Sina's BMW 318i: Project Re-Shell & Beyond! (Starting Page 46)

[DrivenByE30]

Good Night Sleeping Beauty ;)

[KIRIEIW]

Sina why won't you be able to drive your car for two years?!

[freeride53]

Any tips or suggestions in regards to preparing the car for parking it for 2 years?

It will be sitting in a closed garage. The tires are junk so I don't really care to save em.

Sina

[KIRIEIW]

The latest addition to my 318i: a set of 17" Kopi Alpinas.

I was wondering if you got a new set of wheels, looking good!

[freeride53]

The latest addition to my 318i: a set of 17" Kopi Alpinas.

[freeride53]

The ride as of late. Nothing like a freshly-painted iS lip.
Also, installed a new tweeter in the driver's door, thus making my audio system complete.

With a fully-working Original Premium Sound Pkg & 2x 10" JL Subs in the trunk, it sounds great.

[zsm722]

Freshhhhh



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[freeride53]

Update (4/3/2015):

Car did well in its 500+ mile drive back to Southern California.

As I was leaving the limits of the San Francisco Bay Area, some donk's tire blew out, hit me, and launched my iS lip over the car while obliterating it.

Also, the rear right shock's top end bolt needs to be tightened. I'll have to do that this afternoon when it cools down.

Traded my Style 10's for a set of what I've always wanted, 15" BBS RZ Euroweaves.
They were recently refinished, but I have taken apart the center caps in order to paint the center bezels silver.
I guess the P.O. liked the bezels dark grey, but I am not a fan - so that's a project for the weekend.

Already installed the new clips needed for the new iS lip, now I just need to get a new lip.

I will be sending my Euroweaves into a very reputable San Diegan Wheel Shop this Wednesday.
All four wheels aren't trued, and the shop has offered me a healthy discount for their quality work.
Can't wait till those are done.

After the wheels are repaired and I have refinished my center-caps, I will be after a set of new 205/50/R15 sport tires.

...And a thorough wash, and steam-clean of the car's engine bay, and under-body.

A few other minor things will need to be sorted before the car goes into a 2-year hibernation at the end of June.. Aiming to have it a few local drives/meets before then.

Will be updating this thread periodically until it goes into its 2-year slumber. Stay tuned!

[freeride53]

Purchased a brand new (rebuilt) E30 M3 steering rack.

Not Z3, yes I know - but almost every other single component on my front end is from an M3.

(sans 5-lug/brakes, of course).

[lambo]

You bought aluminum M3 control arms?

[freeride53]

not a bad plan, just get them welded at the right height

that is the task at hand! hope I can get it done proper.

[kronus]

not a bad plan, just get them welded at the right height

[freeride53]

m3 sway bar end links? are you going to get tabs welded on to your struts?

Yeah I had done some reading on it and was planning on getting them from AKG.

Thoughts?

[kronus]

m3 sway bar end links? are you going to get tabs welded on to your struts?

[freeride53]

Here's a little update. Exactly a month ago, while driving from San Diego-San Francisco via the Pacific Coast Highway, a rock-slide wrecked the car.

I was able to assess the damage, but in the first few days of Xmas break, I threw in the towel due to the fact that I wouldn't have been able to get the parts needed to fix the car in time before heading back to school on January 3rd. So I transferred a bunch of my stuff over to the Volvo, which is one of my family's spare cars.

Volvo's been treating me very well, but it just isn't an E30. So about a week or two ago, I decided to resume fixing it.

What I have purchased for the repair so far:

-E30 Subframe
-E30 M3 Control Arms
-E30 M3 Tie-rods
-E30 M3 CAB's & Lollipops
-E30 M3 Sway Bar links
-Straightened the Skid-plate
-Oil Pan & Oil Pan Gasket
-E28 M5 engine mounts

What I still need:

-A Steering Rack. Still undecided between E30 m3 and Z3. M3 Will be cheaper to do for me.
-Front Sub-frame Reinforcement/bolts
-A new iS lip :D

Note: the European Smileys I had just installed, with French Highs.
I had also painted the faded front bumper and fascia below the grille right before the install.

:(

I only have a little over 4 months left in California, so I'm determined to get this thing back on the road ASAP.

-SP

Here's a photo from right before Mother Nature decided to end our road-trip up the PCH, somewhere in the Los Padres National Forest