88 alpine from the bay to Dirty Jersey (New wheels)

[White325is]

Awesome. Shoot a email before you make the trip to make sure everything is in stock.

[oxymoron]

I have a good winter coming for the e30. I'm going to repair the panel myself. Now that the e30 isn't my only car and I'll be moving into a house with a garage I can finally handle some issues. My buddy sold me an m50 b25 non vanos with Trans ecu and harness for dirt cheap. Also picked up some recaros from a forum member.


Tomorrow I'm picking up a nice husco for it also. My seats were in pretty poor condition but If anyone local wants to pick them up they can for free. I died the carpet and interior black recently and I've been waiting for the right seats to come along. Late winter will be m50 build time as soon as I move in.

[oxymoron]

Here we go, I pushed out the dent with a Porto jack and did a little hammering too .. it's a bit wavy but I will revisit that later on. For now this is what I was able to get done on my lunch break .


And yesterday camevening my plate filler and is lip from Mel Abrahams. Great service by the way




And here are some of the process

This is what I started with


I pressed out from the spare tire well and used some 2x4 on the other end to straighten it out.

I also picked up a miller psik direct from miller which washould a great choice. I was running very rough and it took 3 or 4 tries to start up when cold. Now it's woken up and runs and sounds better than ever. I will post up pics of that after I clean up my engine bay and do my sheet metal work around the filter.

[oxymoron]

And here are a few rollers from the fall




And some chassis fab porn from work. These are not my welds.

[oxymoron]

Here's some of my welds




The first one is a front axle and the others are a rear bumper.
Here's an interior shot of my filthy car


I need floor mats bad. And either a black rear seat or just get rid of the tan seat

[oxymoron]

New wheels for me. Zenders are for sale so I can put the proper tires on these wheels. 205 is too stretched for me. Me and my brother washed our cars and took some photos today





16x9 et 15 in the back and et25 with a 15 mm spacer in the front. 205/45 all around.

[BECKSTER]

Mmmm, that last shot is so nice .

[KIRIEIW]

Nice work on banging out the dent! I did a similar job to one of my last car's, the previous owner forgot to set the hand break on a beer run to the store (these are his exact words by the way) and on the way out of the store he realized the car he had just parked a few minutes prior was missing from the parking space. He thought someone stole the car he was telling me, but it ended up being a fair amount of distance away from where he originally parked, smashed into a pole. Lucky for him it didn't hit another car I guess.

I ended up doing the same thing as you, I used a bottle jack and a piece of wood and it slowly pop'd the dent out. Came out pretty good actually, I was extremely surprised.

[oxymoron]

Thanks guys it is definitely not perfect but it's way better than it was. It was so bad the trunk wouldn't close half of the time. I'm glad I was able to fix it up. I still need to replace the trim pieces but I'm waiting till I can afford to replace it all.

[serdar255]

Damn, i was going to by those wheels off of craigslist lol

[oxymoron]

Sorry dude! I'll give you a deal on some zenders :)

[serdar255]

Sorry dude! I'll give you a deal on some zenders :)

How wide are they? I need some meat for my v8

[oxymoron]

Only 7" wide.

[serdar255]

Only 7" wide.

Looking for 8-9 wide unfortunately

[oxymoron]

Speaking of more meat ,


225 45 16 all around. The wheels have staggered offsets. Et25 in the rear fit nicely with a slight fender roll. Fronts are et15 with a 15mm spacer, I am putting 5 mm spacer on the front today to get rid of the hella poke. Front fenders also need a slight roll. Very happy over all to have some nice meat again.