BMW E36 Blog

I know the Yamaha driver is noobie, but I think the video is sweet and worth watching.

Enjoy :-

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I usually post about a BMW E36 that needs too much work and I ask you what you can do to make it look great with minimum changes? Today, I’ve found this black BMW E36 M3 which looks great already, but I still think that it can look even better. So, I’m going to ask you what can you do to modify this car and make it look better with only ONE change?

Take a look:-

If it was up to me, I would change the headlights to one of the new types that come up in one piece (with the corner light). For instance the third type with angel eyes in BMW E36 Headlights. I’m sure it will make it look fabulous. What about you? What would you change?

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Before I start this post. There’s one thing that is really confusing me? Why I’m not getting any response for these articles from you guys? Don’t you like to make your car headlights turn on automatically like the 200X cars? Isn’t that cool? Come on people, let me hear what you think good or bad 😈 .

I wrote four articles until now about how you can make your BMW lights turn on automatically at night. In the first post, I proved that this should be something easy to implement inside a BMW E36 car. In the second post, I presented a circuit diagram that will help you create the electronic circuit that is supposed to control your lights and turn them on automatically when it gets dark. In the third post, I wrote about my first attempt to implement this circuit and told you that it’s partially working but it needed some enhancements. In the fourth post, I created a video with the circuit implemented on breadboard and connected directly to my brother’s car lights. The video showed how the car lights turned on when I covered the light sensor with my hand (tricking the sensor to "think" it’s dark). So, the circuit is working correctly as intended.

In this new post, I soldered the circuit on permanent board and the end result looks like this:

I made sure that this circuit has the following:

1. Two wires for power (positive and negative).
2. Two long wires that are connected to the external light sensor. I made them long because I’m still not sure where I’m going to place that sensor. Take a look at this:

3. Three wires connected to an external variable resistor, this will allow us to adjust how sensitive the unit will be for light. Take a look at this:

4. Three wires that will deliver current from the battery directly to the headlights when it becomes dark.

With this circuit implemented, I think I’m ready to integrate this into my car. I hope in the next week, I will post a video here while I’m driving my car under a tunnel and show you how everything will work. :-). But please let me know what do you think of all this? Also, if you have any ideas about where I should put the light sensor, please let me know.

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Take a look at this thread on bimmerfest. It has a list of the most common mods/upgrades that can be made for your BMW E36 and best of all, the list is ordered by what you should do first. The list includes decent petrol to use for your car, good spark plugs like the NGK IRIDIUM IX, Good tires like Pirelli, Bridgestone and Yokohama, CAI (Cold Air Intake) but I’m not sure about the 10BHP gain as I read many posts about BMW owners not feeling any difference after that upgrade. To continue with the list Good brakes, Performance chip like (Dinan or Turner although I hear that Turner performance chip will make you feel the difference more in performance). These are the basic upgrades for your BMW.

If you’re interested in doing more advanced upgrades, follow the link above as it will provide you with more details and more procedures to give your BMW E36 stronger muscles 😉

BMW E36 Blog: The ultimate E36 information source.

I’ve found out that the police in Fairfax county (Virginia) are using BMW E36 325i convertibles as their police cars. Wow! this is awesome, now I really want to be a cop :p . The car doesn’t look very cool with the paint and the rear blue lights, but it’s really nice to be a cop and enjoying BMW cars at the same time. I mean to get paid to drive your convertible BMW E36 car, race and put some criminals in jail. I have to admit they’re having a nice life there 😆 . Anyway, take a look at the photos, and pay attention to the last one. The cop is enjoying every minute of it.

BMW E36 Blog: The ultimate E36 information source.