Touring International

[frink84]

looking great. carpet turned out very well.

[Earl]

Thank you

[Welfare]

Such a good build. Will be subbing for sure.

[Earl]

Thank you=)

[Disco Stu]

Fuck..

You're going to town now mate!

Not looked for ages (cos I couldn't find it )

I still liked in the tan though!

[Earl]

Thank you=) I think the black will suit it much better in the end

[floatingdino]

dang Earl, that interior is pimpin as heck, and those center caps are pretty gangster too. I for sure would not have the patience to do this much fiddly small stuff on my car.

[theseeker411]

Damn you're just killing bro.

[Charlie]

I have just read all 27 pages and I'm feeling inspired!! Great build thread, keep it up and I can't wait to see it finished

[Falco_e36]

Your thread makes me want to keep and work on my 316 compact.

Love your work and motivation!

[Evil Panda]

<3

[Earl]

dang Earl, that interior is pimpin as heck, and those center caps are pretty gangster too. I for sure would not have the patience to do this much fiddly small stuff on my car.

Thank you. Honestly, I don't even have the patience lol. This car is killing me=P

Damn you're just killing bro.

Thanks man=) Glad ODB made it to Cali without anything too catastrophic happening

I have just read all 27 pages and I'm feeling inspired!! Great build thread, keep it up and I can't wait to see it finished

Thank you=)

Your thread makes me want to keep and work on my 316 compact.

Love your work and motivation!

Thanks. That means a lot. Compacts have so much potential and I am happy that my build inspires people and lets them see that

<3

Hi Allen=P


I have a little to update with what got done yesterday. It is a big step in the right direction=)

[Evil Panda]

So update us then. lol

[Earl]

Takes too long doing photobucket links on the phone haha

[Earl]

Thursday I arrived to the shop to see how the fuel rail turned out.


I also installed a little more hardware from Fastenal.


Before


After


They gave me an m10 nyloc nut instead of an m12, so I had to put the old diff bolt back in until they get that sorted.

I went to Summerfest Thursday as well and saw this



I wanted to take it for a ride so bad=)

Saturday I decided to make it my goal to get the car back on all four wheels. With me patiently awaiting my quote, I figured that the car needs to be ready to roll as soon as possible.

With that I started by priming the front subframe and control arm mounting areas. I wanted to make the surfaces as nice as possible to keep from dirtying up my new parts. I didn't want to install any of this until the entire front end was cleaned up and undercoated, but they will be doing that when they paint so I will be dropping this all once it gets to the bodyshop anyways=)

I started by laying everything out (I didn't lay out the struts and calipers since the cardboard was too small)


I then installed the front subframe



After that came the control arms and Treehouse Racing mounts



I then bolted the front knuckles to the struts and then installed them on the car.