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[s14brent]

That hose looks kind of pinched, you could shorten it where it meets the radiator neck by ~1" and still have lots of engagement on the neck.

you're right, I'll have to trim it back a bit.

this is great, nice work. Keep it coming!

Thanks man

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I had no idea I'd have time this weekend to pull this front headliner from a local part out. let alone install it.



No wonder the check panel was having issues staying in place



closer up



I used the same "pliobond" glue for the edges lightly. It actually looked like the stuff BMW originally used. I'm going back to the dude I got the headliner from, my sunvisors have some tears in them so I didn't reinstall those, here's a pic of the replacement liner installed.



new (to me) visors installed!!

[JZM3]

this is great, nice work. Keep it coming!

[CorvallisBMW]

That hose looks kind of pinched, you could shorten it where it meets the radiator neck by ~1" and still have lots of engagement on the neck.

[s14brent]

Small update, but unfortunately the car will have to be put on hold, work has been crazy busy, and there was a death in the family so I'll have to put most of my free time toward making accommodations.

I wanted to button up everything I sort of left undone. Last thing i did was wire up the gauges, but the water temp didn't work because it didn't have a ground. I changed out adapters to a nice billet piece I had from 42 draft design. (i purchased some things twice on accident due to this being done in such a lengthy amount of time)



I also swapped out the hvac control panel - mine had a few tiny cracks between the buttons up top and I finally have buttons with the actual symbols on them now!!



Ordered a pack of vdo amber bulb sleeves then realized I could have just replaced with amber bulbs.....



I ended up ordering an e36 ps reservoir mount since my work schedule hasn't really given me any time to go out to any of the junkyards. Turns out I had a bracket on the other side of the garage in the e36 parts pile. My m3 needs a new pump, and i pulled the everything from a m3 being parted out locally - somehow spaced it.



To add to the list of mistakes I made, I cut the ps line (reservoir to pump) too short, almost 1/2" so I had to go find a straight brass coupler to fix my mistake.



installed. le sigh....



made a small bracket for the oil psi sending unit. wasn't a huge fan of the e36 mount it came with.



and I finally got the skid plate mounted up, it wasn't lining up. I just needed to loosen everything up (which was pretty hard - lots of pb blaster and whacks to the loop from a deadblow). Once loose, everything lined up and bolted together just fine.

I think I want to get longer bolts for the front of the skid plate and space it down maybe 5-7mm further.

I got this circle shaped sunroof trim piece for the sunroof crank. I never actually had a cover so the handle would sort of just flop around. I actually want to replace the whole front liner. Not sure how much of a bitch that's going to be.



meanwhile I think a break would be good, I'm trying to rush things and making more mistakes

[Anthony B]

Solid progress on this, I may have to liberate some of your ideas with the manual fan switch & gauge cluster.

Good to see the work all coming together