My 1992 318is, I guess you could call it a build thread
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Thanks guys! Its definitely a ten foot car since I do have a few rust issues but given that its been a mid-western car all its life its doing pretty darn good. I hope to learn to do some of the bodywork to fix that before it becomes a problem. Any idea how hard it would be to match the paint color?
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Nice to see more e36's coming here. Your car looks very clean. Like 20x better then when i brought mine home the first day
Its easy to match paint colors. The napa in town here mixes paint and they do a good job color matching. Take care of the rust before it spreads like hurps.
1976 530i e12
1990 325ix e30
1992 325i e36
1995 740il e38
2001 330xi e46
^More to come
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someone said:
Welcome! What shop did you work at in delafield?
Its called An American Classic, it is a vintage corvette specialty shop but we do a lot of other 60's GM cars and there is usually something totally random as well, I am hoping to work there on the weekends when I can this summer still.
someone said:
Take care of the rust before it spreads like hurps.
Yeah thats one of the first things on my to do list. If anything I just want to slow it down. The bottoms of both fenders are pretty bad so I plan on doing what I can to stop it and I have a set of side skirts off a 98 that I am planning to cover it with.
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Just ordered some 6x9 adapters to mount my Memphis Audio 6x9's under the decklid, should sound much better combined with the alpine headunit and you'll never know they are there. I also ordered a set of parking brake springs so I can put the e-brake back in the car and have it functional again, rsm's and reinforcements as mine have a bit of up and down movement when I bounce the car, and a cluster backlight bulb so I can see the other half of my cluster at night haha. the parts should be here in a few days and I will update with pictures as I get things done!
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Nice! Keep us updated with pics too!
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Of course! I I'll snap pics whenever I have a hand available haha
Perfect!
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Got some parts in today and had a free hour between class so I replaced the intake bellows and it runs much better. Literally took about 30 minutes to do, and the majority of that time was looking for my exacto knife that I had misplaced to cut the clips for the wires out of the old one.
quite the hole if you ask me...
And a quick engine bay shot for those of you who care
More to come as I find more free time...
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I see a bike creepin' in the background!
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I see a bike creepin' in the background!
You do! It belongs to a friend of mine. its a Honda CBR600 I believe
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A little update, took a break from school work and decided to install the speakers that have been sitting in my room for months now that I had the proper adapters.
I replaced the stock 4" speakers and their enclosures with a pair of Memphis Audio 6x9 (PR-693) that I got a really good deal on.
I was originally planning to make adapters but then I found a set on ebay for about the same cost of the materials to make one so I just bought those.
It was nearly dark when I put them in so I didn't get many pictures of the install, but here is the final product!
You'd never know they were there! The sound is INCREDIBLE and I would recommend these to anyone who wants to upgrade their sound a bit. I only had about two hours of free time so I will be taking them out again this summer to properly seal everything up and make proper soldered connections for the wires instead of the crap I did due to minimal tools out here (It will do for now though as I have a nearly 1000 mile trip home after finals end in about two weeks and really wanted these in to keep me entertained haha)
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someone said:
Mind sharing the seller where you bought the adaptors from?
Sure! I was going to include it but I forgot, here it is:
Shipped really quickly and were the cheapest ones I could find. Probably not anywhere near the quality of the Bavarian Soundwerks ones but they get the job done just fine.
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Nice work,
I like stuff hidden as well. or stock appearing.
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Well not much of an update but more of a plan for the next few weeks. I will be driving it from eastern PA to Michigan on Thursday after my last final for the annual formula SAE competition, and then after that I will be returning to WI, so all in all about 1000 miles, hopefully she's up to the task! I don't have a lot of time for prep so I plan on topping off the tires, checking all the fluids and then setting off!
Once I'm home I have about two weeks before I start work so that time will be completely dedicated to working on the car, I've got a lot of stuff id like to do over that time:
- Ive got new RSM's and reinforcements to put in as the ones there are pretty worn but the metal is perfect thankfully, no cracks at all
- Rebuild the parking brake
- Possibly tie rods ends since they are old and the last thing before I have basically completed a full front end rebuild and I need an alignment anyway (the place I took it to this past summer did a crap-tastic job and then waited till AFTER to tell me that the outer ball joints were shot. On that note, stay away from Trust tire on Port Washington road in Mequon)
- My passenger door doesn't open from the outside like 90% of the time so I need to investigate that as well
- I am going to try a bit of rust repair in the less noticeable spots and then work my way up to the ones that are more visible over the course of the summer
- I have a set of side skirts off a '97 that I picked up off about a year ago for my car that I am planning on plasti-dipping either gray to match the rest of the bumpers or black (and then do the bumpers to match) as I really like the two tone of the early e36
- I am going to paint my rotor hats and calipers either a dark silver or black (nothing to bright) to clean them up and well as other things under the car that don't look too pretty at the moment
- My door panels are falling apart so I am thinking of making some out of either aluminum sheeting or thin MDF and then covering them with a gray vinyl to match the rest of the interior, should be a fun project
- I am looking to replace the more of the sound system as I have a blown speaker in the kick panel and my tweeters are also on the way out, so money depending I am going to get on this too
All in all I have a lot I want to get done, but it should be fun, Ill make sure to keep things updated!
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