1M/// the car I have been working on.

[sofargone561]

I gotta say this is one of the sexiest 1's ive ever seen i cant stop staring at that pics above^ hey OP if this is ana american soldier would this pic happen to be anywhere near k-town?

[Eric]

That front bumper looks menacing! I think 8-10mm spacers on the front would be just right!

[Simon S]

porn.

haven't drooled over a 'new-ish' car build in some time..

[sofargone561]

The 1M has the suspension, brakes and body to fit bigger tires as well, there is more to it than the engine.

im not a retrd this im aware of but the price i can buy a used 135 and put a shit load of after markets parts that are better then the stock 1m parts and still not pay as much as a 1m. thats crazy talk. granted if i had the money laying around it would be a diferent story

[325ix]

The 1M has the suspension, brakes and body to fit bigger tires as well, there is more to it than the engine.

[sofargone561]

I am not too impressed with the 1M, but the way this car is being done is really fancying me. Good job man, wish I had those skills.

I dont think its worth the money. If HPF ever comes out with a kit for the 135 i will be buying one and putting the kit on and that will be the new daily!

[graphikg]

I am not too impressed with the 1M, but the way this car is being done is really fancying me. Good job man, wish I had those skills.

[GDA]

Very cool. Please post up how the suspension performs once "tested"...

[sofargone561]

Is this a US Soldier?
Not knocking our armed services, but how the hell does a soldier afford this car, let alone all of the modifications? All the friends I had in the Marines and Air Force barely made money at all.

Car is sick as hell though. Nice work.

miltary discounts and saving money. u live and eat for free if u save money and dont spend it all on pizza rolls and beer like 99% of all young soldiers ull have plenty of money. not to mention it has not been stated how old this guy is, what is rank it what brtanch and so on. i knows guys that make more money then my hwole household and they get all the discounts and shit that everyone else. so dont knock us baby!!!!

[mikeedler]

why is this? there aren't any german tuning houses modifying n54 motors?

sure there are, but the owner of the car speaks ZERO german and ordered up the stuff himself. All of the stuff on the car would probably not pass the German inspection anyway either.

[rich4rdee]

every part from this build-up is coming from the U.S. except the center section of the exhaust. So I have no idea --but I imagine e30 rollbars are not to hard to find over there.

why is this? there aren't any german tuning houses modifying n54 motors?

[freeride53]

[mikeedler]

got my new camera today and figured I would try it out and show the new "stance" off.






front suspension is finally on. front coilovers are turned down about 85%, rears are at about 70% down.

car is pretty much finished up for this year.
enjoy the pics.

[rThor432]

Sweet jesus, this is amazing... Can you run staggered tire setups safely with the AWD system?

** edit I take that back, I guess if you calculated the rolling diameter to be less then 5% difference its ok and im sure the electronics in the bad boy really play a part in this too.

It's not all wheel drive.

[mikeedler]

I hate the reg. 5 doors. the coupes are really nice, 3 door hatches aint bad, and the 1M has to be seen in person to really appr. the lines and looks. the crappy 1er suspension is not on this car, the complete INCLUDING the subframes is directly out of the E90 M3. the N54 is a supercool motor as long as the camshafts arent wearing out the trays and throwing Vanos faults-and the dreaded HPP.
plus I would do this work to a Chevrolet Kalos for the money to paint my Bel Air!!!!! I think the fact that this car is going to be an icon in 30 years, and I got to "tune" one makes it that much more enjoyable.

I am not in Stuttgart unfortunately, he is stationed there but his unit is out of Bamberg here.

Once again, new cars have a 3 year first insp., so the tint, exhaust and all the other stuff isn't going to be a problem until the car is in the states.