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A well travelled e30 - Cali to London. 84 coupe
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Originally posted by QuiqueUy View Postwhat wheels are those? really like them !
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Originally posted by benwalsh91 View Post
The wheels are Weds Bavaria and rather hard to get hold of. Wouldn’t mind a set in 16s. These are 15s but only 7j iirc
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Originally posted by econti View PostI would highly highly recommend not stripping the whole underside if you can avoid it, on my S2 it took me 140 hours of wire wheeling, and that's not 140h of general time, I started the stop watch when I picked up the grinder.
Neighbours were not happy.
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It depends what condition it's in, and if you plan on driving it on salted roads.
Down here in Aus I wouldn't bother. I also have a series 2 and the coating on them is better.
if I were you, I would be inspecting the underside with semi regularity (every few months maybe?) and if you see any stone chips, rust converting them then resealing that small section if need be. If you drive it often.
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If you decide to not strip it, inspect it very carefully. It is possible for rust to form underneath the factory undercoating.
You can usually find the rust because the undercoating will start to peal or bubble up. If you see those signs, scrap or peal off what's there. The rust shows after removing the undercoating.
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Alright, so where was we then.
I got a few hours in the garage today. First things first i had to get 4 new tyres for the daily driver and filled it up with diesel. After being extremely sore after that i decided lets get some stuff done to the e30!
And i got something done that i have been extremely scared of doing for quite a while but it needed to be done to get the progression moving forward.
First things first,
tidy up the work bench as it was quite a mess in there
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clean garage done, now time to make a mess.
Got the old girl into position before we really flipped her life upside down
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And i was only meant to blow the bloody doors off. (or something along those lines)
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I knew there was a reason i put this terrible fake grass down outside the front of the house. Ignore the snowman, Christmas is only 9 months away.
And then it was time to get really sketchy.
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And some rather brown pants later we are up and supported under its own weight.
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and gave it a little twisty twist
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This is actually terrifying.
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But i am so glad it is done and keeping everything crossed that it does not collapse!!
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Daily driver on the right after hurting my bank this morning.
I started having a little clean up on the e30 just testing some stuff out and poking around. i unfortunately found 2 areas of rust but in the grand scheme of things it could have been worse.
Bottom of the battery tray in the boot
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And the passenger side footwell
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And a collection of items that i am using to clean bits up etc etc
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the rust areas will be getting cut out and new welded back in
Hopefully we can start making some progress on this car now!!
As always, your opinions and comments are always welcome below.Last edited by benwalsh91; 03-14-2022, 12:12 AM.
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So on Sunday i got out of bed early and got myself outside with the aim of getting some bits done on the e30.
First things first Mrs. Walsh wanted some planters for out the front of the house and wanted them painted so that was my first job of the day, i figured if i get this out the way i have the rest of the time to do some e30 bits
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Personally, i am not really a fan of the colour, but she chose the colour.
Next on the list is that i wanted to expose that rust spot on the front passenger side corner to see how bad it was.
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Shouldn't be too difficult of a patch job. But i guess we will see later on.
I also found some cracking around what i believe to be where the subframe mounts? i may be wrong, i took this car apart so long ago, regardless i will need to weld this back together, maybe see if there iis reinforcement mounts for this area
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The ARB mount was completely broken too but i forgot to get a picture of that, i will grab one tonight and upload it here:
I was cleaning up the car to see how bad it was without using the wire wheel attachment to the grinder and i am happy to see how clean the underside actually is underneath all the dirt and grease.
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I also removed the remaining brake hardlines and fuel lines that was on the car.
It has dawned on me that i may have bitten off a lot more than i can chew with this one and its stressing me out a bit, i am trying to break it down into just small bite size pieces and move forward
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Originally posted by benwalsh91 View Post
It has dawned on me that i may have bitten off a lot more than i can chew with this one and its stressing me out a bit, i am trying to break it down into just small bite size pieces and move forward
Simon
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Originally posted by 2mAn View Post
Just focus on the individual stuff and repair accordingly. It can be easy to get overwhelmed. Do you have a whiteboard or something to write on inside the garage? Make a list of things you know you need to work on and tackle them one at a time.
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Morning All,
Need a bit of help/advice.
Was looking over the car last night and i found these areas, they are on the frame rails at the front of the car.
What SHOULD they look like as i presume they shouldn't be split/cracked.
The one below is on the Drivers side (LHS) and has the cracking and the threaded insert.
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This one below is on the passenger side (RHS) and has the cracking and no threaded insert.
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Is it:
A) proper fucking fucked mate
B) Slightly fuckedLast edited by benwalsh91; 03-29-2022, 11:19 PM.
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