E30 Rat

[Dave_The_BMXER]

Your fabrication skills will keep me interested in this thread regardless of the final result.

[Oxer]

as tall as I am I don't think I'll be able to get the A pillars that short...
B pillar brace will probably stay. I fit a factory seat in and it seemed ok, but I will be going to something else and mounted quite a bit lower
thanks, and I hope my thought process is right... lol

Sounds like you've nutted it out, so I shall await to see the final product before I judge it.

As said, has a huge amount of potential, hopefully you make me eat my doubts

[padraigmk3]

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

you are on the road to success my friend, and it is blowing my fucking MIND

[nap83]

this could get good, subscribed

agreed.

do motherfucking work

i was surprised to see you go for it the quick!

coming along fuckin sick dude

[mtm_motors]

Oh god help me, you're getting my hopes up here!!

oh shit he's goin for it hahaha

this is gonna be hopefully awesome

lol... well my hopes are high too, so hopefully it won't disappoint!

great work so far. did you check the body to make sure it was square first before starting this build? I wouldnt want to see a car that is undrivable cause its frame was tweaked after lots of work.

body is square enough to not affect drive quality...
I did drive it a bit after the wreck

I suggest you dont take too much out of the a pillars... going by that photoshop, it will have too much fail.

Also, that brace between the b pillars is only temporary right? cause you arent going to get front seats in there comfortably...

Has the potential to be epic, but needs the right thought process to complete the vision.

as tall as I am I don't think I'll be able to get the A pillars that short...
B pillar brace will probably stay. I fit a factory seat in and it seemed ok, but I will be going to something else and mounted quite a bit lower
thanks, and I hope my thought process is right... lol

[Oxer]

I suggest you dont take too much out of the a pillars... going by that photoshop, it will have too much fail.

Also, that brace between the b pillars is only temporary right? cause you arent going to get front seats in there comfortably...

Has the potential to be epic, but needs the right thought process to complete the vision.

[1badg35]

great work so far. did you check the body to make sure it was square first before starting this build? I wouldnt want to see a car that is undrivable cause its frame was tweaked after lots of work.

[kevinc]

oh shit he's goin for it hahaha

this is gonna be hopefully awesome

[mtm_motors]

Chopped!

Well, I got in several hours of work today!

First I ran a bead across the top of my rear brace. The MIG wasn't cooperating so I wound up doing it with the torch lol...



made up a longitudinal brace and fishmouthed one end



fits pretty well!





welded...





uh oh, that doesn't look right...



the point of no return





... and I have some extra metal to take to the scrap yard!

Thats all for today.

[padraigmk3]

This could be incredible...
I'm 6'3" so we'll have to see how it measures out



I worked over the speedster hump a bit as well...

Oh god help me, you're getting my hopes up here!!

[mtm_motors]

lol looks like you already got the know how to do all of it so make it happen!

on it!

Do it. Dont rat the final product though, make it like the vintage tonneau covered roadsters of the past. Also the lines are going to have to be dead on for it to work i think.


Still, excited to see the result

project is on a major budget, so that's how it will start out...
who knows what it will evolve into!

What about a targa/'spyder' top?

that is definitely in the works!
I was thinking soft-top a-la Boxster Spyder top originally...
a hardtop would be pretty easy with the roll bar idea though

epicness lurks here...subscribed..good luck with the build

Thanks!

[bev0]

epicness lurks here...subscribed..good luck with the build

[JasperThomas]

What about a targa/'spyder' top?

[Stephen]

Do it. Dont rat the final product though, make it like the vintage tonneau covered roadsters of the past. Also the lines are going to have to be dead on for it to work i think.


Still, excited to see the result