Project 1998 M3

[D_Eclipse9916]

You know me (well maybe not you personally), but I'd do all the things on that list, but maybe make them secondary to the cooling stuff. I'm a big believer in a methodical timeline of fixing what needs fixing first, then mods.

haha true true. Good thing to consider. I'll start searching around for an impeller, radiator and expansion tank then I suppose. I'm not too concerned since its getting colder and the likelihood of overheating is a whole lot less.

Heater core wise, yup, I'm not excited about it at all. Some say it'll be an 8 to 10 hour job for a $100 part, but it'll be worth it in the long run. If anyone wants to help, that'd be awesome

Cosmetically though, my birthday is coming up and the rents said they'd pay for some cosmetic things, so I'll hit them up on that. I'm just going to order the parts to the glove box, get a new front emblem, and since my shift knob is shot to hell and I'm borrowing jakes off his e30, I need to get a new one of those too. The bumper can wait though, but the wheels do need to be changed over soon.

Anyways, it drives fine. Just smells a little like coolant

Not to make you worried, but id be MORE worried during the winter about a plastic cooling system. Its not that bmws overheat, its that the plastics EXPLODE. Literally. Endtanks explode, thermostat housing cracks, metal impeller fails and rips everything apart.

During the winter because of thermal expansion due to quick heat from a motor, and then quick cooling from from the cold weather makes everything swell and contract on a more extreme scale leading to you being more prone to failure. One of the reasons plastic end tanks are a bad idea, espcially if their bad bmw plastic, is that imagine the copper or alumnum core expanding and contracting, while the plastic does not. You can see why over time this leads to issues.