My Stock DD Gets Mods : And It Begins

Well I was driving home from work and my awesome E36 cooling system takes a shit on me. The upper hose nipple blew off the radiator. Then they must have had an orgy because there was liquid gushing out of the house all over my engine bay. So while I was in there I cleaned it up some. I went with the fully aluminum radiator, thermostat cover, 78 degree Celsius thermostat, race spec water pump, electric fan, belts, gaskets, hoses, and a new intake. Here are some pictures of the progress. Runs great, feels a little stronger at speed. I’m interested if I will see an increase or decrease in fuel economy.

Future: exhaust, s50 manifold and a tune, new fog lights, maybe rimz

Yah! I love mail…
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At least I have a car to get my parts with…over night parts from Hitler! Yah
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All done and cleaned up a little…
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk320/ultradriver10000/Bridget/BMWcooling006.jpg

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I raced some guy in an Edge style drop top mustang, and kept up really good with it. I had three people in my car, he was alone, and it had rimz and exhaust. I want to be able to be mustangs lol…

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk320/ultradriver10000/Bridget/BMWcooling015.jpg

yah yah yah yah yah :slight_smile:

lol. that didnt take long. haha.

I know… I’m afraid I might do an X brace, tower braces, and coil overs… :eek:

Edit: I wonder if M3’s like :snky: as much as C5’s do? hehehehe

I love how you drive the 500whp 'vette to pick up parts for your daily. <3

:tup:

The one old guy at the BMW dealership was totally digging the vette.

“That’s not a bad back up car you got there” -old man laughing as I place coolant in my hatch.

nice beater

LOL I saw the title to this thread and knew it was you before I scrolled down to the author…