The 318ti forum sucks and I missed R3V, so heres my ugly duckling.
1998 318ti with too many miles as it sits today. This became my only car and my daily commuting vehicle. A special kind of stupid reserved only for bmw owners. I've put about 30k miles on it since May of 2021
Bought it just outside Pittsburgh but theres zero concerning rust, just some surface rust on underside parts. Was bone stock before I got it besides a cone filter and one of those BS resistive coil AFM fooling things. Removed that and bought an OE airbox to replace the cone filter...thats about it for "engine mods".
Rewind a year and this is it the day that I bought it
Immediately began taking off the random crap, this was a cheesy garbage quality backlit BMW emblem.
Cleaned it up
The interior was really the part I was concerned about when I saw the ad, I couldnt believe that it looked this nice having the mileage it had.
Installed my lukebox from my old E30. Benefit of sharing a rear suspension setup with an E30 is that it slotted right in like it was built for the car.
Few months later and its subframe time. I had installed new bilstein sports prior to this.
Also installed a medium case 3.73 limited slip during this job
My car was super goddamn high and looked ridiculous. Also had picked up some ET20 16x8 Mille Miglias somewhere between subframe and here.
So I put it on H&R sports
Had the wheel bearings and axles out last weekend to replace my parking brake shields of all things.
Also installed E30 medium case output flanges on my 3.73 and installed medium case e30 inner cv ends onto my 318ti axles.
Its a neat car, more e30 than e36. But its so incredibly goddamn slow. Looking at getting some sort of m52/54 into it soon. Maybe looking to add some more front camber as its sort of lacking in that department, not decided yet if ill do camber plates or just try to get it sorted with shims
1998 318ti with too many miles as it sits today. This became my only car and my daily commuting vehicle. A special kind of stupid reserved only for bmw owners. I've put about 30k miles on it since May of 2021
Bought it just outside Pittsburgh but theres zero concerning rust, just some surface rust on underside parts. Was bone stock before I got it besides a cone filter and one of those BS resistive coil AFM fooling things. Removed that and bought an OE airbox to replace the cone filter...thats about it for "engine mods".
Rewind a year and this is it the day that I bought it
Immediately began taking off the random crap, this was a cheesy garbage quality backlit BMW emblem.
Cleaned it up
The interior was really the part I was concerned about when I saw the ad, I couldnt believe that it looked this nice having the mileage it had.
Installed my lukebox from my old E30. Benefit of sharing a rear suspension setup with an E30 is that it slotted right in like it was built for the car.
Few months later and its subframe time. I had installed new bilstein sports prior to this.
Also installed a medium case 3.73 limited slip during this job
My car was super goddamn high and looked ridiculous. Also had picked up some ET20 16x8 Mille Miglias somewhere between subframe and here.
So I put it on H&R sports
Had the wheel bearings and axles out last weekend to replace my parking brake shields of all things.
Also installed E30 medium case output flanges on my 3.73 and installed medium case e30 inner cv ends onto my 318ti axles.
Its a neat car, more e30 than e36. But its so incredibly goddamn slow. Looking at getting some sort of m52/54 into it soon. Maybe looking to add some more front camber as its sort of lacking in that department, not decided yet if ill do camber plates or just try to get it sorted with shims
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