‘91 E30
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Just need to cut around the heater core and then it’ll be ready to be removed.
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Purchased some bummerworld floor plates for the new seats, new clips for the sill plates, new clips for the doorcards, firewall steering shaft boot and new boot mount from a dude on r3v (needed for making the boot work with the different steering shaft angle associated with the z3 rack), side mounts for seats, vac seat belt receptacle mounts and a manual gas pedal stop as mine was still the auto kickdown switch thing.
hopefully that’s all I need to get the interior finished off
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Link for the steering shaft boot mount?
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So now we see that the carpet doesn't match the floor mat...
Are these the E46 floor mats? I haven't even driven in my car with my eBay mats, but they look like trash compared to these.
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Are these the E46 floor mats? I haven't even driven in my car with my eBay mats, but they look like trash compared to these.
If Im not mistaken they are 1 series mats.
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He gave me the run around about how I don’t own a 1er but I sent him money anyways
1 series mats are a dialed fitment for an E30
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yes, e82 mats. they fit OK, but the fronts are a little small. its nice that they are OEM quality, though, vs aftermarket questionable stuff.
Dan
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Are these the E46 floor mats? I haven't even driven in my car with my eBay mats, but they look like trash compared to these.
https://www.turnermotorsport.com/p-340009-genuine-bmw-e82-floor-mats-e82-128i-135i-1m-coupe/?pdk=Ag
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yes, e82 mats. they fit OK, but the fronts are a little small. its nice that they are OEM quality, though, vs aftermarket questionable stuff.
The quality is quite nice for $100. Comes with the anchors too
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I have no more brian cells left
also started cleaning and putting together the rear trunk carpets and stuff. Won’t be dyeing those. Just cleaned them up. Need to cut up the side pieces to fit around the rear strut brace.
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Trunk carpets in. Could’ve got fancy with cutting them out for my adjusters and strut brace, but just cut them short instead.
I do have the plastic battery cover, it’s just a tiny bit awkward to affix and it’s nice not having to tear anything apart for tech - so I won’t be using it most likely
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carpet looks great!
(throws out carpet)
just put a cap on the positive terminal so an errant can of Molson's in your trunk doesnt short the battery.
Dan
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carpet looks great!
(throws out carpet)
just put a cap on the positive terminal so an errant can of Molson's in your trunk doesnt short the battery.
Lol. Thanks dan. Figured I’d spray this one and see how it turned out, not sure when I would’ve been able to make it down your way.
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it turned out great! what product did you end up using?
Dan
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it turned out great! what product did you end up using?
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Did it come out crunchy or does it still feel like carpet? Looks really nice. Someday when I get around to the interior of my sedan I was planning to do the same thing.
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it turned out great! what product did you end up using?
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Did it come out crunchy or does it still feel like carpet? Looks really nice. Someday when I get around to the interior of my sedan I was planning to do the same thing.
It comes in flat and gloss, I used flat everywhere- even on the vinyl heel pad and dead pedal thing.
used about 5ish total cans for all the carpets, tan needed a lot and this carpet was properly stained lol.
carpet doesn’t feel as “soft” as when I started, granted I was starting with a 30yo beat up carpet. It does however feel uniform now. A tad firmer but I wouldn’t call it crunchy by any means. Happy medium between OEM and pontoon carpeting haha.
if I could redo it I would be more direct with my usage of a nylon brush in between coats in order to help the spray cover all sides of the carpet strands. I got kind of lazy.
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Found a bit of free time this weekend to tackle the firewall steering shaft boot. Wanted to get that out of the way before putting the interior back in. Lots of e30 yoga was needed
Here is the before, boot not really attached to much
removed it all and had to make the hole larger. Queue the angry end
once the hole in the firewall matched the new plate, I had to trim back some of the sound deadening in the engine bay. Slapped it all back together and sealed it with some 3m gasket in a tube.
boot fits snug and was a PITA to get snapped in, but once it’s on it is not going anywhere.
replaced some old brittle trim clips as well, noticed my door cards kept popping out and some of the rear trim wasn’t staying put
before I went inside, I noticed a small puddle under the car that wasn’t there when I was working on the steering. I checked it out and it’s coolant dripping from the hose clamp which secures the hose that connects to the heater core pipe under the intake manifold. 🤬
I’m saving that gem for when the interior is back together.
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So it’s not dripping coolant anymore, so I’m not sure what the hell is going on haha. I will check it out once the interior is buttoned up.
I tossed in the new gas pedal stopper, innovate wbo2 & got to work putting the carpet in. Once it was in I sized up the bummerworld floor plates in order to cut the carpet up some more (the plates sit flush against the body). I haven’t bolted the plates down yet, but here’s where I stopped for the night.
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Anybody know if you can buy the e30 shift boot frame on its own? Everything I find online shows the frame being a part of the shift boot already.
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