Something you have never seen: an e36!

[Fruttolo]

WELCOME TO AN ABSOLUTELY NOT DEAD THREAD!

I am waiting for new year's eve with nothing to do so guess I could update this with the latest happenings.
We coult name this:

PLANS ALWAYS CHANGE - a stanceboi's racecar dream

So, last time I left you with some pics of the complete car, and it lasted a couple of months while I really enjoyed it. Winter came tho, and since this is the daily.......I put it away for winter and now drive around in my work van. Guess I am a retard but could not throw this car in salt and snow, I'm like that, will probably need a winter hooptie sooner or later.
Meanwhile, I had gotten a nice set of 18" Style32s I wanted to machine down in the rear to bring in the offset and was waiting on my friend to have time to do it, when both of us got the track bug. Stance plans got screwed up.
Actually one of my dreams is driving the Nürburgring and he proposed we go next summer, but he has his Abarth and I only had two slammed low'n'slow thingies...since the Cabby is far from a track car I decided it was time to make the bmw into a more "sporty" ride so that I can go mountain carving with him and our other friends. Power is the lowest ever, but that will have to stay for now, so I got around to solve the other issues.

First thing, I **** the sloppy feeling BMW drivelines have. Flexdiscs and dual mass flywheels are terrible for driving pleasure, and old BMW shifters are so far from the wheel and have a ton of travel and play in them when you have a long knob like mine. Luckily IRP comes to the rescue with two of the best made products I've ever bought:





Short shifter and alu/poly flexdisc are guaranteed to take some dampening action out of the car, and should be easy to install.
SHOULD BE lol

It's taking me weeks to do it while working on it only on sundays but I'm almost finished



I had to remove a good bit of interior...





But I was able to fit it without cutting all of the trim off, very happy about it. Also had to mod the only part of my interior that was already ruined by some holes the PO did, so no biggie.

While I was at it, my glovebox was starting to separate so I fixed it with some PU sealant (works wonders)



And having all the interior apart I threw the old Sony head unit back in the box and installed a JVC one that IMO looks waaay better, I like plain and simple designs on old cars





The first time I took the interior apart I was in a pinch and did not notice, but the shop that installed the hideous alarm system I removed proceeded to lose 1/3 of the bolts, so they did not put any back in not easy to see holes. I had to look for suitable sized bolts to fix that, but I'll go junkyard hunting for OEM BMW replacements in the future because I'm anal like that. Also, I'm waiting for a non-armrest center console because I **** armrests so the interior is not buttoned up yet

Lastly, having to drop the driveshaft to change the guibo means you have to remove pretty much everything around it, and that sparked another "while you are there" moment.



Crusty backbox...



And crusty midpipe...but there is a bit too much stuff on it amirite? This car always sounded like a vacuum cleaner, let's se if a little chop chop weld weld could make it sound a liiittle better.



I just happened to have a piece of pipe the right size but no elbows, so made one with piecuts. First time doing them, I'm so happy I could try and it came out pretty good for a no fucks given job.
Gave all the exhaust a scrub/sanded it and painted it high temperature semi-gloss black that's guaranteed to make everything look pimp from a distance and not flashy if any law enforcer decides to take a peep under the car.





Did not paint the first section as it's so close to the headers it would flake off and look shit anyways but I'm thinking of going back and do it too just for the sake of OCD.

Anyways, this bring us up to date. I'm waiting on exhaust gaskets as mine were so old they flaked off in my hands, and on a little something to cover up the gaping hole left by the shifter boot that's now impossible to fit. Also I may have found everything I need to consider the exterior finished, if the guy selling that doesn't cut me off.

As for wheels. 18s are the right size on e36s in my opinion (yeah **** me now) but they are too big to fit with decent tyres without having to raise the coilovers, so I was thinking about buying some Rota D154s

https://www.driftworks.com/rota-d154-18-in-hyper-blue-18x8-5-5x120-et30.html

Not in blue obviously, but although I think reps are ok for track abuse I'm still a classic wheels lover and a stanceboi, and my street credibility would drop immensely if I went to a meet with fake Compomotives (yeah lol). Also I want a driveable car, but it will still be low, some stretch action will happen, and I want cool wheels.
Soooooo...I found a deal on some OZ Futura faces to build in perfect specs, and out the window goes the "I'm not gonna spend 2k in wheels on a 2k car". Will show them when they get there as I don't like teasing.

So that is all for now, maybe if you have suggestion on a "sporty" finish for the new wheels feel free to share it as I can't decide what to do, for now I think faces will be white and lips brushed but still not sure.

Future plans, for a somewhat distant future because funds are not bottomless, include an engine swap (either M50B25 and turbo with a 300-350hp goal but expensive and illegal AF, or M54b30 NA hoping for 230-240hp), big brakes up front, and other little upgrades...and still keeping this my summer daily driver.

Sorry for long post and no potato.
Thanks for reading, and have the happiest new year!

[Fruttolo]

yo... didnt know you had an e36, this is nice!

