Hello from Cornwall.UK

[318ti_Bonesy]

Just a short intro really, i live in cornwall UK (as thread says) Own a 1999 318Ti M-Sport.She is totally standard at the minute but wont be for long! Got to save for my wedding before i can plough lots of monies into her.

I intend to either "charge" her or maybe go for a transplant or even both!
I owned a base model 'ti about a year ago and sadly had to sell it....I needed a car for work so bought a cheap Fiat punto HGT (sorry for my foul language) and regretted it ever since, Anyway i saved up for a while sold the crappy punto and bought my new toy!
I did quite a few mods on my last one like coilovers,Induction kit,Power boost valve,Alloys,Modded every orange light in the interior into blue lights (even the clock) so the new one looks like a whole new challenge for me!

[tiFreak]

welcome, one other member changed his interior lights to blue too, it was a while ago but search through posts by "cooljess76"

[xxxJohnBoyxxx]

Welcome to the board. For turbo information I can help a little. Swaps are great too and either way is not too hard on the wallet...The best would be a swap turbo

I did my complete interior lights, gauges to Blue also the only thing I didn't change was my climate control. Fun project and looks great at night

[318ti_Bonesy]

Hey man thanks for the replies, i will be looking into a turbo conversion in the near future, found one on ebay that includes all you need + a t3/t4 turbo! just bought a complete M44 cylinder head off a local scrappie..Had done 65000 miles so im going to strip it, get it ported and polished.A race cam set and some beehive valves from MM.Any suggestions on a cam?
Thanks again!
Cant wait for my 5 posts so i can put up some pics!
Btw does 318ti.org do any sunstrips?

[1996 328ti]

You should be able to post some photos now.
Sunstrips as in banners across the top of the windshield? Nope. Never made them.

[318ti_Bonesy]

Ideal thanks!yea thats what I meant,doesn't matter I see quite a lot of ti's in cornwall bit dont kbow if any are on here

[xxxJohnBoyxxx]

Originally Posted by 318ti_Bonesy

Hey man thanks for the replies, i will be looking into a turbo conversion in the near future, found one on ebay that includes all you need + a t3/t4 turbo! just bought a complete M44 cylinder head off a local scrappie..Had done 65000 miles so im going to strip it, get it ported and polished.A race cam set and some beehive valves from MM.Any suggestions on a cam?
Thanks again!
Cant wait for my 5 posts so i can put up some pics!
Btw does 318ti.org do any sunstrips?

Just some helpful stuff for the turbo. No polish on the head, porting can help but when you turbo you are craming air into the motor so it doesn't make a big difference like on a N/A motor. Also no race cams. You need the stock exhaust cam and can run a high lift intake cam but no over lap or you will hurt your power on the turbo. Boosted motors need no overlap or your boost will blow right out the exhaust during the overlap period.

[318ti_Bonesy]

Wow thanks for the advice! i wont bother then lol ill just refurb it and clean it up ready for when i charge it! Bloody handy coming here first lol.

Here are some pics!!

[vsonix]

that's a nice blue, do you know which one it is?
Definitely in need of some new shoes I reckon, and the towbar might have to go!

[318ti_Bonesy]

Thanks i have been told its the anniversary edition blue and is quite rare? On the 318is this is true but not sure on the 'ti.Towbar is being removed as soon as my mate moves house (he needs my trailer skills lol) and i have some OEM BMW 16" alloys that ive refurbed and got powder coated in black so she will get the attention she needs!

Am waiting for a nice evening sky over the Atlantic (uk side) so i can put in a pic for the calender

[vsonix]

yeah same (I am in Devon by the way) am waiting for the sun to come back so I can go get some tasteful shots in the afternoon light up on Dartmoor or something.

That is quite an unusual shade of blue I think, I've seen it on a 318is before with black wheels and it looked very swish. I have the Avus Blue which is a bit more 'electric' blue which is also a very nice colour but a bit more commonplace (on the ti at least). Most of the other tis I see on the road are either Boston Green or else non-metallic red or black.

oh by the way this weekend there is a BMW meet near Saltash going down, mostly bimmerforums.co.uk and a few other forums, interested? Was gonna post on here but I dunno what the mod's policy is on publicising events run by other boards...

[Andy318ti]

hey guys cant actually we have some cornish and devon members, i had lived down that way for five years and seen all of 2 ti's i had to go to manchester just to buy mine!!! lol bonesey any chance of passin on ebay info on the turbo ? cheers

[vsonix]

I got mine in Plymouth and there's certainly a few driving round Exeter although AFAIK I am the only Exeter ti owner that posts on here. How you could drive a ti and not be on this forum is beyond me haha!

One thing I have noticed though is they fetch more money round these parts - well second-hand cars do in general anyway I guess...

[318ti_Bonesy]

Turbo kit here....
Turbo kit from Canada.includes everything but the wastgate outlet needs to be blocked up as the t3 has an internal wastegate.

Cars are generally more to buy in the southwest for some reason,I took a mate to Birmingham to get his impreza as it was about 1000 pounds cheaper that way!
Got my first ti from torpoint but the new baby is from camborne :-) I was going to get a techno violet msport from Liverpool till o saw this one and don't regret it at all!

Would be good to all meet at some point check each others cars out,once I got my alloys on that is lol

Sent from my HTC Hero using Tapatalk

[vsonix]

I think I may have seen that techno violet one up for sale on the net recently, it looked pretty tasty and had really low miles, but although I really dig techno violet on the coupé I wasn't feeling it on the compact (especially with the type 18's)