E30 1986 2-door from ESTONIA - restoration project.

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New spring perches fabricated. Needs grinding in to shape before welding them back.

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New fuel tank ventilation pipe in place.



In the right wheelarch there were some ungly looking rustholes and brackets.









Not anymore. :)

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I don't know about you, but woke up around six am(i think i'm getting old) and thought this would be the perfect time to update my thread a little bit.
Total 89.5 hours spent for cutting, welding and fabricating and the result is visible on the pictures. But lot of hours ahead to make this car good solid E30 again.

I ordered this rear frame piece 25th of May. 28th of August finally recieved it. I hope it will fit..



As i mentioned in my last post, that the ventilation pipe metal piece was wrong thickness and we couldn't use it. So my friend made a new one and it fits like a glove! We have a saying in our country: There is no unsolvable situations, there is only incapable people.

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Other side there is a tank ventilation pipe. I bought https://www.specialclassicparts.de/e...vent-repairkit and the plate thickness is bit different than the original. Original sheet used to build the car is 0.8mm but the one i got is 1.2mm thick. 0.4mm thicker and if you gonna install it like it should be then there will be stupid and ugly looking lip. And i don't want and like that. So he will fabricate this small piece of metal.

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Hello!

Again i can post some updates of restoration progress. At first i thought i should buy new ones. One German company makes them, but discussed with my friend and we decided that he will fabricate these himself. The end result will be the same, maybe even better.

Rear spring perch (i think it's the right word for that?)

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That is some good looking metal work. Slow and steady!

Thank you! Yes, he is the master and that was the reason why i took the car to him. I know he is doing awesome job.

[Panici]

That is some good looking metal work. Slow and steady!

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I have not much to say. Pictures say more than thousand words. :)









Here is the "short" video how i got to this very point. :)

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Small update. I have owned many E30 in the past and every one had the same rust problem and had to deal with it. This project is not an exception. Fuel tank/petrol tank attachment points were pretty bad looking and needed to fix them.
How it looked before.



In progress.



Ready for welding.





And boom.

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Finally i have some updates. My friend decided that midsummer party is over, time to get sober and start to weld my E30. :D There is not much done, but small steps takes you to the destination you want. For me the time doesn't matter, but the quality of the final product what matters. Everything has to be done good and properly.

Rear brake hose attachment bracket points.



And after.



Rear heatshield attachment points.

Before.



When you are good with metal and hammer and make the metal pieces you need by yourself.



And one done!



That's all at the time. But i will keep you updated as much as i'm able to.

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The elevator is very good. Too bad I have a garage in the basement so the ceiling is low enough for that.
You were rightly told about 28 days, it is during this period that concrete reaches its calculated strength. But I didn't understand why you didn't immediately make out of concrete the studs for mounting the lift? It would be easier and stronger than drilling concrete and setting anchors now.

Low ceiling solution is scissor lift.For example: scissor lift

Actually i did think about it, but everything happened so fast and didn't have the time to get the studs. But i'm not worried because those anchors will hold the lifts in place for sure. If i remember there is 6 anchors per one post and diameter is 10-12mm and lenght i haven't thought about it yet.

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The elevator is very good. Too bad I have a garage in the basement so the ceiling is low enough for that.
You were rightly told about 28 days, it is during this period that concrete reaches its calculated strength. But I didn't understand why you didn't immediately make out of concrete the studs for mounting the lift? It would be easier and stronger than drilling concrete and setting anchors now.

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Holy moses, it has been a while. The car in in the body shop and to be straight with you, i have no idea how she's doing. I better not bother the welder or otherwise he will be pissed off and won't do anything at all. I just let him do he's job and i will mind my own business. I have lot of other stuff to do in the garage. At first era of doing your own maintenance on the garage floor has ended. Decided to purchase a 2-post lift. But before installation i checked the thickness of the concrete floor. It's an old cowfarm and some of the floor is old and thats the exact place where i needed to install the lift. So i did the drilling and found out that maximum thickness was only 10cm. And thats not enough at all. Perfect would be 20-30cm. So i gave a call to a garage owner, talked to him and decided that we need to support somehow the weight of the lifts. For me there was only one solution. Cut the 1x1m and 30cm deep holes to the floor, installed metal rebar in and poured concrete in. From the factory the suggested that i should wait at least 2-3 weeks before installing the lift. By the book its should dry at least 28 days. And im gonna do it by the book. :)

For 2-post lift we are using EAE Lifts.

And now few pictures of that job.

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I remember how I drove my car in the same way - it was not easy to pull and remove it from the trailer on the cart. Then, when she was already on her wheels, I tried to tow her on a hard hitch. It was a horror when she broke away in a turn on the Kyiv district road! After that, I ride it only on a carriage or a tow truck)

When shes ready, i might just take the axels with me and install them. So it would be much easier to transport it. And installing axels is a pretty easy and fast job.

[The_Glory]

I remember how I drove my car in the same way - it was not easy to pull and remove it from the trailer on the cart. Then, when she was already on her wheels, I tried to tow her on a hard hitch. It was a horror when she broke away in a turn on the Kyiv district road! After that, I ride it only on a carriage or a tow truck)