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My Purple Girls Car
Sold my old bagged E30 daily:
and needed a replacement daily driver so I went and saw my mate at a local BMW wreckers and told him I wanted to get an E36 compact, but it needed to be a technoviolet Msport manual 318ti (pretty picky i know). He looked at me with a bit of a grin and showed me something on the local salvage auctions:
So he ended up bidding on it for me and I won it for $500AUD ($380USD) and it arrived at the workshop a few days later.
There was a bit more damage than I first thought and the radiator support was slightly bent. I ended up having to replace the bonnet, RHS headlight, nose cone, kidneys and repaint the front bumper.
As it was the day I got registration on it:
The car drove nicely and I resisted buying anything for it for about 3 days. Ordered a set of Fortune Auto coilovers specced to Broadway Static valving and 12kg/16kg springs. A few days later bought some wheels on Ebay UK and it was now down to waiting for it to all arrive.
Coilovers in, guards rolled and wheels on (Remotec A 17x9 +8 all round with 5mm spacer rear because i went too far with the roll lol)
Added some more camber on the front and just need to setup the front alignment now (has huge toe out)
Now I have pulled a 2.8L M52 to swap into it along with an Mcoupe LSD to make the car a bit more fun, looking to drop it in during the next few weeks
and needed a replacement daily driver so I went and saw my mate at a local BMW wreckers and told him I wanted to get an E36 compact, but it needed to be a technoviolet Msport manual 318ti (pretty picky i know). He looked at me with a bit of a grin and showed me something on the local salvage auctions:
So he ended up bidding on it for me and I won it for $500AUD ($380USD) and it arrived at the workshop a few days later.
There was a bit more damage than I first thought and the radiator support was slightly bent. I ended up having to replace the bonnet, RHS headlight, nose cone, kidneys and repaint the front bumper.
As it was the day I got registration on it:
The car drove nicely and I resisted buying anything for it for about 3 days. Ordered a set of Fortune Auto coilovers specced to Broadway Static valving and 12kg/16kg springs. A few days later bought some wheels on Ebay UK and it was now down to waiting for it to all arrive.
Coilovers in, guards rolled and wheels on (Remotec A 17x9 +8 all round with 5mm spacer rear because i went too far with the roll lol)
Added some more camber on the front and just need to setup the front alignment now (has huge toe out)
Now I have pulled a 2.8L M52 to swap into it along with an Mcoupe LSD to make the car a bit more fun, looking to drop it in during the next few weeks
stanceworks: I don't really fit in.
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