Cabby: Bumper Conversion, skirts, rear apron

[GarrettM]

So it is just as the write up says to do on the front bumper? Is there anything different about the rear bumper write up and the actual procedure on the cabby?

[td325ic]

My post above had a link with his pictures, but I'll just link them here for him.

From his post on MaxBimmer:

http://maxbimmer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93128&p=1038113

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[87-325ic]

Well I have heard that an 88 Cabby is WAY different than an 88 325i 2 or 4 door and it is a lot more work to do a bumper swap. Is this true?

its actually the opposite,

Cabrios have the rear wheel arches just like the plastic bumpered cars, just no bigger rear valence or plastics,

the bumpers fit directly on, but the rear valence is the only biotch



PICTURES ARE DOWN PLEASE FIX THEM!!!!!! i would like to see a good looking cabrio

[GarrettM]

Well I have heard that an 88 Cabby is WAY different than an 88 325i 2 or 4 door and it is a lot more work to do a bumper swap. Is this true?

[CleanAzzE30z]

Its very similar to other red X's Ive seen.


Mariano

[td325ic]

http://maxbimmer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93128&p=1038113

[GarrettM]

PICS! ARE! DOWN! how bad was it to do a bumpers swap?

[Silence*]

Nice cabbie! I've always had a soft spot for plastic bumpered cabrios...

[talltorontoguy]

Thanks Mr Anderson!

Schnellervert - The M30 conversion won't add weight as I will ditch the AC, keeping it balanced (the AC weighs about the same as the additional weight of an M30). I have no plans to go FI.

[atomic]

nice and clean cabbie !! great looking ride

[Jand3rson]

Wow. I must say, I am quite impressed. That's a great looking cabby. Nice choices on the upgrades!

The Infinity front looks GREAT with the M-Tech II lower skirts and rear apron. VERY nice.

[talltorontoguy]

Here's some more pics... Rear apron is from Eurostyle here in the Toronto area, as are the side skirts and front lip. The skirts are meant for hardtops, apron meant meant to fit late model E30's as a snap-on / 2 bolt affair. I couldn't find any other suitable apron so went with it and modified it.

For those with an early model doing a plastic bumper conversion, the rear apron has to be attached to the bumper. I had to do some fabrication to make it work, which included trimming the top lip of apron to make it fit flat with the bottom of the bumper, screwing the two together from the inside, making brackets at the ends to stop lateral movement, and fibreglassing the two parts together on the inside. It was a pain in the ass but it came out "ok".

This was my first time ever doing any fabrication or painting... I should have blocked the apron when I prepped it for paint as you can see some undulation in it if you look carefully. As I noted in my original post, the car will be painted later this year so this is a temporary measure; it will be tidied up when it gets resprayed.

There's lots of details yet to finish and I know it's far from perfect, but I like it.

Mods so far:

- 5 speed conversion
- H&R / Bilstein suspension
- z3 SSk
- E46 M3 RSM
- Personalized gauge faces
- Infinity Components, alpine head, 10" Sub
- 4300k HID conversion
- 17" Wheels w/215-40-17 tires
- Deleted side markers
- Smoked front indicators
- Plastic bumper conversion
- Eurostyle mtech rear apron
- Eurostyle mtech side skirts
- Eurostyle infinity lip

[cbouchez]

It looks great!

[ZM Blue Devil]

wow thats a hell of a transformation!

I kinda like the black atop the skirts.

+1 i like the parallel black lines... Well done!

[Garageaholic]

What kind of rear apron did you use? More pics!