I originally purchased this car last summer from an old lady here in Oregon. The power top had broken in the down position, and she left it outside in the PNW rain for about a year before I was able to rescue it from an inevitable date with the crusher. I had a thread started last year about the clean-up, it can be found here:
I removed the entire interior, cleaned the mold out of EVERYTHING, used an ozone generator to kill any mold/mildew/odor that remained, installed Dynamat, re-dyed the carpets, etc....
When September rolled around it was time to go back to school, so the car was put away in my dads garage for the winter and sat untouched until this April when I moved back to Portland to start an internship. First on the order of business that getting the 4x4 suspension settled:
THe subframe was a bitch to get out, it was really stuck in there. But this little wonder had it out in less than 5 minutes:
All empty!:
SS brake lines installed
Subframe back from Pacific Motorsports with IE camber kit, sway bar reinforcements, all new bushings and ruberized rustproof coating:
Rear 22mm IE swaybar reinforcements:
Front springs/shocks installed with M3 CABs, new CAs, IE 25mm swaybar and SS lines:
Vorschlag camber/castor plates:
Old, very leaky steering rack:
New E36 3.25 rack with new tie rods. Hooray for airbag cars! Direct bolt-in!:
Now it was time to focus on the interior. Here's a recap of last summer's activity. Removed interior and installed Dynamat:
Steam-cleaned (over and over) and re-dyed carpet:
The old seats:
The new seats back from the upholstery shop:
Smoking the tailights and shadowlining the trim:
transmission mounts are supposed to look like this, right? right?!?!?
At least the inside is sparkly clean:
Fuck this shit:
New pedals going in:
15lb 323i single-mass flywheel installed:
New tranny in:
Z4 shifter with all new bushings:
A little get together with the guys who came and helped. Thanks!!!
The bumpers before:
The old wheels:
The new wheels :pimp:
New OEM BMW rear window:
Sorry, forgot to take pics!
Holy shit that's a lot of work! It's taken me about 2 solid months of working on it nearly every day after work to get to this point. I dropped it off for paint on Tuesday of last week and picked it up on Friday, just 2 days before the picnic. Would I be able to get it done in time to make it!?!?!?!?
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You bet your ass I will :)
Other things installed:
-smoke side indicators
-smoke front turns
-Hella H1/H4 setup with smoke LaminX
-new fogs with smoke LaminX
-New OEM BMW rear window (fits like a glove)
-New OEM BMW weatherstripping all around ($$$$$$, yikes)
-K&N panel filter
-Full cut/polish/wax
-converted from power to manual top (too expensive to fix, and I sold the power top parts for $500 so I came out WAY ahead)
-re-dyed all the white vinyl in the car (door cards, seatbacks, toneau, etc)
-Euro plate filler
-Euro grills
-Mtech 2 steering wheel
-Alcantara e-brake and shift books with M color stiching
-Matching M-pattern e-brake handle, weighted shift knob and pedals
-lots of other stuff I can't even remember
Future plans:
-NEEDS TO BE LOWARRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
-finish fine-tuning the fitment of the top and windows so it seals out all the PNW rain
-OBD1 M52 (currently sitting in garage, waiting for more moneyz)
-3M clearbra up front to protect all the nice new paint
-clear side markers instead of smoke, with white-painted surrounds
-beadblast and powdercoat the weaves in stock white color w/ polished lips
-probably lots of other things, it never ends :)
Thanks for looking, and thanks to all you R3vers who have helped me out in the process!:
Curt
Jeff
Joe
Matt
Josh
Ken
Alexei
I removed the entire interior, cleaned the mold out of EVERYTHING, used an ozone generator to kill any mold/mildew/odor that remained, installed Dynamat, re-dyed the carpets, etc....
When September rolled around it was time to go back to school, so the car was put away in my dads garage for the winter and sat untouched until this April when I moved back to Portland to start an internship. First on the order of business that getting the 4x4 suspension settled:
THe subframe was a bitch to get out, it was really stuck in there. But this little wonder had it out in less than 5 minutes:
All empty!:
SS brake lines installed
Subframe back from Pacific Motorsports with IE camber kit, sway bar reinforcements, all new bushings and ruberized rustproof coating:
Rear 22mm IE swaybar reinforcements:
Front springs/shocks installed with M3 CABs, new CAs, IE 25mm swaybar and SS lines:
Vorschlag camber/castor plates:
Old, very leaky steering rack:
New E36 3.25 rack with new tie rods. Hooray for airbag cars! Direct bolt-in!:
Now it was time to focus on the interior. Here's a recap of last summer's activity. Removed interior and installed Dynamat:
Steam-cleaned (over and over) and re-dyed carpet:
The old seats:
The new seats back from the upholstery shop:
Smoking the tailights and shadowlining the trim:
transmission mounts are supposed to look like this, right? right?!?!?
At least the inside is sparkly clean:
Fuck this shit:
New pedals going in:
15lb 323i single-mass flywheel installed:
New tranny in:
Z4 shifter with all new bushings:
A little get together with the guys who came and helped. Thanks!!!
The bumpers before:
The old wheels:
The new wheels :pimp:
New OEM BMW rear window:
Sorry, forgot to take pics!
Holy shit that's a lot of work! It's taken me about 2 solid months of working on it nearly every day after work to get to this point. I dropped it off for paint on Tuesday of last week and picked it up on Friday, just 2 days before the picnic. Would I be able to get it done in time to make it!?!?!?!?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
You bet your ass I will :)
Other things installed:
-smoke side indicators
-smoke front turns
-Hella H1/H4 setup with smoke LaminX
-new fogs with smoke LaminX
-New OEM BMW rear window (fits like a glove)
-New OEM BMW weatherstripping all around ($$$$$$, yikes)
-K&N panel filter
-Full cut/polish/wax
-converted from power to manual top (too expensive to fix, and I sold the power top parts for $500 so I came out WAY ahead)
-re-dyed all the white vinyl in the car (door cards, seatbacks, toneau, etc)
-Euro plate filler
-Euro grills
-Mtech 2 steering wheel
-Alcantara e-brake and shift books with M color stiching
-Matching M-pattern e-brake handle, weighted shift knob and pedals
-lots of other stuff I can't even remember
Future plans:
-NEEDS TO BE LOWARRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
-finish fine-tuning the fitment of the top and windows so it seals out all the PNW rain
-OBD1 M52 (currently sitting in garage, waiting for more moneyz)
-3M clearbra up front to protect all the nice new paint
-clear side markers instead of smoke, with white-painted surrounds
-beadblast and powdercoat the weaves in stock white color w/ polished lips
-probably lots of other things, it never ends :)
Thanks for looking, and thanks to all you R3vers who have helped me out in the process!:
Curt
Jeff
Joe
Matt
Josh
Ken
Alexei
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