My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)

[Brian.]

Looking good earl, go with stainless braided brake lines! I want to eventually convert mine to that, but all my lines look good

[Earl]

I will be using braid stainless lines for the rubber flex sections. I will just be using normal brake line for the rest. The car will not see winter under my ownership so they should be fine.

[Brian.]

Gotcha gotcha. Should look good either way sir!

[Earl]

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.

[Brian.]

Yussss, kinda look like AMG rims

[Jeff]

Earl said:

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.

[Earl]

Brian said:

Yussss, kinda look like AMG rims

AMG wheels were made by OZ as well. Hence the similarities. These wheels were build in November 1992. They have the production tag still on=)

[Brian.]

nice, keep me posted on those one set of rims. I think I'd rock 'em well on the E28!

[Earl]

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.

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

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=)

[Brian.]

That bathtub ring! Gunna make your bathtub look like this:

I'm kiddin. What color are you powder coating the faces?

[Earl]

I bleached it all when I was done=) Now it looks good in there. lol I'm doing uh.........purple faces=D

Just Keeding. You will see soon enough.

[Brian.]

Purple would look crazy. Aren't you going with a silver flake?

[Earl]

Yes. lol No flashy colors for me.

http://www.powderbuythepound.com/SPARKLE_SILVER/

I just want everything to look nice and simple. The lips will speak for themselves. I just want a car that looks nice and cleanly done.

[Brian.]

Should look damn good man! =]

[Earl]

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.

[Brian.]

should have left the reverse light panel white. Looks 10x cleaner.   But they look good man. I wanna do this to the E28 eventually.

[Earl]

Not a fan of leaving the reverse light white. Looks like a Turd in a punch bowl to me. Sticks out too much. I'm going to make another set all amber on the top too.

[merl]

Brian said:

should have left the reverse light panel white. Looks 10x cleaner.   But they look good man. I wanna do this to the E28 eventually.

No    ....

I kid ... I really like the factory tails on the e28 though... .

[Earl]

merl said:

No    ....

I kid ... I really like the factory tails on the e28 though... .

E28 tails do look good. I've never seen them all red.

[Brian.]

I just hate the bottom halfs 3 different patterns, and the yellow turn signal kills it for me.