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  • domagoj_e30
    Noobie
    • Jun 2012
    • 11

    #1

    Daily driver M42

    Hello to all of you!

    My name is Domagoj, im 22 yo, and i'm from Croatia. Im student who si working every now and then and slowly upgrading his daily driver. Im doing about 35-37k km in a year. I pretty much love this car <3

    Car is BMW E30 316i coupe, April 1990 (so it is one month younger than me ), bought from first owner (old man). Serviced in BMW service (have everything writen in service book) untill I got it. It had 206k km. Now it has about 321k km.

    M40B16 left me only once on a road and a simple reset of DME was enough to get it going again...

    I' ve swaped M42B18 which is still stock, and had never left me anywhere.

    It was like this:




    I've had 8 of them at home, so I decided to pick best 4 and to kill my fingers on them :evil:







    final product









    Bushings, 3,91 visco lsd diff...







    Then it gets better, changing of aux heater













    Coudn't have done it without this :loco:



    Some pics after the above work








    Today it has little purple/blue/red sign on steering wheel





    Like I said, here is the evidence (steering sign and new OE floor mats)



    Then after 3 months of waiting, they came to me (v2 inox)



    This is on kw coils with best friends :D





    Then after 4 times sump saw rocks and road, I've decided to make sump guard with friend. It cost me about 50$



    New exhaust (remus)


    I love winter soo much <3









    We have hillclimb track on "mountain/forest" which is empty for traffic in winter time :nice:

    With another friend



    Best city cinema trip and my ex gf nerve training :giggle:





    Not on time, but never too late, LSD 25%



    Swaped ratios







    With the time I finally found alipnas, renew them and got some p zero nero















    Then I decided to put some better brakes and found this for reasonable price



    Ordered some of this



    Got corrado rotors, machined them and put on car with wheel distance (20mm in front). Still driving that setup, but at home I have tarox zero new discs, rear pads (strada), tarox fluid and waiting for hawk hp+ front pads...

    With wheel spacers










    Now, I've got M54B25 in garage and I need your help :hitler:

    So if you would be nice and polite, throw your eye on this and say something smart to me.


    Thanks
    Last edited by domagoj_e30; 08-31-2012, 03:11 AM.
  • n3rdy30
    Grease Monkey
    • Jun 2011
    • 394

    #2
    wow this is a gorgeous car...props man. I love the interior. Clean and OE. Just clean all around.

    how hard was the ratio swap on your LSD? I'm thinking of taking a burnt up 2.93 I have laying around and dumping some 3.25s in it, and selling the 3.73 I'm currently running.

    1984 318i (w/ delicious M50 powa)
    Produktionsdatum: 03.10.1983
    Außenfarbe: Achatgruen Metallic (177)

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    • domagoj_e30
      Noobie
      • Jun 2012
      • 11

      #3
      I didn't touch pinions, just ring gear. It's not that complicated, I had air tool (pistol/gun) and all went without of problems. LSD was from 3.64 diff, and I put it into 3.91 diff.

      You need to take off drive flange, side bearing cover and diff cover to get lsd unit out. Get off ring gear from lsd unit and from open unit (in my case visco lsd unit from second diff) and change them. Be careful with ring bolts, they are not the same lenght.

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      • gnzRR
        Noobie
        • Aug 2012
        • 39

        #4
        Gorgeous 316, hope mine would be that clean!


        "M20 is too mainstream"

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        • bmwscaner
          Member
          • Jun 2011
          • 49

          #5
          druze nista ti to nevalja :D
          Extra kocak izgleda jos KW i alpine.... btw. kolko te kostao KW ?

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          • MR.LUGO
            E30 Modder
            • Aug 2010
            • 905

            #6
            Damn this is clean!
            Got all da Alpine bitches mad cuz my main bitch Calypso.

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            • M-technik-3
              I waste 90% of my day here and all I got was this stupid title
              • Oct 2003
              • 18946

              #7
              Cool project. Looks good.
              https://www.facebook.com/BentOverRacing

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              • htown318is
                Grease Monkey
                • Feb 2012
                • 301

                #8
                very nice bud, very nice. you're doin' it right.

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                • Xat1cZ
                  R3VLimited
                  • Jan 2012
                  • 2020

                  #9



                  ..oh I see what you've been doing
                  ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)Be Afraid Of The Future

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                  • mr.vang
                    R3V Elite
                    • May 2010
                    • 4371

                    #10
                    nice dirty, does the kw coilovers comes with the spindle?
                    Bought parts from me before? leave your feedback here

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                    • domagoj_e30
                      Noobie
                      • Jun 2012
                      • 11

                      #11
                      Pozdrav kolega!

                      KW cost me 1400 euros. I have in plans d2 front camber plates and camber kit for rear.

                      @Xat1cZ: I said I like snow on the road. KW is perfect on snow :D

                      @mr.vang: I sent my struts (no1 on picture below) to kw, and they returned me kw v2 inox.




                      Thanks everyone!!!

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                      • Den_k321
                        E30 Fanatic
                        • Oct 2010
                        • 1248

                        #12
                        car looks awesome!!!

                        1988 325is S50 in-progress.
                        http://www.facebook.com/E30LocalCrew
                        Few pictures:
                        http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=255061

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                        • Blackout
                          R3V Elite
                          • Apr 2011
                          • 4125

                          #13
                          Awesome!!! Proper transformation here.
                          » PARTS FOR SALE
                          » TRANSACTION FEEDBACK

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                          • crazy80's
                            Member
                            • Aug 2012
                            • 42

                            #14
                            Originally posted by domagoj_e30
                            Car is BMW E30 316i coupe, April 1990 (so it is one month younger than me
                            Thats cool...Well done.

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                            • jasonbk
                              E30 Addict
                              • Aug 2011
                              • 555

                              #15
                              I have 316i(1991) as well! Nice to see m42 in there.
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