New to PistonHeads (Pic Heavy)

[KickerBMW]

As I do on all the forums I sign up too I like to introduce myself first before contributing to the forums. So here we go and may this be the start of a long and fruitful relationship haha.

My names Ash, 22, live in Darlington and work in IT currently drive a 92', 3 Series BMW (320I Coupe). I've been part of the modded car scene for several years now and had various cars with varying amounts of work carried out on them. Some may say I'm part of the 'boy racer' culture I like to think of myself as being an enthusiast who's passionate about cars, like yourselves...granted our taste in cars and modifications probably differ some what.

Anyway a few pics of my ride and spec list...













Exterior:

- Full colour change from Granite Silver to Santorine Blau/Blue with Clearcoat
- Carzone E46 front bumper one of narrowed and shaped to fit E36
- Carzone rear bumper
- Zeemax genuine ZM3 narrowbody skirts
- Carbon fibre corner splitters (All Round)
- PIAA fogs
- Facelift front panel and grills
- Projector style front indicators
- M3 Lightweight front wings (Without Repeaters)
- SPA carbon race mirrors with custom carbon bases
- M3 Lightweight rubbing strips (Colour Coded)
- Altezza Version 2 rear clusters
- Shaved Locks
- Shaved rear Badges
- Iding Power SIII rear spoiler
- Half tint (All Round)
- Cut out boot floor to fit twin exit system
- ATF aero flush fuel filler
- 8.5 x 18 Hamann HM2's (225/40ZR18 TOYO Proxes)

Interior:

- Mitsi EVO VI Recaro's (Full Re-trim)
- MOMO Tornado Wheel (Colour Coded)
- MOMO Billet Gear Knob
- Center dash vents removed and custom moulded gauges fitted
- M3 Evo clocks
- SPA Tacho with shift lights
- SPA Boost/Oil Pressure gauge

Engine:

- '95 325 VANOS engine (Near future EVO 6 titanium turbo and NX Nitrous System)
- Bored out throttle body
- Remapped ECU
- K&N cone filter
- Full stainless straight through custom exhaust with twin Ractive 4.5" mufflers

Suspension and Brakes:

- H&R coilovers
- M3 Evo strut top mounts
- AP Racing 330mm rotors and 4 pot racing calipers
- 328 sport rear brakes/trailing arms
- Zimmerman rear drilled vented disks
- AP/Ferodo fast road pads front
- Pagid fast road pads rear
- Eibach front top strut brace
- M3 Lightweight lower front X-brace
- Custom rear strut brace

In Car Electronics:

- Kenwood VZ907 AV HU
- Audiovox roof monitor
- Philips 15" Monitor (Boot Build)
- PS2
- Phoenix Gold EQ
- Phoenix Gold Xover
- Phoenix Gold Tantrum PowerGrid 10
- Phoenix Gold PLD
- 2X Kicker XS100's
- 4X Kicker ZR240's
- 2X2 Kicker tweets (Moulded Pillar Builds)
- 2X Kicker 6" mids and 1X Kicker 6.5" sub (Per moulded Kickwell Build)
- 1X Kicker 6.5" sub in (Dash Build)
- 2X Kicker S15L7's
- 4X Kicker 693 6x9's (Boot Build)

Cya on the boards

Edited by KickerBMW on Monday 3rd March 22:31

[immigrant]

As far as styling goes - whatever blows your hair back...

I'm curious though, what sort of the performance are you getting from the turbo'ed 325 motor? Any dyno or vbox figures?

Edited by immigrant on Monday 3rd March 22:37

[Alfamike.]

jesus thats maxed up. its a shame that most people pigeon hole your type as boy racers straight away because there has been some pretty amazing mods done to that.
whats your rolling road bhp measuring at???

[KickerBMW]

Sadly funds have put a hold to the fitment of a turbo hence the "Near Future" comment, I'd also like to up my nitrous, couldn't say when it's going to happen it's been built into the overall spec of the car and as soon as funds permit it'll be done. I seem to spend more time and money on the up keep at the minute...getting it through it's MOT was costly there's so much I'd like to do to the car. It'll get there just going to take time...

It's currently pushing 250ish

[Ordinary Bloke]

You or your mates in white and blue T-shirts have some impressive hairstyles going on, too!

[Adom]

Always a little confused by the dvd in the boot trend...how often do you watch films in your boot??

not taking the piss, just wondered why they are often installed there?

[immigrant]

KickerBMW said:

It's currently pushing 250ish

With a remap and exhaust?

