My project 84 318i

[2002maniac]

Car looks great! There is a place in my heart for M10's...

Put a 2.0 bottom end in and turbo that bitch. Or 10+:1 with sidedraughts and a schrick. I just sold mine :(

[matt]

Looks very good. With such light weight and stiff springs, I bet it's a handful.

I would lower the rear a bit. Do you still run your rear sway bar?

[WillisE30]

I don't think i'll have it fixed tonight for tomorrow's autocross so i'll have to autocross an s2k instead.... sigh.

Ya know, it's funny hearing that. Granted we're all a bit biased on here but I'd rather be at the wheel of my e30 than many, many other cars. They're magic.:)

[Jean]

Gotta wake up in 4 hours, didn't get much time to work on it tonight. I was going to drop the head to the machine shop on monday but now thinking if maybe I should do a full engine rebuild at the same time for now.. hmm

Looks very good. With such light weight and stiff springs, I bet it's a handful.

I would lower the rear a bit. Do you still run your rear sway bar?

Rear sway is going to be installed at the same time I swap the trailing arms with new wheel bearings. It's actually pretty flat right now without a rear way on there.

[Jean]

Here is to a really good reason to relocate your battery to the back if it's under the hood. Simple $4 part was all it was, broken rotor..

[Jean]

Ok, so I've been driving it now as a daily for the last few days and am pretty happy with the tires and suspension. Car is pretty flat even w/o the rear swaybar and really fun on the on/off ramps. I really can't wait to actually have more power in this thing, as right now it's only fun once you build up some speed in it...

My front brakes or pads are very loud though. New pads are some cheap pads from bma when I bought new rotors to get me by for now...do 318i and 325i cars use the same pads ?

[Rocla]

Ok, so I've been driving it now as a daily for the last few days and am pretty happy with the tires and suspension. Car is pretty flat even w/o the rear swaybar and really fun on the on/off ramps. I really can't wait to actually have more power in this thing, as right now it's only fun once you build up some speed in it...

My front brakes or pads are very loud though. New pads are some cheap pads from bma when I bought new rotors to get me by for now...do 318i and 325i cars use the same pads ?

All 2wd front pads are the same.

EDIT:all 2wd non M pads are the same.

[Jean]

Thanks Rocla!

2002maniac - you know I actually still have a complete 2.0 bottom end from a 2002 in my garage that I am trying to give away. Maybe I should take it to a machine shop and have them hot tank it and inspect it instead... the 2.0 block doesn't just drop in inplace of the 1.8 does it ? I heard one of the engine mounts need to be modified or something like that ?

Got a link about the "sidedraughts and a schrick" , I am curious to see what kind of results one can expect from it.

[Il Duce]

looks great! i'll probably be doing the exact same things to a car exactly like yours. keep up the good work!

[Rocla]

Thanks Rocla!

2002maniac - you know I actually still have a complete 2.0 bottom end from a 2002 in my garage that I am trying to give away. Maybe I should take it to a machine shop and have them hot tank it and inspect it instead... the 2.0 block doesn't just drop in inplace of the 1.8 does it ? I heard one of the engine mounts need to be modified or something like that ? .

I can provide a photo of such mount.

[Jean]

My plastic bumper swap thread

Took a quick picture to see how it will look once I get it installed, can't wait to get them cut /painted and get new euro trim.

Now here is where I thought of something, stop me before it's too late lol

I never ever use a spare tire, actually I don't even have one in this car so. My previous car didn't come with a spare tire at all, came with a compressor and a can of fix a flat and I did fine for 20k+ miles until I sold it. The biggest eye sore imho with not having a late rear valance is the spare tire well... so I am thinking about cutting it out and making the trunk flat.







Please ignore the pos muffler as I haven't replaced it yet...

So, thoughts on doing this ?

[backtrail69]

No really its the fact that the whole back end doesn't link with the rockers and front lip.

[Jean]

No really its the fact that the whole back end doesn't link with the rockers and front lip.

I don't get it, back end / front lip ?

[Mike325]

You can do that sure. I actually think it is a pretty good idea. A friend of mine did that to his e36 m3 so he could run the e46 m3 muffler. He just cut it off and put a flat piece of metal over the hole and welded it up.

[Jean]

Should I be concerned with structural regidity or does the spare tire well not have any effect on it ? I am thinking about shortening it by about 4-5" and making a shallow (1-2") well for tools and little extra parts). Also for some reason I am thinking strength of the trunk won't be effected if I don't cut the tire well out completely but shorten it instead.

Pics to follow.