Steelblue E36 Build Thread
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Any plans for this over the winter?
Nope! Its been a great daily driver! In the spring its going to go in for some rust repair.
After that I plan on putting it up forsale.
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Whaaaaa.....then what?
Something newer. Currently im looking for something with an N54. But if I can find something else that suits my fancy I'll buy that. Like an e91 wagon. That'd be sick.
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The reproduction BMW photo is pretty sweet!
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The reproduction BMW photo is pretty sweet!
Thank you!! I recreated everything in photoshop! Now it will be easy next time I want to do it!
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A little update to this thing, Car didn't get driven last summer as I had my M roadster to drive. Took that time to replace inner and outer tie-rod ends. Control arms etc.
After that job the car died in a parking lot and I had to bump start it to drive home. Guy screamed "A dead BMW, that looks expensive" Yeah dude, thanks for your input.....
So anyways I parked it in my shop and it sat all winter because it was too cold to work on it. My starter had been acting funky so I assumed that was the problem, Turns out it was actually a ground that I messed with while doing the control arms.. Go figure but it was due for a starter replacement anyways. Did injector O rings as well.
Now I am tracing a slight misfire, but while I am doing that I just got done doing the valve cover gasket (Started leaking on the headers after sitting all winter) and It was time to put in a set of NGK iridium spark plugs aswell. Slightly hoping the VC/Sparkplug combo will fix the slight misfire but knowing my luck its probably a vacuum line all the way under the intake manifold that I will have to pull again.
I still love this car although its starting to get a bit crusty. Been pretty problem free, Get in and drive as E36s are bulletproof. Its going to be downgraded to the Winter Daily soon.
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A little update to this thing, Car didn't get driven last summer as I had my M roadster to drive. Took that time to replace inner and outer tie-rod ends. Control arms etc.
After that job the car died in a parking lot and I had to bump start it to drive home. Guy screamed "A dead BMW, that looks expensive" Yeah dude, thanks for your input.....
So anyways I parked it in my shop and it sat all winter because it was too cold to work on it. My starter had been acting funky so I assumed that was the problem, Turns out it was actually a ground that I messed with while doing the control arms.. Go figure but it was due for a starter replacement anyways. Did injector O rings as well.
Now I am tracing a slight misfire, but while I am doing that I just got done doing the valve cover gasket (Started leaking on the headers after sitting all winter) and It was time to put in a set of NGK iridium spark plugs aswell. Slightly hoping the VC/Sparkplug combo will fix the slight misfire but knowing my luck its probably a vacuum line all the way under the intake manifold that I will have to pull again.
I still love this car although its starting to get a bit crusty. Been pretty problem free, Get in and drive as E36s are bulletproof. Its going to be downgraded to the Winter Daily soon.
with an LSD they make really fun winter daily. (ice racing time!)
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with an LSD they make really fun winter daily. (ice racing time!)
Hmmm, I have an extra LSD in my shed..... Tempting..
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with an LSD they make really fun winter daily. (ice racing time!)
Couldn't agree more!
Tips are apreciated! Am using RAW format but I've forgotten about It a time or two... 
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