So I bought myself a present Christmas eve.
Hey, how did that get in there?
Probably explains my shit-eating grin in pic 1 :D
See the exhaust on the right?
I was wearing earplugs
My brother's ears were ringing for quite a bit!
This car has to get me to and from school, so the exhaust had to go! Feast your eyes on the exhaust pictured above on the left! Junkyard special, unknown brand. The muffler is stainless though! Along with that, I nabbed a slightly damaged OBD2 midsection. It needed new downpipes, so I headed to a local exhaust shop and had it put on.
Sorry, no sound clips. :( It was very quiet, really too quiet to get on camera with all the wind we'd been having. It still had a good sound to it, and I could hear wonder 24v engine noises again!
The catback was temporary, I had a little upgrade in shipping
Now for some sound clips!
For some more history on the car - Herb, the P.O., had Treehouse Racing do the swap. It's mated to a 260, with a 3.73 LSD. It's converted to OBD1 with the S50/M50 manifold. Apparently it was chipped for a euro HFM, though it was running a stockie. I had one sitting around, as well as a 3.5" AA intake, so I slapped that on for some noticable butt dyno gains :)
Still limited to 6800 and 128mph though. That will probably chance by next week!
The car had the rear seats, tar, and carpet stipped out (and some other small trim) but Herb had a friend selling a tan interior locally for a good price - $250. I dropped by and picked it up the next week! This is what I did with it:
A link to the seats I mentioned: http://www.memoryfab.com/products/detail_accessories_4/ (They have a nice used wheel section too!)
When I sell the wheels off the e28 (17" staggered Borbet Type T's :) ) I'll probably be ordering them.
Speaking of wheels, when funds allow those slips are gone, or atleast becoming winter wheels. Still looking for what I want, but I've been leaning towards BBS Impuls in 16" or 17" with a decent lip.
Currently the car needs a little maintenance, the center bearing is on its way out and likes to make that known if any hard accelleration is tried in first or second. I've got a new center bearing and guibo to put in this weekend in 20-30 degree weather. I'll also be changing the plugs and the valve cover gasket. Here's to hoping it warms up some so I can tackle some other paint projects!
The car will be painted black come the summer, but it is getting a touch of rat rod until then. Assuming we can work against the cold, there should be some cosmetic updates come this weekend!
Hey, how did that get in there?
Probably explains my shit-eating grin in pic 1 :D
See the exhaust on the right?
I was wearing earplugs
My brother's ears were ringing for quite a bit!
This car has to get me to and from school, so the exhaust had to go! Feast your eyes on the exhaust pictured above on the left! Junkyard special, unknown brand. The muffler is stainless though! Along with that, I nabbed a slightly damaged OBD2 midsection. It needed new downpipes, so I headed to a local exhaust shop and had it put on.
Sorry, no sound clips. :( It was very quiet, really too quiet to get on camera with all the wind we'd been having. It still had a good sound to it, and I could hear wonder 24v engine noises again!
The catback was temporary, I had a little upgrade in shipping
Now for some sound clips!
For some more history on the car - Herb, the P.O., had Treehouse Racing do the swap. It's mated to a 260, with a 3.73 LSD. It's converted to OBD1 with the S50/M50 manifold. Apparently it was chipped for a euro HFM, though it was running a stockie. I had one sitting around, as well as a 3.5" AA intake, so I slapped that on for some noticable butt dyno gains :)
Still limited to 6800 and 128mph though. That will probably chance by next week!
The car had the rear seats, tar, and carpet stipped out (and some other small trim) but Herb had a friend selling a tan interior locally for a good price - $250. I dropped by and picked it up the next week! This is what I did with it:
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I wanted to do something similar to what I did to the tan interior in my e28, but unfortunately there is no actual insert to the door panels - they are all one piece. I was diligent with taping but still had some overspray. The front panels came out fine, but the rears were too soft to really scrape off the dye. I ended up painting over the faux stitching board of the ribbed portion by hand. I'll be taking an exacto to it to clean it up when I get home this weekend. The carpet still needs to be pressure washed. This is going with a black rear seat with m-tech pins, and two memoryFab R98s in black microfiber with a carbon kevlar shell :D
A little mock up
Not much prep is needed to get the dye to adhear well. Just clean the surface well, scuff it with some sandpaper, and get to spraying! You'll usually want more than one coat. I've got two, with the third and fourth this weekend. Weather didn't provide much paint time unfortunately :(
I love these mats :)
A little mock up
Not much prep is needed to get the dye to adhear well. Just clean the surface well, scuff it with some sandpaper, and get to spraying! You'll usually want more than one coat. I've got two, with the third and fourth this weekend. Weather didn't provide much paint time unfortunately :(
I love these mats :)
When I sell the wheels off the e28 (17" staggered Borbet Type T's :) ) I'll probably be ordering them.
Speaking of wheels, when funds allow those slips are gone, or atleast becoming winter wheels. Still looking for what I want, but I've been leaning towards BBS Impuls in 16" or 17" with a decent lip.
Currently the car needs a little maintenance, the center bearing is on its way out and likes to make that known if any hard accelleration is tried in first or second. I've got a new center bearing and guibo to put in this weekend in 20-30 degree weather. I'll also be changing the plugs and the valve cover gasket. Here's to hoping it warms up some so I can tackle some other paint projects!
The car will be painted black come the summer, but it is getting a touch of rat rod until then. Assuming we can work against the cold, there should be some cosmetic updates come this weekend!
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