Back in black BMW e30

[dillon7]

Started some of the grinding work on the car today. The most pressing issue was the roof. The paint had developed "Crows feet" so the guy painting the car suggested that I strip it down to the bare metal to completely fix the problem. Grabbed a grinder and 80 grit sand paper and got to work. It took much longer than I expected but I finally got it all off.

Perks of being on air are being able to air out to reach the roof easier...;D

BMW aired out for grinding (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Grinding away

Me Grinding roof (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Finished with the 80 grit

Roof Grinded (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

I still have to go back over it all with 180 grit but my arms were tired so I will get to that tomorrow. Before calling it a night I went ahead and got the pin stripe off as well.

BMW removing pinstripe (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Plan for tomorrow is 180 grit over the roof, start body work (fixing dents), and then go from there.

Also, I'm looking for a black vinyl sport interior and early model rear valence (zender or any other kind) so if you have one for sale let me know!

[dillon7]

Now THAT's a shop!

Thanks! Much better than working out of the garage.

Just read the entire thread. Sucks most pics from page 5 through 7 aren't working, but this is sick man. I'm gonna follow this one.

Hopefully I can dig up some of those photos and get them fixed, but thanks!

[reiernumans]

Just read the entire thread. Sucks most pics from page 5 through 7 aren't working, but this is sick man. I'm gonna follow this one.

[DER E30]

Now THAT's a shop!

[dillon7]

UPDATE TIME

First of all, sorry for the lack of updates. I've been busy with school and I haven't worked on the car at all, I have just been working on the shop. It's a new year though which means time for round two on the BMW. I'll try to get the rest of the pictures in this thread working again but let's move onto the new stuff.

Here is quick update on the shop and some of the stuff we have done to it.

We finally got a couple machines installed with plenty more to come.

Drill Press (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Laithe (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Mill (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Band Saw (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Put some new tile down in the office.

Office with new floor (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

CLose up office floor (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Installed some shelving to put parts on.

Shelving (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Race car chassis for future bad ass hot rod build.

Race Car Chassis (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Got some other major things done as well that you can see in the photos above. Obviously, the floor got painted. Also, the blue lines running around the shop are the airlines that we finally have working which are amazing. We also installed a lot of new lighting and many other miscellaneous things.

Okay, enough of the shop and onto the car. So as previously stated in my previous post, I have decided to respray the car. It looked great in photos but it had plenty of imperfections and the roof had a lot of "crows feet" so I figured now is better than never.

It took about two relaxed days to strip the car and everything actually went pretty smooth. I won't bore you tear down pics I'll just show the final result. The only negative thing was the discovery of rust...which was slightly expected. There are only 3 areas on the entire car and they are all right next to each other which I guess is a good thing. I'll be taking care of it while I do the body work this week so I'll post a lot during the repair.

Bmw and Subbie tear down (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

New wheels

BMW Tear Down (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Ugly booty

BMW Rear End Tear Down (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

cancer

Tail Light Rust (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

more cancer

Battery Tray Rust (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

And last but not least, after stripping the car I decided to give a little test run with the sander. No going back now.

BMW Sander (1 of 1) by dillonmakar, on Flickr

Current plan is to sand the car tomorrow then start on body work. Stay tuned!

[Earl]

Cant wait=)

[dillon7]

Long time no update.

I'm back at school so I haven't even been around the car for a couple months. I've just been planning what to do to it during the winter. I contemplated selling it but I figured it would be hard to sell for a good price with the condition that it is in. My shop is getting a paint booth in November so I decided to be the test dummy and be the first car sprayed in it.

The shop is pretty much complete when it comes to all the restoration work of the building. The walls and floors are painted and all the metal work is done. Basically all that is left is to finish the office. I don't have any pics but I'll get some during thanksgiving.

Now it's time to start buying machines and fab stuff so we can start building more cars.

Here is a little teaser pic of the floors finish.

Vertical e30 shop front end (1 of 1) by Dillon Makar, on Flickr


Look forward to back in black part two!

[dillon7]

the shop makes me happy and the e30 is a stunner so far

thanks man!

[softg]

the shop makes me happy and the e30 is a stunner so far

[dillon7]

Went to dankfest yesterday. Pretty much the last time the car will be out in public until SOWO.

Plans for the offseason are to clean it up and do some mods that I neglected that really need to be done in order to get the car to where it really needs to be.

List of things currently planned are:

Respray the exterior (some body work will be involved removing dents, etc and will be stock color)

IS sideskirts

zender rear valence

Install crackless dash

seats reupholstered

fix small rust in battery tray

get car tuned properly


As you can see, not a lot planned and nothing crazy, but I'm just trying to get the car in a state where I'm happy with it and it will be able to be sold for a proper price as I'm planning to put it up for sale after SOWO. That said if anybody would like to buy it I will consider so message me!

BMW at dankfest (1 of 1) by Dillon Makar, on Flickr

[debike]

Love the car..its f*cking clean

[dillon7]

Oh man that's a nice shop space, so much room. Looking forward to seeing everything unfold and this new BMW project you're hinting at. Keep it up dude!

P.S. what do you do for work?

Thanks man, I'm pretty excited.

I'm in college but I flip cars and part out e30s right now. My Dad and I formed a company for the shop and I'm running it so that's going to be my job once the building is finished.

[mikey G]

Absolutely beautiful. Your taste and craftsmanship gave life to that e30. Love the shop too! I get out of the army in 7 months. When do I start?

[CubbyChowder]

Oh man that's a nice shop space, so much room. Looking forward to seeing everything unfold and this new BMW project you're hinting at. Keep it up dude!

P.S. what do you do for work?

[dillon7]

Fixed the photos of the shop. Unfortunately I lost most of my build thread photos so unless I go dig through my external hard drives then the pics are going to stay broken. I think I'm going to start a build thread for the whole shop and I'll include my personal cars