Touring International

[Earl]

Had just enough time yesterday to stop and drop my rent off at the shop. I am hoping I get my ass in gear Saturday and get something decent done=)

[Earl]

I am doing a horrible job of getting anything done on this=/ .

Literally all that happened Saturday is I cut my rear bumper with a box knife to start getting it to fit around the tire better and then my friend Andy made a template for mounting my compressors, manifold, and anything else I may want to locate in my tool well.

Hopefully my mirrors arriving sparks something in my brain. Otherwise this thing will continue to sit and not get finished because my motivation is absolutely zero.

Before


After


Otherside doesn't fit as well. Both sides need to be heated and bent a little.

Tool well template

[Minuki]

So have you decided to paint this thing Calypso Red yet?

[Earl]

So have you decided to paint this thing Calypso Red yet?

haha I am still set on it being black, but I have gotten many more recommendations to go Calypso Red

[bimmerbabe]

Madeiraschwarz!

[Chigga]

Anything else for the engine? and are those the ACS mirrors?

[zebra]

Just read the whole thing. Great build, the car comes along nicely! You have a very good taste.

•Tapatalk•

[Earl]

Madeiraschwarz!

Just plain black=P

Anything else for the engine? and are those the ACS mirrors?

Nothing new on the engine. I still need to order a few more parts and stainless bolts. I also need to grab the cam tool from a buddy so I can get it together a little more than it is.

They are AC Schnitzer mirrors. I forgot which style though. They made a larger selection of mirrors for e36's than I had thought=)

Just read the whole thing. Great build, the car comes along nicely! You have a very good taste.

•Tapatalk•

Thank you =)

[bimmerbabe]

They are AC Schnitzer mirrors. I forgot which style though. They made a larger selection of mirrors for e36's than I had thought=)

These are AC Schnitzer Type 1 for Sedan / Compact models

[Evil Panda]

Finish it already.

[Earl]

These are AC Schnitzer Type 1 for Sedan / Compact models

Thanks Kitty=)

Finish it already.

I actually got bit by the motivation bug today so I will start moving my ass

[Earl]

I didn't have a whole lot of time on Saturday but I got a tiny bit done.

I went to the junkyard Friday and cut the coil harness off of an M50 with a piece of glass.


I need four of them to make the harness for my COP kit. I grabbed the other two incase I mess up, or if someone else needs them to make a harness.


I decided that since my car won't be able to drive until after Winter, I will replace all of my front suspension. My thought is that then my car will be almost all new and I won't need to take it off the road next year to replace any wear parts.

I started the by removing my front swaybar.



You can see that compacts came with a pretty beefy 25mm swaybar (basically 1"). The Sport compacts came with a 26mm sway bar. The M3 came with only a 23mm swaybar. I know that my M3 endlinks work with my swaybar so you would think M3 guys would use these as upgrades.

I will be getting new bushings, brackets, and repainting the bar.

The rest of my front suspension overhaul will consist of control arms, inner/outer tierods, and a set of Treehouse Racing eyeball arms.

After taking a look at all of that, I started to take my steering rack out to find where it is leaking since I couldn't tell with it on the car.

I got this far and then thought I couldn't get it off because I don't have the proper size wrenches for the inner or outer tie rods.


I realized when I got home that I could have just undone the tierods from the knuckles and took the whole assembly out. I will just do that when I get to the shop next time.

After all of that it was time to go to the Dubs Downtown show in downtown Milwaukee that my friends were putting on. The turnout was great and the meet was awesome overall besides the rain.

I finally got to see my friend Nick Feras 350 swapped 928 and was happy with the outcome.


There were a lot of other great cars there but I didn't take anymore pictures.

I did however end up picking my lip up from my friend that he was helping me repair. It is now structurally sound and needs some filler to smooth it out and reshape it. I threw it on for a test fit as soon as I got back to the shop.


I am not sure how I feel about it. I like it but it may be a bit too aggressive for the look I am going for. We will see once it is done being repaired and the whole car is painted. Maybe the floor not being flat at all has something to do with it too. The lip sits high off the floor, but Shaun Quills is on the ground and he is at the same height as me when I am aired out.

The last update is that my mirrors should be showing up this week=) I am hoping sooner than later. I cannot wait to see how they look installed.

[Evil Panda]

I dig the new lip. Fits the car nicely.

[indiejack]

Looks awesome Earl, I can't wait to pull my car into the garage for winter, I'll be doing a lot of bushing, arms and such work along with swapping out the Aero Sport bags up front for the AirLift e36 struts (5" of travel in the aero sports just doesn't feel like enough sometimes).

Keep up the great work man!

[Earl]

I dig the new lip. Fits the car nicely.

Thanks sir

Looks awesome Earl, I can't wait to pull my car into the garage for winter, I'll be doing a lot of bushing, arms and such work along with swapping out the Aero Sport bags up front for the AirLift e36 struts (5" of travel in the aero sports just doesn't feel like enough sometimes).

Keep up the great work man!

So far I really like the airlift struts. The endlinks they come with are pretty nice too. Let me know if you run into any issues with the new bushings=)