Project Izzy: The AWD Money Pit

[stonea]

Well its been slow the past couple of weeks, but I finally got enough done for a small update. First off I got a new battery and that seemed to have fixed my charging issue. Secondly I decided to finally fix my brake duct and temp sensor, and also decided to get a few goodies too.



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I hated how my roof looked, so I did what what college student with no money would do, I bougt a couple of cans of plastidip I decided to redo the roof.





While welding some of the rust this past summer I had a little accident and caught the trunk liner on fire and when I released the fire extinguisher.....well.... I kind of screwed up my amp. So I got a new one, and also reinstalled my roof rack. I scored some skis for $4 too!!!!! Then I finally got around to installing my smoked turn signals and my german grill badge.






I stole the rear parcel shelf off the 318is parts car and recovered it with some black fabric, it didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but I think it looks better than the old crappy one.

[stonea]

I love this car! Great work done, I'm really impressed with how you went from never working on a car to doing tons of work I yet to do and I have been working on my dads 88 diamantshwartz IX almost all my life!

Thanks!!! I'm lucky enough to have my dad and my uncle help me along the way. Theres no way I could have done it with out them.

Nice thread! What kind of a lift is that in your garage?

I'm like 99% sure its Atlas other than that I'm not sure. Its technically my dads garage, I just get to use his toys.

[arthb7]

Nice thread! What kind of a lift is that in your garage?

[Zreberlcoe]

I'm not gonna lie, Izzy is an attention whore so the body kit has literally been collecting dust in my dads basement, but I'm hoping to get the kit painted when the zed goes in for body work and I'd probably sell the z3 before the body kit, haha. Also I might pick up some DS1 wheels for the z3 for christmas.

I love this car! Great work done, I'm really impressed with how you went from never working on a car to doing tons of work I yet to do and I have been working on my dads 88 diamantshwartz IX almost all my life!

[stonea]

Great build thread, looking forward to the progress. Time to sell me the Z3 bodykit so you can go full-throttle on this build ;D

I'm not gonna lie, Izzy is an attention whore so the body kit has literally been collecting dust in my dads basement, but I'm hoping to get the kit painted when the zed goes in for body work and I'd probably sell the z3 before the body kit, haha. Also I might pick up some DS1 wheels for the z3 for christmas.

[robrez]

Great build thread, looking forward to the progress. Time to sell me the Z3 bodykit so you can go full-throttle on this build ;D

[stonea]

Seems like it might be worth getting just the normal ix rack.

Heres the thread about it, it was on e30 tech

http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108108&page=7

It was pr3lude's Dayton Violet 325ix. I didn't see a build thread and he deleted the info off of the R3v thread but he left it up on E46fanatics.

R3v

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/member.php?u=28852

E46fanatic for sale thread

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=984745

He is still an active user. He might not mind if you ask him for more info on the car.

Thanks for the link! I've always wanted a couple of more pics of his car. Also just because my buddy's car literally just got finished I thought I'd post a pic of it. I don't know anything about it except its a Porsche 944, the cars been "under the knife" ever since I've meet him.



Edit: Just noticed the e30 in the picture, lol

[rzerob]

Nice Restoration. It is coming along nicely.

My buddy personally hasn't started a thread, I've tried to find a build thread from the PO but I've come up empty handed. I know the PO used to be on R3v. Anyways the car hasn't changed minus some brakes and tie rods since he's bought it. I'll be sure to throw in an update about his car every now and then.

It was pr3lude's Dayton Violet 325ix. I didn't see a build thread and he deleted the info off of the R3v thread but he left it up on E46fanatics.

R3v

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/member.php?u=28852

E46fanatic for sale thread

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=984745

He is still an active user. He might not mind if you ask him for more info on the car.

[jeenyus]

It doesn't have the same mounting point but the e46 xi rack's mounting points are at least pointed in the right direction. There's a thread in here about the swap. The hardest part is trying to figure out what to do for the tie rods. Anyways it's not something I'm trying to do anytime soon. I need to get a lot of parts first.

Seems like it might be worth getting just the normal ix rack.

[stonea]

I would like to see you figure this out. I was a little bummed when I found out that the IX couldn't do the same steering rack swap as everyone else. A Z4 rack quickly was removed from my list of things to buy... The AWD e46 has the same mounting points as the e30 IX?

It doesn't have the same mounting point but the e46 xi rack's mounting points are at least pointed in the right direction. There's a thread in here about the swap. The hardest part is trying to figure out what to do for the tie rods. Anyways it's not something I'm trying to do anytime soon. I need to get a lot of parts first.

[Matt341]

Nice ix man

[jeenyus]

Since my cars AWD it make a e36 rack swap all but impossible, the e46 AWD rack has similar geometry, but its still far from being close. Its something I'd like to figure out, but realistically it may never happen.

I would like to see you figure this out. I was a little bummed when I found out that the IX couldn't do the same steering rack swap as everyone else. A Z4 rack quickly was removed from my list of things to buy... The AWD e46 has the same mounting points as the e30 IX?

[stonea]

Didn't near as much done this past weekend as I wanted to, but I got a nice pic of Izzy by the water. Its hard to tell, but I also painted my "is" lip.



Also I decided to black out the chrome window trim finally.





Thats kind of the extent to what I got done this weekend, minus the respect your elders sticker, lol. Anyways I'm having some trouble with the car recharging the battery so I'm trying to figure that out. Hopefully I can get a little bit done this weekend.

[stonea]

My uncle has some spring compressors, I had to use 3 per side instead of the normal 2. For the rears I just used a good old fashion crowbar to pry them out.

[litu]

Nice, some new parts :)