What did you do to your E30 today?

[vivalegreg]

lets seee i replaced my broken alternator bracket today, picked up my master cylinder at the parts store, and am contimplating how i am going to take off my drain plug on my tranny...now im about to go put on my new emblems

[kellie]

I smogged her! Passed like a champ. :)

[Baxter]

took out the trunk tar- all 52lbs worth

[JasonC]

Nothing, i've been driving my Corvair around.

[Jand3rson]

Monty, nice job on that rear apron smoothing. I thought about smoothing mine before I mounted it, but ended up leaving it.

[CorvallisBMW]

took out the trunk tar- all 52lbs worth

No kidding! Some models have more that others, mine weighed in at about 60 lbs! I replaced it with 3 lbs of Dynamat and it sounds even better.

[ldsbeaker]

I parked her in the garage for the first time in 4 months.
The Five is alive!!

[windnsea00]

Laid about 30 ft. of rubber.

[monty]

Monty, nice job on that rear apron smoothing. I thought about smoothing mine before I mounted it, but ended up leaving it.

You should do it. I am sooooo happy with it. Just painting the black on the rockers and lower rear looks alot cleaner, and smoothed is icing on the cake.
Today I went to work, unmasked it, put the bumpers on, drove to TJ's house and put the remaining pieces in place.



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[JasonC]

It looks pretty good like that. The front valance is smooth on my 87 and if i ever get a late model rear valance for it, it will be smooth also.

[E30Classic]

You should do it. I am sooooo happy with it. Just painting the black on the rockers and lower rear looks alot cleaner, and smoothed is icing on the cake.
Today I went to work, unmasked it, put the bumpers on, drove to TJ's house and put the remaining pieces in place.



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WOW!!!

How did you do that? Sanded down, or peeled off the "Rhino liner" with a putty knife, lol?

[monty]

I started using 80 grit sand paper on a D.A. (dual action sander) but it just made a gummy mess. So I grabbed a heat gun and a stiff about 1 inch wide putty knife and went to town, it peeled off with ease.

[CorvallisBMW]

That looks great! What about rock chips though? did you add any kind of flexible coating or elastomer to the paint, to prevent them? Looks amazing but I am wondering about the durability...

[monty]

Flexible coating dries out in about a week, the stuff is mainly for handling. Like a corvette bumper is very flexible so it helps for the paint to not spider web when handling. I used a Dupont Scratch and Mar resistant clear, its very durable.

[rThor432]

I put a Z3 M coupe shift lever in the car today and rebuilt the shift linkage.

Also had to ground a 30mm impact bit down to size so I could get the balancer off. I went to 5 tool stores and none of them carried a 30mm deep well thin wall socket.

I fixed a broken sway bar end tab as well.

Took the intake setup apart and cleaned everything up in there.

As a side note I removed the stone guard stuff a week or so ago. I removed it from the underbody though, because I had to get to some rust spots to blast em out.

That was my great day with the E30..