E30 Touring resto - Pic heavy

[Jozi]

Here 13yrs, Cavan's a bit of a hole, I've had enough of Dublin, can't wait to get out of it

Octane.ie do some good monthly meets, lots of nice metal there when I used to go.

[BYZA213]

wow dude extreme work you got going on there!!

[Acerbus]

thanks man!
I had to restart my shitty computer in work!

Now im in home...and WOW! ...big respect to all the hard work you have put in this car!

[Jozi]

Yeah it's a bit pic heavy, to be honest I should have broken it down in a few more posts!

No progress lately, learning to use Revit so I can try and pass a exam in it tomorrow. Then the weekend I'll be tidying up the parts room and area the car is in. I got work from Monday up till xmass and only able to work on it at the weekend if I go home, going to be slow progress from now on More money for stuff though, BBK maybe

---edit--- anyone knows of some oz turbo's going cheap and in need of a refurb, let me know, I got idea's!

[uvebeenrobd]

That is some crazy amount of work. I've always like this platform, hopefully you decide to stay with the blue. The wheel choice is spot on too. Good luck.

[Moibotz]

I love wagon bimmer

keep it up bro

[iTz JERSEY]

now this is a build! keep it up

[Jozi]

Not a whole lot to update really, got this started last weekend:


And earlier today did the other side


And the crossmember


I'm away next weekend and the following as well No more updates for a few weeks.

Also got the parts room tidied up a few weeks ago, parents kept giving out about something to do with a mess and space and room no good or something, anyway it's a bit more organised and the room is a bit more usable:

[Volvosome]

awesome work sir.

[fourdoormobbin]

That thing is sick. Very impressive work!

[Jozi]

Change of plans again

I didn't get going to Holland over the weekend so went and got some paint. I'm also back to being unemployed again so I can work on the car during the week and see it finished sooner :dance:

I got a bit of paint on Saturday to try on a scrap bonnet. Mauritius blue, Mauritius blue with a bit of added black and a metallic Fiat colour :

Sanded the bonnet down a little, made up a little spray room hanging of the garage door in it's open position and sprayed up 3 rectangles. First time spraying for me, so excuse the orange peel in the below pics. I spent all of 2 mins flatting it down a bit and then went at it with the polisher (and some how managed to scratch the clear coat). Bit hard to take pics in the garage, will try take better ones when it's bright out.













What do you think? I like the metallic fleck of the lighter one, middle one is to dark. Will see tomorrow in sunlight (if it's not raining) what it's really like.

[Raarasutra]

lighter one!

[Nahguavkire]

Jozi! Looking good man, I still haven't managed to get my hands on one, thinking I might even go for an E21 at this stage! Looks great though, I'd go for the darkest of the blues if it were me!

[Jozi]

Keep looking, seems to be no shortage of tourings around the place! One of the lads got a cheap Mauritius blue one not so long ago.

I'm leaning more towards a darker shade of blue. I have a door sprayed up that needs a polish to see what I make of freshly painted Mauritius blue. Also had some more Mauritius blue made up with 5% (5gr per 100gr) more fine metallic flakes.

Over the past week or so I've gotten a start made on prepping the sunroof frame and getting it sealed up. First up some rust to get rid of, I used a cupped wire wheel to get rid of most of the rust, after that it was up to this stuff to do the rest


Using a brush I applied it to any bare or rusty metal on the panel. Few pics of some treated area's below:




Deox gel applied:




After 3-4hrs:




After 3-ish days:




That was all Friday evening, it was still soft on saturday and would have washed of nicely but I couldn't get at it until this afternoon. I agitated it a bit with a wet brush and wiped it clean then, area's that were a bit more stubborn got the cupped wirewheel treatment and this is the result




After that I put some weld behind all the area's that were previously spot welded to the roof skin, quick tidy up on the inside to make it smooth again and then I cleaned down the whole panel after another quick sand


Thats just one side with a bit of primer on it. Decided to use a zinc primer as it's a bit better at protecting the metal against rust, apparently, time will tell!

Will get started on the under side later this week. It's not got any significant rust to treat just a good clean and sanding down of a few area's where the paint had gone soft.

[Rchrome]

subscribed: just envy