6/83 grey market 323i.. mtech I S50 5-lug

[2002jm]

Well, this is such a nice car. reminds me of the one I had a few years back. I had the euroweaves on mine. Have you considered euroweaves? But of course now they
cost a bunch of money.:).
Side skirts were a pain on my car too; hard to put on, but made the car look so good....like yours!
jm

[kronus]

jm - thank you! I hope you've been well. I'm still finding uses for the iX parts I picked up from you.

euroweaves won't work on mine since it's 5 lug and has big front brakes. I have had some idle thoughts about the 16" E28 M5 weaves.


I've also been thinking about moving this car along. I've got something fun cooking, and need the space..

[kronus]

now we're cooking with napalm..



Fresh out of the zoomzoomzoom-ing custom shop. I'm installing these on a set of E24 Recaro LX seats that will sit on a set of Massive Recaro mounts. Rear seat in production soon. With a set of black leather doorcards and some carpet dye, the interior will finally be in a consistent and presentable shape.

[kronus]

Catching up on some work done in the last few months.

- E30 M3 front 5-lug installed. Nothing super wacky here. Since this car didn't come with ABS from the factory, I didn't have to invent anything too crazy and just used E28 front bearings.
- interior is finally all together. Front covers are installed, and I made the whole backseat from scratch. Pretty much the last little problem here is the carpet color under the backseat, but I have some dye on the way to address it.

These bad boys went in:





The rear seat bottom was of particular interest. I had unwisely gotten rid of my old one, assuming I could replace it with a later foam one and not have to deal with the horsehair. Unfortunately, turns out '83 rear seat bottoms are completely different and 1-year-only. After a couple years stalking ebay, I was able to find one out of a 318i in Oregon.


These bad boys came out:



I'll be doing some restoration work on them to fix various foam, metal, and cloth issues. Maybe worth a thread?