E21 Project Thread - Part 2

[Bassboy3313]

So I got the front spoiler and valance all pretty damn smooth. Feeling good. Start applying the 2k epoxy primer to the spoiler when all of a sudden the valance falls. Gaahhhhh!!!! Puts a small dent on one side and a few dings and scratches. So frustrating. I said fuck it and just sprayed it with primer. Nothing else is perfectly smooth on the car and I need to get these parts to Appleton tomorrow too. Sometimes you just gotta shrug it off and move on.

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[Bassboy3313]

Roof spoiler

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[YoungCR]

!!!​

[Bassboy3313]

Valance

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[straight6pwr]

orange you glad you didnt have to do that yourself?  

looks awesome!

[B C]

The MinuteMaid Orange Juice livery is gonna be awesome on this thing!!

Here's to a wallop of Vitamin C!

[m42b32]

That color is going to look awesome!

[GunMetalGrey]

Is that a pulp free vinyl? 
Looking stellar!

[YoungCR]

orange without the peel!

[KaiserRolls]

snap said:

The MinuteMaid Orange Juice livery is gonna be awesome on this thing!!
Here's to a wallop of Vitamin C!

Thanks for the use of the “!”

10/10 decipherable

[suspenceful]

DanWraps does good wraps.

[Bassboy3313]

Airdam and front flares. The surface inside the brake ducts was too rough/textured for the vinyl to adhere correctly, so he didn't do those. I'll have to figure out what to do. Either get a can of paint matched spray paint or paint them satin black for a contrast. What do you all think?

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[B C]

Satin black!

[Jdesign]

I also agree satin black!

[YoungCR]

Satin black!

[Earl]

Satin of the black god sir

[Bassboy3313]

Looks like satin black brake ducts it is!

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[B C]

But what if the exclamation marks meant sarcasm!

[KaiserRolls]

snap said:

But what if the exclamation marks meant sarcasm!

I hate you!

[Bassboy3313]

I got the parts back from Dan (vinyl wrap guy) last week. They look great! A lot better than I could have done. Last weekend I started up again on the body work. Applying thin layers of body filler over areas that needed smoothing as well as welding up more holes. I went to remove the paint around the driver side door trim holes to prep for welding and when I got the the 2 front holes, nothing but bondo. Gahh!!! The curse of Fat Bob strikes again! So, I immediately got onto Craigslist and found a guy in IL parting out an e21. He wanted to sell the doors as a set, so I talked him down to $100 for both doors. Rust free California car doors, works for me. drove down there last night to pick them up and he ended up throwing a cracked up dash in the back of my car too. Not sure what I will do with the other door and shitty dash, but whatever. Now to start prepping the drivers door for trim hole welding, body filler skim coat and vinyl. 

On a side note, this guy had a pretty damn impressive BMW collection. 2 e21's (one being parted out), a 2002, an e9 (up for sale), 3 e36 m3's, a fully race prepped e30 m3 and about 3 other cars on storage lifts with car covers on them so I couldn't tell what they were.