Saw this puppy on the DriftWorks forum on Friday and somehow managed to beat every other bargain hunting drift kiddy too it! BMW 325 Coupe Jan MOT. Part Service History. 3 Previous Owners. Current Owner since 2008. 189 bhp / 181lb-ft (M50B25TU single vanos). Absolutely spot on after a clean, tiny bit of rust on corner of drivers side front wing and ABS light on - can hardly complain! Plans: - e46 Arms & modified hubs (£200) - Hydro (£32 new) - Bucket seat - De-cat (£40 back when weighed in) Spec 13/08/15: - Welded 325i Diff (147k 07/2015) £0 - NGK BKR6EK's Spark plugs (147k 08/2015) £14 - End Tuning 210 bhp chip (147k 08/2015) £60 - Crossland Air Filter (147k 08/2015) £5 - Castrol GTX 10W40 Part Synthetic 6L (147k 08/2015) £19 - Crossland Oil Filter (147k 08/2015) £5 - Boss (147k 08/2015) £15 - Quick Release (147k 08/2015) £20 - Fake OMP Deep Dish Suede Steering Wheel (147k 08/2015) £35 - Coilovers (147k 08/2015) £140 - 5mm Slip On Spacers On Front Wheels (147k 08/2015) £0 Finally, some pictures after I clay barred, polished, hoovered and cleaned it: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12)
hmm not sure if i want to thread this build or not, i was one of the kiddys after this car, how ever i was just planning on making use out of the engine and gearbox. you sir received a bargain, be interesting to see what you make of it.
Someones gotta get lucky, unfortunately it wasn't you. I still can't really believe how cheap it was! It'll be put to good use, don't you worry!
Don't bother with the turbo thing Trent, no point what with you having the S14. Though I do possibly know of a turbo kit going... it's single vanos though. Super bargain, fair play.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. In a year or so I'm sure I'll be bored of SR's though and then I'll be wanting to RB25/1JZ/2JZ it in which case it's probably cheaper to turbo the BMW! Even just getting a stock RB25 into the 200 is going to cost £2500 or more at standard power. Anyway, it's not getting turbo'd! Keeping cheap and cheerful! This is non vanos being a K/92 reg? M50B25? Not M50B25TU?
Just ordered: 6 x NGK BKR6EK's Spark plugs £14 1 x Crossland Oil Filter £3 1 x Crossland Air Filter £5 1 x M12 x 15 Magnetic Sump Plug £5 Just need to find 6.5L of 10w40 for the girl now.
Sound, I'll message you on FB! Uhhh.... Gorge, Zoyland, generally out and about as you do... --- I got busy last night...
I'm sure I've seen 'n200pet' at the gorge doing some good skids :-) Will follow this little bmw! I've just got a s14 so will try and get up there more..Sundays seem to get pretty busy!
Shhhh.... Haha! PM me your name mate. --- Whipped the ecu out to check what it was and if it was standard. Have a chip is being ordered / coming to put limiter up to 7,000 (from around 6,000) and should push it to 212 bhp / 262 nm. All for the grand total of £60!
looking good so nice to see fellow e36 builds - - - Updated - - - looking good so nice to see fellow e36 builds
Changed the air filter, decided on a panel for the minute but will probably swap out for a large cone at some point. Fitted my End Tuning chip. Changed the spark plugs, 5/6 were covered in oil, never seen this before but isn't apparently uncommon. Obviously a lot of oil dropped into cylinders when I removed the old plugs. Also cleaned the sunroof glue/gunk that remained after taking the lining off.
Changed the oil last night, the old stuff was pretty bad and the oil filter was disgusting, well needed/deserved oil change I think! Went for Castrol GTX 10W-40 Part Synthetic which was £13 for 4L at Asda.la Shame the magnetic sump plug wouldn't thread in. Also fitted a boss. Quick release. Fake OMP steering wheel (which isn't round at the top, never had problem with fakes before but this is bad). Also found an old radio for it, just need a harness/adapter.
Got around to fitting my generic £140 eBay coilovers last night. Feels sooooooo much better to drift now! Might go a tiny bit lower yet. Front tyres scrubbed the helper spring but luckily had some 5mm spacers lying around so put them on the front! How she sits this morning!
Cheers mate. - Hydro needs fitting. - Hubs need cutting/welding. - Steering arms need fitting. - Lower arms need cutting and extending 30mm. - Cats need cutting out. - Need to source and fit a bucket seat. Still a fair bit to do! It still feels pretty gutless compared to my Nissan So not really sure what else I can do other than the above!
