hakhawks cosmos e36 coupe

[hakhawk]

Cool DIY. How did you wind up painting? (forgive my ignorance if this was covered already).

ALSO, CLEAN YOUR DAMN GARAGE! lol give this beauty a proper home!

how or why? i painted it with rattlecans, i decided to paint it because the guards were average and i was bored yesterday!!

yeh, got a shit tonne of stuff to go through in the garage, but the e21 will end up back in there, so i can get some work done on it!

[mikey G]

Cool DIY. How did you wind up painting? (forgive my ignorance if this was covered already).

ALSO, CLEAN YOUR DAMN GARAGE! lol give this beauty a proper home!

[hakhawk]

photo dump. todays been a long day. woke up and the sky was grey, it was cold, general shitty no good for painting/bog/panelwork weather. but i perservered, seeing as i need the car for work tomorrow!!

so this is how i parked the car today, because the garage is in a perpetual state of being organised, and no cars fit in there.



while my dad welded up the nightmare on the passenger side, i kept at the drivers side guard. bit of bog, high fill, primer and some black paint and its done.

still need to clean off some overspray, but that can be done tomorrow night or sometime this week.









and back to the passenger side, dads finished the welding, so i hit it with the grinder to bring everything down below the bog line, and make sure there were no extra holes to fill. the metal was super thin around all the previous grinding work so was fun for dad chasing it all



then i started on the bog. luckily this guard flare wasnt as munted as the other side, so bog was mainly filling the hole and getting a rough bodyline back





after what seemed like forever sanding and applying more bog, i got it to a reasonable shape. its definitely not perfect, but itll do for now.





oh, one of the rubber strips i installed a month or so back, got melted with the welding, so ill install one of my spares this week sometime. good thing theyre cheap!!





now im just waiting for the paint to dry a bit more then ill go out and wash the bog dust off and im done!!

what a silly silly idea i had yesterday with a screwdriver in my hand...

[hakhawk]

so today i decided to have a play with the rear guards, being such a nice day. the drivers side was fair average, after my guard rolling back when the simmons were on, i then tried to unflare the edge so it looked somewhat similar to the passenger side, which resuted in some wavy abortion. and i was a little eager with the bfh when i needed more inner clearance for meaty tyres, and ended up making dents on the flare area.

so out with the air tools and such, sanded down the whole flare, and tried tapping in some of the high spots and flattening out the edge. will do more tomorrow, then bog and smooth.



while i was waiting for primer to dry, i cast my eye over the passenger side.

now heres the story on the passenger side. when i bought the car, i was aware that it had been repaired previously, and there was a light crack up the center of the guard, where obviously a poor bog job had started to show its face. it wasnt too bad, so i bought the car and didnt look back.

knowing it was there, its always been on the list of things to eventually fix. over time its slowly gotten worse, i had to do a small repair when i originally rolled the guards and cracked bog and some shitty spot welding.

ive never looked forward to knocking the bog out to see what lay beneath, but today was the day.

first round, not too bad. only some light surface rust, one hole(fair sure it was just super thin where theyd welded, and i pushed it in while grinding away). some of the welds were cracked, but nothing ultimately terrible.



after attacking the welds with a die grinder to remove the surface rust and embedded bog, i managed to make the one hole bigger, and make another out of some thin metal/crack.



some surface rust on the inner panel where theyve hit it with a tool and left it bare. ill treat this before i weld my holes up



threw some tape over the hole so no rain gets in overnight(optimistic!!) and some crc over the bare metal. i'll have at it tomorrow some more




so its not anywhere near as bad as i was expecting, but still not awesome. the whole guard has at least 2mm of bog on it id say, and needs to be completely taken back before i get the car painted properly(another thing on the list), so for now i'll weld up the holes and cracks, rebog it, blend it in with whats already there and throw some paint on it.

somewhat relieved, as its always been in the back of my mind what was under there, now i can sleep easy lol.

[Thom]

Still love this. Functional fitment and still looks bad ass. Great work!

[Verdigrie]

got them from hardmotorsport, my drivers one is a bit average, but its because of the door catch mechanism. need to get another one oneday

Cheers mate, I'll give them a look. Should suit perfectly with the style i'm going for.

[danielsahhhn]

wheels lookin absolutely schmick...very keen to see progress on the e21 also!

[hakhawk]

adjusted exhaust(it moved after new rubbers settled) and rotated the wheels today, so i decided id give the lips a polish while they were off.

now the car needs another wash

[hakhawk]

im using a modified ve commodore(pontiac g8) bottle.

if i wasnt going boost, id get the e36 m3 smg bottle, it goes in the same spot and has an inlet that goes on the radiator cover

[Minuki]

What washer bottle are you using man? I want to move mine too.

[hakhawk]

haha yeh, i was gonna buy just a stock bmw logo one(new keys didnt come with any) til i saw the m logo one, had to have!!

started on the exhaust today before the rain started coming in.

firstly, the new mid brace vs old one. i bought the bolt on hangers without realising the 6cyl brace had bolt spots, and the 4cyl didnt. so at the time i welded the hangers on for a diy fix. i had to use commodore figure 8 rubbers to hold it in place, and it was a right bitch to get them on(been through one oem set and 2 figure 8s).

the new brace is still a tiny bit off, but less so than modified one. i'll see how it goes, i always have spare figure 8 rubbers :p



new vs old rear hangers, turns out i bolted the lower brackets on the wrong way around and thats why it never sat properly. bolts go through because the original studs on one side were too short, and other side were in the wrong spot being a 318is originally.



these are ~40,000ks old and starting to crack, but actually dont feel too bad. im hoping theyre my exhaust vibration.



im about half way through and will finish bolting it back up tomorrow.

random photos time

supersprint still going strong. those stickers hold up well :p



sneaky upskirt



couple group photos with the 21

[e36bm]

and a new ///M logo lighted keyhead for my new key, just coz. i'll probably end up doing an led swap on it, and it needs a new battery(probably been sitting on the shelf for god knows how many years)

Didn't even occur to me that you could swap key heads, looks cool as shit. Much better than the worn out black key we're stuck with.

[hakhawk]

i reckon theres a few people who read the first few pages and give up thinking its just gonna be another 318 dropped on a set of wheels(which it was at one point :p)

i really cant wait to get the charger on, but im making sure everything is spot on before hand, will keep my mind at ease then :p

received and installed the temp switch for thermofan yesterday, works a treat again!!

another parts order arrived today

amongst it we have a new mid brace for exhaust, to replace the dodgied up 4cyl one when i did the swap, and new mid and rear hangers(fair sure the rears are shot)

then theres a mechanical belt tensioner to replace the hydraulic one, the mech one seems to be the goto for supercharged cars.

some fuel tank lid seals, i doubt theyve ever been done, and i need to sort out another pump to fix a fuel starvation issue thats common on the e36 when fuel level is low.



and a new ///M logo lighted keyhead for my new key, just coz. i'll probably end up doing an led swap on it, and it needs a new battery(probably been sitting on the shelf for god knows how many years)

[DeltaAlpha9]

Just read through the entire thread. At first I thought "oh cool, a 318. Maybe they went through a bunch of different wheels." Glad I actually read through as this is one hell of a build. Awesome work and can't wait to see the S/C wrapped up.

[anth]

I would love to see a full shoot of this thing, hi-res images of all the detailed mods you've done.