Hey guys, greetings from Germany.

This is my current car. I bought it in November 2009 after I sold my previous E36 320i sedan.

It's a '97 BMW 323i automatic as a Touring.

Mods are:

• Coilovers by AP
  
• OEM 7-Series wheels (Styling 32) in 8x18 ET20 / 9x18 ET22
  
• 215/35/18 Nankang NS2 front & rear
  
• Rear fenders rolled
  
• M-bumpers & skirts
  
• Wiechers strut brace
  
• Depo headlights
  
• smoked turns
  
• smoked MHW tails

When I got it:






As it is sitting currently:

















As it is, I'm looking for a new job right now. When I've finally found one, I'll be buying a new daily (maybe a E36 Touring as a 325tds and convert it to run on salad oil) and rip apart this one here for a rebuild. What will come: K-Sport coilovers, E46 330i brake, modification of the engine with parts from a M54B30 to build a M52B30 and some minor mods for a planned 250hp, some bodywork and new paint.

Nice stance but but... Roll the fenders and drop that shit, inch or two ?

Nice progress!

I´ve never been a fan of E36.s, or any newer BMW.s actually, but when done properly they are very stylish.
I was actually pretty close to buying a similar 320i Touring about a year ago, but it had some pretty suspicious flaws so I decided not to go for it..

Those styling32-wheels fits well to your OEM-look My friend had same wheels but white-coloured under his e36

this has to be one of the best e36:s on this forum, i love the touring and i dream of owning one myself some day

Looks good, maybe some tints? 50% would look nice.

Good to see you over here dude... You know I love your car haha..

Oh my.., that car has some SWEET shitz. I prefer some slight tints to the headlights and fogs.
You got some serious business over there man! I love it.

Very nice bimmer! I remember seeing your mk3 Golf on vortex, loved it and this one is looking clean as well Good job.

Looks really good !

Thanks guys!

Juki kirjoitti:

Very nice bimmer! I remember seeing your mk3 Golf on vortex, loved it and this one is looking clean as well Good job.

Small world, haha! Nice to hear people still remember my old Mk3!

hhöpö kirjoitti:

Dr.AK kirjoitti: Yeah, the Styling 32s are imho the best OEM wheel in 18", followed closely by the Styling 5s. Got any pictures of the white 32s? I'm interested to see how that looks. I was originally going to paint mine bright green, but did a few fakes and didn't like how it looked, just doesn't flow with that style of wheel, so I went with a flat grey instead. http://heikkij.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Bmw+325i+coupe+-93/ Here is few pics with 17" wheels and stock suspension. Hope this help you little bit Btw you have nice car

That looks better than expected, thanks for the pics!



Btw. here's the most recent picture of my car...




Some kinda animal, I think it might have been some kind of huge cat or maybe a fox... I dunno, anyways, it ran in front of me when I was going around around 100km/h. Broke the bumper, ripped out the fog and bent the plate.

Bent the plate back a bit and did some ghettofixing on the bumper, lol.


Will stay that way for now... waiting to hear some news if I made that job or not. If I got the job, I'm going to get a daily and then start to rebuild the Touring. After yesterday I really have a craving for a VW Jetta Mk2 Diesel as a daily... just nice, low and slow...

First, welcome to forum! Bmw is awesome Nothing bad to say =)
Some pic of my friends ex e36 touring -> http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/669/ykuvat048.jpg

More to come once the guy is done with editing the pictures.

Awesomesquad!

Plans for 2011:

- K-Sport coils
- Vinyl wrap in satin black
- Wheels either satin black or bronze
- new M Front bumper
- smoked front fogs
- H1 headlights with HIDs and CCFL angel eyes

After that sometime in the future I'll tackle the brakes and the engine.

Sounds like good.

Mmmmm... It looks awesome! Keep on rollin

Did some more thinking, the plans I mentioned above won't be done after all, haha.

The car will stay Cosmosschwarz and I've already sold the 18" Style 32s...

A new set of wheels is already on the way too!

Next year I'll be rocking oldschool Rials... 8.5x17 ET13 + 9.5x17 ET20, planning on running 205/40 and 215/40. Wheels will most likely receive a full polish with some black accents.

sounds like aplan. with those wheels and planned tires car is going to next level. waiting anxious...

Got the wheels in some time ago...



They look better than anticipated, but still need some work.

This is somewhat what it should look like:






On a bitter note: I slid into a sign post.






And that was the last straw - I'm going to take the Touring off the road for a complete rebuild soon. Already bought a daily, but I still need to find a workshop where I can work on the Touring.

Bodywork, reworked fenders, new paint, complete new suspension, more power, interior details... All will happen once the Touring is taken off the road. Can't wait to start work on it.

So...


Some heavy crap happened.

Had an accident with my company car which lost me my lost my drivers licence. Lost my job because of that; deal with my daily Golf was refunded, I was going to sell the Touring to pay my lawyer.

But I managed to scrape enough together so I can keep the Touring.

Sooooo today I did some testfits.


Rial Mesh, 8.5x17 ET13 with 235/45 & 9.5x17 ET20 with 255/40






Brock B2, 8.5x17 ET35 with 225/45






These will be my temp summer daily wheels for the time beeing.
I'll refurb the Brocks myself, put some 215/40s on and maybe some spacers and call it a day.

Rials will come once I've fixed all the damage to the car, since that stuff is more important. They will be polished or something like that and receive some 205/40 or 215/35 for the fronts and 225/35 for the rears.



Oh, btw: Got the Brocks for free

wow you've been busy crashin' around... glad you could keep the bmw and that you are going to keep on working with it.
those 9.5" rear-rials are spot on! can't wait to see them fitted on! ...now just keep on working with it, the summer is coming!

-->madmax they've been without snow for weeks. yup... it's f*cked up here in FIN and with night temperatures constantly below zero there will snow here even in midsummer.

The car is looking awesome! I have almost the same wheels, Rial mesh in 16x8,5. I was wondering, you wouldnt have an extra set of center caps for them, would you? My wheels are lacking them.

18" are too big.17" is goooood,but not the brocks,maybe rials with 195 and 205/40 rubbers..lower it god damn..