Let the fun begin (pic and story heavy)

[carmv4]

So last year was bittersweet for me. I picked up my E30 in July and I was pumped. I went for a midnight cruise with everyone in August I believe and it poured like nobody's business. The next day the carpets were soaked...weak. In October my plates got pulled for the car being too low...which was BS but I don't feel like going there.
Fast forward to this spring...the car clearly needed some work so I tore out the carpets to see the damage. Here are some carnage pics:




(Same hole, other side)


(Underneath this hole in the floor was a hole in the frame)


(This is after we cut all the garbage metal from this area)


(Family pic)

My old man is a jack of all trades so he went to town with the mig welder and some 16ga steel and we ended up with this:









So I never ever have to deal with this again everything was sealed up with POR-15 and all the patches got a treatment of undercoating:

[carmv4]

There was also a leak from the windshield that my glass guy took care of and one from the door because the plastic sheet was f'd. I patched the passenger side up and actually had to make one from scratch for the driver's side. Leak free at last!

My brother bought me a new shift boot and e-brake boot for my birthday so it went in when the interior was reassembled. While the centre console was out I figured why not retrofit some E36 window switches.





Here are all the leftover bits after reassembling the interior. The black plastic nuts and white inserts are there because I bought too many, the window switches because they were replaced, and the rest I just plain forget where they went.



The engine bay got a little love also. I got a new cone filter, black coupler, proper M50 valve cover cover to replace the S50 one it came with, and painted the strut brace and intake arm textured black.





*edit* Almost forgot...I replaced the 3.73 LSD with a 2.93 open. Gas mileage won out over speed.

When I put the wheels back on and dialed in the suspension I raised the rear a bit to eliminate the slight reverse rake the car used to have. I got the car ready in time for a local VW show. I'm still a dub guy at heart. Here are some pics other people snapped.







I'm going to daily drive this puppy this summer

[delatlanta1281]

looks good!

[T Verdier]

I'm glad we dont have to deal with rust here. Your car looks hellaflush!
Love the keskins.

[awestun]

nice.

[lowlightbw]

beautiful Bronzit REPRESENT!!!!

[BeirBrennerE30]

you didnt hear that rubbing in your wheel well???

[carmv4]

you didnt hear that rubbing in your wheel well???

Nope. It must have been there before I bought the car.

[Peterkaczynski]

love it.

[91e30181]

I normally fucking hate any car thats any kind of gold, but I gotta say your car is hot.....hot hot hot. Good job!

[carmv4]

Thanks for the compliments guys! Here are a couple more from a show this weekend:

[oekundar]

absolutely lovin' the Keskins!...car looks great!

[CAOSyAMOR]

GREAT looking car mate!! I agree about the gold comment earlier too, looks damn fine!

[theox69]

awesome car, glad to see you pulled through!
nice to see another clean canadian e30.

[Hartge_H27]

car looks great.