samulis
Active Member
Got myself a new toy.
Been wanting an RWD ever since I had an 106 Rallye. For some unknown reason I wanted to try a fun FWD and got bitten by Lastsoul's Rallye. Even tho it was fun, I found out quickly that I'm more of a RWD person. So lets have a quick peak few years back to Rallye at first..
It was as fugly and worn out as they come, it had seen some 280tkm of seriously rough life on street and on track.
Fell in love with it when I saw the gearstick and realized that it was running ITB's
(screaming all the way to 8k, I seem to have an serious ITB addiction).
It was 770kg (that's just under 1700lbs) of french finest, with the original 1.3 stroked to 1.4.
PO had bough it with broken bottom end and without intake. He swap'd 1.4 XSI bottom end, installed catcams, 4-2-1 exhaust manifold with DIY full exhaust, rebuild whole engine and fitted CBR600 ITB's to engine with 3D printed heat resistant PLA intake, it ran microsquirt as ECU.
What made it great was brand new, full group N suspension and upgraded brakes, made it feel like new car to drive. Lostsoul said that he's never driven a car that looks so bad and drives so great.
Said Satchshift gear stick set up gave those rally dreams something real to grab, until realizing it had brutal appetite for gearbox syncros. It had 15" semis on C5 steelie alloys and original steelies for winter. PO had swap'd a longer 5th gear from 206 for motorway cruising.
Gearbox broke almost immediately, 5th gear cog got loose, spat its bearings and parts and gearbox eat them with great apetite. Got Quaife LSD from worst seller in UK, new XSI gearbox and we build one working from two boxes using Rallye's 4.77:1 final drive. Also welded lots of rust from rear wheel wells, swap'd worn out parts etc.
Driving FWD with LSD is really, really fun. And weird, pulls inside the curve, instead of disapointing understeer and those lovely lift off drifts get better and easier to control. I have videos of how great it sounded while flying past really slooooowly, if you are interested. It did shoot flames too.
Got tired of fixing 106 and Vespa. They seemed to have joint venture of dying everytime one got fixed. Sold both to friends, bought Honda CB600, sold that, bought magnificent 1400 GSX, sold that too and then it was time for BMW.
So.. Let's get into the BMW 318Ti
Been wanting an RWD ever since I had an 106 Rallye. For some unknown reason I wanted to try a fun FWD and got bitten by Lastsoul's Rallye. Even tho it was fun, I found out quickly that I'm more of a RWD person. So lets have a quick peak few years back to Rallye at first..
It was as fugly and worn out as they come, it had seen some 280tkm of seriously rough life on street and on track.
Fell in love with it when I saw the gearstick and realized that it was running ITB's
(screaming all the way to 8k, I seem to have an serious ITB addiction).
It was 770kg (that's just under 1700lbs) of french finest, with the original 1.3 stroked to 1.4.
PO had bough it with broken bottom end and without intake. He swap'd 1.4 XSI bottom end, installed catcams, 4-2-1 exhaust manifold with DIY full exhaust, rebuild whole engine and fitted CBR600 ITB's to engine with 3D printed heat resistant PLA intake, it ran microsquirt as ECU.
What made it great was brand new, full group N suspension and upgraded brakes, made it feel like new car to drive. Lostsoul said that he's never driven a car that looks so bad and drives so great.
Said Satchshift gear stick set up gave those rally dreams something real to grab, until realizing it had brutal appetite for gearbox syncros. It had 15" semis on C5 steelie alloys and original steelies for winter. PO had swap'd a longer 5th gear from 206 for motorway cruising.
Gearbox broke almost immediately, 5th gear cog got loose, spat its bearings and parts and gearbox eat them with great apetite. Got Quaife LSD from worst seller in UK, new XSI gearbox and we build one working from two boxes using Rallye's 4.77:1 final drive. Also welded lots of rust from rear wheel wells, swap'd worn out parts etc.
Driving FWD with LSD is really, really fun. And weird, pulls inside the curve, instead of disapointing understeer and those lovely lift off drifts get better and easier to control. I have videos of how great it sounded while flying past really slooooowly, if you are interested. It did shoot flames too.
Got tired of fixing 106 and Vespa. They seemed to have joint venture of dying everytime one got fixed. Sold both to friends, bought Honda CB600, sold that, bought magnificent 1400 GSX, sold that too and then it was time for BMW.
So.. Let's get into the BMW 318Ti
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