Here are the final photos taken of this car before it was sold. It was a fantastic machine which only served me well, ran extremely reliably, was involved in many races and was just a cool car overall. But the…
After hours and hours of sanding, it was finally ready for paint. Since I didn’t have access to a paint booth, I set up a makeshift booth in the driveway: To do this job I used a proper spray gun…
I began sanding down the paint on the fender as that was going to be the hardest part of the lot. I was hoping to just sand the surface of it, but by the time I had feathered it out…
The roof had a spot of rust above the rear windscreen since I bought the car.I finally decided to do something about it. There was sizable bubbling on the rear right above the windscreen, and under both sides right above…
The week after the track day I had to deal with the aftermath on the brakes: I actually wore the rears completely down to the backing plate on one side which also wore down half of the brake pad sensor,…
Went to the Pukekohe Test Day and had an absolute blast. This was my first time at Pukekohe and first time on a circuit in the E36. I was expecting it to be a bit slow, especially after my 1.8t…
Next I installed adjustable coilovers. I decided to go with the Solo Werks S1 coilovers after seeing they had many good reviews, basically labelled the best of the cheap “entry-level” coilovers. So I decided to give them a shot. I…
Since I live my life a quarter mile at a time I decided to upgrade my neons. This new setup uses led strips with 60 leds per meter, as opposed to my old setup which used 30 leds per meter…
Managed to run a 14.48 at Night Speed Drag Wars. Not as fast as I was hoping for but still the fastest so far. As the night went on and the air got colder I started facing grip issues, which…
Decided to try something new, figured it would make it faster for the Friday night drags: And here’s a couple of updated photos of the interior:
I quickly set about doing all the go-to mods for the e36, along with a few extras. This included: Manual swap with Getrag 220 and single mass flywheel Removed rear speakers and all amps etc Removed all engine side AC…
Of Course, I promptly took it to the drags to see what it could do. Here are some photos and footage from the event – Winter Drag Wars 2019 at Meremere Dragway. The fastest time I ran was 15.36.…
