning to idle.
Front control arm bushes need doing again by the looks of it.
Front and rear anti roll bar link bushes & locating bushes need replacing.
Rubber fuel hose between filler and tank needs replacing, leaks a bit when filled to over 1/2 a tank.
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Project progress so far:
Got some new spark plugs - bmw service intervals were 100k, 4 electrode plugs from factory. The factory ones were still fitted, was quite hard getting them out, the centre electrodes were pretty worn, nothing else wrong apart from the plug holes being full of oil. Once the leak and plugs are sorted idle problem should go.
I have ordered a new gasket set for the one piece head cover, thats an outer seal and one for each spark plug hole.
I removed the ring sticker from the boot, and the nurburgring writing from the bonnet, not sure if i will remove the outline there, i like it.
Cleaned the engine bay.
Exhaust leak is between cat and centre section, going to order a new gasket or whatever they use to seal it, might get a new centre section while i'm at it. The whole system head back is mandrel bent tubular, no cast manifolds, twin downpipes to cat.
Rubber bushes for the anti roll bar link rods have seen much better days, you can get ones off a 5 series that have balljoints at both ends then make some new brackets for them, that is on my list.
Front ARB is rusty as fuck, needs replacing really, or at least sire brushing and painting again. Might just buy the H&R arb kit Very Happy
Stripped the stereo, speakers and wiring out. Loads of dynamat was there, so i removed as much as possible, will remove more soon when i find the heat gun and scraper. There was shitloads of wiring.
The rear shelf had been cut to have rear speakers, i have binned them so taken shelf out for now, prob going to recarpet it in black rather than light grey. I did have the rear seats out and damn they are heavy, but a 4 door with no rear seats is gay.
Also took all of the sound deadening and carpet out of the boot, as well as the very heavy spare, it weighs far more than a saxo one. Cleared out the glovebox, toolkits, jack etc.
Got the front kidneys off for spraying black, they have had 4 coats now, starting to look very good, i forgot how good spraying can turn out if you are patient and use the right sort of wet and dry, wet between coats. Lacquer up next.
I removed the gash air fresheners and put a nice vanillaroma magic tree in there Very Happy
Purchased the trusty haynes, which is far better than the saxo one being more comprehensive and in more detail.
Polished the tailpipe back to it's proper stainless glory, hadn't been polished ever before it seems.
Inspected all areas for rust, a few were found, the most serious under drivers side mudflap, took that off, took it back to metal, painted with hammerite, refitted mudflap.
Cleaned the bbs's properly last night, which was not easy, last person who washed them made a halfarsed effort and didn't do between the spokes at all well.
Checked brakes all round, new calipers still look new, bled system with 5.1, it needs doing again though i think, doesn't feel right.
some cunt overfilled the oil by a fair bit, not a problem as the sump is some crazy design with loads of space before the crank would hit the oil. Going to drain it down to the correct level, oil is still nice and gold so not changing.
Checked tonnes of other stuff. Plenty of areas to give attention, not much urgent though. Need to find the fuel leak still, not put enough in there for it to leak yet, gonna patch it with chemical metal if its the tank, or get a new hose and clips if its the filler/breather hose, will sort the tank out over the winter before the next trip to the ring.
Think that'll do as a project update for now. Pics in a bit.
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Pics i took when i got it home:
*note lack of mudflap and black hammerite, it is reflapped now
Poor phone cam pics alert, my digi cam is dead so i need a new camera now too
Lobbed all of this lot out:
Then binned spare wheel and a shitloads more sound deadening and carpet, and shelf etc.
grille after one coat, now looking thoroughly black, might have them back on during the week, lacquer takes so fucking long to cure properly.
Saxo looks fucking poofy next to it
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just had the whole cat back system off, what a mission Neutral
whoever had fitted it had used no exhaust paste and it was therefore blowing at both joins. and the 2nd silenver has got battered wherever it was stored. the whole std system is stainless though which is a bonus.
took all of the joins back to bare metal and pasted them then ran it for a while, sounds far far better, not leaking at all but the centre box rattles a bit, either gonna replace that or more likely just buy a cat back system, hopefully one will come up second hand. if only the cat wasn't part of the downpipe which is complicated and a mission to remove and refit every year, i'd get a decat, if i could find a company that makes one Neutral
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Waste these tyres, then get some 205/50 or wider R888s
Get some new front discs and DS2500/3000
Braided hoses
strut braces(front and rear)
24v engine, preferably alloy block 2.8, 3.0 or 3.2 with box, prop and LSD
H&R ARB kit all round, Billie heavy dutys and some good track springs.
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Gangstaaaa grille:
Gonna get a pair of new numberplates too. hate tatty numberplates
New spark plugs, old ones had been in for a very long time, centre electrode had worn down a long way, don't think they'd been changed ever before
Runs much better
New head cover seals:
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Got pissed off with the ghey aerial.
removed some other shit too.
so much sound deadening in random places
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Full H&R ARB kit, brand new, cheers to driftboy
*I'll update this post rather than making people trawl through the thread to see what is going on*
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