Well i have always been meaning to do this but always forget or just CBA is the truth!
So got the car in 100% stock condition but with dreadful crap in the paint, it was on a building site where they cut concrete so felt awful. 1st port of call was a clay and polish. Then on went some black grills and some duel cone intakes. It was standard about 3 days!
Then i went on a little binge and got a few other bits and took it to brands on the baby bmw track day. performed well but needed more front camber and better tyres of course! So before the track it had this lot fitted:
Strut brace
fitted M3 rear arms i had from my 130i
drilled camber pin
sent in for alignment and quaife to be fitted
Cobb Tune.
Courtesy cars while the car was having the diff fitted. Great success!!
It did well at brands but as stated needed some more bits.
Then disaster struck! Massive missfires and all sorts happened just pulled out of my flat, and good ole cobb informed me of this...
So whipped out plugs and saw Cylinder 1 plug was drenched in fuel. Changed that to see if that solved it which it did, then went on to change the other 5 because they were probably not too far behind!
Success and she was away again and running better than ever! Back to mods then. Found myself a strut brance and gear knob from here which was lovely, fitted that up nicely. Also sold the Cobb to go MHD and bought a new intercooler also with a metal intake pipe. on that all went along with a new PCV valve and i also fitted up my own catch can too.
Brakes next, the fronts were wearing quite badly so decide to swap them out and changed the rears at the same time for stock items.
Found some darklines for a steal and a BMWP exhaust also for stupid money so had to be bought! On they went along with a new 135i badge as i like the badged look to the car.
Decided it was time for a spoiler and got a crap carbon one from in the UK which went back rather sharpish with a very poorly left feedback. Got a colour coded one what set the rear end off lovely! Also in there somewhere i cut out the bar on the front bumper lower grills. And washed it a LOT.
THEN i decided it needed more camber, so helped Ian oiut with the camber plates and finally got them on after being a bit of a minge, and it handled lovely! But.... it also needed new wheels and these lovely type 3's come up at a bargain price so i had to have them! 8.5j X 18 ET43 all round. They will be going silver or shadow chrome at some point.
the ride height and rear pogo effect started to really annoy me so took the plunge and ordered some Meister R coilovers for it. Along with some whiteline subframe bushes as the rear end felt very unstable when i went around a slip road and the rear just felt detached! Scary shizz!
Dropped a socket in the rear arch like a lemon... but won in the end!
and the ride height adjusted along with 3mm spacers to clear the struts on the front, sits nice! Coilovers are also lovely, so much more responsive and they soak up the road very well. Much less crashy than stock and you dont actually know you're on coilovers! Exactly what i wanted.
So now its in having the diff bearings done as one has been noisy since i owned the car, bnut never thought anything of it..... Until the whiteline bushes went in! then it was loud and needed looking at. Clearly BMW's poxy "lifetime" oil is utter crap.
dead bearing. Running it was so noisy
While the diff is being done, i also have had front radius arm poly bushes fitted and gearbox oil changed too while its in the air.
I shall update once its back on all the changes!
So got the car in 100% stock condition but with dreadful crap in the paint, it was on a building site where they cut concrete so felt awful. 1st port of call was a clay and polish. Then on went some black grills and some duel cone intakes. It was standard about 3 days!
Then i went on a little binge and got a few other bits and took it to brands on the baby bmw track day. performed well but needed more front camber and better tyres of course! So before the track it had this lot fitted:
Strut brace
fitted M3 rear arms i had from my 130i
drilled camber pin
sent in for alignment and quaife to be fitted
Cobb Tune.
Courtesy cars while the car was having the diff fitted. Great success!!
It did well at brands but as stated needed some more bits.
Then disaster struck! Massive missfires and all sorts happened just pulled out of my flat, and good ole cobb informed me of this...
So whipped out plugs and saw Cylinder 1 plug was drenched in fuel. Changed that to see if that solved it which it did, then went on to change the other 5 because they were probably not too far behind!
Success and she was away again and running better than ever! Back to mods then. Found myself a strut brance and gear knob from here which was lovely, fitted that up nicely. Also sold the Cobb to go MHD and bought a new intercooler also with a metal intake pipe. on that all went along with a new PCV valve and i also fitted up my own catch can too.
Brakes next, the fronts were wearing quite badly so decide to swap them out and changed the rears at the same time for stock items.
Found some darklines for a steal and a BMWP exhaust also for stupid money so had to be bought! On they went along with a new 135i badge as i like the badged look to the car.
Decided it was time for a spoiler and got a crap carbon one from in the UK which went back rather sharpish with a very poorly left feedback. Got a colour coded one what set the rear end off lovely! Also in there somewhere i cut out the bar on the front bumper lower grills. And washed it a LOT.
THEN i decided it needed more camber, so helped Ian oiut with the camber plates and finally got them on after being a bit of a minge, and it handled lovely! But.... it also needed new wheels and these lovely type 3's come up at a bargain price so i had to have them! 8.5j X 18 ET43 all round. They will be going silver or shadow chrome at some point.
the ride height and rear pogo effect started to really annoy me so took the plunge and ordered some Meister R coilovers for it. Along with some whiteline subframe bushes as the rear end felt very unstable when i went around a slip road and the rear just felt detached! Scary shizz!
Dropped a socket in the rear arch like a lemon... but won in the end!
and the ride height adjusted along with 3mm spacers to clear the struts on the front, sits nice! Coilovers are also lovely, so much more responsive and they soak up the road very well. Much less crashy than stock and you dont actually know you're on coilovers! Exactly what i wanted.
So now its in having the diff bearings done as one has been noisy since i owned the car, bnut never thought anything of it..... Until the whiteline bushes went in! then it was loud and needed looking at. Clearly BMW's poxy "lifetime" oil is utter crap.
dead bearing. Running it was so noisy
While the diff is being done, i also have had front radius arm poly bushes fitted and gearbox oil changed too while its in the air.
I shall update once its back on all the changes!