First Low Euro Project

[Lawn_Mower]

Lol, I don't have an E30 yet, I drive a VW that most people on here would hate. :rofl:

[dillon7]

Statesville! I work in Charlotte, but live in Mooresville, build is looking good.

Sweet! I need to find some local people, so far haven't met any yet really.

[Lawn_Mower]

Statesville! I work in Charlotte, but live in Mooresville, build is looking good.

[dillon7]

Love the color !

Thanks, me too. It's definitely different.

That color is fresh... congrats on getting an e30!! Your Wrangler looks nice, as well!

Thanks man, I love my wrangler. It's hard to choose which car to spend my money on.

Welcome to the addiction. Good start so far!

Thanks, it's already quite addicting haha

[Nick_S]

Welcome to the addiction. Good start so far!

[Gangsta]

That color is fresh... congrats on getting an e30!! Your Wrangler looks nice, as well!

[Jim Lepage]

Love the color !

[dillon7]

Got some updates to report.

I painted the grill black with satin black krylon fusion and used some back to black on the trim. I'm probably just going to paint the trim with the krylon as well.

Then I bought some good stuff. Got a good deal on a set of JOM coilovers from somebody on here so I decided to give them a shot. I put them on tonight but sorry I don't have pics during the install, I was too excited to stop and take pictures.







I also bought a front air dam. It has some cracks in it but an easy fix. I can't decide whether I am going to paint it black or get some bahama beige paint and match it to the body. All depends on money.

[dillon7]

Couple updates tonight and I will have a lot more this week.

First up I went to pull a part and picked up some trim pieces and door latches. Then went to a part out car and got a shift knob, shifter boot, and window sealer/trim whatever you call it.

Anyways, here are a few pics, nothing special I just like to track what I've done.

Finally got around to installing the new windshield. Taking it out was easy, putting it back in...not so much. Random pic without a windshield.



Then got the door latches installed. I still need the trim piece to go around it but it's better than what I had before which was no handles at all.



And here is how the garage currently sits with both my cars undrivable.



Tomorrow I'll finish installing the weather strip/trim around the front and rear windshields. So far it's been a PITA but oh well almost done.

[dillon7]

Could use a roll but this guy pulled off something similar pretty well.

I'm still trying to figure out the non-flat piece of wood he is using on his jack.

[Aufbau Principle]

Did a little work on her yesterday.

ohhhh and I test fitted the new shoes. Am I doing this right?

Could use a roll but this guy pulled off something similar pretty well.

[dillon7]

Did a little work on her yesterday.

Removed the back seat to plan the wiring for the rear speakers.

Then I just took off the fog lights that didn't work. One of the nuts was too rusted to get off so I had to cut it off so that took a little while.

Next it was time to do the bumper tuck. Looked up the how to thread and saw that it was a piece of cake. The 86 front bumper is mounted a little different than the 88' on the thread. There is no hole in the bottom of the bumper that goes to the bolts. Instead, you have to reach up and unbolt the bumper shocks from the body. That was a tight fit but got it done. Got the shocks off then went to drilling.



Got through both layers pretty easily so I was pretty happy this was turning out well. I was curious to how hard it was to compress them so I tried hitting them with a hammer and that didn't work so I got out the jack and tried using the car as my compressor. Well I just used the car and a jack extension because it lifted the car 3 inches without budging the shock. This little SOB deciding to be the biggest pain and after trying and trying I still couldn't get either one of them to compress. My Dad got home and couldn't figure it out either so he got the sledgehammer and after about 5 hits finally got it to compress.

Now I thought the hard part was out of the way but with the 86 bumper design the way it is a pain to get the bumper back on. I just decided to leave the bumper off for now since I have to have it off to do some body work anyways.

Found this on the camera while uploading pics, guess my friend thought he was being funny.



ohhhh and I test fitted the new shoes. Am I doing this right?

[dillon7]

A little update from tonight.

Decided to get started on some body work tonight, got the hammer and steel block out and used that to get rid of all the dents on the hood and trunk.



While I was doing that my buddy wired up the head unit only to find out the fuse was blown. Apparently so was the speedo fuse so hopefully that will work now. Anyways, got the fuses replaced so the stereo works now. Also, my ghetto antenna. New trend?





Then it was time to move on to the big boy stuff and Dad got out the porta power. He showed me how to use it and we got to work on the right rear quarter panel dent. Just got the big part of the dent out and will finish all the more minor stuff in the quarter panel over the rest of the week.







And here is how she sit right now and will probably stay like this for a little while.





Tomorrow I plan on doing the front bumper tuck and possible painting some of the trim black.

What did most of you do for the moulding around the windshield where there is chrome. All of my chrome fell out and now there is nothing there and I can't decide whether to find more chrome or just fill it with something black.

[dillon7]

^no, just different (shorter) inserts. 325ix, G60 corrado, even Toyota MR2 rear inserts fit in there with the correct spacer. rears you can leave alone, or if you want more travel, swap for shorter units (Camaro shocks can be adapted), or use the tall rear shock mounts from GC.


welcome to r3v btw. i really like the color, good luck getting your car up to speed (aka, swapping it :up: )

Ok I think I'm following you. So I can keep my rear shocks I have now but up front I keep the same shock just swap on the shorter insert?

I really want more speed, this thing is so damn slow. Looking around on here just makes the need for a swap even worse.

[evandael]

^no, just different (shorter) inserts. 325ix, G60 corrado, even Toyota MR2 rear inserts fit in there with the correct spacer. rears you can leave alone, or if you want more travel, swap for shorter units (Camaro shocks can be adapted), or use the tall rear shock mounts from GC.


welcome to r3v btw. i really like the color, good luck getting your car up to speed (aka, swapping it :up: )