My project 84 318i

[backtrail69]

Looks great man. keep it up. Save that early model.:D

[Jean]

your interior = supa clean. did u do the diy red sharpy needles?

Yep, I figured might as well do that since I had the cluster apart

[nando]

looks good. I gave one of my old sets of bcaps to my little bro so he could cut them up and recyle the aluminum.. they're worth more as scrap. lol

[Jand3rson]

Sharpy did not work for me at all, I ended up spray painting them.

I'm impressed with how quickly you've done all this. I wish I would have had that kind of time, this whole swap wouldn't have taken 8 months. Once winter hit though, it was impossible to get anything done, way too cold.

[Jean]

Sharpy did not work for me at all, I ended up spray painting them.
I'm impressed with how quickly you've done all this. I wish I would have had that kind of time, this whole swap wouldn't have taken 8 months. Once winter hit though, it was impossible to get anything done, way too cold.

I still have a lot left to do, and have no idea how I am even going to do the engine swap !

looks good. I gave one of my old sets of bcaps to my little bro so he could cut them up and recyle the aluminum.. they're worth more as scrap. lol

lol, that's an idea. I posted them up on 2002faq for $40 and no takers!

[ldsbeaker]

Post them on a Honda forum. For some reason, they <3 them. *shrugs*
I'm about to get about $100 for all of mine (5).

p.s. dude, three letters. SSK. You're going to poke someone's eye out.

[H&Re30]

im loving your gauge cluster...

is that very hard to do...beucase i wanna do somthing like that, just a lil cheap pretty upgrade...haha

[Teaguer]

Congrats Jean you have managed to turn your unique old skool cool aggresive looking early model into a plain Jane mundane and very dull appearing late model 325i .
Yay to you . :D


Hahahah , j/k man , you know I love you and I know you are doing it for the greater cause . :)

p.s. dude, three letters. SSK. You're going to poke someone's eye out.

Lever height has nothing to with a real SSk . Dude .

[backtrail69]

I hear the x5 is a nice shifter... puts it close to the wheel and still short throws.

[Teaguer]

I hear the x5 is a nice shifter... puts it close to the wheel and still short throws.

More like the X3 3.0 shif lever .
US never got any manual X5's that I'm aware of .

[backtrail69]

They did, but you don't see many..

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/searchresults.jsp?num_records=25&search_type=both&distance=0&address=98221&style_flag=1&make=BMW&model=X5&make2=&start_year=1981&end_year=2008&min_price=&max_price=&transmission=Manual&engine=&drive=&doors=&fuel=&max_mileage=&color=&keywords_display=&sort_type=priceDESC&body_code=0&certified=&advanced=y&default_sort=priceDESC&keywordsrep=&keywordsfyc=

[rwh11385]

Sharpy did not work for me at all, I ended up spray painting them.

I'm impressed with how quickly you've done all this. I wish I would have had that kind of time, this whole swap wouldn't have taken 8 months. Once winter hit though, it was impossible to get anything done, way too cold.

Well, by comparison, grass grows quickier than you complete projects.

[Teaguer]

They did, but you don't see many..

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/search...=&keywordsfyc=

Fail .

All those cars you posted are autoboxes .
No manual X5's in the States mang .

[backtrail69]

Wow...people SUCK at avertising...

I found at least one thats stick..

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=218815717&dealer_id=48425226&car_year=2001&model=X5&num_records=25&make2=&start_year=1981&engine=&keywordsrep=&keywordsfyc=&certified=&fuel=&body_code=0&search_type=both&distance=0&first_record=26&make=BMW&color=&min_price=&drive=&default_sort=priceDESC&max_mileage=&style_flag=1&sort_type=priceDESC&address=98221&advanced=y&end_year=2008&pager.offset=25&doors=&transmission=Manual&max_price=&cardist=2490

[Teaguer]

P-shop . :D


Ok you win ...loooks like one might have stayed in the country .