Touring International

[Earl]

Keep up the great work man, this thing is going to be spectacular when you're finished.
It's great to see another M44 get some love.

As a matter of interest, could you share with us the list of bolts you're ordering? Feel free to keep it secret For the M7 bolt, is it in a location where you could drill and tap an M8 thread?

If you need some inspiration, take a look at this alternator with ARP hardware.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq280/afazz65/bay5/DSCN3247.jpg

From the wrinkle red blog if you're wondering

Thank you. Its actually an m42 but its basically the same motor besides a few small differences.

I will probably drill and tap the holes if I cant find the hardware.
I'm ordering all of the visual bolts on the outside of the motor. All of the sizes are on the realoem.com diagrams=)

[K-Line]

this is a fucking awesome build, good job!

[Earl]

this is a fucking awesome build, good job!

Thank you

[theseeker411]

Holy shit, how did I miss this build?

Very impressive work man, those wheels look amazing and I love the direction you're going with the Ti, always had a soft spot for 'em.

[Earl]

Holy shit, how did I miss this build?

Very impressive work man, those wheels look amazing and I love the direction you're going with the Ti, always had a soft spot for 'em.

That means a lot coming from you=) I love ODB.

I really wanted to see justice done to a compact to show that theyre not ugly like most people think. I may be crazy but I now prefer the lines over e36 coupes and sedans.

The wheels have been one of my favorite things to acquire and refinish. I am really happy with how they turned out. I think the center caps I am having made will be a nice finishing touch.

[Earl]

Finally a decent update.

I pulled up to the shop and saw this little guy.


I then walked inside to find this little guy


Then some work got done




After round one of tacking the seams





More to come Saturday

[Minuki]

Looking really good man! When are you hoping to have her painted?

[Earl]

Looking really good man! When are you hoping to have her painted?

Thank you

Right now I am way behind schedule and it depends on so many things. The guy who was going to paint it also flaked so I unfortunately don't have a clue=(

[Earl]

My rear fenders finally got worked over yesterday=)

Saturday was spent moving my stuff around yet again at the shop. I am thinking about relocating to a different shop that a friend of mine is moving into. I would have more space, running water, a toilet, and a small office.

Yesterday I smoothed out the welds for the holes in the bay.






A friend of mine was going over my welded seems and advised me to go a little different direction. Everything he said made total sense to me now and made me feel like a total idiot. According to him, all of these cold tacks have the opportunity to pop when force is applied. This would cause the filler to crack in that location. He also said that once I get it all cleaned back up, I should use a ball peen hammer to tighten the seems up. I don't know how that skipped my mind but now I know=)



Onto the fenders.

The drivers side went really smooth and just needs minimal bodywork. The passenger side is the one that had surface rust and that caused issues. The metal cracked at each end of the arch and once in the middle. This broke up the smoothness, but it will be an easy fix with a little massaging with a hammer and some sanding.

I am very surprised that the arches pulled this far. They are on the verge of as far as they can be pulled without cutting the inner fender. I need to do some slight trimming, heating, and bending of the rear bumper to get it to fit up just right, but that shouldn't be too big of an issue.

Alright, onto pictures.








The hard thing to try and fade out with the roller was the body line and it is still pretty visible. When the car goes for paint that will be smoothed out and transitioned cleanly. This is just a crude pull/roll to get the fender where it needs to be and to give it the general shape=)

I am still working on the engine hardware and am really shooting to get that wrapped up later this week, early next week. Now that the fenders are roughed out I should be able to get the fronts sitting right to match. I also need to solidify my air line routing and get my trunk setup mocked up.

Motivation is at an all time high finally.

[Earl]

Some before and after.

[frink84]

looking great! makes me wish i painted my valvecover and intake when i had them off on my ti.

[Earl]

looking great! makes me wish i painted my valvecover and intake when i had them off on my ti.

Do you daily the car? Luckily they're not too bad to quick remove and paint=)

[Earl]

My hardware situation has now been resolved. The order has been placed and now Frank at Downstar is just waiting for a few oddball sizes to arrive to ship them out to me=D

[frink84]

Do you daily the car? Luckily they're not too bad to quick remove and paint=)

yeah its my daily, currently doing 90-mile round trip days so cant really take it down for too long. probably gonna go for the intake this weekend.

[Chuckdee]

Dat build thread....

Damn dude, great progress! I can't wait to see it finally painted. Have you found a shop that paint your car?