2 year update on my Brilliantrot 318is

[Nick_S]

Two years ago to the day I picked up this car. It was rough, real rough but I've spent the last two years cleaning, replacing and fixing what I can and am pretty happy with where it's at now. Likely going to do a build thread of the car from start to present, just don't have the time now so here's a few photo's I snapped the other day of the car in it's present condition.

Spent the winter cleaning, painting and refreshing the engine bay as well as ripping out unnecessary accessories. No A/C, no P/S, no washer tank.




Interior stayed mostly unchanged aside from an E46 center console.






Found a spoilerless trunk lid to clean up the rear end.










Thanks for looking :up:
Nick

[Victor_PR]

Nicely done Nick!!:up:

Was the installation of the E46 console straight forward or did you have to do any modification? I would like that set up for my car.

Again, your car is beautiful!!
Victor

[noE30]

I can dig it. Very clean.
Not really feeling the us plate filler tho..

[dirtbag30]

awesome, well done. i want that center console, wedging a pop can in between the drivers door and the seat only works so well.

[e30shmobberr]

damn that m42 looks fresh!

[pilotskillse30]

great work

[eur04lif3]

damn that m42 looks fresh!

this. i need to do this...

[jdirty]

Amazing. I was staring at this for awhile.

Interior stayed mostly unchanged aside from an E46 center console.

That's awesome. How'd you do it? :p

[MT325is]

Damn beautiful car! I love it! and those cup holders.. explain!

One of my favorite engine bays honestly!!

[shaferbm]

Holy fisheye batman!

It looks great though. I always see you sig and think, "I want that!"
That paint also looks really nice

[Nick_S]

damn that m42 looks fresh!

great work

Thanks fellas!

That's awesome. How'd you do it? :p

Just an E46 center console, trimmed the back edge to contour to the trans tunnel and drilled a small hole to mount to the factory bolt. Double sided tape to keep it secure up front. I don't have the arm rest so it's a big ass hole in the rear right now. It's a work in progress. I don't like the double sided tape or how it doesn't really fit right so I'm going to do some more modding, trimming and molding once I have more free time. For now, it's nice to have cup holders finally 8-)

Damn beautiful car! I love it! and those cup holders.. explain!
One of my favorite engine bays honestly!!

Thanks!! Explanation above

Holy fisheye batman!

It looks great though. I always see you sig and think, "I want that!"
That paint also looks really nice

I know, normally I'm not huge on fisheye but I got it out to play with. I just noticed how grainy photobucket made these look when I resized them...lame

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

[BROKINBIMMER]

Wow, awesome car! Wish mine was half as clean...

[timofeylbelarus]

really clean engine bay, just got some motivation to continue working on my car.

[Nick_S]

really clean engine bay, just got some motivation to continue working on my car.

Thanks. Always been big on a clean engine. Glad I could help motivate :up:

[doucy2]

Looks super solid!! Keep up the excellent work. Any plans for new shoes down the road?