My e30 Project... Mtech II sedan, Jlines, Vaders, M50 and much more...

[stevofthahill]

This is coming together very nicely. I would love to have a project car to rebuild from ground up, but don't have the time, resources, or space to do so. Looks great!

[Hick]

Those plates are used to locate the chassis on the assembly line. you need to take more pictures at night when details are all but impossible to see.

[e30polak]

looks gangsta...m-tech 2 i so pimp!!!

[einstein57]

i thought those plates are where the ball sensor for the door lock overides when you get in to an accident. that vinyl paint sucts. you'd be better off covering the door card and pulls. go for the 7 series look. and don't forget to paint the brake light cover. i've found that black shoe polish cleans up faded interior plastic like the ashtray or seatbelts witould loseing the rough factory finish. did it about a year ago and it still looks good.

[idrillteeth]

Bump for updates!!!

[Erik]

Very nice project! Man you are doing SO much work! There is only ONE thing I noticed you haven't done yet, it's some what surprising that you haven't actually. You know all the nice black vinyl paint you have? You should take some of that to the middle of your steering wheel, it looks great when it's done right! But other than that I am blown away at how much work you're putting into this project! It looks awesome!

[CorvallisBMW]

yes, updates!!!

[e30325ic]

All the work looks great. Keep up the work. I know what you mean about trying to stay on budget I am trying to stay on budget with my 87is. Keep up the great work and keep us posted with updates.

[Lost]

Amazing work and Good Luck!
Excellent thread where to get inspiration.

[motorsports_3]

Here is a small update. I got stuck on the carpet removal. Besides that it went pretty smooth. I got tired early, so more tomorrow.
How it looked prior to today


The Interior


Clean it up a bit

Oil Spill in the Garage FTL

Removing front seats




My camera bat had dies here so I missed a few steps
Seats out

Carpet coming out







Removing the garbage window trim

Trim Removed





Thats it for today. I cant figure ut how to finish getting the carpet out. I think I need to remove the evaporator and that dash. Does anyone know how to finish this off?
Thanks...

[Julien]

yeah, heater core has to come out.. or leave that chunk under there and cut the new one to fit.

[motorsports_3]

Here is another small update.

I had some water leaking in and wanted to make sure it was nothing major.
I sprayed the car down and checked

Turned out it cam from the back door with no gaskets


No big deal

Try two for the evaporator







I still could not get the damn thing out. I unplugged the ecu and stilll had no luck. The big ECU wire harness is in the way. Any ideas guys?

Thats it for today. It was going to pour and I had to stop

[AlarmedBread]

Pull the dash, then it's easy to get the whole assembly out to fix it. I imagine it'd be a PITA to get the vents unhooked with the dash in place.

[motorsports_3]

Pull the dash, then it's easy to get the whole assembly out to fix it. I imagine it'd be a PITA to get the vents unhooked with the dash in place.

Yeah i might do that. Is there a DIY on the dash removal, or is it strait foward?

[M42Technik]

Yeah i might do that. Is there a DIY on the dash removal, or is it strait foward?

http://www.strictlyeta.net/technical/dashboard.html

There you go! Good luck.