What is the difference between US grills and Euro grills?

[87-325ic]

cd? please clarify

Can we get pics of the differences in Euro/ US Kidneys please?

[SchnellerVert]

what do you mean by cd???

Coefficent of Drag

[bimmers4life]

The cd is a way of looking at how easily the car move through the air.

[vivalegreg]

so are you saying the kidney with the plastic piece has better cd and makes a noticable difference to how it performs???

[moatilliatta]

so are you saying the kidney with the plastic piece has better cd and makes a noticable difference to how it performs???

If this is true. put me down for 21 of them.

[BMWE34M5]

Yes-
Those are the correct part numbers.
We can get them for $49 a set if interested.
Mel A
Abrahams Motorsport

https://www.abrahamsmotorsport.com

Can someone tell me if these are the correct part numbers for the euro grills?

51131876092 - Right

51131876091 - Left

[Mastrcruse]

I order and recently put on some euro grills and kidney.

Is there really a euro kidney? I saw one on the ebay and told the lady that she had one because this was the same as I had recieved with my euro grills.

She said that her husband of 25 years working on BMWs says that the below picture is not euro. I don't really care but I thought it was. She said that on the open kidney was for the non front spoilered cars and the insert one (below) was one's with front spoilers

True or False? I really have no clue now. I just emailed her back and was like well I guess everyone on the forums are wrong, I guess I won't listen to anything else you all say....haha

[TUD]

According to RealOEM the kidney above is used on E30s with A/C. Who knows...From my observation, US E30s had the fully opened kidneys and Euro Spec E30s had the partially closed kidneys.

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partxref.do?part=51131945877&showus=on&showeur=on

[Mastrcruse]

Thats what I thought.

[Avus E30]

Is it true that the only the evo3 had the oem black plastic kidneys?

[LINUS]

Is it true that the only the evo3 had the oem black plastic kidneys?

I don't think any of them came factory black - the chrome kidneys are almost as trademark as the prop on the emblem.
I see a few Sport Evo's on S14, and they all wear chrome.

[Avus E30]

I don't think any of them came factory black - the chrome kidneys are almost as trademark as the prop on the emblem.
I see a few Sport Evo's on S14, and they all wear chrome.

Okay. I wasn't sure. I had read something somewhere that the black kidneys came on something, I was thinking evo3

[backtrail69]

Does anyone have the part number on that euro kidney?

[BMWE34M5]

Euro Grills available for $49 a set.
See:

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9419265&posted=1#post9419265

[Jand3rson]

Are they new, OEM grilles?