Project Lessmeister: 91 318iS Restomod w/ MTech2 and modern drivetrain

[Bimmer_man]

I had those parts on my old car that's the only reason I knew about them. Try a want ad on here. You may get lucky and get one in really nice shape. I know most of that car is new but it's better than it missing imo. Still a perfect car. I'm currently searching for a early model she'll to more er less do the same thing as what you did.

I'm also curious if you can post a bit of information about your e39. It looks and sounds like it would be a mean machine.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Thats odd your vin doesn't have the cover. Maybe order one not using vin. Good thing you got insurance to cover damages to house although you may get a few questions when you go to file that claim.

[Jordan]

so when and where is it getting sold? I want to watch the show

Probably not anytime soon, a few months at the soonest? I don't know. Now that the car is running like a scalded dog and drives like a dream I'm really enjoying it.

hopefully, you didn't have any flooding issues where you are? my house in humble is high and dry but homes just a half mile away on Belleau wood got it good as well as the hamblin rd neighborhood.

holy crap with the kiddo! that really sux! let me know if you need anything.

Seems your kid took lessons from trina :rofl: good thing nothing major happened hopefully all your things have stayed dry

All in all the car faired pretty well. Some scrapes on the bumper cover but only enough to break the paint not to really dig into the plastic. That and the 2 broken bumper molding strips. I'll use touchup on the cover and replace the 2 plastic molding strips, call it a day.



but the neighbors garage on the other hand....



No problems with flooding by my house. The ditches adjacent the feeder road overflowed engulfing the feeder and blocking egress from my subdivision, but that receeded sufficiently to make my way through by early afternoon Monday.

I couldn't help but notice that the rubber shielding is not there around the fuel filter. Just wanted to bring that to your attention if you may have overlooked it.

You're absolutely right there. That was an item I tried to order but it shows to be N/A by my VIN.

Have a look for yourself (link generated with my VIN)

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=AF93-USA-12-1990-E30-BMW-318is&diagId=16_0055

I have the passenger side piece, but the drivers side I forgot to do anything with after hitting that question mark.

Nice work

Thank you Georgeypoo.

[george graves]

Nice work

[Bimmer_man]

I couldn't help but notice that the rubber shielding is not there around the fuel filter. Just wanted to bring that to your attention if you may have overlooked it.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Seems your kid took lessons from trina :rofl: good thing nothing major happened hopefully all your things have stayed dry

[flyboyx]

What Mark is fishing for here I think is that last night we were able to flash a refined tune to the car remotely with his propriatary remote flashing utility. Virtualizing my laptop com port USB/OBD cable as a physical extention of his bench flashing workstation. Pretty slick, and the car is running even better now.

No updates all week because I've been dealing with a hellacious week. For those not aware Houston Sunday/Monday saw 9-15" of rain in a 12 hour period and the whole city is mess.

That and this past weekend my 11 year old step son wrecked my wifes car for her but trying to start it up to get the AC cooling without noting it was in gear. It started up and drove across the cul-de-sac where it smashed into the neighbors house. I was upstairs in bed trying to sleep off a migraine, which I've been getting a lot of lately. Did not help my headache.

hopefully, you didn't have any flooding issues where you are? my house in humble is high and dry but homes just a half mile away on Belleau wood got it good as well as the hamblin rd neighborhood.

holy crap with the kiddo! that really sux! let me know if you need anything.

[2mAn]

so when and where is it getting sold? I want to watch the show

[Jordan]

No updates for 5 days? What's new?

What Mark is fishing for here I think is that last night we were able to flash a refined tune to the car remotely with his propriatary remote flashing utility. Virtualizing my laptop com port USB/OBD cable as a physical extention of his bench flashing workstation. Pretty slick, and the car is running even better now.

No updates all week because I've been dealing with a hellacious week. For those not aware Houston Sunday/Monday saw 9-15" of rain in a 12 hour period and the whole city is mess.

That and this past weekend my 11 year old step son wrecked my wifes car for her but trying to start it up to get the AC cooling without noting it was in gear. It started up and drove across the cul-de-sac where it smashed into the neighbors house. I was upstairs in bed trying to sleep off a migraine, which I've been getting a lot of lately. Did not help my headache.

Just stupendous!

Congratulations!

Thank you!

I'm surprised you didn't re-undercoat the bottom of the car, or at least clean it up with a little paint. The dirt does make all those brand new parts look a lot cleaner. lol

Applying more undercoat over the top of the factory body schutz would only add weight. I did spray the wheel wells black for appearance sake but that is all.

I did a test cleaning on the spare tire well which you can see the beige body schutz looks great. The whole underbody is factory coated with cosmoline which is still liquid/goopy and floating a layer of dirt tacked to it.

I could clean it all off but without a lift that I can make a big mess of it wouldn't be practical. Best left alone to preserve the original patina there, which will only serve to protect the chassis/underbody from corrosion.

Really well done Jordan, it's refreshing to see people doing things thoroughly these days. Car looks great.

How low does that bend in the downpipe hang? Looks like it might be close on speedbumps and stuff

Thank you, it drives as good as it looks :-)

The downpipe hangs no lower than the subframe/oil pan, should be just a bit higher up. Depending on how long I have the car I may rework this area regardless, we'll see.

[Jb325is]

Really well done Jordan, it's refreshing to see people doing things thoroughly these days. Car looks great.

How low does that bend in the downpipe hang? Looks like it might be close on speedbumps and stuff

[AndrewBird]

I'm surprised you didn't re-undercoat the bottom of the car, or at least clean it up with a little paint. The dirt does make all those brand new parts look a lot cleaner. lol

[parkerbink]

Just stupendous!

Congratulations!

[MarkD]

No updates for 5 days? What's new?

[Jordan]

Its a factory part on 325i cars, its stamped aluminum. Just an aero pan, will not skid off anything bigger than a june bug.

[0-60 freak]

Sweet... skid plate for oil pan?

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