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  • E36 M3 Manual Swap

    E36 M3 Manual Swap

    I always hated the E36 M3, but I was simply misguided and have since come to my senses. “It’s not a real M!” they say. I used to spout the same sentence up until my best friend bought one and I had the pleasure of kicking the backend out on a road outside of a…

  • Rescuing a rare spec 944

    Rescuing a rare spec 944

    I was about a month away from my move to NYC. What better decision is there to make than to buy a car with severe issues before then?  I found this 944 on Craigslist and immediately drove up the next morning to check it out. Garnet Red, 16” Fuchs, sport suspension, and Porsche script sport…

  • Aluminum Single-VANOS M52B28 E30 Swap

    Aluminum Single-VANOS M52B28 E30 Swap

    After about a year of E30 owning bliss, I decided that the 4 cylinder I opted for was simply not cutting it. I found a perfect donor car: a 1998 BMW Z3, ripe for picking as it had the two-year-only aluminum block M52B28 single VANOS, along with a ZF320 5 speed manual.  The bandage of…

  • Shoehorning an E30 Convertible into a retail space

    Shoehorning an E30 Convertible into a retail space

    We were tasked with creating a display that would not only garner attention at first glance, but keep people intrigued and thinking about it.  Due to my passion for cars, my first thought was to put a car into the store. I had a 1991 BMW 318is that I was currently not driving that we…

  • 335i E-Diff Deletion: Removal of BMW’s Fun-Ruiners

    335i E-Diff Deletion: Removal of BMW’s Fun-Ruiners

    Of course the E90 335i doesn’t come with a limited-slip differential, because that would be sacrilegious to BMW’s M department. Although, that’s what they’ve been doing since the E36 era – only M models had the privilege. For the usual driver, it doesn’t mean much, but to someone who’s trying to autocross or do other…