Buncha Bavarian Bulls**t E36 M3 "build thread"

[Tan_nicholson]

What part of Ohio you from? Nice pickup on the 3/4/5 🍻.

Im in the Akron area right now, you close by?

oh my god i love that interior so so so so so much

Me too! I just wish I had gotten a hold of it before the leather reached its last legs, oh well. Break out the duct tape

[cosmo135]

Me too! I just wish I had gotten a hold of it before the leather reached its last legs, oh well. Break out the duct tape

Yeah, it's a shame it wasn't more popular back in the day... replacement seats would've been much easier to come by

[Tan_nicholson]

Yeah, it's a shame it wasn't more popular back in the day... replacement seats would've been much easier to come by

Seriously! I'm keeping an eye out for Modena Vaders but knowing me I'll probably just throw some racing seats and a 4 pt harness in both front seats lol. Been throwing around the idea of doing harnesses on all 4 seats "drift taxi" style

[Tan_nicholson]

Dont be mad, I still love you

So some of you may have seen this car for sale as well from "harleyp" or something along those lines.I bought it off him he is one of my friends from back home. I like the car a lot and I just put a fresh clutch in it 1k ago, it needs some suspension love but it drives really nice and is solid where it counts.

IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED SEND ME A PM, THIS IS NOT A FOR SALE AD JUST WANT TO SEE IF THERES INTEREST. Like I said I like the car and will continue to play with it and maintain keeping it as my daily, I want to move into a E46 M or 135i it just doesnt make sense to have two Cosmos black E36 M3's.

[Tan_nicholson]

I work at ECS tuning and we had our annual indpendence day BBQ/car show heres a pic sorry i didnt grab more





Lost a brake line over the weekend, everyone really should check these it almost cost me my car and its a ten dollar piece to replace. Seriously your car and life is worth it, CHANGE THOSE BRAKE LINES



Had a charity "wash" my car lol, they didnt do that great of a job but they were amazed by my "special towel" (shammy) LOL. Oh whale they liked the car, its always nice when the general public appreciates fine machinery


Took some purty LTW-less golf course shots in the rich neighborhood near my house haha.

SS lines and tie rods were ordered today along with this nifty little bleeder system. Employee discount FTW


Gonna swap out all my lines and flush the system today hopefully if it doesnt monsoon.

To Do:
- Steering rack/poly steering guibo
- Sold LTW, replacing with CF CSL trunk which I still haven't ordered lol
- Rear end refurb, my bushings and mounts and blah blah blah E36 probz... u know the rest
- Get roundel's for my saweet rimz

That's all for now, I obviously have a crazy dream list but I'm playing it by year with this car, hunting for some newer bavarian power currently!

[Tan_nicholson]

BTW, im considering also starting a build thread on either M3Forum, Bimmerforums, or bimmerpost.
My concern is that on bimmerpost they will delete it because they dont like anything older than yesterday (E90), bimmerforums has a reputation for being well.... BMW owners. I dont have an issue with M3forum but I feel i may get the same welcome as bimmerforums.

[MommysLittleMonster]

I think you're confused, this is the 'build thread' section, not the 'showroom'.

[Tan_nicholson]

I think you're confused, this is the 'build thread' section, not the 'showroom'.

Idk if you cant read, I just bought this car. "builds" dont happen overnight, If you would be so kind to check back in a week or so maybe I will have made progress. Sorry I haven't added enough camber for your liking yet. LOL

[r0p0doe]

I used to own an e36 sedan I sold for pennies because I was one of the lucky few that had the rear sub frame bust through the body because it wasn't reinfored like the m3's. Bitter sweet ending I miss that car... anyway like the ride man maybe one day I'll grab another.

[Tan_nicholson]

I used to own an e36 sedan I sold for pennies because I was one of the lucky few that had the rear sub frame bust through the body because it wasn't reinfored like the m3's. Bitter sweet ending I miss that car... anyway like the ride man maybe one day I'll grab another.

Thanks a lot man, Im considering letting this one go but only if someone wants it for it what I wanna sell it for which is unlikely lol. Send me a PM if you're ever interested.

[rice4life]

I love that spoiler man, it just looks so right on it.

[Tan_nicholson]

I love that spoiler man, it just looks so right on it.

Sold it man, getting shipped out today. Im going a different route, to cliche for me

[Tan_nicholson]

Just a little update, not much has been going on with the car recently. Still trying to recover from the clutch job / Sowo / Life lol.

- Brake lines were swapped out for ECS braided lines & flushed, and I found out that the car actually had braided lines on it prior to, they were blue and had no markings or even part #'s on them. I guess it was just ebay junk, anyways it blew straight threw the braid and silicone hose around it. This is just one thing no one should cheap out on for any reason.

-Window decided " IT WAS GONNAAA DIIIIIIIIIIIIIVEE INN " my door that is... So two $3 clips later and some white lithium grease it works again. But it did screw my tint all up & im an idiot and forgot to replace the rubber guide ($7) for the window which is why it broke at all. So its still jumping off track so one day I'll fix that and maybe do like a DIY for e36 guys because

- Akron Ohio has completely eaten my suspension alive and the car is crying out for help. So I will be working with condor speed shop to complete a full bushing refurb on both my coupe and my 4dr. (motor,trans,LCA,subframe,diff,rtabs w/ limiters)

- Im making a trip to NC in the next couple weeks & I'm going to rip into my 2 dr and gut it even further to drop some weight and I'll prob have some parts for sale if anyone is interested.

Thats pretty much it for now, at this point my goal is to just rack up a bunch of parts over winter, get my DD (4dr) running right & get ready for next years drift season.

PS: Kinda considering going the NASA track car route vs a drift slut with my 2dr. Any opinions on the topic?