Woody's New Retro Project 18/12/2011

[woody m3evo]

how much u pay'd for that nardi steering wheel?

I won it on eBay for £50 & the refurb cost me a tenner.

[Night Colors]

I won it on eBay for £50 & the refurb cost me a tenner.

damn lucky lol. anyways love u'r build, classic and sweet , hope to see more soon .

[woody m3evo]

So i finally got around to fitting the new Nardi gearknob & steering wheel after its refurb.



Oh yeah & i fitted these.







Full write up to come later on.

[SD202]

lookin real nice ! i like what you've done here ! haha

[Jorge]

Fuuuuuck man this is amazing. Find me a £50 Nardi!

[woody m3evo]

Thanks guys.

If i find another one for £50 i will put it on the e36 mate.

[DDM]

Looking very good! Like it on the turbines, LOVE it on the RS's!
One question though... where did you buy the hub adapter for that steering wheel? I'm looking for them but can't seem to find them at a nice price. Can you PM me that? I'm sure I'll forget checking this thread for it:P

[woody m3evo]

Thanks mate, you have PM.

Right so everyone now knows that i have fitted the new 16 inch RS's, so here is a better update all about them.

So after finding this set for sale on bmwe21.net & as i was passing Birmingham i thought it would be rude not to stop in & pick them up, a few days later after picking them up they looked like this below.

All split.



Next was paint, always had the colour brown in mind for these wheels but wasnt sure which brown & after seeing a set on Stanceworks which were metallic brown i decided that was the colour to go for, i also wanted a bit more dish on the front as they were only 1 inch lips fitted when bought.

So i ordered these 2 inch lips.





Then i dropped the wheels off to a mate for a nice new lick of paint, he came over the next & said they were ready to pick up (i said shit that was quick lol).

New paint & lips lined up.



Also while this was being done i dropped the rear 2.5 inch lips off to a local guy for a polish including the centre caps & Nardi steering wheel, one week later when Gareth came around to see me he said he would pick them up for me & turned up with these.

Best £70 ive spent for a while.



The rears polished & lined up.





I also bought these as it would of looked wrong using the olds ones that came with the wheels.



At the same i also bought a bbs centre nut tool,which i love.



More pics of the Nardi refurb.







So then ordered up a new set of 195/40 tyres all round,once they were fitted i borrowed a mates ramp to fit the wheels for the first time,just knew it wouldnt be straight forward & as i thought found out that they all need spacing out away from the coilovers they were slightly touching.
As it was just down the road i drove the car home with it rubbing & straight away found a set of 15mm spacers (sorry didnt take a pic) & ordered them up.

So then last weekend i fitted the spacers on the rear & dropped the car as much as i could,the front can not go any lower & im still waiting on the second set of spacers for the front which means the car can run without no problems.

More pics from last weekend.

















Im also toying with the idea of the no mirror look but im not sure yet.



More updates when the front spacers turn up & hopefully some decent pics.

[DDM]

Thanks mate, you have PM.

I didn't get it man... Could you maybe send it again or something?

[madarsv]

Where do you get Nardi adapter for E21? I can not find anywhere.

[woody m3evo]

Where do you get Nardi adapter for E21? I can not find anywhere.

The one my came with was just a straight swap for the original wheel.

[woody m3evo]

So as some of you may know that i have been to Newquay (Cornwall) this weekend with a few mates for RTTS for a local car show.

This is not much of an update but i finally got all my spacers fitted all round so i can actually use the 21, i have fitted 10mm ones on the rear & i got a cheap set of 6mm ones for the front.

I also wanted to tidy up the engine bay a little bit before going down for the show on Sunday, so i decided to get the rocker cover polished up by the same guy who did my wheel lips & steering wheel & get the airfilter unit/housing coloured coded porsche metallic brown.

Pics of them both fitted. (Will add more pics of before & after when i get them of the camara at work tomorrow)



Pic of us all when we got to the campsite.



Saturday evening before the show on Sunday me & Adam decided to give our cars a wash ready for the morning.





Pics from the show on Sunday.













The show was really good just a shame the weather was horrendous & it did help that i came 2nd the the non VW class & won a nice shiney trophy plus a £50 cheque. :thumbsup



On Monday the sun did finally come out & a managed to get some pics of Swingles & mine out side the caravan.



















Enjoy everyone.

[Jorge]

Nice man, I saw my mates E21 first time last night. They are surprisingly small?!

[P78]

best £70 you'll ever spend!!

one of the better lookin examples out there mate

[woody m3evo]

Thanks guys.