JackBenny's 1991 318is Project

[bernzpeed]

Forget what i said, I just read all of the thread and my does not come close to this at all. LOL. Yours is an inspiration.

[bernzpeed]

I just saw how my E30 is going to look like. I was going to get those wheels in the same color and I have an 89 325i in Alpineweiss II as well. That license plate filler is exactly what i have as well.

Although your seats look better. I just have the comfort seats but the leather on it is in great shape. No cracks or rips.

Your car looks nice and clean. Exactly how I like mine. Just thinking of smoke ellipsoids, smoke turn signal lights so I can continue the whole black and white theme outside.

The canvas:









The first thing that needed to be done (other than fixing the passenger side seat belt so I could annoy my wife) was fix that oil leak. The car dripped from under the steering rack but I would later find that the oil simply pooled up from its various sources. Many gaskets were replaced at the front of the engine. Each time one leak was fixed, I would find another one somewhere else on the front of the engine. This was disheartening and not the pleasant experience I was hoping for. The car was drivable and even a joy to drive but what wasn't fun was the pool of oil it would leave in my garage. Luckily, Christmas was around the corner and my wife got me something to cheer me up.



Yep, they're Rota RB's. It seems that these are hated almost as much as SportsMaxx. But I like them. I think they look good in the E30 Racecar Thread and part of me still misses the Datsun 510 that could have been. Specs on the wheels are 16x8 ET20 and the good folks at 18racing.com were very helpful with my wife when she called to order them. For tires, we went with Hankook RS-2's in a 245 section width. Yes, I know this is completely unnecessary with an M42 but I like the beefy tire look and I hoped I would have more power someday. The fenders out back were rolled flat and the front fenderwell was massaged a bit to get the wheels mounted:

[dude8383]

Josh,

I'm referring to this:

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...84&hg=51&fg=10

P/N # 1 - 51321904781

I'm getting a bunch of wind noise at highway speeds from my left door and slowly starting to drive me nuts.

[jackbenny]

do you think the valence is warped or are some of the lip clips busted? Those things break surprisingly easily. thanks for the update, good stuff.

The valance had suffered an impact and I reshaped it. The passenger corner sticks out a bit further than the is lip so that makes the end of the is lip roll inwards. I thought we had it under control during the body work but we didn't attach the is lip completely. Clips are all brand new too,

[dannyyisntt]

Where can i get a set of these stickers. Love em.

http://r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=188146

Car looks great man!

[Motorsports]

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Where can i get a set of these stickers. Love em.

[sandlock]

do you think the valence is warped or are some of the lip clips busted? Those things break surprisingly easily. thanks for the update, good stuff.

[schtozo]

Ive been reading this thread since yesterday, on my iphone was fun to read through.
Congrats Josh! You really made my day, nice project good luck with it and congrats on your new born. Keep us posted

[pilotskillse30]

i just read this entire thread in 1hr...very awesome work, truly inspirational.

[TrentW]

If I were to do it again, powder-coating would be ideal. But since the back windows already had SEM on them, I had to use SEM on everything else so it would match...because I really didn't want to take those windows out again!

Oh yeah--forgot the 318is had fixed windows!

[tak7]

Incredible work, car is beautiful!

[jackbenny]

I'm gonna start putting my car back together after a respray and will be powdercoating my trim to shadowline it--don't know if you've considered that. Should hold up well. Since I have the pop-out rear windows that are one piece, I'm probably gonna just paint that bottom trim piece. Either that or find a pair of M3 rear windows.

If I were to do it again, powder-coating would be ideal. But since the back windows already had SEM on them, I had to use SEM on everything else so it would match...because I really didn't want to take those windows out again!

[TrentW]

I'm gonna start putting my car back together after a respray and will be powdercoating my trim to shadowline it--don't know if you've considered that. Should hold up well. Since I have the pop-out rear windows that are one piece, I'm probably gonna just paint that bottom trim piece. Either that or find a pair of M3 rear windows.

[RainierHooker]

Very nice progress. I said it before, I am super jealous of those wheels. A few more updates,and you'll have me on the horn to Compomotive to beg them to start making low-offset TH1780's again...

[White325is]

Car is looking really good. Glad to finally see an update.