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[Albie325]

Nice work! The leather seat treatment came out great, will have to look into that for my e46

[Albie325]

Really nice car, GLWS

[Albie325]

Glad you like it, welcome back! Time to get the ol' girl running again.

As for the new part failure, yes super frustrating. I swapped in the new thermostat (after testing) and the car is...

[Albie325]

I remember looking at this car awhile back when I was trying to figure out what sides/rear valence to go with for an ES valance DB car. Yours is about the nicest combo for the early model I've seen for...

[Albie325]

I painted mine with Duplicolor black vinyl paint, came out great:



It comes in gloss black and matte, I think I went with the matte....

[Albie325]

Well boys and girls, I think I nailed down my overheating problem.

I had a couple hours today so decided to get the radiator drained and old thermostat out so that when the new one arrives...

[Albie325]

EDIT: I do have 1 VDO cluster in nice shape, however it's for an ETA. I have 2 "i" clusters however both are motometer.

[Albie325]

Nice, thanks guys. I use Flickr as well but had been using the insert image icon in the toolbar to paste in the url. For whatever reason on the new software doing it this way adds pictures as attachments,...

[Albie325]

If 325isman doesn't have one, I have a couple. PM me if you haven't found one yet

[Albie325]

Hey man, I have a few i clusters and am almost 100% sure one of them is a VDO. Can send you a pic tomorrow morning, they're out in the garage.

[Albie325]

I have a new pair with new mounting hardware that I'd sell for $200. These are the SAAB ones, but the only difference is the pigtail. The actual fog lights and housing are identical PN's to those on the...

[Albie325]

connorb850 I've retrofitted the system so that it's essentially compatible with both refrigerants (O-rings, parallel flow condenser, R134 expansion valve which supposedly will work fine with R12, and...

[Albie325]

NIce updates, sorry about the "oops." Dumb question, how are you going about posting so many pics in your posts? I've been doing it the same as I did on the old software, however now it only...

[Albie325]

Agreed, holy moly that's clean as shit. THe e46 M3 was my dream car and got me into BMW's, I think my fiancee would kill me if I brought home another car though. If it was this clean I'd definitely entertain...

[Albie325]

Sweet! Glad it worked out Mike

[Albie325]

Hmm interesting, I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Poorhouse hoping that that's all it ends up being for both of us...

That cupholder.

I must possess this magic.

[Albie325]

Thanks man, very happy with how the interior turned out.

So after a day or two of driving normally, I've run into an issue with overheating. My first few drives I saw the engine temp creep...

[Albie325]

Nice pickup! Definitely looks like a nice clean starting point. Other than a refresh of the seats looks like it could almost be left as-is

[Albie325]

Nice pickup for $500! Very interested to see how you attack a non concourse-quality build. It's always mind-blowing how perfect you are able to make everything but not always worth the cost/effort on...