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      01-12-2014, 10:25 AM   #1
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Retrofitting e87 Msport front with brake ducts

Hey fellow e87/e81 brothers

If you changed your front to be Msport e87/e81, how difficult was it? How did your retrofit the Bake ducts.

Let me know.

I think I want to create the first e82 with e87 Msport front, it will look better than my e82 Non Msport
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Hey fellow e87/e81 brothers

If you changed your front to be Msport e87/e81, how difficult was it? How did your retrofit the Bake ducts.

Let me know.

I think I want to create the first e82 with e87 Msport front, it will look better than my e82 Non Msport
Just my opinion, but I really think the coupe m sport bumper looks a lot better than the hatch m sport bumper. You'd probably be better off just going for an e82/88 m sport bumper, maybe a 135i bumper if you like the fog light delete look.
I've got a few friends with hatches that wished they had gone with a coupe bumper instead, due to the vast number of splitters/lips offered for the e87/81 m sport bumper.
Just my o.o2, but do as you wish! Good luck
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      01-14-2014, 06:50 AM   #3
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I've thought about it too.
I did see in person a blue e87 with M sport last year on vacation and it did appeal to me over e82 msport front somehow, i dont know why it just did.

Plan is to get a used one for cheap shipped to Canada and repaint it, and maybe do one Custom mod to it.

The result will be an e82 coupe with a bumper that does not have a chin that the 135i front has (think 1m or BMW perf bumper)
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Did you end up doing this install? Curious to see how it looks.
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Did you end up doing this install? Curious to see how it looks.
Not yet. I would need to import fromUK the bumper cover
And a lip

It would look a bit goofy unless I modify the kidney grilles to look like Coupe and add alip like 3Ddesign
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In-progress: //M front arm, M3 rack, e36M lip Wishlist: Coils, n55 mnts, headers, LSD, e60 finn diff


"The 1-series is the last car that BMW engineered before the Germans, as a car-making culture, fell out of love with driving." - R&T 2013 135is

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