agent's build thread: Klaus

[kid325e]

Are those "cowcatcher" valence mounting brackets?

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[agent]

Yep, on a tip from Levent I got them from Chuck at SunSpot. He has them available on eBay but in very limited supply. I understand that once they're gone, they're gone.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/310382740928

http://www.ebay.com/itm/310382727451

[e30damen]

Nice job!

I love to see builds like this!

You're saving it

[dball4]

I lime your wheels.

[TS87325IS]

Looking good! Can't wait to see it in person.

[thowes24]

sub'd!

[Den_k321]

looks awesome!!

do you have more pictures how you installed sideskirts? thanks!

[agent]

Those are most (if not all) of the pics I took, though I'll be happy to post a more detailed description of what we did as soon as I have time to sit down and type it out.

[Zacm829]

Great Progress! Love the RD wheels. Any engine plans? Your
going to have to keep up with some quick E30s at the rally...

[MattAvino]

87is. solid.

[agent]

Looking good! Can't wait to see it in person.

I can't wait for you to see it either. It's been a long time coming!

87is. solid.

I'm sure my friend TS I quoted above you agrees - thanks!

Great Progress! Love the RD wheels. Any engine plans? Your going to have to keep up with some quick E30s at the rally...

For the time being I'm doing this one RobertK Style: all show, no go. ;)

[agent]

looks awesome!!

do you have more pictures how you installed sideskirts? thanks!

For installing the side skirts, we basically followed bernzpeed's install guide, though we ran a strip of wide masking tape down the rocker panel instead of using white out on the tips of the white pieces. You can see this tape in post #9. The first two pictures are the passenger side, the next two are the driver side (with the tape flipped as described below) and the last one is the passenger side test fit just before lining up the rear fender well holes and pop rivets.

We attached the white pieces to the skirts (the ones pictured from 0:30-0:40 in the new video), then held the skirt up to the car and applied pressure to it, pushing inward and upward at the same time in the general direction of the center console.

We repeated this process a couple more times, then drilled through the masking tape at what was more or less a triangulation of the indentations in the tape made by the white pieces. Once the passenger side was complete, we used the same piece of tape for the driver side, though we flipped it over and used it sticky side out by securing it with some smaller pieces of tape. That way we used the top of the tape for both sides so that the holes were drilled the same distance from the bottom lip. Hopefully that makes sense - it's difficult to articulate. Test fitting of both sides (without the green anchor grommets) lined up as closely to perfect as I could have hoped for without a template being supplied.

I agree with her recommendation of not using the clamping bolt, as the existing screw in the lower lip of the rocker panel looks like it's going to work just fine for attaching the small fender piece. Big thanks to her for the installation info.

[agent]

Some pictures from yesterday when I went by to drop off the mounting screws to hold the mirrors in place for painting...

[agent]

Speaking of side skirts, while I was typing the last couple of posts Arnie sent these...

[agent]

And these of the freshly painted valance...