 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | 1999 M3 Swap 09-07-2023 10:10 PM 05-02-2024 08:18 PM 6 Replies, 397,012 Views | |  |  |  |  04-08-2007, 07:44 PM | #1 | | Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: East Lansing, MI Posts: 37 |  Recomendations for body
hi, i am graduating from high school. and i am being forced by my father to work 30+ hours a week.. so thats alot of cash. i bought a 1995 318ti black.. it has the ugly grey side skirts and the back bottum bumper is ugly.. intereted in getting a body kit. i love the Mtech from bumper and the regular M3 side skirts... but i cant find a good rear bumper for my car. any help would be greatly appreciated... a little about my goals for my car... black beauty, that says it all. i have tinted windows. the car is black. i am looking to get the body kit to match. later i will get white angel eyes and remove the amber to a white. i have the nice bmw stock rims and decent wheels came with it. but i will eventually look into getting black rims and a new exhaust.. i have read many forums and like the sound of the storumg or what ever it is exhaust. maybe after all that i will get an engine swap to keep the car running.. this is the most beautiful car ever. i will keep it for decades to come  any help would be greatly appreciated, example: good deals. weather i can put it together myself or i should hire a professional. oh yah a rear spoiler, a short one, sounds great! any repsonse is great!!!! |  |  | | 04-08-2007, 07:46 PM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Port St. Johns, Florida Posts: 2,242 |
what's wrong with the Mtech rear bumper? | | | | | 04-08-2007, 08:22 PM | #3 | | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 |
Don't bother with exhaust or engine performance upgrades if you plan on doing an engine swap later. It's just money wasted as you'll more than likely won't get back whatever you put into it. Same goes for suspension, The 6cyl motors are a little heavier and you'll have to do a custom suspension setup for the car to handle properly. | | | | | 04-08-2007, 08:34 PM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Portland Oregon Posts: 1,363 |
in the future I plan on designing my own widebody ti/ vert ti. Just for fun. As with you I am in love with the ti, I want to mod this baby out like none other! BTW I am a engineer in training  Right now I am building the ti in a 3d program I will make a thread about it later. Look for m3 sideskirts, mtech front, blackout taillights, black out sideblinkers, paint your rims if you can o and get some blackout grilles. see thats cool...  Since my car is white with that gray crap I am playing with the idea of replacing that gray with flat black. | | | | | 04-08-2007, 08:58 PM | #5 | | Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: East Lansing, MI Posts: 37 |
Quote: Originally Posted by Panzer_M  what's wrong with the Mtech rear bumper? | i cant find it anywhere! i went to bavarian auto where i found the sideskirts and front bumper... and i went to understeer.com where i found my angel eyes and neither of themhave it. and is there a way i can get an Mtech kit? so i dont have to buy it all seperatly and maybe i could save some cash? | | | | | 04-08-2007, 10:09 PM | #6 | | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stamford, CT <-> Boston, MA Posts: 1,393 |
Quote: Originally Posted by 3DGE in the future I plan on designing my own widebody ti/ vert ti. Just for fun. As with you I am in love with the ti, I want to mod this baby out like none other! BTW I am a engineer in training Right now I am building the ti in a 3d program I will make a thread about it later. Look for m3 sideskirts, mtech front, blackout taillights, black out sideblinkers, paint your rims if you can o and get some blackout grilles. see thats cool... Since my car is white with that gray crap I am playing with the idea of replacing that gray with flat black. | Do you have pictures or links to these blacked out sideblinkers + taillights you speak of? Or are they just tinted with some spray tint or film? | | | | | 04-09-2007, 03:35 AM | #7 | | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 |
search "318ti smoked corners and sidemarkers" on ebay | | | | | 04-09-2007, 09:15 PM | #8 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: state college, pa Posts: 3,431 |
Start with ebay. Check group buys on stuff at bf.c.
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