A Labor of Love: My 318is

[HIcreations]

Nice, looks real good.

[AlpineEdirty]

Car looks so clean!
Do you still have the liecense plate frames by any chance?.

[sohc12vm20]

91is one of me favorites.. Nice car.

[getouth]

Stellar! Done right! lovin it!!

[OhioriderAaron]

Looks great, simple and clean :)

[robrez]

Looks clean. I love it.

[dogsbark26]

Good to see you removed that silly sunroof umbrella! Curious that was installed on a slicktop? LOL

[T3rd Ferguson]

you're doing it right, keep it stock. they are getting rarer by the day

[delatlanta1281]

beautiful
nice job!

[Rakshas]

Looks like you got yourself a good plattform to begin with.

Welcome aboard, are in the UCLA campus?, Mkcman17 goes,to school there and is pretty active on the forum.

I just graduated a few months ago and am back in the Bay Area now. I actually bought my second spoiler from him though! Great guy.

Hey dude, have you ever been in Alameda?
Feel like I've seen it before

I have been a few times, but only with my E46, not with this car yet. You may have seen me rolling around the East Bay or San Francisco with it?

Very clean car, great work seeing it brought back to great shape.

Does however need gloss black is lip and more low.

I actually thought about going with black accents and lowering it (along with an S52 and a whole host of other ideas...), but in the end I've decided to make it as clean as I can while having it look essentially the way it did out of the factory (with the exception of little things like the Euro moldings).

My reason is I've already built a fully coiled and track ready E36, and my E46 M will also be getting a set of coils and some other performance bits. The E30 will never perform on the same level as the others no matter how much I throw at it, so why not enjoy it for what it is already? A great, fun to drive, relaxing classic. I'll probably do an E36 rack and Z3 shifter just as maintenance upgrades, but that's about it.

How are you getting 35mpg combined? I think EPA numbers were 19/26

Mostly highway, driving like a grandma. I can do about 28 thrashing it in the city?

Sounds like you really covered your bases. How many miles on the block?

The only other thing I would recommend would have been to replace the oil pressure relief valve with the updated one.

If you REALLY wanted to get adventurous, you could have replaced the rod/main bearings while the upper pan was out (would have had to remove flywheel/lower timing case). The 180 thrust bearing in the M42 is a known weak point.

229,000 on the block and chassis. I suppose I could have gone further with the internals, but everything looked in great shape when I pulled it apart, and it is a daily that I needed back on the road ASAP at the end of the day.

Car looks so clean!
Do you still have the liecense plate frames by any chance?.

I actually just looked and I have them lying around in the garage, they're not in the greatest of shape but they're alright.

Thank you all for the compliments and comments! This forum has already helped me a ton with getting the car to this point and I'm glad to be a part of it.

[Mlarsen]

and now you lower it.

[chondamx]

I wish my AWII was half as clean as that. Suspension, done. Leave the M42.

along with an S52 and a whole host of other ideas

[Dj Buttchug]

and now you lower it.

this

[Kershaw]

and 16" bbs rs. painted pink. lol.

looks great. really nice job.

[Simon S]

hawt