RedMeat: LS6 Powered, M3 Flared, LTW Project - SOLD

[unloadedak]

Updates slacker.........I know you haven't been sitting on your thumb.

This is true. Here is a good update of all the progress I have made to get it ready to be caged this November/December.

I fabbed up some rear bumper mounts and it is insanely solid. I love PC-7 epoxy.






I started to clean up the quarters and figure out a way to push the flares out more so I can fit more tire. With some force I was able to wedge a piece of 2" aluminum angle in there. Then I test fitted my style 5s with 215/40 off my e36 to see where I was at fitment wise against my super flared stock quarters. I was satisfied, it gave me plenty of room, 30mm worth of spacers fit. :woowoo:













Here is my old flare just kinda held up to where it was previously. Those rolled quarters fit 17x8et15 with 215/40 tires with zero rubbing.



Then it was onto rust repair as well as the dreaded tail panel.. I used the ease of access to mount my sparco tow strap, oem tow hook hit the M3 bumper cover.








During my daily craigslist check I saw a place that was parting an E39 528i with style 5s. I called em immediately and asked the price, $50 per wheel. I said hold them, I'm on my way. $200 later I have a set of street wheels for the E30.. :nice:




Aerocatch hood pins installed.





My buddy decided it needed a proper sized tire test fitment (275/35-18 on 18x9.5et20), oh and a 67" APR wing fitment :p This test fitting let me finally decide on my wheel/tire combo, 18x9.5et22 ARC-8 with 275/35-18 Toyo R888s.










Now it's back onto the rotisserie to be painted and patching the holes in my trunk.












I also grabbed a tube of SEM Seam Sealer to go over all my welds where I patched stuff in. I don't want any rust to show up! It looks terrible white but I got one coat of black on it before I called it a night last night and it looks a lot better lol.









My plan for this Sunday is:
fuel system refresh and install everything
one more quick coat of paint
install front suspension minus steering rack (need to source a Z3 one)
get it ready to be transported to IronFreak's shop for CAGE!

[IronFreak]

Updates slacker.........I know you haven't been sitting on your thumb.

[IronFreak]

effin newbs...........

[unloadedak]

What a total pile of crap........should just scrap it, and cut the top off and give it to that other Omaha guy that jacked his up.....

I heard about him. Word is that he is a total amateur when it comes to metal work.....

[IronFreak]

What a total pile of crap........should just scrap it, and cut the top off and give it to that other Omaha guy that jacked his up.....

[unloadedak]

This is such a cool project, are the rivets going to be covered or will they be exposed?

Everything with a gold cleco clamp will be an exposed rivet.

I've been buying hardware and adhesives for some fabrication this week/weekend. Hope to get it all mounted by the end of September.

I did a quick photoshop of making it red, I can't wait for this to be a painted, caged, rolling chassis.

[Iain]

Excellent project. Sub'd.

[MokinWeet]

This is such a cool project, are the rivets going to be covered or will they be exposed?

[unloadedak]

Fabrication and mounting stuff happened this last week. I got a ton of fiberglass mounted and it's going really good.

Couple phases of bumper mounts shown. Final version being euro bumper mounts with extended portions chopped off with some square tubing and an M12x1.75 nut welded to the end. I have about 10 hours of fab time into these mounts, such a PITA when you're the only one holding the bumper up and measuring.

I needed to push the fenders out to be flush with the wider bumper, I was in the metric section of ACE hardware for at least 40 minutes trying different stuff out and figuring it out in my head, I finally narrowed it down to an 'adjustable' mount, I'm able to push them out if I need to make room for more tire. Bumper is taped up on the sides right now because I'm going to make a splitter to hold the sides up, waiting on Alumilite pricing.

These are just rough welds ;) need to be cleaned up when it's on the rotisserie.



















I then went out there today and started by taping up the rear bumper and beginning to line up the drivers quarter panel for drilling holes for my rivets, I'm using cleco clamps to hold it on right now (temporary rivets) and they are worth their weight in gold.

Then I started the then daunting task of cleanly mounting the skirts. I was going to use some of the 3" angle iron from the rotisserie to mount it but it was too heavy, I looked over at a shelf in the garage that is rarely used and thought it was perfect to chop up and use for mounts.

I wasn't sure if it would be rigid so I cut a 3.5" strip and it didn't flex at all! I tacked that on and drilled some holes for clecos and it held perfectly and is so solid it moves the car back and forth. I then began to fab front and rear mounts for the skirt as well. Got all everything mounted except the rear bumper and passenger flare/skirt.

After that I called it a weekend. So glad that I've almost got it all mounted..

[Bimmer_man]

Im subbed this looks nice man keep it up.

[kingston]

Wow, Adam, what an update!!!!!!!!! Schön!!!!

[unloadedak]

I started this labor day weekend doing a ton of work on the car.

First I took it off of the rotisserie and 'fixed' the rotisserie to make it a set of extremely tall jack stands so all of the body work is at working height.

I then grabbed all of the fiberglass parts and started to mock them up with masking tape.

Then I took the angle grinder and took off one of the rear flares to see how stable the fiberglass would be with no support on the arch. Check out all that bondo lol

It's fairly stable but I will probably add in my own flare just to push it out more so I can fit more tire ;)

Front fenders are totally mounted and fit pretty damn good.

Next is to order some cleco clamps, rivets and other fab stuff to get all this stuff mounted.

[series88]

Keep hooning in this thing. It looks like a boat load of fun

[matthugie]

Wow, this looks amazing. Definitely in to watch the progress.

[silence]

looking good, Thats a lot of work!