Thanks man, it's just a simple daily driver for now but I'm treating her better than I ever did with the cabby LOL

@DawsonLiri don't worry man, at least we still had fun that day

[DawsonLiri]

Ma smettila di fare lo Stensbooooiiiii

UPDATE MOTHAFUCKAS

Bad news:
2 weeks ago, while I was busy welding front coilovers on a friend's e21, some old fucktard in a yellow Agila decided it'd be cool to smash into my car that was parked on the side of the neighbourhood road, in a frickin straight line and with like 15cm protruding into the road itself. Smashed my rear quarter in from the tail light to the fender, luckily the wheel being so wide out "stopped" her or she would have gone forth. She said "she didn't notice the car was there". I often ask myself what does one have to do to have their licence took away if this isn't enough, but heh.

I feel a little bit guilty when you say that

[Ronal Wheel Accessories]

Whoa! Cool build

[Miroteknik]

yo... didnt know you had an e36, this is nice!

[Fruttolo]

Cars looking good! Send me the link on those tail lights, I can never find them in smoked. Glad to see the trailing arm tab worked out for you

Thank you man, and thanks for telling me that trick, being able to zero my toe is saving me a lot of money on tyres LOL

The lights are from this ebay shop

https://www.ebay.it/itm/ALL-SMOKED-REAR-LIGHTS-FOR-BMW-E36-3-SERIES-SALOON-NICE-ITEM-v2/332725599774?hash=item4d77fdbe1e:g:80IAAOSwFnFV-zQX

These are for a saloon but they also have them for coupes, they also fit pretty good even tho they are not even close to dark as in the ad's pictures

[fackinsteve]

Cars looking good! Send me the link on those tail lights, I can never find them in smoked. Glad to see the trailing arm tab worked out for you

[Fruttolo]

UPDATE MOTHAFUCKAS

Bad news:
2 weeks ago, while I was busy welding front coilovers on a friend's e21, some old fucktard in a yellow Agila decided it'd be cool to smash into my car that was parked on the side of the neighbourhood road, in a frickin straight line and with like 15cm protruding into the road itself. Smashed my rear quarter in from the tail light to the fender, luckily the wheel being so wide out "stopped" her or she would have gone forth. She said "she didn't notice the car was there". I often ask myself what does one have to do to have their licence took away if this isn't enough, but heh.

Good news is I know an awesome bodyshop, they already had my Mtech bumper and sideskirts to paint them so at least they got to paint everything the same colour at once. While I was there I had the rear fenders "unrolled" like factory and the inner lips removed to gain every bit of room I could, came out amazing. If you didn't know it was modded it would look OEM from inside and out, so pretty satisfied.

Here is a pic of the car looking broken on stockies at the bodyshop



Today I spent the entire day fiddling with the fitment and height and got it back to where it should be, cleaned it and took for a spin on a sunny afternoon that obviously ended in some rain and had to turn in a damn crazy storm right after I took these pics...starting to think this black car is my curse and everytime I wash it it rains, so guess it gotta live dirty.

Anyhow, enjoy it as a more complete car in some shitty iPhone pics







Next on the list as far as exterior goes is front lip, M3 side strips and M3 front bumper grille, then I can call it finished on the outside.
Also, I bought some new (to me) OEM wheels, will not be the final setup either but I always loved this style and had to have them, gonna have them restored and install them next year

Daily chronicles /end for now

[O2car]

Nice story for buy this car

I love the style of your E36 right now, stanced, flush Wheel, what else.. lool

Keep going

[Fruttolo]

Thank you guys!

Sadly, I am the hugest retard and I already managed to ruin the fenders:



I had put on some rubber bumpstops to avoid busting the wheel into the fender and they worked, until yesterday when after an highway trip it started to rub as hell...could have limped home and limited the damage but I was late for an appointment and ran a hundred kms at over 180kmh, the result is above and I am so sad of having rubbed a hole into the inner sheetmetal I could cry of my stupidity. But well, live and learn and if you don't learn then fuck yourself.

Today I came back from work and inspected everything to check what caused the rubbing issue and found my rubber bumpstop were all squished off the shock's shaft



They clearly don't work as advertised. Well, I called my machinist and by luck he was home and had a chunk of PVC he kindly turned into two solid bumpstops for me. Being in a rush and not wanting to bother him too much I guesstimated the lenght and had them made too long so now I have ZERO compression travel and it feels like shit but at least I can stop hearing that rubbing.



The good thing about yesterday tho is the trip was to a meet with a lot of good friends and despite my "problems" with the car we had a lot of fun, and took some crappy pics





My friend and I have an almost identical car, same year, same colour, he likes oem+ while I go with crazier stuff and it was really funny seeing how different they are while being almost the same.

Next on the list is:
Fixing that goddamn fender I now genuinely ****, and possibly going on and removing the inner lips since damage is already done.
Buying a set of hubs and redrilling them to 5x112
Buy new wheels for next season, something less aggressive in the rear so I can dial some camber out and regain some high speed stability.

I love having a dependable daily again, don't I?

[19birel]

Clean E36! I love those tail lights, keep up the good work

[Driv3r]

Well done on those indicators, looks mint

[sergioa6]

nice, black on black

[Fruttolo]

sempre e solo ghei, apri pure su cleaned che altrimenti ti mando diggei arrapato

Prima o poi, tanto voi la vedrete una volta o l'altra

[boiddopa]

sempre e solo ghei, apri pure su cleaned che altrimenti ti mando diggei arrapato