Touring International

[Earl]

just done all 40 pages, insane level of detail you have gone to on this.

putting everyone else to shame.

keep up the good work and i can't wait to see it.

try and get it out for sowo/euroexp (or whatever people are calling it these days) so that i can see it when i come over.

Thank you very much=) That means a lot. I would love to get it down there but I don't know if I will want to drive it that far with is having just been put together haha. We will see though

[Earl]

Accomplished a handful of things this weekend.

Picked up some parts:


Friday I got the headliner trimmed and installed:



Saturday I finished getting it fitting correctly and I installed a new gas cap hanger and stop buffer on my gas door:



I then glued down the separating vinyl on the sunroof and threw on the new side covers:



Once dried it holds strong now:



I also finished cleaning my sunroof tracks and threw in the new fabric shuttle rails:





Yesterday I installed my new to me passenger window, replaced the sliders on the drivers window that I neglected when I installed it, and installed the fabric shuttle:



I would have put in the sunroof as well but I couldn't find the white lithium grease to lubricate the tracks first. I will pick some up today and get that done

[C2_mad]

the end is near.... you must be dieing to have it on the road

[Earl]

Got a few things done over the past few days.

I bent the new brake line running to the rear to match the original:


I threw in my coupe battery cable to help with the relocation to the hatch. I couldn't get any good pictures of this but imagine a red cable running under the floor board wire covers, over the back seat, and into the hatch.

I brought a new to me set of bumper shocks back to life and installed them with my refreshed bumper support:







I managed to get my sunroof in as well but I need to play with it more to get the front to sit flush with the roof. For some reason I am having issues with that. The rear sits nice and flush which really confuses me.

[Dr.AK]

Can you please stop with all the attention to detail - it always makes me feel bad

[190Evan]

makin everybody and their moms look sloppy, go work for BMW already

[Earl]

Yesterday I threw in my new hood release cable and associated parts. This was super easy with the fender off.






I also threw the rear bumper on to get an idea of how the rear will look when finished. I was looking around for my bumper trims to throw on as well but couldn't find where I put them.

[BLACKRIFLESMATTER]

Earl keep up the awesome work, your attention to detail is on another level! Your shaved bumper looks mint. I wasn't to sure about it when you first did it, but now that is on the car I'm lovin it.

[Earl]

Started putzing around again Yesterday.

A little before and after of the refinished front bumper shocks



I didn't know that these rear shock tower carpet cover inserts existed until I was watching a Bavsound audio install on a compact. Obviously I ordered them new right away


I installed new tail light gaskets on the MHW's and also threw on my new bulb trays



That's all for now

[hinrichs]

Just keeps getting better, the attention to detail has changed how I now want to build my E36, but I dont have the same commitment to it haha.

[Dr.AK]

Earl, you realize that this thing is getting to be better than new! Stop putting BMW to shame haha

[tonis]

My favourite e36 build of my least favourite e36. This kind of makes me like ti's.

[Earl]

I let a buddy of mine test fit the Breytons on his vert, as he was looking at a set and wanted to see how mine fit as the others are far more aggressive

[Earl]

I found a set of latches in decent shape and cleaned them up as best as I could.




Now I can finish assembling the drivers side door. The passenger side needs to be resprayed so it will probably stay apart this far.

[DUTCHswift]

Oh my fuck that looks good.