My daily '84 318i m30 swap

[glnr13]

Maintenance day.

Installed the LED bulbs from the group buy on here and got my high beams running with the lows:


Removed and replaced the door brake:


Swapped the 14" fan for a 16" from an e36:

[glnr13]

More love for the interior



Suede + mstitch

[2mAn]

love this car! glad you finally updated this! haha

[glnr13]

At the end of last year I had irone30 and his brother redo my interior. They did an amazing job!







The m30 has over 12,000 miles on it with only maintenance on the radiator and alternator. Still pulls like a champ and surprises people all the time at WOT.

Just installed a stromung exhaust that sounds amazing with IE headers. Purrs nicely at idle, eliminated drone at freeway speeds.

[2mAn]

Dude, update this thread

theres definitely some updates that need to be posted

[glnr13]

Thanks!

[MouseRat]

This is very pretty! Love the colour/color ;)

[craiglepaige]

Great looking car. I just bought an all original '85 m10 and the plan is to keep it stock :) Although your wheels/stance make me double think that.

[glnr13]

Christmas morning.

And updated console

[glnr13]

sorry for the late reply, thanks firefight.

photo from CNC with ironE

[FireFight]

jeez that escalated fast haha. nice swap man, i have always had better luck with a 318i then a 325 for some reason

[glnr13]

as soon as I get a chance to dremel off those little brackets from the US bumpers.

[2mAn]

Dude, update this thread

[glnr13]

replaced radiator. distributor was rubbing and created a pinhole leak.

previous nissens radiator was 2mm clearance from radiator to distributor on a good day.
new behr radiator has 4mm clearance from radiator to distributor. the core itself is not thinner, it's the folds where the aluminum meets the plastic that is lower profile on the behr. anyone doing m30 swaps and using e28 535i radiator should use the behr IMO.

[glnr13]

I've seen this car driving around by silver lake by the 101 entrance. Looks clean

that be me, thanks!