Just Bought A 97 318ti

[devilddog88]

HEY I JUST BOUGHT A 1997 BMW 318TI. I LOVE IT, BUT I WANNA MAKE A FEW MODERTIONS TO MY CAR. I WANT TO DO SO MUCH SHIT TO IT THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START. THE FIRST THING I WANT TO DO IS GET AN EXHAUST SYSTEM BUT I DON'T WHERE TO GO( I WAS CHECKING OUT UUC EXHAUSTS BUT IM NOT SURE YET). THE NEXT THING IS TO FIX MY STEREO SYSTEM AND I HAVE TO DEFINETLY GET A NEW DECK. AFTER THAT I WANT TO REPLACE THE HEADLIGHTS WITH PROJECTOR LIGHT AND ANGEL EYES( THEY'RE TIGHT). I ALSO WANT TO WORK ON THE INSIDE, BUT I WANNA TO DO SO MANY THING I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START. ANY SUGGESTIONS

[Live_the_Curves]

Join the club of the sorrow 318i's. Word of advice sell the car before making any mods, add maybe 2000-3000 more dollars buy either a 328i or 325i. You will be much happier with those cars, cause 318's are quite slow, unless you have an engine swap planed for this car. BTW I have seen M5 engines put into 318's.

[95bmwti]

there right 318's are hard to get performance from take it from me i have a turbo charged ti and i am still looking for more horsepower. I am about to buy an apexi fuel map controller and have it professionally tuned hopefully that will help a lot. For your exhaust, you can spend over a 1,000.00 on a supersprint like me or uuc or whichever one you are looking at, but if you want a better horsepower to money ratio buy a 2 1/2" high flow cat converter, pick out a nice muffler and have your local shop bend you a custom exhaust all costing you about 300.00 and you will get more horsepower from it too. See after market exhaust will still have federal regulatoions like resonators and over sized cat converters which does not gain you any horsepower at all just nice sound. I had a supersprint put on my car and gained 2.3 horsepower, after my turbo install i had a 2 1/2" custom turbo back exhaust made with a high flow cat and a ac autotechnic muffler with 4" removable silencer and gained 9 horsepower all for 325.00 installed.

[BMWBeauty416]

I have a '98 318ti ///M
first thing I did? was clear lights
finding exhausts for these cars is NOT EASY
instant message or private message me some time
good to have more ti's on the list!

~*Teg*~

[Deloriant]

"Seven sixteenths of one inch:

That's the distance you'd have to move your pinky in order to not sound like an idiot. I know the burden of pressing shift to capitalize is a great one, but c'mon Turing, you can do better than that. I used to type emails in caps like yours, but then I decided that I didn't want a job mixing concrete."

[spiff325is]

good work on stealing stuff from Maddox, but true. you did sound like an idiot with all caps, my hat goes off to you, in which case a bat flies out and bites your face thus paralizing you from typing on this forum for the next 4 days due to venom injection...

Welcome to the Forums!

[Live_the_Curves]

Originally posted by Deloriant@Sep 26 2004, 11:35 AM
"Seven sixteenths of one inch:

That's the distance you'd have to move your pinky in order to not sound like an idiot. I know the burden of pressing shift to capitalize is a great one, but c'mon Turing, you can do better than that. I used to type emails in caps like yours, but then I decided that I didn't want a job mixing concrete."

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This guy just joined the forum, take it easy on him.