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[Panici]

What kind of power levels are you planning with your 2J swap?
What driving conditions are you putting the car through?

You can get away with upgraded and reinforced stock-ish systems...

[Panici]

Winter driving the 328 didn't go so well this year.
Only took it out a few times as that clutch slave cyl would drain the brake fluid reservoir while sitting still.
Even after refilling and...

[Panici]

Sounds like you lucked out on the donor motor!
Glad to see the car back on the road, nice work.

[Panici]

Example of them fitted to my Miata.
Wish I didn't drive it that winter, made the rust so much worse.

But bottlecaps looked nice anyways!



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[Panici]

I don't want to rag on your post, but these are available brand new for less money then you are asking.

[Panici]

A driveshaft from a manual E36 328i will work.
You will need to change out the CSB to an E30 style (note early / late E30 are different as well)

Make sure to get direction correct and...

[Panici]

Went with a cheap wrap job on my '98 328i and it's already peeling off at the edges after a year.

I mean it still looks better then the three different colours it was before, but get closer...

[Panici]

I have the Garagistic mount on mine, with (softer) Revshift 80A Polyurethane bushings.

Prefer OEM rubber setup for NVH but needed more rear end control to tame wheel hop from 300+whp with...

[Panici]

Nice, I like it! Much warmer and more depth then something like lachssilber.
IMO looks better on an E30 then on a 'vette!...

[Panici]

My thought too but wanted to give him a chance....

[Panici]

Hello and welcome!
Is that bronzit?...