[Kizzu]

So I've been willing to make a write up of my build since god knows when but due to my exam sessions I had to wait a little bit. So, as I got my license my parents decided to let me choose a car for myself on a specific budget which I paid half of it myself indirectly. So my father being an e30 owner I always lusted BMW's but growing in a generation where cars like supra's evo's rx-7/8 and nissan's dominated the car scene I was sided towards Japanese cars too and at first I was going to end up buying an e46 m3 or an rx8 (now knowing yet insurance groups etc on an 18 year old person). My father opted me out to buy the e46 M3 and later that week he began searching insurance agencies were he could insure me. Sadly no one accepted to insure a freshly licensed ''child'' with a 340bhp+ engine so those dreams where briefly shattered
later on that year (end of 2011) I was searching on autotrad3r and found out some e92's which are still pretty stunning and will surely remain so in my tastes. So we went on searching a 320i. The choice of the 2.0l engine mainly was decided by the insurance agencies here in malta as the only 2 options that they would insure me on were the 320d or 320i or less and being a person that dislikes diesel engines I went to buy the 320i. I had found one with 16k miles on it, had alpine white colour with red nappa leather in the interior and with msport pack so it was basically all i could have asked for, so we went to see it and its condition was utterly horrible. It had rust on the boot tear drops on the doors (spray painted badly) and the one of the door hinges wasn't mounted properly an as a result the edges of the door to the mudguard were a bit 'wrong' so we discarded that option too. I kept on searching the net hoping to find a similar e92 but surprisingly ended up on an e82 page and it was astonished by its shape. Don't get me wrong the e92 is more of e head turner but in those days the e82 was less common to find in the streets and having a proper boot and 4 seats it was quite a handful for me. long story short I ended up seeing this car from an approved used in sytner cardiff and I fell for it immediately. I knew that I would have some issues with insurance agencies having a 3.0 engine (yes they act according to engine displacement not engine output) but anyways on july 2012 I ended up buying it as at that time I thought that spending all my money on a car was a wise move. I was amazed by the cars extra's as for a 1er to have heated seat sat nav etc was not that common in my country, actually to be completely honest I am the only owner of a 125i here so you can imagine my pride anyways Once I shipped it here my happiness was shortly lived, no insurance agency insured me so I had to wait to drive it till the next year (it was being rarely driven by my father since then so as not to leave it sitting). On July 2013 I found an insurance agency that was ready to take the risk and insure me and so my project began. Slowly but at least I managed to continue
this was when it was stock
My first ''mod'' was a kidney grille replacement
the month after I went to a panel beater and removed my front plate and darkened just slightly the headlights and fogs with amber indicators

after the small exterior touches I wanted something done in the engine so to give it a little bit of umfff So I started from the newbie basics of mods... a short ram intake. which was round last december
and installed it myself taking me an hour or 2 without reading any instruction

next up was in last february doing stud and lug nut conversion myself which took me a week's time and a lot of swearing in the process of doing up the study with thread locker and jacking first fronts then rears etc


All that time spent was rewarding as although the lug nuts are not quite visible on stock alloys they will surely be noted in the near future.
from february till this month I didn't have time for her unfortunately as I was busy passing my A' levels so progress was minimal BUT this week I installed the p-torque 125i tune which is supposed to tweak the ecu and code it to 130i specs. The results were immediately noted, the car pulls more after 3k revs and the acceleration is noticeably quicker

this is all I have done to the car YET but in the near future my wishlist is something like this:

• bc br coils
  csl bootlid or perf spoiler
  riegar diffuser
  custom exhaust
  struts and anti roll bars
  bmwp shortshifter
  front lip (don't know which one yet
  bmwp sideskirts
  some sort of alloys
  and maybe an lsd too
  
  

till know the car looks like this





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