Been a long time since I've updated. I finally got some progress done on the e30. The cosmos e36 m3 is out of my hands and with a family member now. It's been hard being able to work on the cars with it this summer being 100 degrees during the evening and lately in the 30's at night. I'll catch you guys' up on the cosmos real quick.
Iggee seat covers came in. made a huge difference. I found a comfort seat fs locally in not much better condition, but at least no tears. what a nightmare that was. also changed out the recline gear on the passenger side.
never again.
looks way better now despite my normal distaste for covers.
OEM hood/L fender and nose panel were all prepped and painted like this
new rear rotors/parking brake hardware to fix the lack of hand-brake
swapped the bumper trim from my daily e36 m3 and resprayed all trim with SEM bumper trim paint
I had to burn those ricer headlights, I couldn't find a late model nose panel so went with a 95 panel/hood from a friend who was parting one out. I picked up a square set of oem bmw polished ltw's with tires cheap-locally.
missing LF wheel well plastics and brake ducts were replaced.
samco hoses before the plastic duct was put back on - engine bay looks so clean
Unfortunately weather was super fucked and unpredictable during painting process. the hood ended up getting rained on, so will be needed to be redone sometime. fitment was bang on with the oem stuff which was nice. Cracked windshield was replaced and then I had to drive the car approx 100 miles to pass the damn drive cycle since the battery had died during repair process. In hindsight, smog first people!
Got an old school alignment from a friends' dad, then delivered it to said family member to drive.
Meanwhile my daily has had quite some bad luck. Clutch master went out, ended up replacing clutch pedal bushings for akg brass units, and changing out the uuc ss line with a newer (older had a tear).
then I hit a pothole and cracked one of my fiske fm5's. The rim had some curb damage, so I've been waiting on dropping it off for repair when I have time.
Now back to what this damn threads about!!
I had the engine bay all prepped and primed since early June. (right before I acquired the cosmos)
I ended up buying the steering wheel I wanted initially for the car. 350mm wood/polished nardi deep corn.
also acquired an afe intake tube locally. mocked up the mishimoto intake boot, 540i maf and got all couplers and a new filter for it.
fast forward to black friday...let's not bring up the number of nights I stayed up thinking of what engine paint color to go with...(ended up going alipne white II which was a solid choice). I ordered a mishimoto radiator from catuned and decided it was time to paint the engine bay since I had a week off. I was very fortunate to have help from a buddy to mask everything off, as I would have not done as good of a job.
It actually took most of the day to prep the surface and mask everything. We shot a base coat down, and pushed it in since we lost day light.
base coat drying overnight.
That night I purchased some heat-barrier gold tape for the fire wall and some other dei products for the trans tunnel.
and here's the before & after photo of the engine bay.
anyways, just excited to get moving on the car....so many things are undecided....such as e46 lca's and e36 tie rods, (the lca's on the car are 2 years old, and it's been sitting for a year, and I replaced the tie rods when i did the m3 rack upgrade) and I'm not 100% sure I want to do the dual caliper conversion/hydraulic hand brake setup, as I'm thinking I should make this more of a track-ready street car vs a dedicated hpde/drift car. My main goal is to get the motor in and running asap. I'm about to do all the detent pins on the zf trans this week, and hopefully start with the heat shielding. The rear subframe drop is bothering me too, since I'd have to reinforce the subframe and diff mounts, weld in the camber adjustment, replace all the bushings with poly...and possibly plumb the hydraulic hand brake at the same time....baby steps though
Iggee seat covers came in. made a huge difference. I found a comfort seat fs locally in not much better condition, but at least no tears. what a nightmare that was. also changed out the recline gear on the passenger side.
never again.
looks way better now despite my normal distaste for covers.
OEM hood/L fender and nose panel were all prepped and painted like this
new rear rotors/parking brake hardware to fix the lack of hand-brake
swapped the bumper trim from my daily e36 m3 and resprayed all trim with SEM bumper trim paint
I had to burn those ricer headlights, I couldn't find a late model nose panel so went with a 95 panel/hood from a friend who was parting one out. I picked up a square set of oem bmw polished ltw's with tires cheap-locally.
missing LF wheel well plastics and brake ducts were replaced.
samco hoses before the plastic duct was put back on - engine bay looks so clean
Unfortunately weather was super fucked and unpredictable during painting process. the hood ended up getting rained on, so will be needed to be redone sometime. fitment was bang on with the oem stuff which was nice. Cracked windshield was replaced and then I had to drive the car approx 100 miles to pass the damn drive cycle since the battery had died during repair process. In hindsight, smog first people!
Got an old school alignment from a friends' dad, then delivered it to said family member to drive.
Meanwhile my daily has had quite some bad luck. Clutch master went out, ended up replacing clutch pedal bushings for akg brass units, and changing out the uuc ss line with a newer (older had a tear).
then I hit a pothole and cracked one of my fiske fm5's. The rim had some curb damage, so I've been waiting on dropping it off for repair when I have time.
Now back to what this damn threads about!!
I had the engine bay all prepped and primed since early June. (right before I acquired the cosmos)
I ended up buying the steering wheel I wanted initially for the car. 350mm wood/polished nardi deep corn.
also acquired an afe intake tube locally. mocked up the mishimoto intake boot, 540i maf and got all couplers and a new filter for it.
fast forward to black friday...let's not bring up the number of nights I stayed up thinking of what engine paint color to go with...(ended up going alipne white II which was a solid choice). I ordered a mishimoto radiator from catuned and decided it was time to paint the engine bay since I had a week off. I was very fortunate to have help from a buddy to mask everything off, as I would have not done as good of a job.
It actually took most of the day to prep the surface and mask everything. We shot a base coat down, and pushed it in since we lost day light.
base coat drying overnight.
That night I purchased some heat-barrier gold tape for the fire wall and some other dei products for the trans tunnel.
and here's the before & after photo of the engine bay.
anyways, just excited to get moving on the car....so many things are undecided....such as e46 lca's and e36 tie rods, (the lca's on the car are 2 years old, and it's been sitting for a year, and I replaced the tie rods when i did the m3 rack upgrade) and I'm not 100% sure I want to do the dual caliper conversion/hydraulic hand brake setup, as I'm thinking I should make this more of a track-ready street car vs a dedicated hpde/drift car. My main goal is to get the motor in and running asap. I'm about to do all the detent pins on the zf trans this week, and hopefully start with the heat shielding. The rear subframe drop is bothering me too, since I'd have to reinforce the subframe and diff mounts, weld in the camber adjustment, replace all the bushings with poly...and possibly plumb the hydraulic hand brake at the same time....baby steps though
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