My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)
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I called in sick on Friday to go in and work on the car. I now need it to get warm out so I can paint these parts and reassemble it all.
I started off by slipping with a drill and hitting the trailing arms yet again. Somehow a tap followed.
One of them is dead nuts in the center, the other is slightly off=( I don't believe it'll be much of an issue.
I grabbed a new wire wheel and put it to good use.
Do you think the paint should hold pretty well with that little bit of rust dust left? I can never seem to get it with a wire wheel=/
I also decided to snap a few pictures of the rear brake lines. I am so glad that I decided to do the rear subframe now.
I'm hoping I can find a way to paint some of these items on Wednesday. I also have a few lists of parts that I need to order.
The wheels are in transit, and I will be ordering lips shortly. I also decided on a color for the centers=) I most likely won't make my June deadline, but I have not given up.
TTFN
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I went out to the shop yesterday, only to leave after an hour so that I didn't freeze to the floor.
I did come home in time to receive a pleasant gift:
Only two came. The other two are somehow in Ghana, Africa 0_o
Then I got to work and split them=)
Hopefully the other two show up within the next week or two.
I also was surprised to see the width of the lips. I initially read that they would be 1" lips. Upon measuring, I found out the lips are 1.5". This is excellent news. Now I'll be putting 3" lips up front; instead of 2.5", and 3.5" lips out back; instead of 3"=D
More updates Saturday.
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From what I can tell, it is really straight forward=) You bought and OEM gasket right? I hear nothing but bad things about the Victor Reinz gasket.
Oem gasket was used. Tried the victor reinz 2 times and did not last very long at all on the ti.
1976 530i e12
1990 325ix e30
1992 325i e36
1995 740il e38
2001 330xi e46
^More to come
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I was shooting to paint all of my rear subframe parts Saturday....but had too many shenanigans and just ended up cleaning things when I actually did work. Parts will be painted this Saturday....Hopefully=)
I did however finally finish my headlights. I wanted to mimic E30 Hella smoked headlights, but with an e36. I have never seen crosshairs in e36 lights so I figured I would give it a shot. Here are before and afters of the lights straight off the car to being finished.
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After:
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It was hard capturing the crosshair. I need to get white bulbs instead of the stupid blue ones that they come with.
I also got a fancy package Friday.
I now have all four disassembled and cleaned. The faces are being shipped today to get powdercoated=)
Splish Splash Breytons takin' a bath=)
That is all for now=)
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I did some small things yesterday.
First, I ordered my tires. I opted for Hankook HR2's. I see that they have a pretty soft sidewall so they should stretch easily. I'm going for 205/40's in the front and 215/40's out back. I got them for $350 shipped to my door.
I also found out that the lips are in stock and I am placing my order asap. These wheels will be together way faster than I had thought.
I've been contemplating making a set of all red tails. I then remembered that I am getting a NOS set of amber tails. I figured since my current tails have some minor spider cracking, why not hit them with some model paint? So I did. I used Testors 1605 Candy Apple Red paint with Testors clear. They turned out really well. I just need to wetsand and buff them.
Started off by masking them off:
I then layed a nice even coat of red. Somehow it only took me one coat to achieve the color that I needed, and I had no runs.
I removed the tape on this one to ensure that it matched well. I also wanted to compare a before and after.
It looks slightly off in the pictures due to it being a more matte finish at the moment, and I couldn't get a heads on shot.
I then taped up the second light to be able to shoot color and clear right after one another.
Then I just buried them in clear with a heavy coat. I wanted to put enough on to make a nice thick layer, but have no runs. It worked out really well.
I'm going to let them dry for a day or two, and then do the wet sanding and buffing.
Hopefully I'll get something done at the shop tonight too. I can't think of much to do without a wire wheels for the bay, and any of my rear subframe or paint. haha I'll update again tomorrow.
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