My Imolarot II E30 bulid Thread

[respected_beggar]

Nice work, your E30 is going to look better than mine in no time!

Thanks jeff but yours will be going alot faster as soon as the turbors in!

Hurry up!

You're telling me, thats what I tell the body shop guys all the time lol

i like this picture



car looks good

Thank you, when the car is finished Im going to have a picture taken of it in the same spot but with out the trash can lol





Ok ok ok........ well I got something in the mail today!!!!!


and decided to go through all my audio things as well....
4 MB quart QM130 components
1 kicker 10" comp sub
audison 375 watt amp
2 1 inch focal tweeters for the door tweeters
Everything Stinger wire

not using the green plastic things (periferal audio by stinger) out of an e39 528 to bypass stock amp for an after market amp.

[respected_beggar]

well 7 months later it finally happed Im not extremly happy with the out come but it does look good. Theres a few things Im going to have to have redone and fix, alot of parts were not installed or broken.


a picture of it at the body shop.



and one of the wheels.


thats all for now untill I can take some decient picture with a real camera, but I already started working on her. I replaced every seal on the car, trunk, both rear pop out windows, sun roof, front door weather seals inner and outter, all weather stripping aorund the windows, and polished out some of the window trim. All I need left are the door seals and hood seal but other then that shes water proof almost :D

im still working on the caps and how im going to attemp to do them, I didnt realize they are 68mm then 70mm so they are a little small. my goal is to get them centered and keep them even with the hex on the cap.
and a picture or two

[bradnic]

sub'd amazing work bro. welcome!

[respected_beggar]

sub'd amazing work bro. welcome!

Thank you glad you like it!!

umm cell phone pics at the mall but I can't stop staring :nice:




For some reason i can't get enough of the cluster as well one of my favorite mods so far!

[efficient]

looks good

[deeze30]

nice work man. i love those clusters. did you have to get red needles for those?

[respected_beggar]

looks good

Thanks!

nice work man. i love those clusters. did you have to get red needles for those?

Thank you, and no I modded it my self, I painted the needles red and added the ///M sticker myself.

[kingston]

Keep up the good work! The wheels you had on at the body shop were BMW Z4 options wheels, btw. Used to have `em on my E36 325is.

Can't wait to see more!

[willworkfore30s]

Where did you get the carbon fiber weave roundels? I ask because I bought one like it for my hood from a eBay seller in China. After about a month it was yellow as hobo urine.

[respected_beggar]

Keep up the good work! The wheels you had on at the body shop were BMW Z4 options wheels, btw. Used to have `em on my E36 325is.

Can't wait to see more!

Thank you! and awesome I haven't really looked into what they were called or there style number but thank you and if I find a set I might just try them on the e30.:nice:

Oh btw I follow you Guys on IG, I have to say you put some amazing work into thoes e30s!

Where did you get the carbon fiber weave roundels? I ask because I bought one like it for my hood from a eBay seller in China. After about a month it was yellow as hobo urine.

Yeah I got mine from a seller on eBay from china too, I've had my hood and trunk emblems for at least 2 years now with out a problem? I hope these don't yellow. :( Thanks for the warning though, I'd be pissed if they turned hobo urine yellow.

[henryki]

Nice build. Can't wait to see the finished product.

[respected_beggar]

Nice build. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Thanks man



Ok so over the weekend I got a chance to work on the car I changed the engine ground and the FPR, but heres what took up the most time, the center caps. Well I got them finished and they look good.

what I wanted them to look like


What I wanted to do at first was to epoxy them in place just like that, but then I thought if I want to ever remover them easly ever again that wouldn't have been the best idea. So my next thought was a screw and nut and a drill...



Work out great and completly removable 8) and here is the finished product.






and on the e30



All in all I'm happy with the out come. :-D

[golde30]

cool idea, but yer center caps are kinda sticking out...alot.

[respected_beggar]

cool idea, but yer center caps are kinda sticking out...alot.

Thank you.... That was the idea though, and the fact that they are also smaller then what suppose to be in there makes it look like they are sticking out much further then what they really are because of the shadow behind it. In person it looks much better.

[respected_beggar]

Ok so earlier this week I had the car up on a lift at the shop, well you would think that a body shop would know that open raw metal would rust right? Well I guess not!

drivers side rear valance




passanger side rear valance





Instead of getting pissed or anything I went ahead and fixed it myslef like what I should've done in the first place.

All taped up, I didn't get a picture but I used plasitc to cover the rest of the car from over spray.



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Rust treated and and dryed.






Rubber undercoat dried








Even hit the back of the rear valance wheel well






What I used




While all of that was happening I was able to get something out of this



I scored the antenna!!! :D and installed it, the paint shop lost my orginal z3 antenna and replaced it with the stock e30 one which they bought new form the dealer, but I dont like the electic antennas so I traded it off for this one.:D



Sorry no picture of it installed I will get a picture of it as soon as I can!! Oh and I was also able to intsall a new head unit which I love and I will aslo get pictures of it up tomorrow and maybe a video too!

and some pics of the car ;)