Marty's BMW 1 Series M is finally finished

[martymil]

So I finally finished my car and got the power I wanted but the factory paint from BMW is shit house

Only a selected few knew what I was doing and that why I haven't been around much

She is finally finished and the looks match the performance, one word spectacular.

I got a few shows lined up I want to enter and one will be at the time attack in oct in the Shannon's show and shine

[thezone135i]

Noice! More pics please!

[martymil]

Ill get some tomorrow at the m club run possibly

[PG]

nice one Marty! I'll be at the show n shine as well this year

[martymil]

Cool, see you there

[blingers]

Did you manage to find m performance seats?

[martymil]

No not yet still looking

[BMWhoarder]

Originally Posted by martymil

No not yet still looking

so how is it finished then?

[martymil]

It's finished because all the imperfections are gone

Seats are not really necessary but would be nice to have some

Not going out of my way to get them

[froop]

You gave it a polish and wax?

[martymil]

Full respray inside and out, flow coated and buffed to a mirror finish

[dh58]

hottttt!

[martymil]

Just started tuning her for straight Bp ultimate and she made 314rwk

Need to get trebila and jd75 to have a good look at logs and see if there is any room for improvement

Car feels very smooth and power delivery is very nice

So I have two tunes now for her but definitely sticking to 98 for the road and e85 for track

Have to give her a nice bath on the weekend and get my camera gear out to do a photo shoot and post some more pics up

[Iceman21]

Sweet!

[100thirtyfiveinjection]

Immaculate black!

[martymil]

Thanks guys it was worth the effort

Everybody spins out when they look at it

[thezone135i]

Looks frickin amazing. Mind giving us a rough idea of what it cost, so we can all confirm that we will never do it?

[martymil]

It's not that easy it depends on how bad your paint is and how much prep work is needed

But starts at about 7k and goes up from there

[martymil]

So it looks like the gearbox has had enough and retired to the good place in the sky.

So time to source a replacement

Looking at a few sequential replacements but the suppliers aren't in a hurry to get back to me.

If someone is in the market for a 1m pay careful attention how it changes from 1st to 2nd if it grinds or whines after 10 min of driving walk away.

Its most likely the gearbox is going to let go in the near future.

Some blokes had their boxes replaced 2, 3 or 4 times.

The early zf boxes aren't up to the task

http://www.2addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1008811

A replacement trade is around 8.5k from bmw Australia and from the US its 3.2k

Way to go BMW the Australian public getting bent over and reamed by you again

So the 1M is back up on the hoist and ready for a transplant.

Who will come to the party is still unknown.

[koastal]

1M DCT - That would be pretty good

[martymil]

Not strong enough for the power levels I'm trying to achieve

[froop]

I know a mate with an N55 whose manual transmission died as well and needed a rebuild. I think he lost 1st gear. I haven't really heard of any early N54 transmission failures but I guess the newer ones might have issues. That post you linked is from 2addicts so all the failures I've heard of now seem to be the N55 manual transmissions.

From a quick look at realOEM all 135/335i N54 models use a GS6-53BZ transmission and all of the past and current N55 models and 1Ms use a GS6-45BZ transmission.

Maybe you should find a used GS6-53BZ transmission. Might be cheaper to buy, although you will need to get your prop shaft customised.