so i recently purchased a e36 m3, its a 98, with only 68k miles. One owner, super taken care of with all maintenance reported to carfax from dealer. i picked it up for a song, and it came with a parts only parts car. the car was rear ended, and sat for a few years. it runs great, turns right over, and runs great. The parts car, is a 98 323, that also runs, well it ran until i cut off the rear end. Now the car has been dropped off at a Frame shop, where they will cut the entire rear end of the car underneath the rear seat at the spot welds seam and put a new rear end in and weld it back up with a continuous weld seam instead of factory spot welds. that will make it stronger than original, and that would be the proper way of doing this repair, and on a car like this, i want it done right. this is gonna be my little build thread with the progress. not gonna happen over night, its just a project car that i decided to fix and most likely wont sell for a long long time. For more up to date Pics, Follow me in Instagram @Busted.Knuckle.Garage
here are some pics. enjoy.
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"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
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-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
Itll be like that herbie movie where hes welding the beetle together on the race track and then they end up taking 1st and 3rd when the car breaks in half before the finish
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yes. exactly like that.
-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
Pretty much like this repair;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_en...l=Arthurtussik
yup. tussik does great repairs and exceeds factory spec, (in my vast experience with frame and collision repair) except in this video there are 3 layers of steel in the floor boards and pillars, where as in e36, there are unfortunately only two, using a carbide blade, and a Milwaukee cordless sawzall with 3 bars on my 5.0 battery i was able to cut the whole car in half in under 3 minutes. they are like tin cans.. (unfortunately) but its what is needed to do a proper repair.
-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
Baller repair attempt! I got rear ended and had considered the same repair with even less damage (just to passenger quarter panel). It's totaled now and well into becoming just a shell. Look forward to your progress reports...
Btw, why didn't you just swap all the M bits onto the 323?
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323 has a "Parts only" title and its auto. the repair on the m3 is gonna cost me around $800, so in the long run time wise its cheaper. and u know these older cars. you pull on a plug and it breaks in your fingers type of junk. also the m3 vin will remain an m3. the M3 has a rebuilt title, but say i wanna sell it down the road, this thread will show proof that it was fixed the correct way not just half assed in some dudes garage. but i doubt ill wanna sell it any time soon. 68k miles is really hard to come by with these cars.. i also have a Dakar Yellow Sedan shell, but thats gonna me a project further down the line.
-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
Thank
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You found someone to weld the two pieces of car together for only $800? It sounds like a lot more work than that.
I do this for a living, and it’s only a 2 day job. after doing this a while you have frame contracts. Prices I get with the amount of work I bring to my frame guys, vs price you you get by walking off the street to a body shop asking to get this job done, are about few grand difference.
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-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
We did that on one of our track cars ... was backed hard into a wall, so we cut the rear off a donor car and replaced it. Ours was done at the rear window seam and across the C pillar ... Car ran many seasons after without any issues. Done correctly, it can certainly be as good or better than factory.
-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
So, i brought it to a repair facility, and they really butchered the repair. no one else wanted to fix it, and i was kinda SOL..... its not even superficial stuff like body work, im talking the frame is still back an inch and half, the tire barely clears the battery box on pass side, and the car is a hazard to anyone who is sitting in the back seat IF there is ever an accident. Not a chance im willing to take. Maybe some one who does track then most of that stuff gets cut away and reinforced with structural bars but, i decided to buy a E36 clean rust free southern shell with clean title off a good friend and fellow forum member.
ill be swapping literally EVERYTHING off of my 68k milage car including all the drive train (and upgrading things with better things when i can and better bushing engines mounts and so on and so forth) to this new shell, except the wiring harness.
i would like to swap the Gauges too, so i can keep track of the engine miles, as i wont care for body miles since mostly everything will be replaced on the body with my donor... will this give me issues? and if so what needs to be replaced off my donor to keep the gauges at original 68k miles?
i will be uploading pics shortly once i pick up the shell.
here are some pics of the e36 donor if some one wants it as a track car.
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-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
[QUOTE=Bystrov;30133695]So, i brought it to a repair facility, and they really butchered the repair. no one else wanted to fix it, and i was kinda SOL..... its not even superficial stuff like body work, im talking the frame is still back an inch and half, the tire barely clears the battery box on pass side, and the car is a hazard/QUOTE]
I'm sure I'm not the only one that would love to see how bad it looks, will you post a few pictures?
[QUOTE=AJLM34A;30133946]Ask and thou shalt receive ... I mean if it was a track car, u can cut out that box and be fine. So it will make a fine track car shell.
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"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
Started tearing it down and get it ready to give up the engine and tranny to a new host.
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And here’s the New shell
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-alex
"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
Another dakar!
Current
1999 BMW M3/2/5 cosmos/black vaders
Past
2000 BMW M5, Jetblack
1995 BMW M3/2/5, Alpine white
1997 BMW 328/5, Boston green
2005 BMW 330/6 ZHP, Silbergrau
1999 BMW 540/6, Cashmere beige
2000 BMW 328/5, 144k miles sienna red (slicktop)
1995 BMW Dinan M3/2/5, Dakar yellow (I regret it)
2002 BMW 530iA sport, Jetblack
2001 BMW 530iA sport, cosmos
2002 BMW 530iA, sterlinggrau
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Doing a square set up for wheels
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"You don't have a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis
Finally 68k mileage engine is out and going in to Dakar!
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