91' 318is S52 Swap "The Beast"

[craiggroves91]

Want to hear his in a good video. Please do this. Mods I know we had exhaust thread at some time ago with sound clips can we do a new one since when the old one died we had stebro's and stromungs and now there are many new exhausts.

Oh there will be plenty of videos of it!

[M-technik-3]

Want to hear his in a good video. Please do this. Mods I know we had exhaust thread at some time ago with sound clips can we do a new one since when the old one died we had stebro's and stromungs and now there are many new exhausts.

[craiggroves91]

Alright! Exhaust parts are ordered, everything but donuts and hangers anyway, still have to figure that out.

Ended up going with Vibrant stealthpower muffler and Vibrant Ultra Quiet resonator. This setup should give me the sound I'm looking for!


So the exhaust setup is like this
2.5" piping from exhaust manifolds-->Magnaflow 2.5" dual inlet to single 3" outlet---VBand Clamp--->3" single to Vibrant Ultra Quiet 3" inlet/outlet-->3" piping to Vibrant Stealth power muffler

[craiggroves91]

What are your plans?

Just two 2.25" piping from the exhaust manifolds to one 3" piping straight back to a muffler. Depending on how loud it is I might add a resonator.

[mtlbloodshot]

Talked to the exhaust shop today. I'm hopefully getting the car in there within the next week or two.

What are your plans?

[craiggroves91]

Talked to the exhaust shop today. I'm hopefully getting the car in there within the next week or two.

[craiggroves91]

Engine bay is so clean looking and I love how unsuspecting the car looks. Very well done.

As for the brakes, unless you plan to do a lot of HPDS's or track days I'd say you'd be just fine with fresh stock brakes and a good aggressive street pad in the front.

Thanks :) I appreciate the compliments!

Yeah, I'm going for stock blanks and an aggressive pad. Have to look into pads more

[Roysneon]

Engine bay is so clean looking and I love how unsuspecting the car looks. Very well done.

As for the brakes, unless you plan to do a lot of HPDS's or track days I'd say you'd be just fine with fresh stock brakes and a good aggressive street pad in the front.

[CabbE30]

Inspected my brakes today and they are toast.
No pads at all on some corners and rotors are rusted.

Not sure if I'm going to just rebuild all calipers and get performance pads and rotors, or shoot for a BBK. I might have to wait to do a BBK

I hear stock upgraded e30 brakes do quite well.

I just put new pads and rotors in my car if you wanna try my brakes out. They need to be bled badly though.

[canakami]

Oh, nice. Thanks a bunch.

[craiggroves91]

Is that the 16" fan? (pn#?)

Yes

Check out the info in my DIY here:

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=266738

[canakami]

Is that the 16" fan? (pn#?)

[craiggroves91]

Inspected my brakes today and they are toast.
No pads at all on some corners and rotors are rusted.

Not sure if I'm going to just rebuild all calipers and get performance pads and rotors, or shoot for a BBK. I might have to wait to do a BBK

I hear stock upgraded e30 brakes do quite well.

[craiggroves91]

Today I worked on getting the fan wired up and the various body parts back on.
It seems my new fan switch was dead on arrival (brand new, not working) so I'm going to have to order another one. I just wired the fan to come on with ignition now and I might even leave it that way haha.
Here are pics of various steps in getting it back together. I will be adjusting the bumper later, I just wanted to get it all on for now. The valence will also most likely be painted eventually

[mtlbloodshot]

Very good!!