bmw E36 318is

[driftfan]

just after reading the whole thread and ur making some progress lad ill deffinatly be keeping an eye on this as i hope to have my own sometime soon

[Paddy drifter]

just after reading the whole thread and ur making some progress lad ill deffinatly be keeping an eye on this as i hope to have my own sometime soon

thanks lad and good man what ya hopin to get

[driftfan]

thanks lad and good man what ya hopin to get

hoping for a bmw aswel lad

[Paddy drifter]

hoping for a bmw aswel lad

nice one cheap and bulletproof ha

[driftfan]

nice one cheap and bulletproof ha

exactly

[Paddy drifter]

exactly

ye

[bawney]

great lil read man and loads of pics aswell! you are most certainly going the right way about it!
The tannery is gonna be a good place for to learn aswell man, only made it once in a 5 series that blew apart within mins and the other 318 didn make it out of the yard before the diff exploded!
Keep getting them pics in im following this one with joy!

[Paddy drifter]

great lil read man and loads of pics aswell! you are most certainly going the right way about it!
The tannery is gonna be a good place for to learn aswell man, only made it once in a 5 series that blew apart within mins and the other 318 didn make it out of the yard before the diff exploded!
Keep getting them pics in im following this one with joy!

thanks a million lad and i will im going next sunday to the tannery all going to plan and i will keep it updated with plenty of info and pics thanks again

[Paddy drifter]

well sure lads and ladies id better update this so keep the fans happy but anyway im busy puttin cians springs on the car and as im in school it aint easy but after a bit of work the spring was on now the challenge was to get it back on with a dowel ya have to line up and the shock springin back and the wishbone doing the same i got sick of it so i took out the trolley jack and stuck an axle stand under it and stuck this in the top bolt hole if i thought of it earlyer would of saved me the 20 minutes

and with saturday coming round the corner meself and the father decided to head up to mondello to see what the craic was and jaysus lads what a round it was some craic up there and i got this cos im a bit of a sticker whore ha ha

so finally got the driver shock in

now to start on the passenger side will i make the tannery next sunday at all

[DaveM-sport]

oh jaysus id definely say so i heard it running but when i come to put it in im gonna do things properly john paul was sayin to keep it as cool as possible so an m3 rad and a massive bonnet vent and a few other bits

I don't know about a massive bonnet vent but an alloy rad, new metal impeller waterpump and 88 degree stat and it should be fine.

Other than that, you could take the head off and change to arp head studs and nuts, mls headgasket and things so it reduces the chance of making shit of the head and block down the line if the headgasket goes but some might consider it over-kill.


Handy thing about the M52 is your 4cylinder springs will work nicely as there's more or less no difference in weight of the engines.