Mike's E36 M3 Evo Saloon

[imola]

Been a mad week sold my 530i sport last saturday and arranged to view a car this saturday , lucky for the me the buyer held out for me to view

been after something fun for a while as the 530i was a great all round car, it was missing something, would hvae been great as a second car but as i only do 5000 miles a year a bit of a waste to have 2

onto the new car had to be a e36 had to be a M and as i started 6 months ago buying parts for it had to be a loon,in the right colour and right bits a loon can look just as good as the coupe and i have a few tasty bits to fit



the car i seen was a dakar yellow m3 evo on a 1996 p, prefacelift, with 70350 miles on the clock

fsh with serivces done every 5-6000 miles the car was looked after but with cars of this age needs a bit of bodywork,

after a long look around and a test drive deal was done and i got it for a very good price, which leaves me with cash left over to sort the bodywork out

its got a couple of small bits of rust in the common e36 places and i plan to get it into a bodyshop in the next couple of months

next weekend i plan on a really good serivce fresh oil plugs etc, along with cleaning out the throttlebodies etc

car needs a braided clutch hose which i have ordered and i plan on the vano seal kit and a few hoses to get it running sweet

spec wise car comes with electric seats which will be for sale next week

cruise control
headlamp wash

i plan on having all the options fitted in the near future

onto the pics which was taken today by minter at the sw slapton meet









first mod

mileage 70925

got this 6 months ago when L2DFP got one , last 2 left from rossiters part 1 of 10 of acs parts i have planned for the car

acs gearknob

excuse the crap iphone pics, ex has taken my SLR so untill i can borrow one will be these



















20/09/2010 UPDATE

been a bust week getting parts ready for the weekend to fitm i took friday off and me and my dad spent three days on the car working late everynight

jobs to do was

change oil and filter
coolant
gearbox oil
spark plugs
various hoses which can cause running probelms
fit new throttle cable
fit evo slpitter
repair undersheilds
clean engine bay
clean throttlebodys and icv
pollen filter
air filter

need to fit next weekend
vanos seal kit
diff oil
fuel filter
brake fulid
uprated clucth hose


we also fitted a few more items but i'll save that for another day


mileage 71255

£1060 lighter aswell, bloody M tax




















crap mats













































got some money back from the car






















also fitted part 2 of 10 of my acs bits

[Average_Jerk]

ive always wanted a yellow M. looking good

[Burn535i]

damn, talk about a deep clean. very good work.

[imola]

pics working now

[low.slow.celi]

awesome progress!
4 door m3 <3

[CorradoMan1]

looking good thats the proper way to clean a car... haha

[imola]

UPDATE 23/09/10

always wanted one after stax fitted one to one of his e36, like been said before about these they are prefect for the e36 dash 8)

now the hunt for one of these have been hard , speaking to oille and keith who told me no one had stock and that they stop making them

then on ebay i found a brand new one, paid a few quid for it and after i got it seen a few others cheaper. always the same :x

becker grand prix 7992

mileage 71475

[s-line]

Did you buy this car from osterley, west london?

[imola]

no derby, i see there one for sale on pistonheads

Update 26/09/10

Mileage 71700

this weekend my dad did the work for me, he replaced the fuel filter, new brake fulid and new diff oil, also replaced the bonnet cable





pads looked ok, but going to need discs soon, also he replaced the rear top mounts

Now onto one of the options i am most happy to got hold off, Extended leather Thanks goes to doug who spotted this for me and let me know

he did find some extended leather door cards ealier in the year, but when the whole interior came up for sale i sold these on along with some electric seats bases i was going to fit

in total i had 3 electric seats







even the b pillers are in leather










the back of the seats are in leather along with netting












need a bit of leather dye on the driver seat and the bottom of the b piller need a touch up which i will do another weekend


as you can see in the pics got some acs mats part 3 of 10

[Stolzy]

whats 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 hah

[imola]

you have to wait

i got 4,5,6,7 had 8 but had to sell as it dont fit a saloon and the last two are big money but will get at some point

[lilcraigford]

Fantastic detailing. Car cleaned up great in the first post!

[imola]

UPDATE 07/10/10

Mileage 72000

Another rare option to find on a saloon. Rear sun blind

Got this from Dino months back along with a Acs roof spoiler

I did dye it with auto gym dye but it's crap stuff so planned to get it covered in leather




think i will post up soon what i have planned for wheels

[shifty]

Another rare option to find on a saloon. Rear sun blind

got that too on my E30. kewl to have
anyway...pretty nice car. saloons rock like hell. and M3's for sure. so nice one, keep us updated!

shouts from southwest-germany

[Mexican]

good work.

loving this.

done proper.