[David1975]

Did you buy this car from Ingleby? I am sure i have seen this car going about albeit with a few less mods maybe.

Some mods are to my taste and some are not. Certainly cant fault the time and money spent on it and you certainly dont do things by halves.

Regards

D.

[SeanyD]

Kicker - not my cup of tea, and possibly the same for many PH lot, but putting that aside, your opening comments are polite and friendly enough, and nobody could criticise your time and effort put into that thing, top class if thats what you're into.

Probably cost about 5 times what mine did after having all that done, so good on you.

Welcome !!

[tvrbob]

SeanyD said:

Kicker - not my cup of tea, and possibly the same for many PH lot, but putting that aside, your opening comments are polite and friendly enough, and nobody could criticise your time and effort put into that thing, top class if thats what you're into.

Probably cost about 5 times what mine did after having all that done, so good on you.

Welcome !!

^^ What he said ^^

[The GMan]

immigrant said:

KickerBMW said:

It's currently pushing 250ish

With a remap and exhaust?

That must be with a squirt of nitros?

What size jets you got on it?

Edited by The GMan on Tuesday 4th March 13:33

[KickerBMW]

Cheers for the warm welcome guys, the cars like marmite you either love it or hate it. I personally don't mind what reaction it gets at the end of the day I bought the car for myself and enjoy it.

Adom, to be honest, never! It's purely there for shows infact the boots rarely open outside of show season.

David, I purchased the car off my mate who used to live in Ingleby and work at the local Mitshi garage. The cars had various incarnations over the years...you may have also seen his other rides pottering round an E30 (Same colour as my 36) and a totally insane Boso Zoku style Jap van.

[David1975]

KickerBMW said:

David, I purchased the car off my mate who used to live in Ingleby and work at the local Mitshi garage. The cars had various incarnations over the years...you may have also seen his other rides pottering round an E30 (Same colour as my 36) and a totally insane Boso Zoku style Jap van.

Yeah, I know the E30 too, have seen that around. Lived very close to me when i was at me dads. Havent seen the van about i dont think.

Get it down to "cars in the park" in April (pretty close to us, only Harrogate way) as i am sure others would be interested in looking and more importantly hearing your setup. There are a few of us northeasterners going down in convoy with various pickup along the way including scotch corner.

Regards

D.

[SeanyD]

David1975 said:

KickerBMW said:

David, I purchased the car off my mate who used to live in Ingleby and work at the local Mitshi garage. The cars had various incarnations over the years...you may have also seen his other rides pottering round an E30 (Same colour as my 36) and a totally insane Boso Zoku style Jap van.

Yeah, I know the E30 too, have seen that around. Lived very close to me when i was at me dads. Havent seen the van about i dont think.

Get it down to "cars in the park" in April (pretty close to us, only Harrogate way) as i am sure others would be interested in looking and more importantly hearing your setup. There are a few of us northeasterners going down in convoy with various pickup along the way including scotch corner.

Regards

D.

Kicker - North East register building nicely here, get yourself on there, see you around.

http://www.petrolheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=490195 

[Jamz]

Ash what happend to the evo style graphics which were getting put on when i saw it at Sign Here

[Andy_sx]

Ash glad to see you over here mate,

BM isn't quite to my taste, bit OTT for me, but as you say, its the passion for cars more than anything

Andy_sx (from Boo)

[KickerBMW]

David, will definitely have a run over to Cars in the Park when is it? Surprised you haven't seen the Van kicking about it does tend to stand out...





Jamz, I loved the Evo/Jap style graphics at first but after a few days I found myself slowly detesting them and realising they didn't fit in with the cars style. Like most graphics though you don't really know what they'll look like till fitted...

Couple of pics with them on, excuse the quality taken on my camera phone and still had a load of cutting compound round the door handles after re-spraying the door, rubbing down etc...





Alright Andy, it's taken me long enough to sign up been meaning to do it for awhile. Lifestyles pretty hectic as you've no doubt noticed from my lack of posts on BOO (When I had my Bravo).

Might be sporting a new ride shortly, funds permitting...gonna speak to my bank manager next week to see if it's feasible.



Baby Blue RX7 for the win

[ray_von]

Don't want to offend anyone here, but I'm sure it will, that van is the biggest piece of st I've ever seen. I don't care if 'it's been done really well' or any other comments that get bandied about when refering to these sort of projects. It's horrendous.
WTF is that all about

[insanojackson]

Do i not like those cars!!!!

[rawky]

what u gonna take to cars in the park?