My new little red(devil)

[PaladinReed]

I thought I was going to be able to hold off on the transplanting till after I got back from Colorado on the 27nth but as I sat doing accounting homework at 8am yesterday morning I got a severe itch and went out to work on the car.

Over 11 hours later. I had an update.

Got balls deep before I remembered to snap pics. Then couldnt find my goddamn camera. But here are some cell shots.

The interior was the worst part of the car, while well taken care of seemingly, the PO was most obviously not real worried about the condition of her interior.

The two front seats were a cloth sport, and a sport houndstooth both in bad shape and the rear was a reupholster job in non-OEM cloth. So they had to go.

The carpet was nightmarish and I spent over 5 hours and two bottles of cleaner on just it today.

replaced the rear speaker tray, tore out the nasty sound deadening cloth under the rear seats, cleaned vigorously, body is PERFECT under the carpet. Replaced rear seats after carpet cleaning, rebuilt the sliding bracket on my drivers leather sport and installed both of them. Replaced the rear seatbelt mounting little triangle on the rear parcel shelf and rebuilt a rear seatbelt. replaced, front and rear ashtray, interior bulbs, ebrake boot and handle, rear center console, and a window switch. Then lastly the atrocious Sarah Palin sticker on the rear glass, still debating on removing the tint or not.

Then. . .

I cleaned some more.

Enough talk. mo' pics.

Didnt snap them until late.






Carpet came out pretty decent... was fuckin grody as shit.

Good condition roof liner. . . missing something there. oh wait, no sunroof.



Can see some discoloration in the carpet here. Regret not snapping "before pics"





Ski pass lol





This is where I realized I was tired as fuck... when I took the passenger side door gasket off my sedan and tried to put it on my coupe.

Doh! thats right, different sized doors lol XD


Thats all the pics from the 318iS last night

Here is how the Sterling is sitting currently.




She's been a great donor so far.

Tomorrow I hope to take her coilovers and complete braking setup, hunt down some coupe door gasket. Mount the momo hub and wheel, and reinstall an OEM radio into the Coupe. And maybe just maybe start spraying some paint ^^

Thanks for looking!

-Paladin

[dinanm3atl]

Man. Loved your sedan :(

[noE30]

Thats a bummer about your silver one, it looked good. But it sounds like you got this one covered as well.

edit: post number 666, matches your thread title haha.

[Philo]

He's waiting until he grows some balls to do what he actually wants to do.

Miami is waiting.

[N2MYE30]

Already planning to sell? Whatcha waiting for then?

[PaladinReed]

I really really love the LTWs. Particularly when then were on my vert. However this car will probably look more OEM++ when done. Chances of me keeping this car are small. It will probably be cleaned up very thoroughly, modified slightly and tastefully, and then sold. . .

But maybe not :D

[BigTe30]

the old white wheels would look ill on the new 318

[dashboardmonkey]

I agree with Danny, boost dat bish

[Danny]

Tarbo

[PaladinReed]

Nice, looks like she will clean up nice. Whats the deal with the dual exhaust cut out?

I noticed that too. Not quite sure. Looks OEM though and the title is clean.

-Paladin

[Philo]

BMW was like "m20, m20, m20, . . . oh shit that last one was suppose to be an M42. . . "

[E30_fiend]

Nice, looks like she will clean up nice. Whats the deal with the dual exhaust cut out?

I noticed that too. WTF?

[ZM Blue Devil]

Nice, looks like she will clean up nice. Whats the deal with the dual exhaust cut out?

[PaladinReed]

any desire to sell the sunroof panel and pass side fender (if undamaged) cheap? heh

PM me

Oh yeah! I'm so glad you got this thing. Now we just need to find time to swap things over.

P.S. i'm sure Courtney will hook you up with the chip for nothing. Have you talked to him yet? I got digits if you need them.

Yeah Im pretty stoked honestly. I think she'll clean up something beautiful. Im so fuckin busy this week but Ima hit you up and we'll chat. And yeah I need to holler at Courtney sometime this week probably.

[Philo]

Oh yeah! I'm so glad you got this thing. Now we just need to find time to swap things over.

P.S. i'm sure Courtney will hook you up with the chip for nothing. Have you talked to him yet? I got digits if you need them.