Been into the Subaru scene for some time now, but always had my eyes on the e30 and the m3 e30 of course and decided to dive in about 3 year ago into a 84 318i fixed up until my neighbor decided he wanted it. Got into a 87 vert for a little and then sold it and found my current 318is that I fell in love with! I haven't got the bug to modify one of these yet but I've been looking for a clean sedan to start. Purpose built for Daily duties and pure comfort!
Goal for now is to find the rest of the zender/ acs kit and find a spare set of 51mm strut housing so I have zero down time for GC coilover conversion. When this m42 decides to poop out on me the typical s52 will be obtained and put in since I want a carb legal car.
As of 2019 and the start of the track build
Some photos I've compiled over the last two years. Let me know what you guys think :D
Day I got her she was really clean rust free and oxidation preserved some good looking paint with very little flaws.
Took her to work and racked it up and made a list of what needed replacing and replaced all the worn bits, suspension, drivetrain, and engine related and made her 100% leak free along with fixing the odometer and cleaned up all the contacts on the cluster driving home the car was overheating lol. odometer broke at 215k and PO said its been that way for some time so who knows what the real actual mileage is.
First thing I did was threw on my e38 wheels from my previous car and found out spacers were needed to clear the brakes. so I found a set of spacers I had laying around and lathed them down to almost 3mm and ran them until I got hubcentric spacers and proper length studs and lugs.
Dropped it on some IE3 Springs and got is lip and splitter
ended up getting drop hats and some bracing to fix the reverse rake and blow my shocks out even quicker. the poly trans mounts came off in a day or so and ended up putting e21 mounts on. so much better
Really got tired of how bad the sealed beams were and picked up a set of Smileys or whatever the right term is and found a us spec heckblende
and all the euro bumper trim and euro grills
decided to get some skirts and get my mirrors repainted and my lip resprayed. love how secure these skirts are and probably wont get anything else as much as I want a full zender and acs kit.
Finally found my first piece for my acs kit and it was in great condition just needed paint.
then I found another piece seller thought it was an acs rear apron even then it clearly says zender in the mold but oh well since I'm trying to complete both. never have I seen a package with such great care taken and again was in great condition so I immediately got it painted and mounted.
couldn't stand how loud the MF exhaust was so I ordered a nice SS from ecs
and got it mounted and I didn't like how low the exhaust was and decided to modify my downpipe and just pi cut a bunch of exhaust tubing and got the sucker as tight to the body as possible till this day I have never scraped so job well done!
didn't have any shielding gas so don't judge my flux welding lol
someone decided they needed my lip more than I did so so long is lip and splitter. Had my old I lip and just had it color matched and its not so bad.
decided I was tired of looking at broken foglights and decided it was time to replace the lenses.
Interior and wheels were kinda the last finishing touch I wanted something period correct and modeled the interior after the new 911R. thought I would splurge and got napa leather and wool houndstooth inserts and bmw headliner
New wheels rubbed pretty bad on compression thanks to the treehouse lollipops. so I rolled them and problem solved.
and recently bought a new oem valance waiting to get that paint so vehicle will have no more undercoating visible!
Installed a set of e46 aluminum pedals to just get a more finished look inside.
here is how she sits now
Goal for now is to find the rest of the zender/ acs kit and find a spare set of 51mm strut housing so I have zero down time for GC coilover conversion. When this m42 decides to poop out on me the typical s52 will be obtained and put in since I want a carb legal car.
As of 2019 and the start of the track build
Some photos I've compiled over the last two years. Let me know what you guys think :D
Day I got her she was really clean rust free and oxidation preserved some good looking paint with very little flaws.
Took her to work and racked it up and made a list of what needed replacing and replaced all the worn bits, suspension, drivetrain, and engine related and made her 100% leak free along with fixing the odometer and cleaned up all the contacts on the cluster driving home the car was overheating lol. odometer broke at 215k and PO said its been that way for some time so who knows what the real actual mileage is.
First thing I did was threw on my e38 wheels from my previous car and found out spacers were needed to clear the brakes. so I found a set of spacers I had laying around and lathed them down to almost 3mm and ran them until I got hubcentric spacers and proper length studs and lugs.
Dropped it on some IE3 Springs and got is lip and splitter
ended up getting drop hats and some bracing to fix the reverse rake and blow my shocks out even quicker. the poly trans mounts came off in a day or so and ended up putting e21 mounts on. so much better
Really got tired of how bad the sealed beams were and picked up a set of Smileys or whatever the right term is and found a us spec heckblende
and all the euro bumper trim and euro grills
decided to get some skirts and get my mirrors repainted and my lip resprayed. love how secure these skirts are and probably wont get anything else as much as I want a full zender and acs kit.
Finally found my first piece for my acs kit and it was in great condition just needed paint.
then I found another piece seller thought it was an acs rear apron even then it clearly says zender in the mold but oh well since I'm trying to complete both. never have I seen a package with such great care taken and again was in great condition so I immediately got it painted and mounted.
couldn't stand how loud the MF exhaust was so I ordered a nice SS from ecs
and got it mounted and I didn't like how low the exhaust was and decided to modify my downpipe and just pi cut a bunch of exhaust tubing and got the sucker as tight to the body as possible till this day I have never scraped so job well done!
didn't have any shielding gas so don't judge my flux welding lol
someone decided they needed my lip more than I did so so long is lip and splitter. Had my old I lip and just had it color matched and its not so bad.
decided I was tired of looking at broken foglights and decided it was time to replace the lenses.
Interior and wheels were kinda the last finishing touch I wanted something period correct and modeled the interior after the new 911R. thought I would splurge and got napa leather and wool houndstooth inserts and bmw headliner
New wheels rubbed pretty bad on compression thanks to the treehouse lollipops. so I rolled them and problem solved.
and recently bought a new oem valance waiting to get that paint so vehicle will have no more undercoating visible!
Installed a set of e46 aluminum pedals to just get a more finished look inside.
here is how she sits now
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