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Old 02-15-2006, 02:03 AM   #1
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Hey everyone,
I finally lowered my 318ti after such a long wait!

Before:





The parts...


Looks how much shorter my new springs are!!!!
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Finally finished...ready to bring back down to the ground...



After: WITH DROP AND NEW RIMS!!! :buttrock




More pictures will be coming after I take pictures.

BIG BIG thanks to my friends John (92 E30 Cabrio from Bimmerforums), John (Var1ant from Bimmerforums), and Ryan (Auto m3 otives) for helping me out with the installation!
BIG BIG BIG thanks to my brother for giving me his old rims off his E46 (good timing on getting rims)
Enjoy.
(The Bimmerforums thread)

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Old 02-15-2006, 02:14 AM   #3
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Nice! Those rims look great. Is that the prepainted wing from bavauto?
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Old 02-15-2006, 02:20 AM   #4
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Nice! Those rims look great. Is that the prepainted wing from bavauto?
Nope,
My wing is the OEM one.
I think those other ones don't have the ///M on the back.
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Old 02-15-2006, 02:25 AM   #5
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It looks great! Tell me if you sell it.
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Are those H&R race springs??
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Old 02-15-2006, 02:43 AM   #7
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H&R Sports.
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'tis the season to install new suspensions :-) I'm loving mine a LOT! I'm so glad I live in the mountains. I've been enjoying it for a whole 3 days now. My springs are about the same size as yours. I noticed my car took a day or two to settle, did yours do the same?
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H&R Sports.
Correct!
LoL you better know what it is because you helped me install it hahaha!
SDKmann...sorry, but I think that everything on my car will stay on the car till the end!

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No, I meant the car itself. I want the whole thing.
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good luck... it goes to his lil brother when Randy moves up to an M3.
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M3- Is that a 190E in your sig.?
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you mean avatar?

190e 2.5 EVOII just like in GT4.

used to own a 190e 2.6, crashed it, looked for a 190e 16v but got an e30 m3 instead.
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Looks really good,like the rims on it.
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Yeah I meant avitar, sorry. I was looking at a few 190es before figureing out that my dad had lied to me about all BMWs being unisureable for a new driver. I wanted a manual 190e 16v but could only find one in cali. That is the car that really got me into euros so its one of my favorites. There is a 190e 2.3 on my route to school with had made straight pipes on it. Ouch.
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