1983 Henna Red 323i

[Jean]

Great job, and welcome to the site!!!

It's interesting that even though we both have early cars, your fuel pump/sender is one unit? My fuel level sender comes out w/o remove in intank pump... wierd.

[kdevitt]

Nice project. What spray gun are you using?

Um, its aerosols at the moment :D

Really want to get it presentable first of all - will get suspension and braking sorted next.

[N2MYE30]

Nice project. What spray gun are you using?

[Court M3]

this reminds me I have to get cracking on mine.

[kdevitt]

Great progress. I plan to do some body and paint work on my schwartz 327 over summer.

Go for it :D

As I said at the start, I've never done any of this sort of work before. If I really make a complete mess, I'll just get a professional to tidy it up for me! Not as much fun just paying someone to do it though.

[Infamouscrew02]

Great progress. I plan to do some body and paint work on my schwartz 327 over summer.

[kdevitt]

Just a quick update...

I finished spraying the wing. The finish is nice and smooth - but not as smooth a job as a pro would do. Until it does get a full professional respray - this will have to do! I'm waiting on new arch liners to arrive so I only put the arch on loosely and put in two bolts to hold it while I buffed it.

Heres the arch after its last sanding:

After one pass with the porter cable:

I also got a new front valance from Germany - its a pattern part, the OEM is stupidly expensive.

After priming:

The old one came off easily enough, 4 bolts on top, 2 at the bottom, and one on each side holding onto the plastic lip.

The new one seems a decent fit - I'll know for sure when I'm aligning the wings.

Have an offside wing on its way to me along with the new fuel hose needed for the newer type sender unit.

[kdevitt]

Cheers for the comments guys. The colour was the first thing which attracted me to the car to be honest. My dad had one identical to it years back.

I guess one of the biggest problems with posting updates on a car like this is that everyone has distinct ideas of how they think it should be done. I'm almost afraid to post up updates sometimes :D The car should sit somewhere between a purists dream and a modifiers dream once its finished, if that makes sense.

I still have the Tec 1 kit sitting at home, so will probably paint it and stick it on to see how it looks! I do want 16 inch alpinas on it - if I go all out I'd like a 5 stud hub conversion and 16 inch BBS M3 wheels, but thats a long way down the road.

[Court M3]

saw this on e30zone.net nice build

[e30damen]

Awesome project, i'm subscribed

[Jand3rson]

WONDERFUL thread. I love this kind of DIY dedication to a car, and the DIY bodywork is a great thing to see as well. I've done a lot of similar jobs to my car.

Welcome to the site!

[dude8383]

this thing is going to look freakin sweet when you're done!

[jintermont]

subscribed i am thinking of painting mine myself too except it will be zinno

[YAN-3]

how do i keep missing these threads. very awesome project! keep up posted.

[gearheadE30]

Very nice. That's quite a project you've got going there. I kinda wish you were going to go full Mtech I as there are so few around.