e36 bmw?

[joefis13]

What up guys, I just had a question about my fiances' BMW. I hear everyone talking about e36, e46 and so on. What does that mean? We've had the car for a while but I didn't pay attention to it before because it wasn't a truck but now I got into the euro scene and I want to fix hers up a bit. It's a 93 3.18is and I beleive the headgasket is blown and the interior is getting pretty bad. Is there a site someone can direct me to where I can read up on this? Thanks alot....

[Alan_One]

Well, not that I wanna drive you away from this site but http://www.e36fanatics.com/ might be a good source for suggestions in addition to the beemer guys on this board.

E36 and E46 refer to the platform the cars are built on. But I dunno if the 318 was built on the same E36 platform as the other 3 series cars (325, 328, M3) of that year. Of course I'm not a BMW expert.

[joefis13]

Cool, that site had a lot of info. thanks alot.

[InfuzerM3]

if your from the san diego area you can always check out AutoBahn Parts in El Cajon. They sell everything you could ever need for bimmers.

tom

[909dub]

What up guys, I just had a question about my fiances' BMW. I hear everyone talking about e36, e46 and so on. What does that mean? We've had the car for a while but I didn't pay attention to it before because it wasn't a truck but now I got into the euro scene and I want to fix hers up a bit. It's a 93 3.18is and I beleive the headgasket is blown and the interior is getting pretty bad. Is there a site someone can direct me to where I can read up on this? Thanks alot....
Also try www.bimmerforums.com
There is a lot of great info on that site.

Your 318 is an e36 chassis (92-98 body style)
e46 is 99 and up