cant find perfermance parts for bmw HELP

so i have a 1986 bmw 325. im looking to make a couple mods to it to make it a lil faster. i searched on goole but found nothing for my year ive been searching forever now and cant find anything. im not looking for major mods just simple bolt on's, like cold air intake, throttle body spacer, chips, ect..... i cant find any websits so some help would be nice! just looking to make my daily a lil funner to drive!

Dinan does stuff for the new BMWs. Not sure about an 86 but give them a try.

http://www.dinancars.com/

all you need is a chip. I had an 86 eta. the 84-87 325 "no e, no i", which means there is no letter after the 325, is the eta series engine with low redline and long stroke (lots of torque). The chip will raise the redline right off the tach, watch your friends faces as you rev clean past the numbers, its great.

a good mod after that is to replace the 2:73 rear gear with a 3:07 or 3:23 from certain e28 (84-88 533i-535i) cars.

Bang for the buck, that is all you will need. If you really want crazy power though, you can get a euro 323i cylinder head (it has 7 cam journals and a more agressive cam) and computer and you will have a 7k rpm stroker that will smoke most pony and camaro dreamers. Those are hard to find though.

the 325i cylinder head wont work, the 325i has hemispherical combustion chambers and pop top pistons.

But really though, the 50 dollar ebay chips are your best value, the car will be an animal after you swap it. Do your homework first though, there are two different types of chips and three different ecus. You have to get the ecu number right AND count the number of pins on the chip. Some ecus have a soldered in chip, which can make you sad. But it adds like 27 hp and 50 lb ft, you will be VERY happy.

Cone filters are a waste of money. spend the money on opening up the exhaust and maybe a rear gear swap.

^^^^^^^^^ wow thanks for the help russ. didnt think i woulld get much responce considering the car and year. but im deff gona look into the chip!!! aswome!

Is there anything you don't know everything about Russ-D?? I'm just in awe of you sometimes.

Russ-D any helpful hints with a 91 3.18IS? We picked one up for a shop project. So far we have installed the air ride, painted the car, threw on some BBS wheels, stereo, made strut bars and a camber kit, etc. Next on the list is performance, we have ordered a Downing Altanta supercharger for it. Along with that, what other supporting mods might you suggest.

anybody else got some helpfull info!

pelican parts.comhttp://www.bimmerdiy.com/http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7542392#post7542392http://bmwfanhttp://www.autobahnparts.com/carlisting.aspx?make=top20&Page=0s.info/

^^^^^thanks but they had mostley replacment parts!

Originally posted by 98lows10



Russ-D any helpful hints with a 91 3.18IS? We picked one up for a shop project. So far we have installed the air ride, painted the car, threw on some BBS wheels, stereo, made strut bars and a camber kit, etc. Next on the list is performance, we have ordered a Downing Altanta supercharger for it. Along with that, what other supporting mods might you suggest.





is this a trick question to see if I really know my bmw stuff? downing atlanta doesnt make a supercharger for the 91? There is no knock sensor, so you would need new engine management to safely run the DAS. the 92 was the first 4 cyl with a knock sensor.

for mods to the 91 1.8, there isnt much, it is a forged crank high compression engine. The cam gears are ajustable and I have heard that advancing the exhaust cam gives you more top end. On that car a cone filter is less restrictive and makes it hoooowwwwl at 7000rpm, and Conforti makes a great chip (turner motorsports).

I have a 98 318i that I would love to DAS.