project daily driver

[rodrigo]

WOW you did a really good job with the whole car! How did you do the shadowlining? Did you use plasti dip?

no...the plasti-dip would be a pain in the ass to remove and respray. just used SEM Trim paint over a few coats of etching primer. all the shadowlinning pieces were sanded with 120, 180, 240 and etching primer, then paint. many light coats of paint while int he sun...every 5 min or so another quick spray.

the pieces were off the car when the car was getting painted so it was a piece of cake.

[rodrigo]

Finally got my fog lights resolved.

I don't think i am a big fan of the lamin-x/x-pel stuff. it is cut a little short and does not go to the extreme ends of the lenses. We'll see how they look when mounted on the car...right now you can see the clear lens at the perimeter of the lamin-x application. Nice product...just wish it was cut a little bigger.

The new plastic lenses from BMWlight are pretty nice, though. Fit is great and they look OEM.

[Mtriple]

Finally got my fog lights resolved.

I don't think i am a big fan of the lamin-x/x-pel stuff. it is cut a little short and does not go to the extreme ends of the lenses. We'll see how they look when mounted on the car...right now you can see the clear lens at the perimeter of the lamin-x application. Nice product...just wish it was cut a little bigger.

The new plastic lenses from BMWlight are pretty nice, though. Fit is great and they look OEM.

Wierd... I just put mine on last night and I had to trim them as they were too big.

[M42Technik]

I like the attention to detail, it sure has come a long way. I would have painted the entire mirror, but thats me. Keep up the good work!

[rodrigo]

Finally got to run down to the storage and uncover my trusty old seats from my beloved GLi...and a friend of mine who does upholstery owes me a few favors...

[rodrigo]

power tilt, and re-belted seat bottom. all of these were made for 2-doors even though some came on 4-doors (GLi was 4 door).

I think it would look nice in beige ;)

[ebelements]

Uggghhhhnnnnnnn... gasm.

Mk2 Recaro Trophies are the best seats ever... and I've had E30 sports and the konigs in the R. Let me know what you end up doing for bracketry.

[borise30]

cirrusblau also

after clean up may be like this

[rodrigo]

borise30: thats a clean engine...very nice. I'll ge there eventually. slow and steady :)

regarding the seats...recaro makes brackets for them for the E30. im just trying trying to get them re-upholstered in baige witht he same vinyl pattern.

[e30turboboy]

nice and clean

[Nicademus]

Those seats are sooo comfortable. My friend has one as a computer chair :)

There's a guy near me selling them for $350 firm and they look real good.

[rodrigo]

I drove in mine from 85,000 miles to 203,000 miles when they were in the GLi. Funny thing was that everyone that sat in them also said the same thing "WOW! these are soooOOOOO comfy!!"

:D

..it was also pretty cool to have a 4-door with coupe-tilting seats. Sooooo much more room back there ;)

..and now in vinyl clean up will be sooooooo easy.

[Nicademus]

My cat avatar looks like the same cat as yours.

[yberther]

A few posts back, but where did you get that radio delete piece? it looks clean and I wanna fill mine in :)

Super clean sir, its looking schweet.

[rodrigo]

got it from the dealer...$9.00. Look it up on real oem under 'european 318' and it will give you the option.