91 325i S52 Build

[jpod999]

I'm quite jealous of your garage, looks like a great place to work.

[Bimmerguy91]

I love your E30 and F30! This is coming from an E30 and F31 owner. ;D

Thanks! Seems we have similar taste ;D

[Bimmerguy91]

I'm quite jealous of your garage, looks like a great place to work.

Thank you. I try to keep it clean and semi-organized so that I can park and work without issue but I'm really wanting and needing more space. In the next year or so we're going to build a new house and I'm building a detached shop building!

[Bimmerguy91]

I picked up a set of clean unmolested OEM tail lights to replace my shitty smoked cracking tail lights. I took the bulb covers off the back and noticed they were extremely dirty so they got a bubble bath and a good scrubbing down.

Much better now:
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Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr

I then wetsanded the light, masked off the reverse light and sprayed it with red VHT tint to get rid of the amber corners. Here they are:
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I am going to wet sand them and clear coat them tonight. Once that all cures I will wet sand the clear and polish them to a mirror finish.

[CorvallisBMW]

Those look great!

[Bimmerguy91]

I am thinking about wrapping the car in 3M Burnt Orange Gloss vinyl for a little different look. It is very similar to BMW Fire Orange and reminds me a lot of the 80s Jagermeister cars which were Inca Orange. I feel like the color is period correct but gives the car a unique flair since E30s never came in orange from the factory.

Here is an E30 wrapped in Burnt Orange Gloss:
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Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr
Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr

[Bimmerguy91]

Those look great!

Thank you! It's a fairly easy process really. You don't even have to be a great painter if you're good at wet sanding and polishing :)

[Bimmerguy91]

Picking up a complete M50NV with harness, ecu and E34 oil pan today. Going to keep the OBD1 intake manifold and E34 oil pan for my swap. Will sell off the rest if anyone needs some swap stuff.

[Bimmerguy91]

Grabbed the M50NV and all the accessories including an E34 oil pan for $100 delivered :-). The guy even threw in some other E30 goodies for free, including a brand new CV axle. Score!

[Bimmerguy91]

Finished up my tail lights. Very pleased with how they turned out. Still need to install them. I have a refurbished euro plate filler on the way as well which should really tie it all together.

Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr
Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr

[Bimmerguy91]

Got bored and installed the new tail lights as well as some tan recaro sport seats that I've had sitting around for a while.

These were nasty, cracked and full of water. BYE BYE!
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Hello fresh sexy tail lights!
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Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr

Out with the uncomfortable "comfort" seats (funny how that works) and in with some nicely reupholstered Recaro sport seats. So much more comfortable and supportive. Looks much better too.
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Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr

[Bimmerguy91]

My European plate filler has finally arrived! Big thanks to Marco. If you need one he is your guy.

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I'll throw it on and take a pic when I get home today.

[Bimmerguy91]

Euro plate filler installed:

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My E30 and the wife's F30:
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[Bimmerguy91]

Took the old girl out to EuroSunday

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While we were there my friend Martin brought these beauties

M4 GTS

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Untitled by Austin Graner, on Flickr

M2 Performance Edition

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[iwantspeed]

nice update!

keep up the good work