E30 Touring resto - Pic heavy

[Rob&co]

nice! kEEP UP!

[Jozi]

Very slowly tipping away at the underside, finally all done!


Front Arches, chassis legs and engine bay left to do. All the brown stuff is caked on deox gel which is a pain to get of cause it dried out and went hard.

Have been calling around and chatting to a few painters the last few weeks, have 2 guys that I think will deliver a paint job I'll be happy with. Going to have a look at some of their work tomorrow and probably decide then who to go with.

[Jozi]

Slow progress shot of the last 3 afternoons painstakingly clearing dried out deox-gel from the body and coating it with zinc primer



Getting there slowly! Half the top arch is done, bottom one got another coat of gel earlier, few bits to do around the battery tray when I flip the car round, then it's pretty much chassis legs forward that need doing.

[Jozi]

dang :/ the feeling driving this car is going to be awesome i bet

I'm going to be to scared to drive it in case I have a miss hap I hope it will drive as good as, if not better, than it did when new. Different engine is sure to be the most noticeable improvement and a 40% locking diff

[Night Colors]

dang :/ the feeling driving this car is going to be awesome i bet

[Jozi]

Powdercoating




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Few pics, had a few other smaller bits done also and the fuel filler pipe









Pretty happy with it, bit of pitting here and there that seems more obvious after sandblasting/chemical cleaning than previously.

[ChristopherJason]

amazing work, cant wait for the final results

[Bra1nl3ss]

Ik hoop het niet alleen, ik weet het.

[Riskant]

Nice progress! Keep it up man...

Another E30 saved!

[Jozi]

@Bra1nl3ss: Ik hoop het!

Past week must have been a bit slow I only remember warping a wing quite badly : And getting a few bits ready for powdercoating

Reinforced ARB pickup point on trailing arms


Re-located the front ARB pickup point to the strut. Wasn't to happy with the welding so doubled up and it' look really bad so spent some time grinding them back today. I may still grind them back even further and get the re-welded when it goes for coating.


Here's how it more or less would look on the car





And finally reinforced the front ARB mount on the front subframe


I need to strip down the trailing arms and 2 half shafts and all is ready for coating.

[ionz]

so much awesome resto stuff in here.

[Bra1nl3ss]

Just remember, it'll be worth it in the long run.

[Jozi]

Last arch done, wasn't as bad as I thought it would be



Just this left to tidy up!


Going to cut old rusty studs tomorrow and weld on some new ones and put on some rivnuts here and there. Hope to start painting all underneat next week and move to the engine bay then :dance:

[Jozi]

This is coming along, so much detailed work!

Thanks, can't wait to drive the darn thing! Feels like I might not be to far from painting her.

Here's how she looks now


Any bare metal and welded area's cleaned from (surface rust in some places) crappy paint that was painted and covered with deox-gel and cling film so it doesn't harden out to much.

Just the front arches to do, got started on cleaning some old waxoil, what dirty stuff to remove Then some old rust studs to cut of and weld on new ones here and there and then paint + underseal.

[Ew!]

This is coming along, so much detailed work!