Nicademus' 1986 325e Journal

[StereoInstaller1]

DOOD!

Does Brody have extra toes?

[Nicademus]

I need to get those euro bumpers on my car. I just bought a euro valance today from member Germancarsonly. I also put some new yellow hella fogs on my car that Kronus sold me and some Hella H4 & H1 headlights. SOOOoo much better than the shitty sealed beam headlights.

DOOD!

Does Brody have extra toes?

Yeah!!! He does! Good eye Luke! Brody is alright but some of the others are even cooler. Brody actually is living at the animal shelter now :( I had to bring some of them to the shelter (PAWS, they're basically no kill)). Almost all of the 6 kittens had extra toes. I only have two left now, Victor and Bear. Victor is the only one that had the right amount of toes. Bear who I'm keeping (I have to get rid of Victor this week :( Its sad because he's really cool and I'm definitely attached, although Bear is the ultimate kit kat) has 6 toes on all four corners. Thats why I named him bear, because he has huge bear paws. I'll post some pictures of some of the others.

Does anyone want Victor??? PM me if you do. He's about 10weeks old or something.

[Dragowl]

Trunk near the jack. Pull the paneling and then behind by the antenna there a box. Unplug it and make sure all the contacts are clean and not all corroded.

Aye...thank you much!

[StereoInstaller1]

I might take Victor.

Lemme see if I have a home for me or not.

[StereoInstaller1]

Oh yeah...go read up on "Hemingway" or polydactyl cats.

I will never own a smallfoot cat again.

[Nicademus]

Happy Turkey Lurkey Day

[Edev]

Well I didn't get a chance to read this advice before I hit the road today sooo I bought some stuff. I'll post pictures of it all here soon but here's what I scored!!! :up: (I raped a 1985 323 today) :

- Front Euro Bumper
- Rear Euro Bumper (including both end caps :D)
- Large tool kit (almost complete)
- German Check panel
- Door Tweaters
- Euro Fog light switch
- German 13 button OBC
- Front & Rear roundels (for the hell of it)
- Black floor mats (front drivers & both rear)
- Shift knob
- Shift boot
- Euro front lip (it had air ducts for the brakes but they were attached to the wheel well plastic and too hard to get...or I was lazy. I broke them :oops:)
What did I pay for all this??? $50!!!
(Did I forget anything? Should I go back?)

Also in the mail I received a couple things today:

- Euro rear plate filler
- Smoked bumper lights
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Nice to see people bid up my Alpina wheel today quite a bit!!: click here

reading all this ruined my thanksgiving. SHIT! :hitler:

[Nicademus]

reading all this ruined my thanksgiving. SHIT! :hitler:

The bumpers are actually kinda messed up.....especially the front one. I've been messing with them for about 35 minutes. The front is pretty bent and the rear has some BS brace welded in their for federalization I'm guessing.

I think I'm going to install something else

[kronus]

The bumpers are actually kinda messed up.....especially the front one. I've been messing with them for about 35 minutes. The front is pretty bent and the rear has some BS brace welded in their for federalization I'm guessing.

I think I'm going to install something else

noway, stick with euros. Alpine + full euros = hawt (but I'm biased for reasons that will be photos soon)

I have a welded brace in my rear euro bumper, too. It's heavy as hell and I was considering cutting it out because I need to bend my rear mounts back into shape and it's in the way.

[Nicademus]

I still want to go euro bumpers but I'm pretty frustrated right now. I hate starting something and not being able to progress.

Is the rear easy to mount? I wish someone could help me. I don't want to pull off my rear diving board and get stuck. Also will it look funny without a rear valance?

I've got a front euro valance on its way in the mail already. Looks like I need to buy another front euro bumper or the center section if someone has that alone?

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I'm going to install the mtech sills. At least I know I can do that right now and get some instant gratification.....or I might crack them. I should really just sell them, but no one wants them.

[Stephen]

Wheres the front one bent?

[kronus]

I still want to go euro bumpers but I'm pretty frustrated right now. I hate starting something and not being able to progress.

Is the rear easy to mount? I wish someone could help me. I don't want to pull off my rear diving board and get stuck. Also will it look funny without a rear valance?

I've got a front euro valance on its way in the mail already. Looks like I need to buy another front euro bumper or the center section if someone has that alone?

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I'm going to install the mtech sills. At least I know I can do that right now and get some instant gratification.....or I might crack them. I should really just sell them, but no one wants them.

I want them... but money is tight :(

I have an extra straight front euro bumper with no hardware, though.

The rear is not difficult to mount. Farbin and I did it in about an hour and a half. The rear DB is not the most fun thing ever to take off, but it's relatively simple. Open your trunk, take out the back carpet and the side carpets. Undo every nut/bolt that looks like it's going to the bumper or bumper shrouds.

The actual DB comes off when you undo six large nuts that are under/inside the rear valence. There are two on each side of the shocks, and one on each shock rail's driver-side. You might need to pull back or drop the exhaust's heat shield to get at one of the nuts. I avoided doing so because my heatshield is flappy and partially rusted off.

Then, drill two holes for the mounts. If you hold the mounts up to the bumper, it should be easy to tell where they go. Drill, screw in the endcaps, and then slide the bumper into the endcaps and through the mounting holes in the rear of the car. Stick some nuts onto the studs in the trunk and under it, two side-mount screws, and you're done.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yeah, it was easy-peasy. Shoot soon?

[kronus]

Need to paint my lip.


Scratch that. Need to get out of bed first.

[Nicademus]

I've got these things I'm working on now, I just came in to grab some tools:

- mtech door sills (easy)
- new front seatbelts (the other ones don't work with the sport seats) Drivers Installed.
- power sunroof install (I have 2 complete sunroof setups. anyone want one? trade?)
- euro rear bumper
- purchase a front one from kronus ;)

I'd like to do a shoot on my car.