E30 Touring resto - Pic heavy

[Jozi]

Small update, work has begun on the engine bay and it's got it's first coat of primers.




Stud for new earth, will have one on the other side also.



Battery tray trimmed back a little. Will have an M3 expansion tank fitted there along with the M3 plastic panel to hide any wires.


Front panel needs a little bit of work and one or two holes drilling around the bay.

[Jozi]

Small update... Over the last few weeks I've slowly been treating some of the heatshields and petrol tank for rust and getting them painted up. Apart from the big long heatshield and the tank everything is new.




The tank has 3x coats of paint under two coats of BMW stonechip which came out very matt looking so it got another quick coat of satin. The BMW stone chip is more of a heavy rubbery paint that stone chip though, it's not very thick but should help prevent stonechips.





I also gave these a coat of stonechip and sating paint since they are under the car and in the wheel well.

[Pierate]

Personally, I prefer the top two colours, the other two are too blue for me. Still, I'm sure either one will look great on the car

[Jozi]

Couple more:




Very hard to capture the colours properly. The 2nd from the bottom is nearly purple depending on lighting and the angle you look at it from.

[Jozi]

Dropped some clips down to Marty yesterday and collected a panel with 4 colours I was looking at painted on it.

Some pics of the panel next to a Mauritius blue wing:











I darkened the area with the brand/paint colour just to give them all a fair chance, colours may or may not be a bmw shade

[Jozi]

It's been a little quiet in here so I thought I'd put these few pics up here.












Marty's sending a panel my way this weekend with a few colours on it for me to decide on what I want to go with.

[Jozi]

Did not read anything, from you're two last posts, but you are located in Europe right?
I've got the bumper and front skirt for a m'tech2 and side skrit's and front and rear pods, we could work something out, that would be really cheap /benefit you more than me

Thanks Zic thats very kind of you but I already have all parts I require. Drop me a pm with a price and what you have though, might know someone interested!

[Zic]

Did not read anything, from you're two last posts, but you are located in Europe right?
I've got the bumper and front skirt for a m'tech2 and side skrit's and front and rear pods, we could work something out, that would be really cheap /benefit you more than me

[filiperc]

Nice work you doing there!
Can't wait to see this touring rolling...

[Jozi]

Small side-project I'm working on. No idea when I'll get round to refurbing and widening but at least 1 wheel is now split

[Codidly]

Wow, great work! Dedication for sure!

[Jozi]

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Sounds much louder than expected with only the exhaust manifold, she's a little shaky, injectors are clicking away and idle is around 16-1800rpm (4cyl clocks). No idea if this is good/bad!

[Jozi]

Yeah thats true, I'm still gonna play it safe and get a conduit for the wires, if anything it will be a little neater.

[e30strube]

I wrapped the bundle with friction tape and used these to hold the bundle in place. I put a rubber grommet on the hole that the wires were fed through. I didn't see a real need for any additional protection as there would be nothing that would hit the wires inside the fender.

[Jozi]

That sounds much like what I was planning. I cut the driver side (on RHD car) of the loom though, I want to route that through the other fender rather than across the front panel (I'm making it partially removable). Did you run the wires lose or use some ducting? Any pics?