Another 318is 24v swap...

[J.Almonte]

Bought it a year ago for $1,500 from a guy VA.
189K (broken odo)





Interior was crap...




Bit of surface rust


The tired m42

[J.Almonte]

To do List:

EXTERIOR
- Respray diamond schwarz
- iS lip spoiler
- iS side skirts
- Euro bumper trim
- Shadowline body trim
- Euro grill
- New oem kidneys
- Euro "smileys" headlights

INTERIOR
- Interior swap:
Black sport seats
Black rear seat
Black door panels
Short pile gray carpet
- Guten parts leather shift and hand brake boot
- 6 bottom OBC or Euro clock
- Redo headliner

ENGINE & DRIVETRAIN
- M50TU
Cometic HG
ARP bolts
Metric Mechanic head (3 angle valve job, port-polish, etc...)
OBD II headers
New gaskets and seals
ZF Trans
328i Driveshaft
3.25 LSD
Y - 2.5" - Borla Pro-XS - Vibrant

SUSPENSION
- Bilstein Sport shocks
- H&R Race
- e90 spring hat
- All new oem bushings (including: control arms, CAB, tie rods)
- e36 steering rack

BRAKES & HUB
- Meyle coated rotors
- Textar OEM pads
- Bimmerworld SS brake lines
- Remanufactured calipers
- Meyle front wheel bearings

WHEELS & TIRES
- ESM 17x8.5 et20
- Yokohama S Drive 215/40/17

[MattTHEe30GURU]

looks like a great start!

[J.Almonte]

Stripped the interior and put some dynamat and close cell foam.


Doors


Started restoring the sport seats


Intake port

[J.Almonte]

Cleaned, sand blasted the subframe and painted with POR-15.
Also started pressing the new bushings.





3.25LSD




Ready to go back in!!

[butters]

nice, love a black coupe.

what supplier did you go with for the closed cell foam?

[J.Almonte]

Rear Suspension.

New rotors, new pads, new lines, new springs, new shocks!!!

[J.Almonte]

Front Suspension.

[J.Almonte]

e36 M3

Then this distraction showed up...
Back on April I bought an 96' e36 m3 in great condition!!!
And slowly I started giving up on my beloved e30... :(

[J.Almonte]

I used the e30 less than 100 miles since I refresh the suspension... shame on me...

End of November decided to sell the M3 and finish what I started!!!

Out!!!


Empty engine bay!


The new power plant!


Pressure washed the engine bay.



More to come!!!! soon...

[smerfs]

subscribed! looks good so far!

[ButtJuice]

I like where this is going!

[entrepreneuR]

Glad you got back on track!

[J.Almonte]

nice, love a black coupe.

what supplier did you go with for the closed cell foam?

I used RAAM Audio. Great products!!

http://www.raamaudio.com/categories/Mat-and-Foam-Products/

[J.Almonte]

Clean!!


Painted the engine bay with Duplicolor Bedliner. Looks great!